Author archives: Mike
Silly script forgot to check for a directory... (xorg recompile fails and drags down the whole show)
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Tuxedo,
Young Coders.
The xorg rebuild last night failed shortly after we went to bed. Was missing a directory under /var for the xkb files. Result is that the machine did not work overnight. It also showed 100% memory usage when I got up, looks like a possible leak? Annoying anyway.
Have wasted much of the day trying ...
Silly script forgot to check for a directory... (xorg recompile fails and drags down the whole show)
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Tuxedo,
Young Coders.
The xorg rebuild last night failed shortly after we went to bed. Was missing a directory under /var for the xkb files. Result is that the machine did not work overnight. It also showed 100% memory usage when I got up, looks like a possible leak? Annoying anyway.
Have wasted much of the day trying ...
Probably need to switch blog software (CoreBlog1 causing too much annoyance to hosts...)
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Snaking.
Tim reminded me today that CoreBlog1 (i.e. this blog) is becoming a bit of a pain for the admins. Mostly because of the huge volumes of comment spam blowing out the zodb file-size. So, it seems that I'll have to find a new bit of blogging software.
What I need:
* ability to import MoveableType ...
Probably need to switch blog software (CoreBlog1 causing too much annoyance to hosts...)
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Snaking.
Tim reminded me today that CoreBlog1 (i.e. this blog) is becoming a bit of a pain for the admins. Mostly because of the huge volumes of comment spam blowing out the zodb file-size. So, it seems that I'll have to find a new bit of blogging software.
What I need:
* ability to import MoveableType ...
Distribution plan (Or thoughts on a plan...)
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Continuing to build the developer's image in the background at the caffe. Still another 120 packages to go (with a couple of big ones, like Qt). Seems that the "snapshot" feature isn't creating "diff" filesystems on top of the previous version, it copies the whole file system. This would be why I'm running out of ...
Distribution plan (Or thoughts on a plan...)
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Young Coders.
Continuing to build the developer's image in the background at the caffe. Still another 120 packages to go (with a couple of big ones, like Qt). Seems that the "snapshot" feature isn't creating "diff" filesystems on top of the previous version, it copies the whole file system. This would be why I'm running out of ...
Gentoo becomes painful under emulation (Just the building, really)
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Gentoo seems fine when you run it on a modern piece of hardware. Even my rather old laptop does a reasonable job of churning through a build. But doing the build inside the emulated environment (VMWare) on the same laptop gets a bit painful.
I'm thinking maybe I'll switch to using the host machine to ...
Build is underway (System upgrades first...)
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Next stage in getting an OLPC developer's image is getting Gentoo updated to current from the CD image. So, I'm now building Python 2.5 (and the 20 or 30 packages it pulled in). I'll also probably have to recompile xorg (to get the Xephr server) and Gnome, so it'll be a few days still. Already ...
Build is underway (System upgrades first...)
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Young Coders.
Next stage in getting an OLPC developer's image is getting Gentoo updated to current from the CD image. So, I'm now building Python 2.5 (and the 20 or 30 packages it pulled in). I'll also probably have to recompile xorg (to get the Xephr server) and Gnome, so it'll be a few days still. Already ...
Not my day for networking (Locked out of the work svn server...)
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Knight Errant.
Our SVN server is pretty tightly locked down using pftables so that only authorised addresses can connect to the ssh. I log into a secondary box and from there log into the SVN machine and update it if I'm away from a known IP range. But today the pf script won't update to let in ...
Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.