I constantly forget how to setup a shared key environment for OpenSSH. It is pretty easy to find a tutorial on The Linux Documentation Project or How-To Forge but why do that when I can just have one here for me to find. This is a quick-and-dirty example of generating public and private keys, using shared-key authentication, and configuring an SSH agent. Eventually I will write a kde-agent so you don’t have to use the gnome one… but that is for another post.
Category: VAULT Treasures
JBoss and OpenSuse
JBoss is the worlds most popular (and least complex) J2EE server. Recently I wrote a tutorial on getting JBoss working on OpenSuse 10.2 for a client of mine. The tutorial is NOT complete because the packages built by JPackage are primarily intended for Redhat systems (even though they are suppose to be distribution agnostic.) I will update it, in a couple days, with the changes I applied to get it working but I thought someone might find the information useful enough in its present form.
Drink Up
I have added a section to VAULT Stuff. My wife and I like wine, but we have a tendancy to forget which ones we like and which ones we have had. I started using a program called Tellico to manage collection lists. One of the options it has is to generate reports and because KDE is network transparent (it saves files over ftp, ssh, smb, nfs, etc.. as if they were local) I can automatically save these reports to the website. Hope someone finds these useful… but if you don’t, I do.
It’s A Boy!
Today my second child was born at 2:51am. John Preston (aka Jack) is 7 lbs, 7 ounces. He, and mother, are in perfect health. God has been good!
Kconfigure 2.1
Its really late, but I have just released version 2.1 of Kconfigure. Externally the program has added support for Qmake, bzip packages, “What’s This?” functionality, and custom checkinstall options. Internally the program has changed a great deal. Settings have been moved from the preferences class to a resources class that will allow me to do things like create a setup wizard and distribution (and for that matter program) specific build templates. tar and rpm sources are available on sourceforge. Also added (probably more noticeable to the end users) are a F.A.Q. and an on line copy of (an admittedly old version) The Kconfigure Handbook.
If you don’t know what Kconfigure is, check out the screen shots on the project homepage.
More than meets the eye
I love transformers. They were both my favorite toys growing up as well as my favorite cartoon show. So I figured this would be something fun to start the day with.
Yes it builds itself
kconfigure is a KDE build tool for the autoconfig build environment. It allows you to perform build configurations, compile, and install capabilities from inside of a GUI. I have been working on it as a side project for the last 3 months or so and have finally completed work on Version 2.0 . If you get a chance, come and check it out. It’s my first “hard core” contribution to KDE; and it even got me a free iPod mini. Who says that Open Source doesn’t pay.
kdialog –msgbox “Check this out.”
So KDE is easily the best GUI for *nix type OSes… but how useful is it really for command line application usage? Funny you should ask. This developer.kde.org tutorial covers kdialog; a command-line driven script-able window generation tool for KDE. Good tutorial with some great examples. Just perfect for the new programmer or the system admin.