Root Access

Sathya

00:15

@Josh Hey Josh,wanted to thank you again for your help with the regexps in The Roach Motel

I've published a blog post on the same,for future reference

sathyabh.at/2010/10/04/…

Josh

01:13

@Sathya You're very welcome! Was happy to help. I'll check out the blog post later... thanks!

BloodPhilia

13:35

:14108 So, i've joined root access

Sathya

:14111 welcome. here we bitch about anything and everything with elevated priviliges ;P

BloodPhilia

Haha!

Josh

16:08

Posted this to Unix.SE, but it might belong on SU instead

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Q: Why are the fonts all screwy for remote X11 apps on one Mac client?

I have two Mac OS X clients, both running XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33). When I SSH into a remote linux system enabling X11 forwarding and launch gnome-terminal, on one Mac the terminal looks correct while on the other, the fonts are all screwy! [jnet@Stan ~]$ ssh -X [email protected] ...

Any SU linux experts looking for rep on unix.SE, attack it!

Sathya

I see grey boxes instead of images XD

@Josh

btw what's "Tuunderbird" :P @Josh

Josh

LOL thanks

:14129 You don't see the images?

Sathya

:14133 webfilter @ work blocks them

Josh

ohhhhh

Sathya

17:13

:14135 yeah, ohhhhhhh :p

shady

17:36

Is there a third place for stackoverflow?

Sathya

:14139 not yet

use chat.meta.stackoverflow.com for the timebeing

shady

gotcha thanks

Sathya

19:54

anyone knows how/where do you get a pfa/pfb file ?

Josh

:14145 What is a pfa/pfb file?

(in other words: No, I don't know :-) )

Sathya

:14147 it's type 1 Post script font apparently

Josh

Oh DUH, I should have known that :-)

Actually

I think my system generates those, ROFLMAO

Sathya

:14151 o_0

Josh

That part was built so long ago I forgot. I think we take TrueType fonts and generate... some adobe crap from them ;-)

Sathya

19:57

I'm hit with a bug with Oracle reports

Josh

I misspoke. Our system generates afm files from TTF files

Sathya

hmm, seems like pdf generated by Oracle reports engine suffers font substitution when copied to a printer, anybody faced this ? @oraclenerd

Tweeted by SathyaBhat on October 4, 2010 at 4:21 PM

Josh

@Sathya do you have a font file you want to convert?

Sathya

Confirmed that fonts are not embedded by default on Oracle Reports, doc on how to do so http://j.mp/97kPoC @oraclenerd

Tweeted by SathyaBhat on October 4, 2010 at 5:01 PM in reply to oraclenerd

I have the ttf version :(

Josh

Tried FontForge?

Sathya

19:59

(one) of them is Tahoma @Josh

Josh

FontForge

FontForge (formerly known as PfaEdit) is a typeface (font) editor program developed by George Williams. FontForge is free software and is distributed under the BSD license. FontForge is available for several operating systems and is localized in several languages. Features Fontforge supports many font formats, including TrueType, PostScript, OpenType, and SVG. It can convert fonts from one format to another, or can store fonts in its native "spline font database" format (.sfd file name extension), which has the advantage of being text-based. This format facilitates designer collaboratio...

fontforge.sourceforge.net

I have had great success with FontForge

Sathya

lemme check

runs under cygwin ?

damn

Josh

It should

Or Ubuntu

Can't easily run it @Sathya?

Sathya

:14170 it's a....drag

Josh

:14171 Sec, lemme see if it can generate those files

so you don't waste time trying to get a program working which won't help you anyway, LOL

Sathya

20:04

> this application has failed to start because cygX11-6.dll was not found

/me bangs head on keyboard

Josh

How many fonts @Sathya?

FontForge can convert

If it's a small handful, I can do it for you. If it's more than a few, can you run an Ubuntu VM?

Sathya

:14176 for the time being its just 1

Josh

:14179 zip up and email to [email protected]

Sathya

:14180 on it.. thanks, again :)

Josh

Sure thing :-)

One of these days I'll send you a monster SQL query or something and say "HEEELLLLLPPPP MMMMEEEEE!!!!" :-)

Sathya

20:11

:14183 anytime ;)

Josh

ok, sec, I just launched a giant nautilius desktop window I can't close or see behind, LOL

Sathya

:14185 LOL

Josh

I upgraded my powerbook to the latest OS, and now NoMachine works better. No more lost emails!

but clearly other weirdness now exists, LOL

Sathya

:14188 such as ?

No more Thunderbird screw ups ?

Josh

such as giant nautilus desktop windows covering the whole screen :-)

or terminal with screwy fonts

Converting font 1/2...

Sathya

20:21

:14191 bwahaaha

my new Envy will arrive today. will be moving to a completely virtual Linux setup on my personal laptop

Josh

Sweet!

