PROBLEM 1 – lvdisplay / vgchange not recognized

The first issue I ran into while using Ubuntu 9.10 liveCD, was the commands lvdisplay and vgchange were not recognized. So to fix this:

apt-get install lvm2

So now, on my system lvdisplay outputs:
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/vg_dvz/lv_root
VG Name vg_dvz
...etc...


If you
ls -la /dev/vg_dvz/lv_root

you’ll noticed that it’s linked to
/dev/mapper/vg_dvz-lv_root

PROBLEM 2 – Mounting Issues
While reading it and following it, at this point:

"Mount your filesystem:

mount -t ext4 /dev/volumename/root /mnt”

When trying to mount:
mount -t ext4 /dev/vg_dvz/lv_root /mnt

I kept getting the error:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS'

So to overcome that, I just executed the previous command
cryptsetup -v luksOpen /dev/mapper/vg_dvz-lv_root myroot

and entered my LUKS passphrase again…
mount /dev/mapper/myroot
…voila!

Takeaway

I had to apply the luksOpen on the Partition as well as the lv_root…sometimes only opening the partition may not suffice as each logical volume may also say it is of crypto_LUKS filetype.

Hope this saves someone some headache.

//Verse
How many times must we argue
circular contradictions-
trying to harmonize the dichotomy
of your logic and emotions.

//Chorus 1
This searing pain evokes the rain
that fills the gypsy vials;
This heart of mine – beats in time -
reflecting on these trials.

//Verse
The centerpiece for this ‘game’
comes at a steep price.
Is it worth the pain again
to come in second twice?

//Chorus 1
This searing pain evokes the rain
that fills the gypsy vials;
This heart of mine – beats in time -
reflecting on these trials.

//Chorus 2
This searing pain evokes the rain
that flows from my sorrow
This heart of mine – beats in time -
pumping blood in those gypsy vials.

//Bridge
I just wish you could see
that you don’t have to settle
for anything less than perfect.
But your eyes are blinded
by the veil of illusion
telling you, “You can’t do better.”

//Chorus 1
This searing pain evokes the rain
that fills the gypsy vials;
This heart of mine – beats in time -
reflecting on these trials.

//Chorus 2
This searing pain evokes the rain
that flows from my sorrow
This heart of mine – beats in time -
pumping blood in those gypsy vials.

Copyright(c) 2011. digitalVectorz.

I successfully got the tables working how I wanted them, however I noticed a few issues.  The first issue is that the tables aren’t maintained when you break them across lines by the ‘||’ tag.  i.e.

||<tablestyle...>||Something||SomethingElse||

does not parse the same as

||<tablestyle...>

||Something

||SomethingElse

But that’s understandable, given how parsing engines work.. And the only time this becomes a hassle is when you want two or three or even four tables side by side, you have to write them as one large table which tends to take up several lines for one row of tabular data.

But one idea I propose is to create a shortcut for <style=”border:none”>.  Similar to how:  <#000000> is a shortcut for <style=”background:#000000;”>  and how <50%>  is a shortcut for <width:”50%”>  which is a shortcut for <style=”width:50%;”>.

That would make it a little easier and a little clutter than seeing a line such as:

||<style="border:none">||<style="border:none">||<style="border:none">|| dataHere || DataHere ||

And make it something more like:

||<nb>||<nb>||<nb>|| dataHere || DataHere ||

where <nb> = no border.

Another idea would be for the tables to actually be floated next to each other…but in the few attempts I had with the floating, it didn’t seem to work.  So if that does work, then I just may have overlooked something.  Hrm.

Food for thought. Tis all.

