Setting Your Locale in Ubuntu

When programming or even running certain applications, have you ever received these or similar error messages? locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory Yea, I love the error too. 😏 Luckily, there’s a simple fix: See which locale’s you have $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER=" [Read More]

Ubuntu OVirt Guest Agent

Table of Contents Introduction Methods for Installation Using apt-get via terminal to install the oVirt Guest Tools Source list filler Reference material for adoc files Introduction Installing the Guest Agent in ubuntu virtual machine is fairly simple and will provide the oVirt-engine with additional information about the VM. The process has two main steps which is adding an install source and installing the ovirt-guest-agent package. Presently the ovirt-guest-agent package for Ubuntu is not in the official repos, but is available through evilissimo who currently maintains the package. [Read More]

Centos OVirt Guest Agent

Table of Contents Methods for Installation Using YUM via terminal to install the oVirt Guest Tools Starting the service Troubleshooting Reference material for adoc files Methods for Installation Using YUM via terminal to install the oVirt Guest Tools From a terminal session, type the following (for oVirt 4.2) YUM install sudo yum install centos-release-ovirt42 sudo yum install ovirt-guest-agent-common Starting the service From a terminal, enter the following commands to start the oVirt Guest Agent service [Read More]

Big Image Sample

Using Multiple Images

The image banners at the top of the page are refered to as “bigimg” in this theme. They are optional, and one more more can be specified. If more than one is specified, the images rotate every 10 seconds. In the front matter, bigimgs are specified using an array of hashes.

[Read More]

Math Sample

Using KaTeX

KaTeX can be used to generate complex math formulas server-side.

$$ \phi = \frac{(1+\sqrt{5})}{2} = 1.6180339887\cdots $$

Additional details can be found on GitHub or on the Wiki.

[Read More]

Flake it till you make it

Excerpt from Soulshaping by Jeff Brown

Under what circumstances should we step off a path? When is it essential that we finish what we start? If I bought a bag of peanuts and had an allergic reaction, no one would fault me if I threw it out. If I ended a relationship with a woman who hit me, no one would say that I had a commitment problem. But if I walk away from a seemingly secure route because my soul has other ideas, I am a flake? [Read More]

Test markdown

Each post also has a subtitle

You can write regular markdown here and Jekyll will automatically convert it to a nice webpage. I strongly encourage you to take 5 minutes to learn how to write in markdown - it’ll teach you how to transform regular text into bold/italics/headings/tables/etc. Here is some bold text Here is a secondary heading Here’s a useless table: Number Next number Previous number Five Six Four Ten Eleven Nine Seven Eight Six Two Three One How about a yummy crepe? [Read More]

To be

... or not to be?

To be, or not to be–that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep– No more–and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep– To sleep–perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. [Read More]