That's what I did before, then I moved that virtual machine to our new VMware server, which is why I now use NoMachine

Sathya

drools in anticipation

Josh

I remotely access what used to be my laptop VM

imgur.com acting up for anyone else?

Sathya

:14199 what browsers do you guys target

imgur is blocked here :P

Josh

:14202 All images or just imgur?

Sathya

20:28

:14203 most image sharing /download sites

Josh

er

Sathya

wth does that mean

Josh

@Sathya I said "yes"... Not sure, never seen that before! :-/

I think it means unicode will be broken

Sathya

Hmm

guess so

it's MSFT font.. so no surprise i guess

Josh

Sending zip back now, if it's not working a SuperUser question may be in order :-)

Sathya

20:30

last.fm/user/HmblProgrammer

yeah, I need to figure out how get that pdf embed thing working :/

^^ didn't know you're on last.fm

Josh

:14217 I am

:14201 We target FireFox 3.5 / 3.6, IE 7 / 8, Safari 4 / 5

And probably soon Chrome latest 2 versions

:14217 Are you on last.fm?

Sathya

> From around 2000 until mid-2002, Microsoft distributed a set of Web-optimized fonts, for free use. They have stopped allowing downloads

wow. this includes Tahoma.

Josh

Yeah

Fonts sent back. I hope they work @Sathya!

Sathya

:14221 yup! last.fm/user/sathyabhat

Josh

> Your musical compatibility with sathyabhat is SUPER

Wow

Awesome :-)

Sathya

20:35

:14229 :D

:14225 yup, downloading them will let you know how it goes :)

Josh

fingers crossed...

Fonts are a major PITA

Sathya

yeah. sigh

Josh

We deal with them a lot because we have an online proofing system, displays fonts not installed on the user's system in the browser

Sathya

:14235 how does that work ?

Ah nvmm got ya.

Josh

:14236 youtube.com/watch?v=sKj0cdYkAKM

digitalfruition.com/products/cardcustomizer

:14236 To answer "how does that work": Via the blood, sweat and tears of my employees and myself ;-)

Sathya

20:39

:14240 :D

ok wth is a pfm file now :/

does font forge have the capability to generate pfm ? @Josh

Josh

:14243 Lemme see. afm or .**p**fm ?

Sathya

p fm

Josh

LOL, sorry, just realized that beeped like crazy :-)

Sathya

:14246 hehhe ;)

Josh

I did that to @balpha once and pissed him off :-)

in Chat feedback on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, Sep 29 at 20:37, by The Unhandled Exception

Feature request: Don't notify me if a message containing @MyName is edited, unless @MyName was added

Sathya

20:43

:14248 LOL

btw found a converter

proximasoftware.com/afmtopfm @Josh

Josh

:14252 Oh sweet

because I can't tell yet how to make one from FontForge

oh, yes I can

in save options

Sathya

:14255 :-)

the pfm file is a 4kb file

now to figure out where the heck REPORTS_PATH points to :/

Josh

:14259 So did you create the pfm, or do you need me to?

Sathya

:14260 Created it :-)

Josh

Sweet

balpha

21:02

:14248 don't you be lying

also, I should post in Chat Feedback that having chat @-replies in the global inbox is awesome :)

Josh

:14263 Looking for the message from you, it was something like:

> @TheUnhandledException STOP IT!!!!!

balpha

to be precise, I was mocking your marquee effect with that message

Josh

IDK where it got to :-)

:14267 LOL, I thought you were saying that each edit played the alert sound :-)

balpha

in The Tavern (General) on Meta Stack Overflow Chat, Sep 29 at 20:35, by balpha

stop that, @TheUnhandledException

Josh

Yes, there we go

How'd you find that? :-)

balpha

21:07

chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/…

Josh

BYW, major props on the cross site quote oneboxes

:14273 I am a total moron. I have been overlooking the search box, lol

balpha

sometimes you have to remind yourself that search actually works pretty well

Josh

It's right there. It clearly says "search". My brain just decided it was pointless noise for some reason

balpha

I had to get used to it, too

Josh

@Sathya, FINALLY, I am about to tets that email xfer

About time, right? The client's been breathing down my neck

Josh

21:42

How do you view/configure/enable/disable your Chrome Addons?

balpha

click the wrench -> tools -> extensions

Josh

:14282 Thanks!

Jeff Atwood

22:17

I got QoS working on dd-wrt finally, thanks to Super User!

Josh

:14287 Yey!

How's the new router @Jeff? I heard @Sathya got the old hotness :-)

Jeff Atwood

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A: dd-wrt router firmware QoS troubleshooting

Though it only shapes outgoing traffic, you may find this excellent QoS script on Alex Rice's blog useful. It's been through several authors and incarnations. Be certain to set UPLINK as well as DEV correctly. For me the default value for DEV was incorrect, use the commented $(nvram get wan_ifnam...

it's good, the only gotcha is the weird kinda-broken state of QoS in DD-WRT

fortunately, it's "just linux" so it can be fixed, but I don't know why they haven't fixed the dd-wrt QoS web UI to make it work better

Josh

:14291 That's why we were using pfsense before. QoS over here is a must

The Cisco RVS4000 handles it OK, but nothing beat pfsense

Jeff Atwood

yeah it's pretty crippling if you have a lot of network traffic

Josh

:14295 And VoIP!

