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I’ve been using FeedBurner for so long I’d forgotten about it, not unlike Google who seems to be letting it die a slow death. I’ve disabled my redirects and...
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Adventures in CEC
Our trusty Harmony 880 has decided to start a somewhat rapid plunge into non-usefulness, started with the light no longer coming on when picked up and button...
Fedora 19 Upgrade Gotcha
While updating my primary VM server at home, I ran into a problem where dracut failed to mount my partitions when it rebooted into the fedup environment. Tu...
XBMC suspend/resume in Maverick
Few updates to my previous post:
Linode hosting
Did a bit of digging a few weeks ago and came across Linode VPS. With better prices than Slicehost, data centers both here in the US as well as the UK and e...
Moar RAID Win
Had to upgrade my storage over the past week and decided to see just how good Linux software raid (mdadm) and SATA hot plugging were these days. The current...
Enabling suspend/resume with XBMC in Ubuntu 9.10
Had issues after upgrading to Karmic with suspend/resume on my media box (Shuttle SN78S) where the system would suspend and then immediately resume (xbmc for...
Ultimate Phone
Must have, can’t live without, omg, do wnat!
My own… Personal…
Jesus phone!
Summing up my iPhone feelings
After all the iPhone hype today, Meethune sent me this link that pretty much sums up my attitude these days. Seriously. The iPhone is sub-par hardware with...
Nokia + Hal + Banshee == Music Goodness
Been playing with Banshee over vaction and got frustrated I couldn’t use it’s automagical conversion for my E71 or N810. Started poking around with the Hal ...
Openid two-factor authentication
So, went looking around last night at the various Openid options and came across Verisign’s PIP service. I rather liked the idea of using Verisign anyway si...
RIP Mr. Wizard
One of the great teachers of my childhood has passed away. He made science cool for kids and managed to teach quite a bit in the process. Meh.
Avant + Beryl = :)
Subversion Avant Window Navigator (AWN) now has support for Beryl window thumbnails. I’ve done up a demo screencast just to show it off:
autopackage: designed by monkeys?
Had a discussion at work today about the utter crap that is Autopackage and this link was posted. Priceless!
True Love
Heartbreaking post from someone that obviously lost the only true love of their life…. Read the sordid tale here.
Dapper and Madwifi
My primary laptop’s wireless card uses the Atheros chipset, so I’ve been battling with the stock Madwifi drivers shipped with Dapper. Using NetworkManager, ...
New Diet
A friend of mine sent me details on the hottest new diet craze:
Ouch!
As a recent survivor of raid crashes, I read the TechCrunch article about CouchSurfing’s demise with great sympathy. However, a comment from someone calling...
Automagical Podcasting
Rich Burridge posted an article bout using Talkr for automagical conversion of blog posts to podcasts. It’s very simple to setup, works pretty well (tho it ...
Mugshot goodness
Yup, I’m sheeple… ;)
George
Sad thing is, I’ve known people just this stupid… The Chronicles of George
Whisky PC
Um… Yea… This is pretty damn cool….
OpenSSH Multiplexed
Meethune showed me a really cool new feature inOpenSSH 4.2 called multiplexing. In short, it allows you to connect once to a remote host, then simply uses a...
Squid virus scanning
I haven’t tried this, but something like this seems more and more essential these days for those mixed networks… :(
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
Buddy of mine sent this over to me today….
Gtk2 enabled frontend for Nmap in Gentoo
Meethune’s got an ebuild/patch to build Nmapfe using gtk2…
Guide to VMware on Breezy Preview. – Ubuntu Forums
Wanna run VMware in Breezy?
Gnome Vs. Kde: The definitive guide
Ever wondered what the real differences are between the Gnome and KDE projects are? Well here’s your answer…
You are an idiot!
Choice!
Breezy impressions
Decided to check out the new Ubuntu Breezy release today and I gotta say, it doesn’t suck… It’s got a recent 2.6.12 kernel, Gnome 2.12 and OpenOffice 1.9.12...
Origins of Ctl-Alt-Del?
If nothing else, watch Gates’ response… It’s classic…
Internet chat room keeps London’s financial markets open
How cool is this?
WordPress Patch Update From 1.5.1.2 to 1.5.1.3
For those that are tired of the “official” method of upgrading (backup, remove, re-install), Angsuman has posted a zip of only the files changed in the 1.5.1...
NSFW!! Linux Sex Positions – The Open Source Kama Sutra
Linux Sex Positions - The Open Source Kama Sutra ‘When Tux the penguin was introduced as the Linux mascot, Linus Torvald said he didn’t want the OS to be ass...
