latex bug report

so if you get this
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/setspace.sty
Package: `setspace’ 6.7 <2000/12/01>
) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/subfigure.sty) (./thesis_rough.aux)
(./description.tex [1] [2]) (./experiment_results.tex
Runaway argument?
or, which is about 1KB/S/Peer, or our server’s bandwidth (250KB/S) d\ETC.
! Paragraph ended before \Gin@iii was complete.
<to be read again>
\par
l.7

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! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in pics/200p2p-v4/downloadToSta
rtTimes_scatter.png (no BoundingBox).

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.

l.12 …00p2p-v4/downloadToStartTimes_scatter.png}
no bounding box? huh? anyway just use pdflatex instead of latex, as latex really likes bounding boxes (?) (gleaned from http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/reference/figures.html)

Django faster

http://www.alrond.com/en/2007/jan/25/performance-test-of-6-leading-frameworks/ good comparison of frameworks–django about 4x the speed of Ruby, which feels about right.  In the end not as big, as DB becomes a bottleneck (and no comparison of it with php, so…hey it’s just new age stuff, right?)

unable to login to ssh

So…setup your ssh keys and then it still just…doesn’t work?  Scan /var/messages for sshd — it might say

stormtrooper sshd[22125]: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/rpack
If that’s the case, then go to/home

and <code>chmod og-w rpack</code>. Done.

apache bandwidth limiting

In response to my original post https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36363111&postID=7717707930780716383 on mod_bw

One note is that  apparently mod_bw got most of its ‘code inspiration’ from an equivalent, on apache 1.3 (says in the files).  GL!

installing apache and mod_rewrite

so…install apache2 and get

Invalid command ‘RewriteEngine’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

no matter what you do to try and compile it in?  Try doing make clean, then –enable-rewrite as your parameters to configure.  Worked for me, now to configure it…