Robert McNeil porty

Flux Pavilion - I Can't Stop

cd ~/Projects/raspberry-screens

# white
`which pip`/../python ./local_screens.py set pi-east-north "http://10.99.1.77/show_image.html?color=white&img=http://i.imgur.com/X6XR7HE.jpg"

# black

Scalability

For example, a good interface will pop up a "search" box for finding a security group in Active Directory. A bad one will let me chose security groups from a list or a drop-down. Both look equally good when the developer is working in a test environment. The latter will crash when used in a million-object directory. Similarly, check out the DNS management dialog box in Windows, or some Oracle tools. Both will show you "all" objects up to some limit (e.g.: 5000), but then provide a filter option to allow you to narrow down the "search" to prevent the GUI from melting if you look at a database with 500K tables. Yes. It happens. A lot. More than you think. Really.

Annotations

It's 2014 for Christ's sake! There is absolutely no reason not to include a general "note" or at least a "description" field with every. Single. Thing. Seriously. All of them. I'm not kidding. Look at VMware's vSphere interface as an example of this done reasonably well but not perfectly. They at least allow custom colu

Issues

Battery usage in general
- Device drivers :(
All "productivity" software sucks
- I am not a fan of Open/Libre office or Google docs :(

Software

HipChat - https://www.hipchat.com/downloads#linux

http://explosm.net/comics/3435/

Creating the initial Ubuntu Server to do the PXE booting

https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/installation-guide/i386/apbs02.html

Boot options (when booting the CD/USB/netboot installation media):

... preseed/url=http://github.com/porty/pxe-things/???.seed


	Ooh, now let's get down tonight
	Baby I'm hot just like an oven
	I need some lovin'
	And baby, I can't hold it much longer
	It's getting stronger and stronger
	And when I get that feeling
	I want Sexual Healing
	Sexual Healing, oh baby
	Makes me feel so fine

	# tail the apache logs without other cruft
	alias log1="tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log \| egrep -v --line-buffered '(CSRF\|Load existing customer\|rotatelogs\|Could not open log file)'"

	# tail contests logs
	alias log2="sudo supervisorctl tail -f contests-worker-dev"

	# tail commerce logs
	alias log3="sudo supervisorctl tail -f commerce-worker-dev"

	# start the things that didn't start automatically

	#!/bin/bash

	#
	# Ubuntu core filesystem makerer
	#
	# http://www.omappedia.com/wiki/OMAP_Ubuntu_Core
	#

	set -e

	<html>
	<head>
	<style>
	body {
	background-size: contain;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: center;
	}
	</style>
	<script>