New Look
Finally got around to tweaking this template again… It’s still not a finished thing, but I think it’s much sharper (especially in Firefox).
Evolution Mail Account LDAP Backend For GConf
Mark McLoughlin has written a really cool GConf LDAP backend for Evo to automagically pull email account settings from LDAP. More info here.
Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide
If you are using or even thinking about using Ubuntu, this is your bible.
WordPress Bugfix
Eric Anderson has posted a bugfix for the new plugin options page. More info and the fix is here.
New DVD ripping software
Came across this earlier… Looks like a promising project using GStreamer for the conversion process. Only supports converting to Theora ATM, but other forma...
StructuredBlogging
My Dashboard posts lead me to look at StructuredBlogging and I decided to go ahead and implement it here. In short, it’s a way to standardize blogging posts...
More Gnome Bounties
Ben Maurer has been allocated $3000 by Nat (from Novell’s GNOME Bounties) to offer bounties for memory reduction in Gnome. I think the amount of innovation ...
WP and LDAP
Alistair Young posted a set of patches for WP 1.5 to allow authentication via LDAP. I’ll have to try this out over the weekend, but the design seems very so...
Love Microsoft?
If only Microsoft would spend more time and money on making it’s products more robust instead of futile efforts to combat piracy… Imagine a simple check at ...
Feedster
Started checking out Feedster tonight, so of course I have to claim mine… Could be a pretty cool service if it will import my Liferea opml export properly.
I can almost hear it…
Looks like Bryan is gonna give us the first real audio cd burning app for Gnome! I’ve been testing Coaster since day one and it’s a really nice burning app,...
Tomboy and Blogging integration
It’s occured to me that being able to post Tomboy notes directly to a category on a blog would be a Good Thing. I know there’s also a push for evolution-dat...
0000884: trackback() doesn’t end header correctly
Found this after discovering WP 1.5 wasn’t pinging…
Official WP Release
Announcement is here. Enjoy!
‘If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits’
Telegraph | News | ‘If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits’
unmuted Blog Archive The crYpta
unmuted Blog Archive The crYpta
open.neurosaudio.com: Why Neuros is releasing the schematics for its device
Woot! I want one. Bad.
pam_usb
Got pam_usb up n running again on my laptop… It was as simple as “emerge pam_usb” and adding a sufficient line to /etc/pam.d/system-auth. Now if the author...
Sweet Case Mod
Jimbob, Now With 25% More Carbon Monoxide » Bootleg
| Java flaw could lead to Windows, Linux attacks | CNET News.com |
Java flaw could lead to Windows, Linux attacks | CNET News.com
Politically Correct UNIX (Computers in General)
Politically Correct UNIX (Computers in General)
NOVELL: Novell Linux Desktop
It’s been released on the world….. :)
wouterverhelst: Some people are crazy
wouterverhelst: Some people are crazy
WTF???
Seems Distrowatch has information about LinuxToday.com being sponsored by Micro$haft and “displays sponsored anti-Linux content” on the site…
USATODAY.com – Spammers convicted; first felony case
Wow… Ashcroft out, spammers getting what they deserve, what next?!?!?
Technorati
Trying this service out a bit…
Smells Like Fish, Tastes Like Chicken
Smells Like Fish, Tastes Like Chicken
RedHat Scammers
I know this is old news, but I did get this phishy email regarding the fileutils ‘vulnerability’ on RedHat. Since this has come out there’s been all sorts o...
Wow
Came across this site today looking for some graphics to “borrow” to replace this non-inspiring header and discovered a rarity; Smart, Female, Attractive, *n...
HP certifies Linux with Common Criteria level 3 – Computer Business Review
HP certifies Linux with Common Criteria level 3 - Computer Business Review “Hewlett Packard Co has completed the certification of Linux on its servers and wo...
This is one hell of a picture…
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Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 911, Dave Kopel, Independence Institute
Again… Michael Moore is a a loud-mouthed horse’s ass…
Moore is a pompous ass…
How can you claim a film is a documentary, yet doctor everything to suit your agenda???
The Linux Box:Windows is not ready for the desktop
This is a great article… Makes some really good points…
Firefox + Sage = Sweet!
I’ve been a hardcore Epiphany user since far pre-1.0, but this review changed that for me. Up till now, I’ve been using Liferea for my RSS aggregating, but ...
Gnome fork!
Some dude going and attempting to fork Gnome… Somehow I just don’t think this one’s gonna fly….
