The Ubersexual Man

Here’s to you Craigslist posters!

Drwndx — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:39:17 +0000

Alright, it is currently almost 2010 and I still see postings on Craigslist without images…. What gives!? I may just be an arrogant ass, but who doesn’t have a digicam these days, or at least a friend with one? Hell, even 90% of cell phones being sold right now have one stock. If you want my business you gotta have images… kinda need proof your items exist, it’s not like you’re selling Jesus himself or something. If it’s lack of knowledge of image hosting companies, there’s tons out there:

http://www.imageshack.us
http://www.flickr.com
http://www.photobucket.com
http://www.tinypic.com

Just to rattle off a few. Come on people, get modern with your shit!

70’s Shop & Hookah Lounge

Drwndx — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:31:32 +0000

Hands down the friendliest hookah shop I know of. If you want to come smoke in relative quiet where you can actually hear your friends, or hear other smokers well enough to talk to them, this is the place. Here you are waited on by the hosts/owners Mike and his family. You don’t have to manage the coals, nor are there ever a shortage of coals as is my big problem with larger establishments. Mike concentrates on user experience and interaction, making sure the customer is taken care of. Typically Mya acrylics are use for 1-2 users, but larger hookahs are available upon request. The house tobacco of choice is Fusion, which he has stocked to over 20 different flavors. To further entice a visit, it is conveniently located next to a Denny’s, Filibertos, and Samurai comics. So far 70’s shop has been open with bringing in outside food and drinks, so feel free to visit these places before going. I strongly suggest visiting if you are in the Phoenix area.

Here is the store’s information

70’s shop and hookah lounge
5018 N 7th St
Phoenix, AZ 85014
(602) 279-5470
www.myspace.com/happyhookah

Wrath Of The Lich King

Drwndx — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:05:29 +0000

If interested I have a gallery of some of the screens I’ve taken while in the WOTLK beta

LINK

Fantasy Football

Drwndx — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:52:22 +0000

I hate you, with a passion.

Symlinking made easy in unix/linux

Drwndx — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:40:40 +0000

So, you’ve decided you want to setup a symlink, well look no further! It is a fun tool that is most commonly used to set up a shortcut or a filesystem redirect. Well the full explaination of one and how it works can be found at this page . But really, it is quite simple:

ln -s target linkname

target=where you want to the shortcut to go

linkname=where you want to name the shortcut

Here are a couple examples:

Say you’re tired of typing in a full path to something like a web root, you can setup something like this:

ln -s /var/www/vhosts/google.com/httpdocs/ /root/google.com

Then when you log in as root, you can just do cd google.com and be dumped into web root

Alternatively, say you moved mission critical files for a program like libs to a different dir for tidiness reasons and adjusting the code would take too long, you can just symlink it to save time!

ln -s newdir olddir

so ln -s /usr/local/php5 /usr/local/php4 would direct all calls to the php4 dir to the php5 dir, where all of your new libs are.

Amarok , Amirite?

Drwndx — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:22:25 +0000

So, with my ongoing usage of the Ubuntu Hardy Heron os on my spare work laptop, I needed to get a good, flexible music player. After a little bit of searching, I came across the Amarok player.

This nice little KDE player has all the gizmos you could want, including a MySQL driven database of your music. Upon setting up the player, it takes all of your music, from a specified location, and reorganizes it Alphabetically by artist. From there, it also imports all of your cover art, as we all know your “collected” music does not always come with the art work.

Some of the other nice features are : MP3 device management, hookup with streams like last.fm , scripting (what open source system would be good without this), as well as the simplest cd burning I have ever seen.

One snag with the burning though is that the proper libs are not installed. HowToGeek has pretty good guide for this, but you can also use your Synaptic Package Manager to install these libs as well. The appropriate libs to grab are k3b, libk3b2, and the libk3b2-extracodecs. You can also install k3b-il8n for internationalized k3b.

All in all I recommend this player, but if I find something better, I will be sure and let you know.

The Wonders of Virtual Box

Drwndx — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:21:13 +0000

Ever wanted to run Linux or Unix distros while running your Windows, Mac, or even *nix desktop?

Well, I recently had the need to, as I am testing out different distros, in earnest attempt to find one I like for dual booting with my Windows laptop.
To check it out go to VirtualBox.org . The usability is pretty simple, but has some nicely advanced features.

Screen Shots after the jump:

Using .htaccess to setup non-www to www. redirects

Drwndx — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:02:06 +0000

So there comes a time and a place where you want foo.com to redirect to www.foo.com for design, clarity, seo, and possibly other reasons, and doing so can seem tricky. Well I’m here to let you know, it is not. Using some simple mod_rewrite coding, it can be done quickly and effectively.

First things first, make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled on your server. If you don’t, you’re pretty crazy.

Next, either create or edit your .htaccess file in your webroot directory, which tends to be public_html, www, or httpdocs.

Drop in the following lines of code:

RewriteEngine on
#HTTP REDIRECT
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo\.tld$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.foo.tld/$1 [R=301,L]
#END REDIRECT

Replace foo with your domain name, i.e. theubersexualman
Replace tld with your domain extension, i.e. com

So you should end up with code resembling this:

RewriteEngine on
#HTTP REDIRECT
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^theubersexualman\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.theubersexualman.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#END REDIRECT

Save your .htaccess file and test it out. You should not need to restart or reload apache for this to work.

This however, will not take care of https, so if you are running a secure site and non secure site with the same directory housing, you’ll want to use this code:

#HTTPS REDIRECT
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo\.tld$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.foo.tld/$1 [R=301,L]
#HTTP REDIRECT
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^foo\.tld$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.foo.tld/$1 [R=301,L]
#END REDIRECTS

And again, replacing foo and tld respectively .

New Dark Knight Trailer

Drwndx — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:53:18 +0000

So apparently Dominoes pizza gets cool stuff, like a new Batman trailer:

Its basically bejeeezus amazing. And, as bad as it sounds, I’m pretty sure Ledger knew what he was doing when he O.D.’d cause I don’t think he could ever make a better movie than this and he probably knew it. It is highly unfortunate though, cause he was a stand up guy….. really, he was.

Possible Reason for the DiamondBacks Sucking Ass

Drwndx — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:02:30 +0000

With the recent decline in the performance of the Arizona DiamondBacks, one must wonder why it is happening. My guess, is that the rise in the Mexican population of Arizona is spooking them. I mean think about it, more Mexicans means more Mexican Flags. And what is on the Mexican flag?

That’s right! An eagle shanking a diamondback rattlesnake with its beak. Seeing this all over the place would reduce my morale if I was part of the team. Its like if the Raider Nation were carrying around pictures of Indians getting brutally murdered and raped when the Redskins came to town. I’m sure it would mess with their head too!

Best pic I could find