Blog of Ortz http://blog.ortz.org The blog of Brian Ortiz aka Ortzinator, developer, artist, and the coolest guy you know. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:42:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en SVN Repository Creation Script (Gentoo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blog_of_ortz/~3/451366557/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/11/13/svn-repository-creation-script-gentoo/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:07:32 +0000 Ortzinator http://blog.ortz.org/?p=148 Another lazily written yet useful script I wrote for creating SVN repositories in Gentoo.

This script is based on this great guide at Rockfloat.

Could use some improvement, like another argument for the name of the user getting access to the repo…

Again, apologies for the line wrapping… Fixed

#!/bin/bash
#Copyright (c) 2008 Brian Ortiz "Ortzinator"
#
#Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
#of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
#in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
#to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
#copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
#furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
#The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
#all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
#THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
#IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
#FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
#AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
#LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
#OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
#THE SOFTWARE.

if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo “Exactly one argument required”
exit 1
fi

if [ -d “/var/svn/repos/$1″ ]
then
echo “ERROR: directory ‘$dir’ already exists!”
exit 1
else
svnadmin create /var/svn/repos/$1 || { echo “Error 1″; exit 1; }
chown -R apache:svnusers /var/svn/repos/ || { echo “Error 2″; exit 1; }
chmod -R g-w /var/svn/repos/$1 || { echo “Error 3″; exit 1; }
chmod -R g+rw /var/svn/repos/$1/db || { echo “Error 4″; exit 1; }
chmod -R g+rw /var/svn/repos/$1/locks || { echo “Error 5″; exit 1; }
svn mkdir file:///var/svn/repos/$1/trunk -m “Create trunk directory” || { echo “Error 6″; exit 1; }
svn mkdir file:///var/svn/repos/$1/tags -m “Create tags directory” || { echo “Error 7″; exit 1; }
svn mkdir file:///var/svn/repos/$1/branches -m “Create branches directory” || { echo “Error 8″; exit 1; }

echo “[$1:/]
* = r
brian = rw” >> /var/svn/conf/svnpolicy

exit 0
fi

]]> http://blog.ortz.org/2008/11/13/svn-repository-creation-script-gentoo/feed/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/11/13/svn-repository-creation-script-gentoo/ Apache Vhost Creation Script (Gentoo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blog_of_ortz/~3/451360740/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/11/13/apache-vhost-creation-script-gentoo/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:46 +0000 Ortzinator http://blog.ortz.org/?p=143 Well I decided to post more of the stuff I write even if I think it’s crappy….

So even though there’s probably a dozen like this and it could be a lot nicer, here’s the bash script I wrote to create new subdomains on my web server. Customize to fit your needs.

My apologies for the line wrapping. Fixed

#!/bin/bash
#Copyright (c) 2008 Brian Ortiz "Ortzinator"
#
#Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
#of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
#in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
#to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
#copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
#furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
#The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
#all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
#THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
#IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
#FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
#AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
#LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
#OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
#THE SOFTWARE.

if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo “Exactly one argument required”
exit 1
fi

dir=“/var/www/$1″

if [ -d “$dir” ]
then
echo “ERROR: directory ‘$dir’ already exists!”
exit 1
else
echo “Creating directory ‘$dir’”
mkdir $dir || { echo “Could not create directory ‘$dir’”; exit 1; }

echo “Creating directory ‘$dir/htdocs’”
mkdir $dir/htdocs  || { echo “Could not create directory ‘$dir/htdocs’”; exit 1; }

echo “Setting permissions…”
chown apache:htdocs $dir  || { echo “Error setting permissions for ‘$dir’”; exit 1; }
chown apache:htdocs $dir/htdocs  || { echo “Error setting permissions for ‘$dir/htdocs’”; exit 1; }

echo “<html><body><p>Placeholder lol</p></body></html>” > $dir/htdocs/index.html
chown brian:brian $dir/htdocs/index.html  || { echo “Error setting permissions for ‘$dir/htdocs/index.html’”; exit 1; }

chmod -R 775 $dir

echo “
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName $1.ortz.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/$1/htdocs
<Directory /var/www/$1/htdocs>
Allow from all
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>” >> /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf || { echo “Could not add vhost to apache config!”; exit 1; }

