Darren Nolan

It's funny how you can never really seem to find shit on the internet that you want.  Problem occured after starting my new firewall software on my mini-linux box here at home, my no-ip service simply failed to work.

Seemed odd to me because my box could indeed connect to the address dynupdate.no-ip.com (which as far as I could tell, was a standard web-page response on port 80).

Well it turns out it's actually port 8245 that you need to open in your firewall (not your router folks, tired of people on forums telling others they need to "port forward" to get a fix for this.)

Error is as follows (and this was about a verbose as I got from the program).

# noip2 -C
Auto configuration for Linux client of no-ip.com.
Can't connect to dynupdate.no-ip.com (Connection timed out)
Network must be operational to create configfile. Ending!

Hope this fix is indexed quickly, as it took forever to find anyone with the right port for the program.

It's not nearly has hard when you know what the hell you're doing.  Oh by the way, that's not the case with me <_<  Find an installation guide elsewhere (or even adapt the actual installation guide from Redmine).  This guide is manually how to setup rewrite rules properly so you can use Redmine as ether a proper subdomain entry (redmine.yourdomain.com) or even slightly more tricky, as a subdomain entry (www.yourdomain.com/redmine).  Sadly cPanel htaccess rules generated from their interface ... suck.  Pretty badly >_>  No idea why.

MOVING ON.

So while I love having a dark theme, I still miss my IRSSI and it’s colors incredibly.  Thus work on a new theme is under way.  Working from the default style sheet and viewing how Jussi used some of the latest tags to color his theme.

Jussi has a more full version of his theme (which colors more than just the text window) which is yet to be updated in the theme screenshot section on the Quassel website – goto the repo browser for quassel to find the latest version or I might post it here later.  These new tags he’s used are awesome but have left me completely confused when editing on mine.

Thus this version of my theme is at the moment, only the text area.  With more time I’ll complete the rest of the app’s theme and adjust some of the nick-name colors as well as the action color.

Download rapid.qss.

And it starts with Notepad++, because it’s lightweight, awesome, sexy, and did I mention awesome.  I am a bit of a fan of Textmate on the Mac – using a combination of the font Monaco (which you’ll need to source for yourself) and the VibrantInk theme created by Tyler at impoverishedgourmet.com – you too can have a nice dark scheme for your coding box.

Next up will be finding a similar solution for Netbeans.

In order to install this theme, simply go place the file into %APPDATA%\Notepad++ replacing the existing theme (I like to make backups of this shit in case I ever start to hate the contrast).

https://www.darrennolan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/stykers.xml

Font is then changed in Notepad++ by going to Settings -> Style Configurator, ensure you have Global Styles (Global override) selected, and change the font to Monaco.

Certainly like my Quassel.  While I don’t have time to post about the awesomeness (and the downsides against command-line-junkies-dream IRSSI), I do require my theme to be online/available.

https://www.darrennolan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/jussi01-darktheme.qss

Based on Jussi’s Darktheme (on the Quassel website) but a tad easier color contrasts in the main text area and back to default-ish colors in the nickname and chat-lists.

Edit:  Bit of an after though, the font is Consolas (between 10pt and 12pt is nice) – typically MS font.