Author: Ryan

Where to find real bread in Twin Cities

Ryanbread, breadsmith, minneapolis, St. Paul, twin cities

Anyone from Europe will tell you that what Americans generally consider “bread” is more like a loaf of bland nothingness with the consistency of a sponge that can be mushed together into something resembling playdough. To be fair, it is okay if you get some multigrain bread and toast it to give it some firmness and make sandwiches, but other than that ….

Artisan bread is a step up and brings a bit more taste and firmness. It can be found at various stores, we generally get some from Cub or Trader Joes. But the best bread we have found till now is at a local  “breadsmith” here in Minneapolis / St. Paul. They truely sell real bread. Yaaaay. So if there is a breadsmith near you, drop in and have a look, might be you find bread like you have never tasted before.

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How to easily add colored text output in bash scripts

Ryan1 Comment on How to easily add colored text output in bash scriptsbash, color, scripting

Here is small snippet that can give your shell scripts some nice output: colortext.sh As with the debug.sh script, just download it to the same directory as your own script and add it with

It contains one simple function called text with the syntax text “text to be output”. Color can be red, green, yellow, blue or grey. The function does not automatically add a linebreak to the putput, so pop a \n in there if you need it. I prefer using it together with printf for clean and easy color output.

Here are some examples of how the function can be used, and below the corresponding output:

Output:

normal text
blue text, yellow text
 Status of script: [ERROR]
Status of script: [OK]

How to get Teamspeak 3 running on a current Linux

Ryan1 Comment on How to get Teamspeak 3 running on a current LinuxDebian, linux, teamspeak 3, ubuntu

Teamspeak is know for lagging a bit behind with development.

The last few days I have been upgrading my servers to current distributions, today the Voice servers were on the list to get Debian 6 / Ubuntu 11.04. And again I ran into problems with Teamspeak, turns out they won’t work with libmysqlclient 16 libraries and require the good old 15 version (which isn’t available out-of-the-box in the latest Debian and Ubuntu release).

So anybody running into the same problem (do a ldd libts3db_mysql.so to check), can hop on over to http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libmysqlclient15off and download the package for your architecture and install it with dpkg -i

What plugins is that website running?

Ryancms-explorer, drupal, nikito, security, wordpress

While having a look at nikito yesterday I stumbled accross cms-explorer. It’s an interesting little program that checks the themes/modules/plugins installed in common CMS systems (Drupal, WordPress, Joomla! and Mambo), with automatic exploration for Drupal and WordPress. It also has some nice bonus features like providing a list of known issues for plugins found by accessing the OSVDB.org database.

Example output:

Running it against my own webspace revealed a possible SQL injection I was unaware of. *) Fixed that, will probably replace that plugin completely this week, anything that has stuff so obviously bad in it is generally not all too sane.

*) I normally look at plugins before I install them, must have missed this one. @ PHP programmers: anyone who passes on the content of a $_REQUEST directly to a SQL query without any sanity checking deserves to be flogged with his own code.