hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim

Next, go into the folder and run configure:

cd vim
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-pythoninterp --with-features=normal --enable-python3interp --with-compiledby="Steven Oliver" --enable-gui=gnome2

Finally, build it and install:

make
su -c 'make install'

Tal Liron explaining how to generate
bindings (GObjectInstrospection bindings) for Vala

After looking at what people recommended I came across the Qnap TS-469-PRO app from Qnap. It looks really nice and even runs embedded Linux. Seeing as how I also run Linux and I’ve finally convinced my wife to run OS X I really like the sound of it so far.

Does anyone out there have any experience with these? I know there are other companies out there making competing appliances. Is there any advantage to this route over the homemade route besides it’s plug n’ play?

First, I went to Newegg (naturally) and pieced together a micro-server with hard drives and a RAM upgrade. Here is the public wishlist. When it’s all said and done I’ll have 12 terabytes of hard drive (note, because of the way RAID works, I won’t have 12 terabytes of usable space). To complement that I’ll have 8G of ECC RAM.

I’ve seen a lot of people on Newegg talk about how the motherboard in server will actually handle 16G of RAM if you don’t go the ECC route. I’m really curious about that. The benefit of more RAM is obvious, and the wiki’s on ZFS and RAID talk about how you can’t get enough RAM when going the route I plan on taking. What’s the benefit of sticking with ECC? Is there any concern about going the non-ECC route?

Here is an article I found that talks about the hard drives I chose.

http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_red_nas_hard_drive_review_wd30efrx

I couldn’t find any recent information about these drives from users. Everything I could find on forums just talked about how they were going to wait to see how they turned out for everyone else. Which is not helpful at all.

Next, I chose NAS4Free. Everyone, of course, has heard of FreeNAS, but NAS4Free seems more up-to-date. So I’m going to go with it instead. My plan is to run the OS on live USB image and not actually install it to one of the hard drives.

I plan on running ZFS with RAID5.

I guess it’s really that simple. Thoughts?

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After looking at the first link above and comparing all the features and such, I can’t figure out why everyone uses MySQL or (if they go that route I’d prefer they use) MariaDB. Looking at the chart PostgreSQL seems to be much more feature rich and according to Wikipedia even better meets the SQL Standard.

Having used Oracle so much I can easily see why I like PostgreSQL better. Its much more similar to Oracle than MySQL is. 

That still leaves me with: Why did MySQL become the open source favorite? And why does it remain so?

Was my change huge? No. Was it important to me? Yes, and that’s all that really matters. I saw a feature missing in software that I wanted to add. I sat down, coded the change, submitted it, and the change was accepted. That is the beauty of open source software. God bless it!

My next step was to see if all my yum installs had actually produced what I wanted. A

grep -r ev.h

inside of /usr/include returned what I wanted. There it was inside of /usr/include/libev. So why wasn’t it being picked up? Honestly I still don’t know, but I figured out how to make gcc see it.

Add this to your bashrc:

export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/libev

http://valadoc.org/#!api=glib-2.0/string.next_char

 $ad = New-Object system.directoryservices.directorysearcher samaccountname=$id   

That’s all fine and dandy, but how many different properties does $ad have and what exactly are they? That’s actually pretty easy to find, but every time I need this I always forget how and end up wasting an hour or more trying to figure it out again, here’s how:

($ad.findall())[0].properties

A Google query, which is what all good projects probably start with, led me to this page on stackexchange. Following one of the links posted there I found this site. Intrigued by the code posted there I decided I wanted to try it. That’s where this post really starts.

If you go through the code in that last link you’ll see everything in that class is more or less hard-coded. i also discovered after dropping in into an Access DB it doesn’t really work. The code is very VB6 and not so much VBA. I’m also not sure exactly where the poster got the code from either. He claims it was taken from “the API-guide” but I have no idea which one, to what, or where.

Finally, after a couple of wasted hours figuring out what I was looking at, and how to make it work for me, I came across some questions for the web to answer for me.

1. The code appears to pull directly from the encryption methods built into Windows. In this case I’m on Windows 7. I assume who ever originally wrote it was able to use all the algorithm listed, but I cannot use most of the ones he’s posted. Why is that? What determines which ones are available and which ones are not?
2. Instead of just laying out the IDs for each algorithm he goes through some funny junk adding them up. For example, when RC4 in his code is passed into the encryption function, the number 1 isn’t passed in; 26625 is. Why go through the goofy math he does to come up with that? Is it just to help explain each cypher?
3. If go to this site you can see all the different algorithms that are supposedly built into Windows. Why can’t I use, probably, 80 to 90% of the ones listed on that page?

That’s all for now. I’ll probably post my version of that code so everyone else can bask in how lame encryption really is for Access using that method. I have since found other sites where people coded AES by hand in VBA. I’ll see how well that works another time.

UPDATE:
You can see all the code I eventually ended up with here.

That picture on the right, looks like a light switch, not letters!!