So i’m trying to test the output of grep and do something if it returns a result.  After setting it up the usual way:

if [ -n `ls | grep something' ]; then
echo "Something Exists";
fi

But by doing it that way, I kept getting the error:
./scnotify.sh: line 3: [: 2841.c: binary operator expected
which for the life of me I couldn't figure out. Eventually I figured it out though...and all that the error was, was instead of a single '[' and ']‘ wrapping the comparison, it requires a double…i.e.

if [[ -n `ls | grep something` ]]; then
echo "Success";
fi

Hope this saves someone some headache in the future.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my ( $distro );
$distro = `lsb_release -i -s`;
chomp $distro;

my %installCmd = (
"Fedora" => \&fedora,
"Ubuntu" => \&ubuntu,
);

&test();

sub test {
if ( exists $installCmd{$distro} ) {
$installCmd{$distro}->();
} else {
print "Supported Distributions are: ". join(', ' , keys %installCmd) . ".\n";
exit;
}
}


sub fedora { print "Hello from the Fedora Family!"; }
sub ubuntu { print "Hello from UBUNTU!!!"; }

sqlite (2.8)

Ubuntu:    sudo apt-get install sqlite
Fedora:    su -c 'yum install sqlite2'

sqlite3 (3.0+)

Ubuntu:    sudo apt-get install sqlite3
Fedora:    su -c 'yum install sqlite'

CPAN

Ubuntu:    Installed by default
Fedora:    su -c 'yum install perl-CPAN'

First let’s create our HTML file.

<html>
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="ourStyle.css" type="text/css" media="screen"/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="page-background">
      <img src="ourBackground.png" id="bgimg" alt="Our Background"/>
    </div>

    <div id="contentBlock1">
      Some content goes here
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

ourStyle.css

html, body {height:100%; margin:0; padding:0;}
#page-background { /* sets background to full width and height of browser window */
 position:fixed;
 top:0;
 left:0;
 width:100%;
 height:100%;
 }
#contentBlock1 {
 position:relative;
 top: 51.42%;   /* use percentages for the top,left to maintain the top-left corner at the same */
 left: 48.66%;  /* relative position on the background */
 width: 26.69%;    /* use % for width,height to scale the div block according to the window */
 height: 23.57%;   /* width and height */
 background: #999999;
 z-index:1;
 padding:10px;
 }

What’s Happening?

Say you have an image that’s 1120 x 700 at 100% view.  Now let’s say you find that you have a part of the background that you want to place a div over, say for a nav bar.  First, open the image in some editing program that will show you the pixels/points that your mouse is hovering over, and find the top-left corner of the space you want to place your nav bar.  That should give you two points:  x1 , y1.

Next, hover your mouse over the bottom-right corner of where your nav bar will be.  This should give you points:  x2 , y2.

So let’s say in my image, my top-left corner is at:  ( 545 , 360 )  and my bottom-left corner: ( 844 , 525 ).

x1 = 545 ,  x2 = 844

y1 = 360 ,  y2 = 525

Now to find the values:

top   = y1  / 700
      = 360 / 700 = 0.5143

left  = x1  / 1120
      = 545 / 1120 = 0.4866

width =  (x2 - x1)  / 1120
      = (844 - 545) / 1120 = 0.2669

height=  (y2 - y1)  / 700
      = (525 - 360) / 700 = 0.2357 

Now, since we’re working in PERCENTAGES, we need to multiply those values by 100.  Thus, our result is:

top: 51.42%;
left: 48.66%;
width: 26.69%;
height: 23.57%;

Which, if we look at ourStyle.css, are the values that were used there.

Hope this finds use for someone.

I’ve got desire
I’ve got the fire in my (eyes)
I don’t understand why
everything’s awry

I try to dawn the smile
that everyone will see
complacency
has overtaken me

Corporate America
deceptively disguised
chiseling two-faced
hypocrites out of life

anchored in shadows
severed bloodshed-knit ties
they booted me out
for the final time

//CHORUS
Good morning all you fucks in Vietnam
I’d rather die in vain than play along with the
masquerading fantasies and
empty mythologies (preaching)
what they think is right and wrong

No time to wallow
pick your heart up off that floor
flog it for the masses
as they riot and scream for more

They dont’ know what they want
they’re vacant miseries
hiding behind
those goddamned deities.

//CHORUS
Good morning all you fucks in Vietnam
I’d rather die in vain than play along with the
masquerading fantasies and
empty mythologies (preaching)
what they think is right and wrong

//BRIDGE
Why must we go an pick this fight?
Why can’t we all just realize
(That) None of this is for any gain
Why must we go and complicate?

Copyright(c) 2009. digitalVectorz.