Muine CD Burning Coming…
Looks like there’s gonna be support for burning cd’s directly from Muine at some point in the very near future… Yay!
user instinct: GNOME 2.6 Usability Study and Review (page 1)
Really good article on Gnome 2.6…
Irony and Half-Assed Praise
The irony is a Microsoft-owned site recommending Mozilla’s Firefox web browser over IE. As for the half-assed part, well, just give the article a glance…
MT New Licensing Scheme
The folks behind Movable Type have revamped their licensing scheme yet again… This one’s a bit better, but I have a feeling they’ve taken quite a hit after ...
Move From MT to WordPress
After Movable Type’s move to their new licensing scheme, I’ve decided to move to WordPress. I’ll also be looking at moving all sites I’m running over as I h...
UserLinux
Found a link to an article in LinuxWorld about Bruce Perens’ newest brainchild, UserLinux. In his white paper, Bruce makes a pretty convicing case for a new...
Novell Linux Certification
After their aquisition of SuSE and Ximian, looks like Novell is going to have their own NCLE (Novell Certified Linux Engineer) program!.
Translucent X!
Yup… Keith Packard and the hackers over at Freedesktop.org are making some serious inroads into an X server that supports true translucency. This is gonna ...
KDE 3.2 Beta1
Just got this release emerged and I gotta say… Just not impressed here.
LaTeX Quickstart Guide
Came across this very excellent LaTeX guide…
Citizens Against Common Sense
I came across this press release linked from Slashdot. Seems that “The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste” has taken exception to Massachusetts m...
F*ck Yahoo
Rant Alert!
Life
Straight Talk Debacle
tl;dr - Avoid Straight Talk like the plague if you want mobile data or customer service.
CR-48 and Linux Connectivity
Was one of the luck ones that got a not-so-shiny (matte black actually) ChromeOS netbook from Google this past Friday. The only thing I’ll say here about Ch...
Android Backups
After finally retiring my Symbian phones, I’ve moved into the world of Android (coughSamsung Captivatecough) and digging the flexibility. On thing that alwa...
Four weeks
That’s how long it’s been since I began this experiment with electronic cigarettes. Haven’t touched a regular cig since then, haven’t missed em and won’t go...
Two weeks
That’s how long it’s been since I had an ‘analog’ cigarette. And I’ve started running again. Life is good. Posted by Wordmobi
From the ‘Duh!’ files
Had my first workout post-cigarettes and wow… Being able to breathe again makes a huge difference in the quality of the exercise (duh!). Was able to really ...
One week…
… and not a single ‘analog’ cigarette. Rock!
eCigs FTW!
So my new tasty ‘juice’ came in today and I’m 100% hooked. The flavor is worlds above the pre-filled carts I got with my 901 and it’s much, much smoother.
Another smoke-free day
Haven’t smoked a regular cig since Friday evening and I feel great. Yesterday I did experience some restlessness but I’m chalking that up to the lack of the...
Faux Cigs
So, been aware of the so-called ‘eCig’ for a little while now but finally was able to try one a friend has at work. My starter kit and a few extras came in ...
This post is full of WIN
My oldest daughter just found out she made gymnastics team! She’s worked really hard and fully deserves the spot. Way to go Britton!
On Vacation
On the East Coast for the week enjoying some quiet family time at the beach. Managed to find a really nice house (with hot tub) within walking distance from...
Down in Mississippi…
Traveling for the holidays has us staying with Tiff’s folks in Picayune this week. Kris and Candice scheduled Addisyn’s first bday party for Sunday (pics) s...
Published!
I wrote up a little review of the Nokia Internet Tablets for Red Hat Magazine. Go check it out!
New car
Finally went out and bought a proper family vehicle. Did some research and the Subaru Forester looked like the best fit. It’s got more than twice the cargo...
These Days
Been a while since I last posted. Tho not from a lack of desire or subject matter, simply a lack of time.
Welcome Addisyn!
My sis-in-law and her hubby had a beautiful baby girl this morning around 11:15. Addisyn Reese weighed 7lbs, 4ozs and was 19 1/2”. Congrats Candice and Kris!
Future Computer Scientist?
I think so! :)
On Vacation
For the first time in, well, ever actually we are on a proper vacation. We flew out from RDU Thursday morning and arrived in Phoenix around 15:00 local time...
All Alone
So I put Tiff and the girls on a flight this morning to Mississippi. Britton’s gonna be heading down to Disneyland for a week while Tiff and Blythe go a vis...
First US Tool Tour Dates!
