Welcome

Welcome to the new otaku-elite.

This is the home of the original otaku-elite online gaming/anime community web forum (active 1999–2004). If you are looking for “heero” or “karia” then you’ve found the right place.

This site is now dedicated to programming, web design & development, linux, os x, video games and anime.

Recently posted:

• 14 Mar 2012 » Upgrading grep in OS X
  By default OS X (10.7 in this case) comes installed with grep version 2.5.1. Unfortunately if you want to use the --exclude-dir option (which you probably will if you are using any type of VCS) then you will have to...
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• 13 Mar 2012 » Gettin' Tango Wid it
  Recently I decided to give Sequel Pro another whirl instead of running SQLyog as I normally do on OS X under wine using WineBotter. My first objective, however, was to customize the color scheme to something my eyes are more...
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• 29 Feb 2012 » Monaco "Bold" - Fixing the Ugly OS X Fonts in Lion
  One thing that’s really bugged me since I started using OS X Lion was the way my favorite coding font—Monaco—appears at 14pt and above. On my Snow Leopard installation of OS X the fonts appear bold-ish, but on Lion they...
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• 27 Feb 2012 » PHPUnit Fails Silently, Returning Code 255
  A few days ago I set up PHPUnit on my OS X using MAMP’s pear. Everything seemed to be set up properly except I kept getting this weird issue anytime I ran phpunit, I would get the following: specs/ (dev)...
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• 27 Feb 2012 » Autocompleting Rake Tasks In Bash
  I found out today that it’s possible to autocomplete rake tasks in bash. All that’s needed is a simple ruby script and some changes to your ~/.profile. (Original information taken from a tumble blog post) First you need to grab...
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• 23 Feb 2012 » Including Files Using Straight HTML
  Getting the job done for a particular task always calls forth the need for the proper set of tools. In this particular case, the task was to create a single-page static html content-rich site. When I say the site is...
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• 16 Feb 2012 » Custom Mission Control Keyboard Shortcuts in OS X
  One aspect of Mission Control in OS X Lion I found irritating was similar to the problem I had with Spaces on Leopard and Snow Leopard: customizing the shortcut keys to whatever I wanted. For a while, I had been...
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• 09 Feb 2012 » Stop Rearranging My Spaces, OS X!
  One of the most aggravating things I’ve had to put up with in Lion so far since I started using it a month back probably has to be the revamped concept of spaces. Being a huge linux nerd, I jumped...
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• 08 Feb 2012 » Editing An Incorrect Commit Message In Git
  To fix an incorrect commit message to the head of a repository use the following command: git commit --amend This will allow you to enter a new message for the previous commit. From stack overflow: Used to amend the tip...
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• 03 Feb 2012 » MySQL and Rake - Library Not Loaded
  When trying to run a Rakefile that I created under a linux environment on OS X for the first time I ran into this message: dlopen(/Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib Referenced from: /Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle Reason: image not found - /Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle...
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• 31 Jan 2012 » Managing Images with Jekyll
  I’ve only been using Jekyll for about a week now and I can already see how managing images for each post could be an issue. I figure, I can’t have just one image/ directory and dump everything in there because...
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• 30 Jan 2012 » Unknown Column Display Price Group 0 In Field List
  Today while trying to apply my catalog price rules I came across the following message: SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'e.display_price_group_0' in 'field list' After searching google I found out that this can be fixed by rebuilding the...
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• 30 Jan 2012 » Terminal.app: Highlight Full File Path on Double Click (OS X)
  One of my biggest complaints about the terminal in OS X—vs. gnome-terminal in the linux world, and possibly a few other terms—is that when I am using git or svn and I want to add or commit only one file...
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• 30 Jan 2012 » Tab Settings Based On Filetype
  This one is a widely known feature of vim, as it should be for any other editor out there. Here’s a brief example on how to set your tab spacing settings depending on the filetype in vim. Add the following...
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• 26 Jan 2012 » A Better Solution for Less.css
  Recently I’ve discovered the joys of working with less.css (not to be confused with the less framework, which is also related to CSS). I think the one thing that turned me on to the idea was the Less.app GUI application...
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• 25 Jan 2012 » Excel vs. CSV
  I came across an interesting bug today with Microsoft Excel 2012. Historically, Excel has had this lovely issue of not being able to handle importing CSV data when there is an endline character in the middle of a field. So...
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• 24 Jan 2012 » Disabling A Key On Your Keyboard
  The Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 that I use at work has this lovely extra backspace button that I always seem to hit by mistake against the bottom side of the desk when using the keyboard on my lap, which...
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• 23 Jan 2012 » Working With Comma Separated Lists In Mysql
  I was asked recently to provide a feed from Magento which would provide a list of all active SKUs, with product names, descriptions, urls and a comma separated list of categories by name. I assembled a query in MySQL. I...
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• 23 Jan 2012 » Mouse and Keyboard - Simple Sharing with Synergy
  When working with multiple computers it can be a pain to have to interface with multiple inputs such as keyboards, mice, etc. Not only does it get confusing from time to time, but it’s just plain annoying. Especially when there...
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• 21 Jan 2012 » otaku-elite meets jekyll
  After not having the desire to post content to this site for a very long time I decided it was time to take action. But how? And what was the problem in the first place? The Problem I needed a...
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• 21 Jan 2012 » /etc/hosts.ac? what the duck is that?
  Recently at my job I’ve started doing some work on a mac (yay!) which means I now get to use some of the fun extra mac tools that I don’t have available on linux, but it also means having some...
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