Okay. So I have a client who's behind a firewall. They weren't excited at the security implications of giving me a VPN connection, nor was I excited about the slow, inconsistent connectivity. I had them setup an iLO http connection with port forwarding on a non-standard port. I haven't gotten around to setting up a non-standard NonSecure_KVMPort

 So I spent a few hours trying to figuring out how to connect in 2 lines. Enjoy!

wget 'http://<iLO-IP>:<iLO-port>/mahogany.jar'
/usr/bin/java -jar mahogany.jar <iLO-IP>-port <iLO-port>-username <user> -httpdata `curl --anyauth -s -u '<user>:<pass>' 'http://<iLO-IP>:<iLO-port>/kvms.html' | grep httpdata | cut -c 457-552`

I'd run across a few programs before that the original executable is also the installer and the service controller as the program installs itself as a windows service. Dear god I never imagined it'd be so complicated just to get that shell portion done. Here in a few weeks I'll be posting the open source code for a small project of mine that... well, you'll just see. :p

IPI_Tasker

I added a page to the CoLinux website on how to build a 2008 Gentoo version of Portable Ubuntu. I love this thing, I love Gentoo, but I have a laptop with a Targus PCI-E docking station that I just simply need to work day-in and day-out so I'm stuck with Win XP MC and all it's bloat. In the mean time, I have my own Portable Gentoo to do my fun stuff with.

Check out my Portable 2008 Gentoo page!

I just wanted to inform everyone of a new jQuery plugin that I just finished writing the first iteration of about an hour ago. This was inspired by Let Me Google That For You for the purpose of helping users of my clients' websites to learn how to use the website. I know some people might be thinking "Well, why don't you make your website more intuitive". To that I say "Because someone, somewhere will prove that something is not intuitive". For that 1 percentile (or for other purposes), I have written the jQuery Tutorial Plugin. Enjoy!

IPI Tutorials Plugin