Toolshed has an updated listing of the tour dates. According to liveDaily, they’ll be playing a show at New Orleans’ Voodoo Music Experience alongside Red H...
Tool tour announcement?
According to Fourth Eye, Tool is gonna be making a “huge announcement” on Monday. Here’s hoping it’s the much anticipated US tour dates!
Playoffs, good and bad
Bad is that the Phoenix Suns got bumped outta the NBA playoffs. Soooo the finals will have two teams I simply don’t care about - Dallas and Miami.
Hiatus
hmmm… Last post was back in February, lot’s changed since then.
Life, Gnome and OpenVPN
It’s been quite a while since I posted last, and a lot has been going on. On the life front, I’ve been going through a month-long interview process for a re...
Odd Christmas Card
My In-laws got this Christmas card from a friend of theirs that is obviously having a difficult time coping with life after Katrina. You decide whether it’s...
Bruce Schneier: Unchecked presidential power
Bruce Schneier: Unchecked presidential power Laws are what give us security against the actions of the majority and the powerful. If we discard our constitut...
Fuck Christmas
Not my words, however a damn good article…
Resume, yay
Finally got my resume updated and posted here… So anyone that wants to pay me lots of money to do really cool FOSS stuff, please check it out. ;)
Techies, Geeks ‘n Coders
Techies, Geeks ‘n Coders 1 I do know everything, just not all at once. It’s a virtual memory problem.
New Domain!
After all the Katrina fun (I’ll write my experiences soon, promise!), I decided to get off my a** and get a proper domain name and hosting company. I’ve got...
Aeon Flux Trailer
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/aeon_flux/large.html
CNN.com – James Doohan, ‘Star Trek’s’ Scotty, dead – Jul 20, 2005
CNN.com - James Doohan, ‘Star Trek’s’ Scotty, dead - Jul 20, 2005
A message for Bin Laden
~binnull
RealID
If you don’t like the idea of a mandated national ID card, please click here and let your senators know immediately. We don’t have much time.
Kevin Smith: My Boring-Ass Life
Kevin Smith uses WP for his blog… Nice to know he’s got more than just film making talent…
Bout damn time!
Meethune finally got a blog all setup… Finally!
Lovin the Hustle
Kung Fu Hustle My rating: 4 out of 5 Watched this last night and enjoyed every minute of it. The trailers I've seen portray it as just a comedy, b...
I’m in Hattiesburg, Bitch!
A friend sent me this link. Imagine getting press for something like this…
Weekend Fun
Learned a few things this weekend about computers and religion: xfsdump/xfsrestore is a beautiful combo. Had the root partition decide to develop bad secto...
BOFH and the hydrogen-based explosive device
BOFH and the hydrogen-based explosive device | The Register
Personal productivity in Linux
Edd Dumbill has some really great suggestions here… Well worth the read. Personal productivity in LInux
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 2 My rating: 3 out of 5 Caught most of this one on one of the movie channels over the past week and was rather impressed with th...
New Beck CD
Guero My rating: 5 out of 5 Got my hands on an advance copy of the new Beck CD intitled Guero last night and have been quite impressed so far. Heâ...
EW!
Sooo disturbing
New Beck CD
Real review here
Shuffle my GStreamer
I bought Tiff an Ipod Shuffle for her birthday (which she absolutely loves) and have had to figure out what to do about my ogg collection. I found info on a...
I’m alive!
Would you survive a horror movie? Find out @ She's Crafty
Blythe Gallery
I got the pictures we’ve taken so far up on our gallery so all can gaze upon the perfection that is Blythe… ;)
No place like home
Had to fight with the hospital people all day, but we finally made it home. I’m well past tired at the moment so more will have to wait till another day…
New Schick!
Blythe Elizabeth was born at 20:26 (-6 GMT), Feb 21st 2005. She weighed 7lbs, 7ozs and was 20 inches in length. Blythe and Proud Pappa
Baby soon!
Tiff just called me at work and she’s having contractions ~10-15 mins apart, so it’s looking like we will have the new addition within the next 24 hrs or so…
Weekend
Got to just mope around the house this weekend with Tiff since Britton decided to spend the weekend with the grandparents. Been rather nice with the excepti...
New Yorkers’ Problem with the Iraqi Elections
Came across this really interesting article on the war in Iraq, the elections and the conflicting reactions within the more knee-jerk liberals.
Bad taste strikes again…
First there was the JFK Assassination game and now this… And people wonder why large portions of the world see Americans as boorish nitwits.
