Just testing out this example at bavotasan.com. It appears to work well, as long as you don’t mind linking your inset-shadow images. I’d imaging using a div or span wrapper would work fine too.
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When I upgrade Fedora using yum or PreUpgrade my installed groups don’t really get updated. The packages in those groups get updated and any dependencies get resolved, but packages that have been added to the group in the new version of Fedora don’t get installed. So, after updating Fedora I make sure my installed yum groups are really up to date by running “yum groupinstall
- got the list of installed groups using “yum grouplist”
- copy-pasted the installed ones into a text editor
- search-replaced to get the groups wrapped in quotes with spaces between
- pasted that into a “yum groupinstall” command, eventually adding “–skip-broken”
That installed more than 800 packages! There’s probably a shell script out there somewhere to do this automatically.
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Pork and beans
I know what you’re thinking: “Isn’t pork and beans something Yogi steals from overweight campers?” Maybe, but what if you want to relive the teenager experience of eating whatever you want, but want to do it in a way that fits in with your current gourmet tastes? After all, what is cassoulet but high class pork and beans? Let’s make some classy pork and beans!
Preheat oven to 300-ish F. Sauté onion, carrots, celery, whatever you’ve got around in bacon fat. Even better, start by rendering some chopped bacon or lardons and soften the vegetables in that. Add about four sausages. Add a can of diced tomatoes or a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste. Add a regular-sized can of beans, cannellini preferred. Add spices like Dijon mustard, cumin, thyme, etc. Once it’s bubbling, cover and bake an hour-ish. Cut up the sausages into bite-sized chunks and serve.
Update! It’s not exactly pretty, but here’s a photo of a bowl of it:
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Fixing unserialize() error at offset…
I’m working on an update to flickpress so it’s compatible with WP 3.3. I decided to upgrade to the latest version of phpFlickr, but started getting an error when browsing my favorites, something like this:
unserialize(): Error at offset 3400 of 8999
I tracked it down to a Japanese character in one of the photo titles and unserialize in phpFlickr. It was my fault though: the MySQL table that flickpress was installing didn’t specify a character set. I finally figured out that setting the table’s character set to UTF-8 would make unserialize happy. To do this with dbDelta, WordPress’ handy database table install/upgrade function, I changed my CREATE TABLE SQL to look like this:
CREATE TABLE table_name ( column1 CHAR( 35 ) NOT NULL ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8;
To generalize, if you’re getting an unserialize error on data stored in a database, take a look at the table’s character set.
I was trying to get non-NetworkManager networking running in Fedora 15, but kept failing. When I tried to start the network daemon it failed and something about eth0 missing got logged. Finally, I looked more closely at my dmesg output and noticed that at the end of the network section udev had renamed the interface from eth0 to something like p7p2. Changing my networking script to use that instead fixed it.