Well several months ago google announced that they were going to be closing down google reader in July of this year. I had been an avid user for years and the web based clean model  + enhancement plugins for chrome made this the ideal product for my uses being that I often reviewed my feed from several machines and the web nature made it portable to alternitive OS and platforms

I have tried several readers and some of them are very favorable (liferea is one of my favorites so far) but I reall was looking for a web based service

Now along comes commafeed www.commafeed.com

It is a google reader clone its style and layout and keyboard shortcuts (some of them anyways) are all cloned but if you liked reader you will like commafeed

It even has built in functionality to import your feeds right from reader so you may want to check it out quick before reader shuts down~

I wanted to post just a quick tip.
After the announcement this week that google will be discontinuing one of my favorite products google reader July I started my search for a replacement reader.  Part of my decisioning process was to go away from a web based service to a local application as I do not want to have to worry about replacing a service long term being that most applications support an XML output making my config portable through a dropbox like service is easy as heck

That being said I ended up wanting to demo lifrea to fill this role and wanted to post a quick tip google reader allows you to export your configuration (in the menu simply go to import/export and export your information it will give you a zip file of that data)

Simply extract that zip file there will be a file titled subscriptions.xml from lifrea simply go to the top menu and select import and you can directly import that subscriptions file it maintains folder structure and everything!

Makes it easy for those of us that have a lot of items we are following

I ran into this one with my newest laptop where minimizing or windowing a full screen RDP session will not full screen with the buttons at the top again

After a bit of searching I found that the keyboard shortcuts will work correctly to re full screen

CTRL+ALT+BREAK is the official one CTRL + ALT + PAUSE works for me on my laptop as well (so I dont have to press the function key as on my laptop the Break is a function of the Pause key)

This is one I spent a bit of time finding and figured I would post apparently AVG flags a false positive for the ANNO exe file and it should be safe to just ignore

Long term it is probably a good idea for you to set up an exception for the installation directory for the game as well

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/626105-anno-2070/61109298

I ran across a scenario where I wanted to follow a twitter user via an RSS reader the problem that I had was that google reader (unlike some of the other readers) did not like the format of the API as addressed in the following blog post

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/06/23/how-to-find-the-rss-feed-for-any-twitter-user/

Luckily someone in the comments did have a link to the standard for the “old format” which appears to still work as of the time of this post

The format of the URL is as follows, this worked without a problem for me

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/{USERNAME}.rss

This is a republish off my old blog … the old files are going away due to a change in hosts so please update links if you have any

Thanks!

I struggled with this quite a bit the first time around finding a source of information to configure Vyatta’s router solution just because examples are hard to find (not that there are any problems with it) so here is the configuration and examples that I had, I left IP addresses in there for examples but they may have to be changed depending on your home network setup

Before entering the below commands you have to be in configure mode and after commit them to memory (the commits are in there but will not put the configure in as you could do it all in one or multipule configure sessions)

Configure Outside interface for DHCP (eth0 is my outside interface)

dhclient eth0
commit

Configure inside interface with static IP address (eth1 is my inside interface)

set interfaces ethernet eth1 address 192.168.11.1/24
commit

Configure DHCP server for the internal network (note because of line wrap this looks funny but “set service” is the start of a new line that continues all the way to the next set service. One per line)

set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 192.168.11.0/24 start 192.168.11.10
set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 192.168.11.0/24 start 192.168.11.10 stop 192.168.11.50
set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 192.168.11.0/24 dns-server 24.159.193.40
set service dhcp-server shared-network-name LAN subnet 192.168.11.0/24 default-router 192.168.11.1
commit

This toruns on the dhcp server for the 192.168.11.0/24 network and starts handing out IP addresses at 10 and stops at 50 I also set my outside DNS server as handed out by DHCP and the default router handed out

Set NAT (genaric rule to enable nat)

set service nat rule 1 outbound-interface eth0
set service nat rule 1 source address 192.168.11.0/24
set service nat rule 1 type masquerade

Forwarding SSH (creates a rule to forward ssh from any source to any destination that comes to the outside interface eth0 , this is because I have a dynamic IP address externaly so setting the destination is not useful and do not know the IP that I will be coming from) This acts like “port forwarding” in home routers

set service nat rule 2
set service nat rule 2 type destination
set service nat rule 2 inbound-interface eth0
set service nat rule 2 protocol tcp
set service nat rule 2 destination address 0.0.0.0/0
set service nat rule 2 destination port ssh
set service nat rule 2 source address 0.0.0.0/0
set service nat rule 2 inside-address address 192.168.11.48
commit

Received the following error  and thought it was intresting

“A general system error occurred. The system returned on error. Communication with the virtual machine may have been interrupted .”

This KB article covers some of the standard reasons

I would add to this article that you get this same error message if you try to add a VM to inventory (by browsing and adding the .vmx file) if the volume it is on is in read only mode (or in my case the ACL’s were set to allow read only)

Make sure you have read-write access to the volume you want to import a VM from