echo “Restarting apache…..”
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart || { echo “Could not restart apache!”; exit 1; }

echo “All done!”
exit 0
fi

]]> http://blog.ortz.org/2008/11/13/apache-vhost-creation-script-gentoo/feed/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/11/13/apache-vhost-creation-script-gentoo/ What I’ve Been Listening To http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blog_of_ortz/~3/410727345/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/10/03/what-ive-been-listening-to/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:11:37 +0000 Ortzinator http://blog.ortz.org/?p=136 If you love music like I do, then you should have a Last.fm account. Go, right now.

When I first found Last.fm I was listening to a lot of classic rock. Mostly Santana, Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin. Then it introduced me to Massive Attack. I’m not sure how I found Last.fm or how I ended up listening to Massive Attack, but I loved it. “Trip-hop” was very different from anything I had listened to. Well, not exactly, because my first impression was that it sounded like the kind of music that plays during movie credits. It kind of gives you that “time to stumble into the lobby and take a leak” feeling. (You know, that vulnerable time after having sat in a dark room for 2 hours matching a suspenseful movie staring at a bright wall and you feel like someone could steal your pants and you wouldn’t notice. Anyway…)


Massive Attack - Butterfly Caught

Well trip-hop then got me into hip-hop, which I had been exposed to a lot in high-school but never got into. I’m not talking about 50 Cent or Ludacris, I’m talking about what I would consider “real” hip-hop. Like The Herbaliser.


The Herbaliser - The Hard Stuff

So then I was introduced to turntablism. You know, scratching and all that. Starting with DJ Shadow’s album Endtroducing. The entire album is 100% samples from old vinyl records.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54_7m-CVTMY
DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World

He completely changed my perception of hip-hop.

Then I started to get into other electronica genres. Right now I’m listening to downtempo, though electronica genres tend to blend together a little. Basically, right now I’m listening to Bent and Air.

I could listen to this song forever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr4fP9A3Oi0
Air- Surfing On a Rocket

This one too:


Bent - Private Road

So that’s the condensed version, I guess. This may be old news to you but finding new and different music to listen to is very exciting.

You can look at what else I listen to or add me as a friend here:

http://www.last.fm/user/ortzinator

You can also check out this awesome graph(pdf) made by Lastgraph.

EDIT: Embed-disallowed videos fixed.

]]> http://blog.ortz.org/2008/10/03/what-ive-been-listening-to/feed/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/10/03/what-ive-been-listening-to/ OrtzIRC Update http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blog_of_ortz/~3/405196519/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/09/28/ortzirc-update-2/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:05:12 +0000 Ortzinator http://blog.ortz.org/2008/09/28/ortzirc-update-2/ Progress has been slow, but it hasn’t stopped. It’s been a while since the last update so forgive me if I repeat anything.

The biggest news to tell is probably FlamingIRC. I decided pretty early on that there was no need to reinvent the wheel and so decided against writing my own IRC lib. So I went with what seemed to be the most popular IRC library for .NET, Thresher. After having it pointed out to me how old and outdated the code for Thresher was (I think it was written for the first version of .NET) I decided to fork it and name it FlamingIRC. Sadly it’s under the GPL so it has to stay that way. I hate how viral GPL is. It’s very heavy-handed.

Max Schmeling sort of gave OrtzIRC a shot of adrenaline, cleaning up some of my code and improving a lot of things overall. I just wish I could code as fast as him…

I’m still thinking about features to add, mainly plugins and scripting. I’ve been thinking that both a plugin system and a scripting system would be over kill, but that seems to be how XChat does it so I’ll have to do some more research. If you have any experience with implementing plugin systems and/or scripting systems or know where I can get some information on implementing them, please leave a comment!

I don’t think I’ve linked to the project page yet, so here you go. You can take a look at the code if you want but there really isn’t anything to see yet. However if you do happen to see any bugs, or if you have any feature requests feel free to open an issue. I also started a page on planned features, mostly for my reference., which is obviously subject to frequent change.

