Copy:
rsync -a SOURCE/ DEST/ --ignore-existing --whole-file

Move (no clobber):
rsync -a SOURCE/ DEST/ --remove-sent-files --ignore-existing --whole-file

Move (and clobber):
rsync -a SOURCE/ DEST/ --remove-sent-files --whole-file

Move, but only update with newer:
rsync -a SOURCE/ DEST/ --remove-sent-files --update --whole-file

References:

• https://calomel.org/samba.html
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=685427

If this is you:

...edit files...
git add edited-file
git commit -m "made changed"
git rm seemingly-useless-file
git commit -m "removed unreferenced dependency"
... edit file ... realize you dynamically included that file elsewhere..

Then you can simply follow up with:

git checkout 0a323 // the previous revision (hash from `git log`)
cp seemingly-useless-file seemingly-useless-file.1
git checkout master
mv seemingly-useless-file.1 seemingly-useless-file
git add seemingly-useless-file
git commit -m "Restored seemingly-useless-file"

You may want to git blame yourself while you’re at it.

If you know of a better way, please let me know.

Together, to be cross-version compliant:

putenv("TZ=America/Los_Angeles");
if( function_exists("date_default_timezone_set") ) { 
 date_default_timezone_set("America/Los_Angeles");
}

We need both to be reverse-compatible with PHP4.

The only named entities for XML are &, > and <. For all others you need to use the Unicode character code (eg.  ). Webkit: Entity ‘nbsp’ not defined – Convert HTML entities to XML

These worked for me:

error_reporting = E_ALL
display_errors = stderr
display_startup_errors = On
log_errors = Off
html_errors = Off
;error_log = php-errors.log

Ensure that error_log is not set, otherwise error will not be displayed. This problem may be related, but is obviously not, the date bug mentioned in the PHP bug reports. It may be fixed in the latest snapshot. As a note, the php.ini date.timezone setting is date.timezone = "Pacific/Honolulu", and I still had this problem.

Other things I noticed:
When error_log = syslog, you can find the PHP events in the windows Event Viewer -> Windows Logs -> Application. I mention it in case you want that type of thing… or think error that logging may not be working.

I read that somewhere…

I have no desire to see this book through to its end. Having skimmed the table of contents, and having read the first few chapters, I feel fairly confident that I can imagine the advice to come in the remaining chapters.

Sometimes, it’s not the advice, but the story, that makes a book worth reading. I do fear that not seeing this book through, I’ll miss out on a little nugget that might actually be more valuable than the hour or so that I’ve spared myself by not reading this book to the very end.

It is for that reason that I’ve decided to not issue chapter-by-chapter updates from here on out. The time spent writing is wasteful, not to mention painful. It’s bad enough that I have yet to endure another hour of this trivial little book.

I may write a final summary, but don’t hold your breath. I’ve written enough.

There are several known branches of this problem.

One involves the Google Earth browser plug-in:

Apparently, this incorrect handling is the end result of a bug fix to “correct” icon heading behavior.
Google Earth Plug-in – 5.1.3506.3999

(Issue 131) Icon headings should now behave as expected, and consistent with the Google Earth desktop client. http://www.noeman.org/gsm/mac-other-oses-softwares/106515-google-earth-google-earth-plug.html

More on this bug (affecting version 5.1.x): http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/earth/thread?tid=005bea9c26949e40&hl=en

Work-arounds: GroundOverlay and use a Colada model, both ugly.

Another instance of the icon heading bug:
There is another situation in which the heading of the icon is not obeyed. This occurs when an invalid styleUrl is used in the KML. One recommendation is to remove the “#” character. ex: <styleUrl>#balloonStyle</styleUrl> is no longer correct as of version 5x. I have not confirmed this, but I’ve heard that this is correctly implemented as <styleUrl>balloonStyle</styleUrl>. What happend? This isn’t very backwards-compatible nor user-friendly. Why the change? HTML hashes are logically sound, as they refer to a locally named entity, such as those specified by a style id.

