? Alan Porter (@rockhopper)

Raleigh, NC, USA

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @rockhopper ever

May 2013

To install, simply do “packageManagerYouveNeverHeardOf install thePackageName”. Groan.

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Chasing fireflies in the front yard. pic.twitter.com/RyPgy6ThAE

via Twitter for iPhone

So proud of my little ukulele player. She gave a great performance in the Salem Showdown talent show!

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Drinking plain soda water, because soft drinks either have nasty corn syrup or dubious artificial sweeteners. Bubbles are nice.

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RT @coxn: Having an evening of e-presence paranoia. Upgrading all the personal things and battening hatches.

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Removing unused services.

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@coxn What a coincidence, I was just removing a lot of unused services from my personal web server.

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@emmarockin Nice… maybe I’l ride it to work.

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Boy Scouts taught me to light a fire with just 2 matches. Lake swimming taught me a submerged Bic lighter will dry out & light many fires.

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. @ncnearspace NSL-10 is headed southeast… aiming for Seymour Johnson AFB?

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Finally broke down and downloaded a flashlight app for my iPhone. Never really liked the idea… but the walk home tonight was DARK.

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Hey, @blockbuster, when your iPhone app says “2 copies”, that’s supposed to be copies IN THE STORE, not checked out. Wasting my time.

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Oops, maybe my dinner plate was not such a great place to put D2’s tooth after it came out.

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@emmarockin Get in the habit of flossing now, or your dreams will come true later.

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@pwbrewer Yeah, depending on how much thought you put into your tweets, those 14 tweets can really cut into your 12 hours. Don’t over-do it.

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@pwbrewer Sure, you can borrow the USB floppy drive if you need it. It “just works” on a Mac.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to pwbrewer

The kids wanted to paint fairy tale scenes on the walls, so we’re starting with colored rectangle backgrounds. Detail work to follow soon.

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I came across a USB floppy disk drive last week, and a box of floppies this week. Darn, no lost treasures recovered.

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jilevin Who are worse? Terrorists or children? pic.twitter.com/gPle1yhBfP

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@MandalaPubs A free resource for your followers: “Three Wishes for a Meaningful Life” iPhone app sentosa.us/apps/wishes/

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Chillin’ at the pool. No, really… teeth-chattering chillin’!

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The recorder club is rockin’ the house with “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”

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This is the first time I have been on an IPv6-only network… now noticing my own IPv4-only services.

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Good morning, Texas!

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@Square I sure wish the legal guys tracked changes like the software guys do. New seller agreement needs a simple changelog. Or a web diff.

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Teaching our kids to recycle has backfired. They’re afraid to put anything in the landfill, so now they are packrats, our house is a mess.

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@nivex More than anything else, this was an excuse to learn the @linode API.

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DynDNS is moving to an annoying “log in every month (or pay)” model. So I replaced them with a cron job script that updates @linode DNS.

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Had to delete and re-enter the shortcuts (in settings / general / keyboard)… twice. That jogged its memory.

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iPhone seems to have forgotten how to do keyboard shutcuts.

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Why does @WeDrawSomething send me two push notifications for each turn? (1) “has sent you a drawing” (2) “just took a turn”

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You know, @WordsWFriends, push notifications are not supposed to be used for promotions like “It’s your turn to RUN”. Go read your TOS.

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@jimmythrasher @BarCampRDU Congratulations! I think that question makes you the official organizer!

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@secmoose A password should be a phrase that makes you smile. You’ll type it a lot. Use it to put you in a better mood.

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@RobertFischer I had to give it a listen, b/c you turned me on to @daveslounge and @chillcast, but sorry, I just don’t have the blues.

via Twitter for iPhone in reply to RobertFischer

Received an invitation for a 9am meeting… at 9:00!

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Recorder practice at home… rockin’ medieval style!

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Grape Nuts is neither grapes nor nuts.

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Replacing “gitosis” with “gitolite”.

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Why does Twitter’s “view photo” sometimes open a small javascript window, and sometimes open a whole new page?

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I think I can finally call myself an LDAP novice.

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Trying to teach myself LDAP (again).

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Commencing “operation cool-down”.

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Isn’t it hilarious when you learn the words of a song wrong? I just figured out a 1985 Rush song at last week’s concert!

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I’ll be glad when lawyers discover version control. git diff HEAD^ terms-of-service.txt

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Chasing ghosts again.

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Finally found the source of my tweet-under-wrong-ID problem. iPhone Twitter app switches users when I slide open a “mention” notification.

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Code review comment: If you cut-and-paste code, then maybe on next payday, we will just give you a photocopy of last week’s paycheck.

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Putty for Linux tip - during a running session, use ctrl + right-click to get the session menu (to change appearance, open new session, etc)

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@SpiderOak Somehow, this does not seem very “headless” to me.

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@SpiderOak How do you disable the Hive from a headless box? Tried exclude-dir, but it comes back.

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@SpiderOak While we’re at it, why create a default shared folder with a SPACE IN THE NAME? Trying to flush out poorly-written apps/scripts?

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@SpiderOak creates a new directory on my devices. Not cool. Wrapping my head around the Hive. Just a default share? That I can’t delete?

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During Debian upgrade, wondering why some packages ask questions using “dialog” (curses) and others use “readline” (plain text prompts).

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@neuse Using my Macbook Pro to SSH into the Fit PC to do the upgrade. :-)

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Upgrading my “Fit PC” to Wheezy.

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I can feel it… I’m about to turn into a pumpkin.

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Today, I got to see a tiny baby bunny in his nest, nothing more than a small hole in the yard with some fluff hiding it.

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I think @rushtheband just found the resonant frequency of the PNC Arena!

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These old guys can still rock the house! pic.twitter.com/aXPuAO6vKc

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OK @rushtheband, I finally got my tickets… looking forward to letting you “educate” my kids in Raleigh this weekend.

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@ChuckWendig Is that F-bomb an adverb or a gerund?

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@PNCArena If I buy tix at the box office, do I still have to pay the “convenience charge” or is that just a TicketMaster thing?

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Darn, I hate it when I post my own tweets from the wrong account.

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