Archives March 2007
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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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 ...
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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Young Coders.
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gentoo build for OLPC developers (It will be a while... (hmm, that should be Gentoo's slogan))
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Young Coders.
We're working on doing a Gentoo-based developer's image in VMWare. This will follow the pattern I used in updating my laptop, i.e. update the Gentoo OS to include the dependencies for Sugar and then build Sugar itself on that "stable" substrate.
This is going to be a full Gentoo install, including X, Gnome and the ...
Gentoo build for OLPC developers (It will be a while... (hmm, that should be Gentoo's slogan))
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Young Coders.
We're working on doing a Gentoo-based developer's image in VMWare. This will follow the pattern I used in updating my laptop, i.e. update the Gentoo OS to include the dependencies for Sugar and then build Sugar itself on that "stable" substrate.
This is going to be a full Gentoo install, including X, Gnome and the ...
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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.