What worked for me was to completely remove the styleUrl when providing a local Style. See below.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<Document>
 <name>Weather Stations</name>
 <description><![CDATA[<p>Generated: 2010-01-19 22:03:45 UTC</p> <p>Only stations reporting <b>within 3 hours</b> are included in this document.</p>]]></description>
 <open>1</open>
 <Style>
  <ListStyle>
   <listItemType>radioFolder</listItemType>
   <bgColor>00ffffff</bgColor>
   <maxSnippetLines>2</maxSnippetLines>
  </ListStyle>
 </Style>
 <Style id="balloonStyle">
  <BalloonStyle>
   <text><![CDATA[
   <h2 style="font-size:1.1em;border-bottom:solid #333 1px;">Instrument:
   $[name]</h2>
   $[description]
   ]]></text>
  </BalloonStyle>
 </Style>
 <Folder>
  <name>Visibility and Avg Winds</name>
  <Style>
   <ListStyle>
   <listItemType>checkHideChildren</listItemType>
   <bgColor>00ffffff</bgColor>
   <maxSnippetLines>2</maxSnippetLines>
  </ListStyle>
 </Style>
 <visibility>0</visibility>
 <Placemark>
  <name>Any Instrument ID</name>
  <description><![CDATA[ <p><font color="#999">Sample Date</font></p> <div>Data Table Here</div>]]></description>
  <styleUrl>#balloonStyle</styleUrl>
  <Style>
   <IconStyle>
    <scale>3.25</scale>
    <heading>0</heading>
    <Icon>
     <href>http://www.example.com/barb.php?spd=4&amp;dir=74&amp;val=7&amp;col=65280&amp;dia=100</href>
    </Icon>
   </IconStyle>
  </Style>
  <Point>
   <coordinates>-117.1135,32.3325,0</coordinates>
  </Point>
 </Placemark>
 </Folder>
</Document>
</kml>

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 <Placemark>
  <name>Any Instrument ID</name>
  <description><![CDATA[ <p><font color="#999">Sample Date</font></p> <div>Data Table Here</div>]]></description>
  <Style>
   <IconStyle>
    <scale>3.25</scale>
    <heading>0</heading>
    <Icon>
     <href>http://www.example.com/barb.php?spd=4&amp;dir=74&amp;val=7&amp;col=65280&amp;dia=100</href>
    </Icon>
   </IconStyle>
  </Style>
  <Point>
   <coordinates>-117.1135,32.3325,0</coordinates>
  </Point>
 </Placemark>

Kids today get emo and suicidal because they have been given everything, never had to earn anything, never been hungry, never had anything real to fear, never been punished for their behavior and are bored with having too much entertainment. Nadaka

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. Buckminster Fuller

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. Linus Pauling

git rm --cached filename

Don’t worry, it won’t remove your local copy. It just stages it for removal from the history of tracked files.

Reference:
untrack files in git

At first, I tried the ultra-simple uShare server.  It installed easily and worked out of the box.  Configuration was simple, and everything looked fine.  Then I tried to view content on my tv.  No luck: Format not supported.  I couldn’t play mp3, avi, wav, mpeg, nothing.  I needed a transcoder.

I completely removed uShare and started from scratch with MediaTomb.  Bam!  That’s da kine.

It’s not as easy as uServer to configure, but it works.  Let’s get to it. Please note, I didn’t figure this out. I’m just copying here for future reference.

1. Enter mediatomb into a command line just so it creates a directory under my user ID.
   Then I exited mediatomb and edited the ~/.mediatomb/config.xml file and made the following changes
2. Remove the comment tags <!– and –> that were around the <custom-http-headers> section.
3. Add the following two lines to the <custom-http-headers> section:

   <add header=”transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming”/>
   <add header=”contentFeatures.dlna.org: DLNA.ORG_OP=01;DLNA.ORG_CI=0;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=017000 00000000000000000000000000″/>

4. Change <protocolInfo extend=”yes”/> to say “yes”; it says “no” when it is installed.
5. Add this to your <extension-mimetype> node:

   <map from=”avi” to=”video/mpeg”/>

Reference:

• Ubuntu Forums
• TVersity Support

1. sudo vi /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

   >>
   alias {
     interface "eth0";
     fixed-address 192.168.1.101;
     option subnet-mask 255.255.255.255;
   }
   <<

2. sudo dhclient -r
3. sudo dhclient