Censorship strikes Super Bowl
Hot Points A blog by Go Daddy founder and president Bob Parsons
Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network
Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network
The Phobia List
The Phobia List
This is wrong on just so many levels…
Slaves for sale!
Family on the net
Well, it’s finally happened… One of my extended family got a pic posted on the ‘net. It’s the hot chick on the left.
Target : Entertainment : Marijuana
Man… Target really is a hell of a store… Can’t wait to get one here… ;)
Rant
Paint First of all, I’d just like to state for the record that painting sucks. In preparation for our new addition (due Feb 21st), I’ve had to convert my of...
Oddity of the Week
Woke up yesterday to the neighborhood buzzing about this hawk on top of a power pole… Poor bastard apparently got a nice squirrel and decided to land to mun...
Moving Sucks
Been moving stuff around to free up what was my office here at the house to be used as a nursery for the past week and a half, which has involved switching r...
Really??
This really can’t be serious…
Double Standards
If the parties were reversed in this, it would be all over the news as an example of free speach oppression…
Ashcroft to resign???
This would be wonderful beyond words… Now for Rummy ;) DrudgeReportArchives.com � 2004
Bush
Yup, he won… I was expecting a win, but not the way this has worked out. He’s managed to collect the popular and electoral vote along with gaining seats in ...
Emotive
Just got my hands on a pre-release of A Perfect Circle’s new CD Emotive. It’s “a collection of songs about war, peace, love and greed”, all re-interpretatio...
Super Size Me
Watched Super Size Me tonight while discussing ebuild conversion for PMF/Bob/epac with Meethune. It was actually quite good, tho quite disturbing to see the...
Saved
After a full day of office cleaning and keeping up with my fantasy football team, I sat down and watched Saved. For those that aren’t familiar with the plot...
Swearing
I came across an entry in Rich Burridge’s blog about dealing with kids and swearing and it reminded me of the first time we had to deal with that issue…
Fact
Jen sent me this one…
Fizzle
Ivan has moved far enough to the east of us to spare us the brunt of the bad weather. So far the hardest gust we’ve seen is 38 mph, a far cry from the 90 mp...
And Night Falls…
The weather has certainly gotten worse, but it’s not anything serious… Yet.
Shit
According to the latest warnings, we are looking “WIND SPEEDS OF 75 TO 85 WITH PEAK GUSTS TO NEAR 100 MPH” and flash flooding…
Slightly Windy
Title bout says it all… Getting 10-20 mph gusts right now which is pretty weak, but we are looking at 40-50 overnight and 50-70 tomorrow with possible 90 mph...
Here it comes…
Ivan is close, and it’s really obvious… The sky is all cloudy and things are eerily quiet. They are now calling for 50-70 mph winds here tomorrow, but it re...
Ivan
I know it’s been a while since I last posted, but there’s been a whole lot going on… Right now it looks like we are 24hrs or so from Ivan’s landfall. They ...
team america
New movie from those geniuses of satire, Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park fame… This one’s gonna be great!
Updates
I’ve been pretty damn tardy with my updates as of late, but things have been very hectic.
NCBuy Weird News: World Destruction Begins Sept. 29 – 2004-07-19
Yea… this is it folks…
A new Schick to be unleashed, current Schick is brilliant!
We got confirmation Yesterday from the doctors that a new little brilliant, cute, primo child will be coming into our home… The due date is supposed to be F...
Shrek 2
We took Britton to go see Shrek 2 this past weekend… Not a bad flick all in all, tho the addition of the cat assassin saved the flick.
‘It’s inside me!’
Wow…
Back at work….
Had an absolutely wonderful vacation time at home this past week. Tiff and I got to spend some very much needed time alone together and I got some really go...
Not Dead… Really
Man… It’s been quite a while since my last post here and a lot has changed.
Ettore Gone…
It seems the Gnome (and OSS) community has lost yet another champion. Gnome developer, Evolution leader and all around good guy Ettore Perazzoli passed away...
Obligitory Matrix Revolutions Review
IT SUCKS
Score One for the Rich Guys
Good ole’ Hollywood is screwing everyone again. The FCC approved a “broadcast flag” too effectively take away the option of recording anything on TV. Accord...
Ahhh… Freedom…
Looks like you have to watch what you say on your own blog… This poor bastard got fired for posting the fact that Microsoft uses G5’s…
Bebop and giFT
Took a little break from the fun of leopard development to check a few things out I’ve been meaning to for a while.
Matrix Revolutions Trailer!
Checked my favorite torrent site this morning and found the new theatrical trailer for Revolutions. Wow! I just hope they don’t try too damn hard like they...
