Archive for March, 2009

Word Press in Missoula Courtroom for Grace Trial

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

justicescales.jpgThe law school and the journalism school are helping report on the U.S. Attorney’s prosecution of W.R. Grace and five officials for criminal offenses.

I understand but have not personally confirmed that U.S. District Judge Molloy gave permission (rare) for reporters inside the courtroom to keep their cell phones and/or laptops turned on so twittering may occur.

Here’s one news story among many describing the revolutionary coverage of this federal trial:

http://www.newwest.net/city/article/um_journalists_cover_wr_grace_trial_in_real_time/C8/L8/

Here’s a link to the blog itself:

http://blog.umt.edu/gracecase/

Still no Creative Commons license for the content, but change comes slow. This is still an amazing use of Word Press.

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Half A Dozen Linux Lawyer Problems Solved

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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1. Description. OpenOffice files unreadable from shell.

Solution. odt2txt unreadable_file | less

2. Description. File on remote server unreadable from local host.

Solution. mkdir /mnt/stuff
sudo sshfs user@userserver.no-ip.info:/home/user/Desktop/matters /mnt/stuff
cd /mnt/stuff
ls -l
fusermount -u /mnt/stuff

3. Description. eGroupWare calendar and contacts unreadable from local host.

Solution. ssh -L 4444:192.168.0.65:80 user@userserver.no-ip.info
firefox

http://localhost:4444

4. Description. Unable to read or write file.

Solution. sudo chmod 0777 unreadable_file

5. Description. Missing an executable.

Solution. sudo apt-get install missing_executable

6. Description. Need to reboot from shell.

Solution. sudo shutdown -r now.

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