Douglas

If you use AdBlock, then blocking the universal Facebook “Like” button is a simple task.

1. Open AdBlock preferences.
2. From Filters menu, click Add Filter.
3. Paste this URL into the text field:
   
   http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?*
4. Apply Changes and click OK.

Note:
Also, If you want…

Yes, let’s throw additional people at that the problem! That *always* works.

(Stolen from http://www.dilbert.com)

It’s been a little while in the making, but I’m pleased to announce the relaunching of http://douglasjhunley.com today! This Tumblr blog is still my ‘main’ site, but I recently discovered Flavors.me and their totally cool ‘online aggregation’ and really, really liked the concept. So, I decided to relaunch the domain as a Flavors portal. You can now hit that one URL and see all of my various activities across the Net. I’ve currently included my Twitter feed, my Facebook feed (which is fed from Twitter), this blog, my DeviantArt uploads, my Last.fm listening habits, my Netflix movie watching, and my LinkedIn profile. As they add additional connectors, I’m sure I’ll be adding more services to the portal.

And yes, I know its flash. And yes, I’m not exactly happy about it. However, I’m hoping it will morph into HTML5 in the near future. And I’m willing to live with it for now since it provides something I couldn’t easily get elsewhere.

Later!

I know, I know. It’s been forever since I updated the blog. And my last update was about my life not being over. I’m sensing a certain amount of irony in that post going up and then this blog going dead silent for two months. (Get it? Dead silent. Ha!)

However, I’m back and have a large list of entries to post. I’ve got some other irons in the fire as well around my online presence, but they should all be congealing here shortly so expect some semi-regular updates and some exciting (to me anyway) news shortly.

In the interim, if you just can’t get enough of me (heaven help you) you should follow my Twitter or Facebook (ugh) since that’s where all the ‘little things’ get dropped.

As I posted a while back about the upcoming changes in my life, I figured I should follow up and let everyone know that plans have changed. My *wonderful* employer listened to my concerns and issues and has decided to allow me to stay where I am for the time being. I’ll be officially based out of their Chicago office, but will continue to actually do the work from my humble basement. I’ll make periodic pilgrimages to various offices (most usually the Boston office, but occasionally the India office and perhaps the Chicago one as well) as needed but for the most part, yall are stuck with me for the near future.

And they moved up the date of conversion from contractor to full-time employee. I started with the company officially on Monday (Dec 21). It was a very nice birthday present. I must say that while 2009 got a little rough and gloomy there for a while, it appears to be ending rather nicely.

AMEN (and don’t forget *hockey*)

(stolen from Sinfest)

As screwed up as the first Rest Stop was, I couldn’t believe they made a sequel. And then I got to thinking and thought ‘hrmm, maybe they actually explain wtf is going on’ and so I added it to my Netflix queue. The official summary is:

A year ago, young lovers Nicole and Jess (Julie Mond and Joey Mendicino) ran away from home and have yet to return, prompting Jess’s brother and his friends to set out on a sweeping search for the couple. What the friends don’t bargain for is a run-in with a murderous madman. The crazed psycho, it seems, might well be responsible for the disappearances of Nicole and Jess — and could potentially become the catalyst for their own undoing.

And yeah, that’s about all the explaining you get really. There’s this convoluted explanation about how if you take the eyes from a person, when they die their soul can’t find its way to the next life and so it’s stuck here and that this is exactly what created the ‘crazed psycho’ but it doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny and doesn’t completely explain everything. It certainly doesn’t explain what happens to the victims (like the cop who disappeared in the first movie).

On the ‘plus side’ this movie is surely ‘more of the same’ when compared to the first, so if you were into it, you won’t be disappointed here. And there’s really no surprises as to what you’re getting into either.

2.5 stars outta 5

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn’t get tested for diabetes. 

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, 
locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads. 

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes. Riding in the back of a pick-up truck on a warm day was always a special treat. 

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. 

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this. 

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren’t overweight.

WHY? 

Because we were always outside playing…that’s why! 

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were O.K. 

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes 
a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, 
No cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms. 

WE HAD FRIENDS. And we went outside and found them! 

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. 

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us 
forever. 

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes… 

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them. 

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! 

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. 
They actually sided with the law! 

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, 
and we learned how to deal with it all. 

If YOU are one of them? CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.. 

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know 
how brave and lucky their parents were. 

Kind of makes you want to run through the house
with scissors, doesn’t it ?

If you ever find yourself in need to rename an md device, you’d be surprised how hard it is to find the correct information on how to do so, and how stupid easy it is to do.

Let’s say that you are moving some disks from server1 to server2 and these disks make up /dev/md2 on the source machine, but the target machine already has a /dev/md2. Therefore, you need to rename the device to the next logical md on the target machine, we’ll say /dev/md6.

On the *source* machine, we first stop the array:

mdadm —stop /dev/md2

And then, we tell mdadm to find all the disks with the given minor device number in their superblock and update the superblock to the new minor device number:

mdadm -A /dev/md6 —super-minor=2 —update=super-minor /dev/[h,s]d<foo>

Obviously, you would replace [h,s]d<foo> with the appropriate devices that made up /dev/md2 previously and you replace the ‘2’ with whatever the number of the md device was. At this point, you can install the drives into the target machine, and mdadm -A /dev/md6.

Easy, right?