Favorit Blog Quote
From Meethune: "a geek without a blog is like a pimp without hoes"
Projects
Mendel90 Marlin
For those looking to run a recent version of Marlin on a Mendel90 from nophead, I track upstream in my own branches on GitHub. There are two versions; one f...
3D Printing Tips
Just a few things I’ve learned over the past few weeks: Travel rate matters - On both my Prusa I3 and Mendel90 I had the non-print travel rate ratched up t...
Mendel90 Build
(My name is Matt S., and I’m a practicing 3D printing addict)
Maker Farm Prusa I3 Build
After doing the Wake Robotics build, we got the 3D printer bug pretty bad so I ended up looking for a reasonably priced DIY kit and decided to buy a Maker Fa...
OctoPrint Win
Just to follow up my previous post, my Raspberry Pi OctoPrint setup worked entirely as advertised. I expected tweaks and problems, but the stack Just Worked...
Wi-Fi 3D Printer Prep
With the successful completion of the 3D printer build and the upcoming delivery of our new 3D printer kit, I wanted to find a way to be able to print withou...
Playing with the Odroid-U2
Picked up one of Hardkernel’s Odroid-U2 dev boxes, figured a quad-core arm box for less than $100 shipped was worth kicking around a bit. After a week-ish o...
Moar XBMC Awesome
Been playing around a bit more with XBMC and came across a few noteworthy add-ons I thought worth sharing.
Moar automation
Got a few more bits added this weekend:
Initial Automation Success
Got my various HA bits in this morning, was able to get the Vera Lite controller set up (dead easy) with my lamp plug and dimmer switch. All paired without i...
Home automation experiment begins
Got a few bits on the way to start this little experiment in HA off:
Fun with TomatoUSB and OpenBSD
With family visiting and a steady stream of folks around the house needing Wifi access, I decided it was about time to finally set up a properly segregated g...
Geeky weekend projects
Had some time on my hands this weekend, so decided to get a few small projects worked out.
Android Repo Mirroring
Been playing with the CyanogenMod port during pto this week (yummy gingerbread goodness!) and got a crash course in building Android from scratch. Due to th...
rssnewzbin updates
I committed some prototype db code for rssnewzbin last night. It’s not hooked into anything at the moment (and it’s just a pickle dump), but it’s a start. ...
Fedora n Mythtv n Hellanzb oh my!
I’ve been running Gentoo on it for forever, but lately I’ve grown tired of dealing with the weekly tree breakage and hassles. I also wanted to attempt a 64 ...
Trac fixed
Seems my .htaccess file was borked taking my trac install effectively offline. It’s fixed now for the three people that actually care… :)
New Hosting
Well I moved hosting… Again… VPSLand is a decent VPS hosting option, but I was having issues with poor disk I/O performance and the plan just wasn’t cutting...
Updated Gaim Edgy packages
I upgraded the Gaim packages in my Edgy repo to the latest (beta 4) release today. Because I stupidly didn’t sync with the upstream Ubuntu packages, you’ll ...
Subversion hooks
Spent some time working with Subversion hooks last night to test svnsync and discovered something. If you wanna run sudo in a hook (don’t ask), make sure yo...
FIPS validation yanked
Fresh on the heels of the OTD win comes news that some really big players in the encryption field have killed the Openssl FIPS-140 certification. Those play...
Hosting followup
Just a note for those considering VPS hosting, I hit my one month anniversary with VPSLand and couldn’t be happier. I had an issue within the first week wit...
Package updates
I’ve added a few more packages to my dapper repo and updated a few others. I added an updated nautilus-sendto deb (with Gajim goodness), plus a few other mi...
Updates, Ubuntu packages
Updated the python-shoutcast tarball to fix an issue with the DEBUG variable. Go grab it now… All the cool kids are doing it… ;)
New py_shoutcast, Freevo plugin
Finally got around to updating py_shoutcast to the new Shoutcast XML format/layout. This was actually reported to me back at the end of May by Mats Joensson...
SVK
Came across SVK while looking for a way to mirror my subversion repos between this new server and my home network. According to their site, SVK “supports re...
New host
Finally got setup on a proper hosting service I think I’ll be able to live with for a while. My requirements never seemed all that exotic, but I couldn’t ev...
Could it be?
The Gentoo dev community is finally starting to reconsider the leadership (or lack thereof) structure that’s killing it?
Transparent proxy
I’ve been wanting to setup a transparent proxy on my home network, but haven’t been able to because Squid isn’t running on my router. All the hacks I’d been...