Clients saying they can't understand us is not good for business!

Unless we're discussing prices ;-)

Jeff Atwood

22:22

I like too that I was able to accept the 4 vote answer and promote it above the 9 vote "just use tomato" answer

tomato is great, but doesn't work on MY router (atheros vs. broadcom -- fight!)

Josh

Haha.

I always like accepting an underrated, better answer

especially when the higher rated answer specifically doesn't address what you asked, lol

Jeff Atwood

well, it wasn't wrong per se.. it just was of the type "do something else!"

I didn't downvote it or anything. it could have been helpful, if I had a broadcom based router

Josh

Well, yeah, I guess that's what I meant. Kinda like, "How do I do x?" / "Don't! Do y instead!!"

Jeff Atwood

perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341

Josh

:14305 I downvote very sparingly... unless I'm at your house

:14307 AH HA, a new meme idea :-)

balpha

22:28

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Q: What is the XY problem?

What is the XY problem? When asking questions, how do I recognize when I'm falling into it? How do I avoid it? Return to FAQ index

discussion asking-questions faq-proposed xy-problem

Josh

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Jeff Atwood

DOWNVOTED

one line easter eggs are best.. something that scrolls the page so much.. meh

Josh

Pffft

You post a 12,000 pixel tall blinkenlights image and then complain my cowsay idea is too tall! LOL

Jeff Atwood

I was thinking more like

lights [x] [o] [x]

horizontal

Josh

us mortals find time to photoshop / ms paint freehand circles on everything we post to meta, I'm sure you could have cropped that giant thing! ;-)

But joking aside, I did like the blinkenlights idea

@Sathya your suggested IMAP migration script is being more trouble than it's worth =b

Jeff Atwood

22:35

@Josh why can't you read my mind and understand what I mean... man?

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Josh

:14322 LOL. Because your mind uses a different endianness than mine ;-)

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Anyone else in here have any experience moving a TON if IMAP emails between accounts? My customer wanted this done last week :-(

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Q: Transferring lots of messages between IMAP accounts

I have to move many, many emails (over a thousand) from an old IMAP hosting provider to a new IMAP hosting provider. I know I can just set up the old and new accounts in Thunderbird and drag and drop, but it's very slow and keeps timing out. Is there a better, more automated way to copy all messa...

email imap transfer

Jeff Atwood

"do it yourself" seems most pragmatic

Josh

Yeah...

I'm about to just bite the bullet and do it in groups of 100

Why these people can't configure an email client themselves is beyond me...

LOL, one site suggests using "imapcp, the IMAP Copy Tool."

> The downsides: The single biggest downside to this, and I need to stress this for all the Googlers who are coming here searching for mbcp.py: THIS SCRIPT DOES NOT WORK!

WTF!?!

Why even suggest it? LOL

Wil

22:56

@Josh - if they are nice/small providers, you may have luck begging the IT team! I had a client who were hosting with a very small company who were ceasing trading, and they provided the mailbox via FTP, the new place was also small and as they were using the same mail server, they imported it for him

other than that... get on with it is the best solution! possibly look in options to see if you can increase time out/limits as that shouldn't really be happening

Josh

:14336 I'm one provider, GoDaddy is the other... so begging the IT team is their solution ;-)

Wil

are they leaving or joining you?

Godaddy most likely won't budge/do anything to help - don't think they really care about their customers unless you have a VPS or dedicated server

Josh

:14340 They're leaving me, and yes, GoDaddy is of no help

I'm sure you'll ask why I'm obligated to help. It's a long story :-)

Wil

well - I hope you are charging them for this help then! Seems like you are going to a lot of effort

Josh

I'm going to just move the email in chunks, we'll see how that goes

:14343 You bet I am! :-)

Wil

23:05

ahh, no problem - I know things get complicated! feel free to explain if you want!

Josh

Working for free SUCKS

Jeff Atwood

please provide feedback:

chat.superuser.com/rooms/29/how-to-ask-pros-cons

Wil

:14353 Reading now

Josh

:14353 Will read in a few minutes and provide feedback

Wil

LOVE that cartoon... saving and printing for my wall! :) very true!

:14352 Want the feedback here or on the blog?

ahh, ok, il write there

Sathya

23:34

:14299 tbh I'm surprised it got 9 votes. I downvoted it. It doesn't answer the question in anyway

Jeff Atwood

it's OK @Sathya I took no offense.. it was an OK, if sideways, answer

Sathya

:14335 LOL

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