Apr 29 2013

Loss

Jared Griffith

Today, I found out I lost someone I could at best describe as an acquaintance.  Though for some reason it feels like I lost someone much closer to me.  I can’t shake this feeling, I can’t concentrate on work, and I’m down right sad.  I have lost my share of people over the years, granted not a whole lot that were close / current friends.  As of late I have lost relatives more than anyone.  The last person that I lost was a friend that I had lost contact with and she died from an apparent o.d. and left her 3 kids motherless.  It shook me, but for some reason, this one has gotten me even worse.  A friend suggested that it’s because she was a good soul, and I’m going to go with that, that’s really the only explanation.  She was a bright, energetic, happy person that when I did get to see her she brightened up the room, and a fun time was going to be had regardless of whatever else was going on.   I wish that I did get to know her better, and I’m sad that she is now gone.

I do know one thing though.  I know if I’m that shook up about her passing, I know that everyone that was closer than I is probably having a way rougher time than I am.  To them, I’m sorry for your loss.

Someone else posted this video of her on Facebook, and I’m going to share it because it’s just a beautiful video.  RIP Karla, catch you on the flip side, you had more of an affect on me than I thought.

Actual spot she was in:

Also, for everyone out there, please be mindful, careful, and share the road with those on motorcycles.  She died in one of my nightmare scenarios of riding.  The whole thing could have been avoided really and it’s really tragic that she lost her life that way.


Apr 18 2013

Ed Royce (R) Orange County, California – must go

Jared Griffith

People of Northern Orange County, let’s put this asshole out of office in 2014.  His yes vote on the CISPA bill is a clear vote against the people (us).  He doesn’t represent us, and needs to be replaced.   Email him and let him know how disappointed you are in him.  If you don’t, well, then you obviously want the government all up in every aspect of your business.  I thought these ass clown Republicans were for smaller government?  Why’s he voting yes on a bill that makes it bigger?  Why is he not upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States?  http://royce.house.gov/contact/zipcheck.htm

 

Update:

To all you Michigan folks that are represented by Mike Rogers, get rid of that prick too.  Also, make sure you let him know how un-happy you are with him.  It’s time for a change.  He has a clear conflict of interest with the CISPA bill: Mike Rogers and CISPA


Apr 18 2013

Perfect World Dreams / Interview with David Tran of Huy Fong Foods / Sriracha Hot Sauce (Rooster Sauce)

Jared Griffith

Today I read an interview with the owner of a product I sometimes use and well has pretty much invaded the intertube’s lexicon and has been here for quite some time.  I read an article and interview with David Tran, the owner of Huy Fong Foods, which makes the famous Sriracha Hot Sauce (Rooster / Cock Sauce).  I have a HUGE amount of respect for this man and his company.  Check out the interview here: LA Times interviews David Tran of Sriracha Hot Sauce.

I think a lot of society’s problems would be solved if companies were run more like he runs his.  The man is humble, cares about his product, and genuinely cares about quality of said product.  I would love to live my life supporting only companies that are run like his.  Unfortunately, all of those things that I admire about his company and his product, most other companies pay lip service too, and it’s just some bullshit marketing scheme.  It would be wonderful to live in a world where business owners are more like this guy than what we currently have going on.   Humble, modest, honest, and caring are things that are seriously lacking in more ways than one in all aspects of our lives these days, and it’s even more true when it comes to companies.

Please, if you know companies (small, medium, large, just starting out, whatever), and the people behind them are anything like David Tran, please let me know and make sure you support them and spread the word.  The world seriously needs more business owners like this man.  I would love to see “caring”, “quality”, “modest”, and “humility” be brought back into the market place and replace the overt greed and bullshit marketing terms to make you feel warm and fuzzy about a company completely done away with.


Apr 16 2013

Stop CISPA (yes again)

Jared Griffith

People, CISPA is back. Please contact your congressional representatives and encourage them to vote no on it. Pass this information along and make sure you contact your representative to protect what rights we do have.

Here’s the CISPA is back site: http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/cispa-back/

For my California people, please email or call your Senators:
Diane Feinstein - http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
Barbara Boxer - http://www.boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/policycomments.cfm

For the North Orange County, California folks, contact your Congress Person:
Ed Royce - http://royce.house.gov/contact/zipcheck.htm
Loretta Sanchez - https://lorettasanchez.house.gov/contact-me/email-me

If you aren’t sure who your Senator or Congress Person is, that CISPA is back site will find them for you and direct you to call them. You can also find them through this lovely representative finder:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/


Mar 29 2013

Moar MySQL Hate

Jared Griffith

Really? I have to add ‘with GRANT OPTION’ to a user so they can view, edit, modify, run items in the information_schema database? WTF is up with that? God MySQL, you are retarded. I REALLY miss the granularity of permissions you can use on PostgreSQL.