Equery magic
While looking to modular-x-ify the new Metacity ebuild, I needed a way to verify the X deps and used this:
OpenSSL Receives FIPS 140-2 Validation
Haven’t blogged in a while, too much going on, this seemed important enough tho…
New python-shoutcast
Thanks to a slick patch from Stefan Bambach (link), there’s one less bug and HTTP 302 redirection support.
Gentoo Linux LiveUSB HOWTO
Must-have for any true Gentoo’r ;)
GNOME 2.13.3 in BMG
I think I’ve gotten all of Gnome 2.13.3 in BMG… Lotsa new fun like Beagle search in Nautilus and Yelp, OpenGL support in vte and more stuff I can’t think of...
New Gnome and Nautilus
On my way to getting the new Gnome beta release in bmg, but I had to go ahead and cheer a bit for the new Beagle-based search in Nautilus (screenies). Soooo...
Genesi – Home Media Center
I’ll take two!
Leopard ideas
Meethune and I have been kicking around ideas for breathing new life into Leopard. When I was approached to work on the project the goal was twofold; a chro...
LVM2 magic
Quick n dirty hard drive replacement using lvm2: pvcreate /dev/md10 && vgextend lvm /dev/md10 && pvmove /dev/hdc2 /dev/md10 && vgredu...
Portage Patches
Brian Harring (ferringb) has some really slick patches posted on his blog for some serious speedups in Portage.
Gnome 2.13.1
For those living under a rock, Gnome 2.13.1 has been released and I’m working on getting it into the BMG overlay. So far I haven’t noticed any real breakag...
Ouch!
There’s more than a little truth here… How unfortunate.
New Freevo Shoutcast Plugin
Thanks to the spot-on cleanup/enhancement work done by Dan, I’m quite happy to put up a new tarball of the Freevo Shoutcast plugin. He details his changes i...
More Desktop Automation
This looks like yet another candidate… Great stuff!
Automating deskop app testing
Might have to look at this one for the Open-Xchange/OpenGroupware testing we are doing… Looks like fun! ;)
FUD
I know it’s no longer my primary concern, but it still amazes me to see the FUD coming from a few Gentoo devs about BreakMyGentoo. After all the work Joem a...
BreakMyGentoo
Well, ownership of BreakMyGentoo has officially been turned over to Lars Strojny (mastaYoda) and he’s certainly taken off with it. I’ll prolly still be invo...
New Python-Shoutcast
I’ve uploaded a new version of my python-shoutcast module to fix the feed url. Thanks to Dan for pointing out the issue.
Gnome Beta 1
I’ve just installed the new Gnome beta release (overview, announcement) and am thrilled with the feature improvements so far. I know it’s a beta release, bu...
Rapido – Visual profiler
Rapido - Visual profiler
OpenVPN GUI’s
Discovered tonight that OpenVPN now has choices for GUI’s! For those that might not now, OpenVPN is a true cross-platform GPL-2 (mostly) VPN client-server p...
Flow, Stuckness, and Interruptions
Recycled Knowledge: Flow, Stuckness, and Interruptions “Programming work is not very much like digging ditches (the work for which project-management techniq...
More BMG/BMU domination
I’ve been moving some of my desktop machines over to Ubuntu the past few days and was looking for info on the Ubuntu Backports project, so I Googled for Brea...
G12 Status Report
Important Gnome Foundation announcement! This will change the Gnome world as we know it.
Tags/Keywords Revisited
I’ve just made the switch away from Bunny’s Technorati Tags to Jerome’s Keywords since it means much greater flexibility. Just click on any of the ‘Tagged a...
RAID in Linux
I’ve had a few different folks asking me about the various approaches for setting up software RAID arrays in Linux, so I figured it would be a good time to ...
Referrer Karma
Added Referrer Karma to my anti-spam arsenal as well as the stats plugin so everyone can see what’s getting blocked… Here’s hoping it helps squeeze out thos...
BreakMyUbuntu
Came across this while digging for info bout the gaim packages in Ubuntu tonight. Just slightly suprising to see that BreakMyGentoo has had an impact on a c...
All valid
Sat up last night with the W3C Validator and got the XHTML produced from this theme all fixed. I also ran the style sheet thru and it passed as well, so you...
New logo
Well, I finally decided on a what is (IMHO) a really cool logo for the site. I modified an excentral triangle (using The Gimp), added a bit of color and voi...
Gentoo toolchain tip
Came across the following suggestion for the best way of handling updates for your base Gentoo toolchain to maximize your system’s stability. For those that...
