I have been using the Xiaomi M2 as my primary phone now for quite some time, and it is probably the best phone I have ever owned, but I’ve been struggling with one thing… adb.

I had managed to get it to work on my linux machine at home, but not on my Mac or on Windows, so I started googling, a lot, and eventually found my way to this post on miui.com.

What I wound up adding to my adb_usb.ini was the following:

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0x2717
0x8087
0x2080

My phone bears a different ID than what most does (0x2717), mine is 0x2080 (something I found while fiddling with it to make it work on linux) and 0x8087 was suggested, and appearantly worked, for a french user.

Today I implemented Twitter Cards on this blog, and turned out to be relatively easy.

In your source/_includes/custom/head.html, add the following:

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{% if site.twitter_user %}
{% if page.preview %}
<meta property="twitter:card" content="photo">
<meta property="twitter:image:src" content="{{ page.preview }}">
<meta property="twitter:image" content="{{ page.preview }} ">
{% else %}
<meta property="twitter:card" content="summary">
{% endif %}
<meta property="twitter:site" content="{{ site.twitter_user }}">
<meta property="twitter:url" content="{% if canonical %}{{ canonical }}{% else %}{{ site.url }}{% endif %}">
<meta property="twitter:title" content="{% if page.title %}{{ page.title }}{% else %}{{ site.title }}{% endif %}">
<meta property="twitter:description" content="{{ description | strip_html | condense_spaces | truncate:200 }}">
{% endif %}

Some of the above code is derived from Hari Menon on this. The above code defaults to the summary theme, but if you add preview: with a link to an image like below, you will get it to use the photo template, but do remember, your site must get it as well as the summary cards validated before you can use either.

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---
layout: post
title: "something"
date: 2013-05-18 13:37
comments:true
preview: http://yoursite.com/someimage.jpg
---

Today I found that SAMBA/CIFS don’t like IPv6 on linux.

I decided to roll out IPv6 on my internal network, and all of a sudden I could not mount up my cifs share where all my files are stored. When mounting it using mount -v I got the following:

thor@gw-01 /mnt> sudo mount WebsiteFiles/ -v
domain=domain
mount.cifs kernel mount options: ip=fd80:1337::f8bc:c46b:daed:b64a,unc=\\storage-01\WebsiteFiles,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,uid=33,gid=33,user=Administrator,,domain=domain,pass=********
mount error(115): Operation now in progress
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

Once I switched over to using the ip of storage-01 it started behaving more correctly again.

I recently went out to take some photos for a photochallenge, here are the resulting photos.

Diving into caching plugins for Wordpress

Getting started

Today I started optimising my other site thorerik.com, and in the process i decided to do a quick test of how well my blog(my old Wordpress based blog) ran in comparison.

The result was terrifying at best, a measly 7 requests per second when hosted with NGINX front-end, IIS as app server using php on fcgi.

I spent some time wondering why I couldn’t join my webfront to my windows ad…
Among others I got

Error: DNS_ERROR_BAD_PACKET

and

lsass error network name not found

Some of you might know that I’m a hobbyist photographer… So I thought I’d share some of my more recent photos :)