Mar 15 2013

Bad Init Scripts Make Me Angry…

Jared Griffith

Things I hate 1,134,939,999 – poorly written init scripts that don’t work and are just knock offs of other init scripts that work properly.  In particular ndo2db, which is a Nagios to database broker and I am using with Centreon (fancy web front end for Nagios, gets you out of the config hell that).  So the new Centreon does a restart on ndo2db, which does not work because, well, the init script is just a copy with some poorly hacked items to account for ndo2db files instead of Nagios directories / files.  For Nagios, the EXACT same script works fine and you get a PID number in the nagios.lock file.  For ndo2db, yeah, nope.  It fails.  So /etc/init.d/ndo2db status results in “there’s no pid but subsys is locked”, and /etc/init.d/ndo2db stop fails, which if you want to actually stop ndo2db, you have to issue killall -9 ndo2db, which is stupid and the suck.  Get it together man, now I have to write my own ndo2db init script because you guys suck.

Also, things I hate 1,134,940,000 – Programs that require some other intermediary application that can use databases other than MySQL, like, well something awesome that doesn’t have fucking table crashes like MySQL’s MyISAM shit, you know, like PostgreSQL.  Ndo2db can use PostgreSQL as a database backend, that’s awesome, but no… I no can haz.  Then that application (Centreon) doesn’t offer alternative database support, and requires that you use the POS MySQL, so of course the intermediary program (ndo2db) has to use MySQL.

#LSAP (linux sys admin problems).

Gah.  Annoying day at work.

 

 

### Update ####

Woot.  Reason 500,000,000,000 I love Google.  After some searching and reviewing I came across an init script that is a bit out of date for today’s chkconfig, but was easily updated.  Thanks to http://sysengineers.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/ndo2db-startup-script-for-rh-el-oel/

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          ndo2db
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog 
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Nagios NDO2DB Initscript
# Description:       Nagios Data Out Daemon
### END INIT INFO

#
# "$Id: ndodaemon.sh,v 0.9 2010/01/19 Chris Exp $"
#
#   Startup/shutdown script for the NDO2DB daemon under centreon/nagios.
#
#   Linux chkconfig stuff:
#
#   chkconfig: 2345 56 10
#   description: Startup/shutdown script for NDO2DB Daemon \
#                using Centreon / Nagios.


# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions
 
# Set various vars
#DAEMON=ndo2db;
prog=ndo2db;
nagios_prefix="/usr/local/nagios"
NDODAEMON="${nagios_prefix}/bin/${prog}"
NDOCONFIG="${nagios_prefix}/etc/${prog}.cfg"
 
#Check if both the ndo daemon and config are found.
#echo -n $"Searching ndo config & binairies : "
if test -f $NDODAEMON
then
        if test -f $NDOCONFIG
        then
                RETVAL=0;
                #echo "Files found!";
        else
                echo "ERROR: Config file not found!";
                exit 1;
        fi
else
        echo "ERROR: ndo2db not found!";
        exit 1;
fi
        start () {
                if test -f "/var/lock/subsys/ndo2db"
                then
                        echo "ndo2db is allready running...";
                        return 1;
                fi
 
                echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
                # start daemon
                daemon $NDODAEMON -c $NDOCONFIG
                RETVAL=$?
                echo
                [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/ndo2db
                return $RETVAL
        }
        stop () {
                # stop daemon
                echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
                killproc $NDODAEMON
                RETVAL=$?
                echo
                [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/ndo2db
        }
 
        restart() {
                stop
                start
        }
 
        case $1 in
                start)
                        start
                ;;
                stop)
                        stop
                ;;
                restart)
                        restart
                ;;
                condrestart)
                        [ -f /var/lock/subsys/ndo2db ] && restart || :
                ;;
                reload)
                        echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
                        killproc $NDODAEMON -HUP
                        RETVAL=$?
                        echo
                ;;
                status)
                        status $NDODAEMON
                        RETVAL=$?
                ;;
                *)
 
                echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart|condrestart|reload|status}"
                exit 3
        esac
exit $RETVAL

 


Mar 4 2013

MySQL is Bad mkay

Jared Griffith

Check out this article.  Very good.

http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else


Mar 4 2013

Help Dr. Freeclouds / Save the Vinyl!

Jared Griffith
Please help out Dr. Freecloud’s Record Shoppe! Stop by the store and pick up some new music, buy some from their online record shop http://www.lastrecordstorestanding.com/, or purchase & download mixes from their band camp page: http://drfreeclouds.bandcamp.com/, or you may pledge here http://buff.ly/XKVZPB
Dr Freeclouds is also on the web at http://www.drfreeclouds.com
If you’re unable to contribute, please spread the word!
Thank you for taking the time to read this message =)
We need your help! Support our Store & Vinyl community by pledging now http://buff.ly/XKVZPB Please share this and help the spread the word.

 


Dec 8 2012

Dj’ing today – Dr Freecloud’s Barely 18 Party

Jared Griffith

Today’s the day, come on down and have some fun.

More information:

http://www.facebook.com/events/112231118939180/

http://drfreeclouds.com

 


Dec 6 2012

Dr Freecloud’s 18th Birthday

Jared Griffith

Dr Freecloud's 18 Year Anniversary

I have the honor of playing with some long time heroes of mine at Dr Freecloud’s 18th Birthday party.  It’s this Saturday, December 8, 2012.  The shindig is going from 4-10.  I’m playing 7:00 – 7:30.  Ron D Core, Robin, and Jason Blakemore are all going to be playing old school techno sets, so come on down and get on down!

Event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/112231118939180/

Resident Advisor event page: http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?424713

Freecloud’s: http://drfreeclouds.com/