Technorati blog claim fail error

This post is to record how to claim your blog in Technorati. The instruction received was to create a post with the codes provided then the claim process should complete. But it does not. The error below was showed when checking the status :

There was a problem finding your claim code.
If you have already verified above, please contact Technorati support with the following information :

* Please include the following error code: 400
* URL you are claiming : http://scratching.psybermonkey.net
* The name of your blog : Scratching My Needs
* Your contact info : myself@psybermonkey.net
* A short description of your blog and the type of content you like to write about. : This blog is all about Open Source, specifically about Freebsd, Linux and Perl.
* Does your blog have a RSS feed? Please see if you can supply us with an example URL of your feed. : Yes, the url is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ScratchingMyNeeds

The instruction given from technorati when the codes was provided, did not work. There is a alternative way to claim the blog. That is, create a link on the post with the below html example :

<a href="http://technorati.com/claim/<the blog claim codes>" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>

Which the "the blog claim codes" is the codes from Technorati, without the angle brackets (<>).

e.g.

<a href="http://technorati.com/claim/abc123xyx" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>

Technorati should correct its instruction on how to claim the blog. Also, the support should actually buck up. If there wasn't any human(s) behind the support link, don't even put it up there. This confusion wasted 1 week of my time trying all kinds of post with the codes and figuring why the process does not work. Technorati, are you hearing???

How to change the message display upon login

There are some message display after a successful log into the system. e.g. (if your system is running Ubuntu)

"The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software; the 
exact distribution terms for each program are described in the 
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted 
by applicable law.

To access official Ubuntu documentation, please visit: 
http://help.ubuntu.com/"

Linux - how to split / break big files in to smaller chunks

Just did a backup and noticed that the backup tar file is more then 2gb, which fail to copy to a fat32 thumb drive. The mysqldump output text file is more then 5gb and needless to try as it cannot fit into any fat32 formatted drive. Or even regular file that is more then 10mb would not be able to email to any Yahoo or Gmail account.

These are the scenarios where the big files are needed to break into smaller chucks in order to transfer it. Below is a good way of doing it :

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Epoch dates are seconds started from 1st January, 1970. It is a common date and time representation, especially in unix and linux world. It provides a way to convert time stamp in a much easier way for programming calculation, an integer. Below are one of the way to convert epoch timestamps to a readable format :

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rsync is a great tool. For archiving, copying & of cause syncing. It's able to copy to destination and maintain the same permission (-a), be verbose (-v), show the progress bar (--progress), log the process (--log-file=logfilename) & etc. But there are times when rsync is running on a slow connection, over a big set of files. You're in luck, rsync support rate limit. Although it is rate limiting the I/O bandwidth, it is useful enough for us to pump the data onto the pipe with the speed we want.

DNS - how to add, create, edit and verify BIND DNS SRV resource record (RR) type

ISC BIND DNS SRV resource record type is rarely needed on a open source world, at least not as frequent as A, NS, MX, CNAME PTR and TXT resource record. After creating it in BIND DNS as the sample format below :

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After a distribution update in Ubuntu, wanna check out the version?

Run the below command :

Mascots - all of em'

Ever doing some presentation or writing a blog post and need to bring out the contents by displaying a picture of the related topic? After all, a picture worth more then a thousand words. Wiki have a list of mascot, with logo picture. :p

Adiós !!!

find - files modified in period of time

Problem :
search every files recursively from the current directory that the modification time is the last 14 days with .conf extension



Solution :