]]> http://blog.ortz.org/2008/09/28/ortzirc-update-2/feed/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/09/28/ortzirc-update-2/ Fancy Mice http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blog_of_ortz/~3/403130838/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/09/25/fancy-mice/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:44:00 +0000 Ortzinator http://blog.ortz.org/?p=119 This is my mouse:

DSCN1499_sm

As you can see from the worn spots, I’ve been using it for many years. About six, I think. The bottom label simply says “Optical Mouse”.

Today Lifehacker had an article on the best mice according to the readers. Of course most of them were Logitech mice. And as you would expect, there were mice like the G5 and the fancy MX Revolution.

Now maybe other people use mice differently, but when I use mine, especially when I play games, I pick it up a lot. Take the MX Revolution:

I’ve never used this specific mouse, but I’ve never been able to lift these off the desk as easily as with regular $10 mice. And although it appears to be ergonomically designed, these types of mice seem to be presumptuous about how you like to hold it. Here are some more photos to help explain:

How I hold my mouse:

DSCN1502

As you can see, I hold it with my fingertips. Maybe others hold it this way too, but I find that I have much more control this way. Not only can I pick it up easily, but side-to-side movement is easier too.

How mice like the MX Revolution seems to presume that you like to hold your mouse:

DSCN1503

Kind of with your entire hand.

Another issue I have is with wireless mice. I really like the idea of not having a cord to interfere with the movement of the mouse, but look at where they put the sensor:

It’s way on the side! I guess maybe I use my mouse strangely because whenever I use a cordless mouse, the cursor goes in all sorts of crazy directions and makes me want to toss it across the room which I can do because it’s cordless.

I dunno, maybe it’s just me.

I’d like some comments on this though…

Note: If you saw this post unfinished it’s because I couldn’t figure out any other way to get it from the web interface to Live Writer than by posting it and editing it from Writer.

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And she’s not dumb at all, just a noob. I mean, she’s smart enough to notice how angry and mean CS players are. :)

mild content warning

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Via Bob Parks

]]> http://blog.ortz.org/2008/09/11/never-forget/feed/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/09/11/never-forget/ The Seinfeld Ad http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blog_of_ortz/~3/386382741/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/09/08/the-seinfeld-ad/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:02:56 +0000 Ortzinator http://blog.ortz.org/?p=110 Well since everyone and their mother is blogging about how horrible it is…

It’s a commercial about nothing. Like Seinfeld. Why doesn’t anyone get that?

]]> http://blog.ortz.org/2008/09/08/the-seinfeld-ad/feed/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/09/08/the-seinfeld-ad/ Hannah http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blog_of_ortz/~3/385187420/ http://blog.ortz.org/2008/09/06/hannah/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:26:50 +0000 Ortzinator http://blog.ortz.org/?p=108 If you don’t know, I live in North Carolina, about 60 miles from the coast. Hurricanes that head for the east coast tend to move right on top of us.

Tropical storm Hannah came through last night. I slept right through it. We got a lot of rain but that was about it. So all is well.

It was a bit disappointing to be honest, we had prepared for something worse, and we haven’t had a hurricane in a few years.

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  • I’m back from Mississippi obviously. Here’s some things I learned: South Carolina has the crappiest roads I have ever seen. It’s impossible to sleep while driving through SC. Georgia: meh, but Atlanta: holy big city. Alabama: beautiful. Mississippi: smells like horse butt. 10 hours in a noisy Range Rover SUCKS; luckily my dad has noise-cancelling headphones for those occasions when I thought I was going to lose my mind.
  • I installed Vista (64-bit) on a separate drive last week. The biggest problem I’ve had so far was all my paging files being completely disabled for some reason… Besides that, I don’t see why so many people don’t like it.
  • I haven’t had much motivation to work on OrtzIRC since I got back. I think the trip over and back did something to my attention span… I need Max to get me excited again.
  • I’m taking a 3D Modeling course, even though I’ve done it a lot before. I usually use Maya, but the course uses 3DS Max, which I’ve never used before. After a little over a week using it, I’ve decided I don’t like it. :(
  • I got a new gfx card. An Ati HD 4850. It’s pretty nice, except I’m pretty sure I’m not getting the framerates I should with this card. I think I have a bottneck somewhere, which I’m thinking is my CPU. (AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.5GHz)
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