Author archives: Mike
Sugar is finally building (As is Inkscape...)
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Young Coders.
Finally finished building the dependencies for Sugar. XULRunner took basically forever! Anyway, I'm now running sugar-jhbuild and have the Inkscape build running as well. I've also spent the morning reading up on the Develop and EToys activities. Those are both rather involved activities that aim to allow children to create and manipulate activities within the ...
Sugar is finally building (As is Inkscape...)
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Young Coders.
Finally finished building the dependencies for Sugar. XULRunner took basically forever! Anyway, I'm now running sugar-jhbuild and have the Inkscape build running as well. I've also spent the morning reading up on the Develop and EToys activities. Those are both rather involved activities that aim to allow children to create and manipulate activities within the ...
Finally done the base OS install (Egads that took forever...)
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Young Coders.
I've just finished defragmenting the installed OS in the VMWare image and I'm now cloning the image. Next up is booting into the new kernel and then actually building Sugar. Yay! I want to back up the image at this point because it's taken a full week to get built and it is basically just ...
Finally done the base OS install (Egads that took forever...)
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Young Coders.
I've just finished defragmenting the installed OS in the VMWare image and I'm now cloning the image. Next up is booting into the new kernel and then actually building Sugar. Yay! I want to back up the image at this point because it's taken a full week to get built and it is basically just ...
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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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 ...
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.