Useful Plugins
I’ve been trying out several plugins and figured a little summary of the ones I’ve found useful was in order.
BAStats plugin
Just installed the BAStats plugin, looking forward to seeing what kinda output it produces… Seems the 1.5 WP release has really brought everyone out.
Feed burner
Came across FeedBurner just a bit ago and “burned” the feed from here. I’ve updated the link on the site here for it and found a great guide for redirecting...
Name change
I’ve modified this template a bit and decided on a real name for my little part of the net: excentral. Meaning ‘Out of the center’, it’s a dead-on descripti...
Templatage
I’ve changed back to the Bionic Jive template and added a few plugins to WP here including WP-CC and TechnoratiTags. I haven’t had the chance to configure t...
Upgraded WordPress
Got this blog all updated with the new 1.5 version, had no issues… For those that wanna do the same, there’s a nice walk-thru on the wiki.
IPython
I discovered IPython this weekend and have been really pleasantly suprised. It’s got a quite extensive feature list and while I prolly won’t use most of thi...
Python Shoutcast and Freevo
Well, I finally got off my ass, fixed the last few issues with my Shoutcast feed module and got it packaged up. I also updated the Freevo plugin to match th...
WordPress Plugin: AuthImage
This is great! Installed the MT equivalent on BMG and it’s cut out all my blog spam there, so I installed this on on the SPG site… Kudos to the authors.
NetworkManager patch merged
Nothing like a nice one-line patch… ;)
Evo Screenies
Got the new development version of Evolution in the BMG tree today, so I figured I might as well post some of the changes I’ve found so far…
BreakMyGentoo.net: Gnome 2.9.2
BreakMyGentoo.net: Gnome 2.9.2
djbdns
Made the move from Bind to djbdns tonight and can’t really see myself going back. Hostname lookups are faster, zone data file format actually makes sense, a...
It’s been a long time waiting – Bryan Forbes
Congrats on the Coaster release Bryan! I’ll see if I can’t get some ebuilds up on the site to help out on the “testing”… ;)
PMF Doldrums
Having a hell of a time actually getting any work done on PMF right now and I have no idea why. It’s a bit of a project true, but I’ve done bigger and not h...
Nicer Titles
Added this css/js combination to get some really slick mouseovers on links…
Updated look…
I’ve finally found a good base template to work from. It’s called Headspace and it’s based on the excellent Kubrick template. There’s quite a bit I want to...
sophists philosophy forums,psychology news,discussion – Running a Successful Open Source Project
Great article re: project management…
Shoutcast Feeds
I’ve done a small script to parse the xml feed from Shoutcast.com . I’ll be using this as the base for a new and improved (hopefully) ‘Web Radio’ plugin for...
Mantis
Found a new bug tracking software that looks really interesting… Might just be able to replace Bugzilla on the BMG site… :D
DNS-SD and GnomeVFS
The new (2.7.2) version of GnomeVFS has added support for DNS Service Discovery for automagical discovery of WebDAV and FTP servers. I’d never heard of this...
WordPress 1.2 Out!
The new version is out… Lotsa new goodies listed here. My upgrade took all of 3 minutes including the download time… MT is history!
Not Dead… Really
Man… It’s been quite a while since my last post here and a lot has changed.
Z39.50, Relax-ng, Web Services and Leopard
Back in the saddle again with Leopard now that all the USM/Newport stuff is stablized… I finally got the task list done for the module/package management en...
Ebuilds for Freedesktop’s X Server
I know I’m a little behind the curve here, but there are ebuilds out there for the new xserver. I’m emerging em now and will be posting screenies and though...
Gnome 2.5.0 is out!
Yay! Better late than never I suppose… ;)
Leopard Officially Unleashed!
We finally got the leopard press release done and out the door… HTML version, PDF version.
Mozilla and Z39.50
This is too cool… The Mozilla folks are looking into an implementation of the Z39.50 protocol to use with RDF feeds for searching.
BreakMyGentoo Status
For all the BreakMyGentoo devotees I’d like to apologize for the complete lack of attention the site’s been getting as of late. Leopard’s pretty much just sq...
Leopard 1.0 Out The Door!
Yup… Finally got the beast uploaded to the site late Wednesday night. Why the delay posting it here you ask? The answer is twofold actually. To start, I ...
Openoffice revisited
Got my oo-ximian binaries all compiled and running right along. Gotta say, this version is very sweet indeed. The added Gnome integration is nice to work w...
New fun stuff
Openoffice 1.1.0 has been released, the Ximian-ized source ebuilds are already on the forums (which are compiling quite happily) and I’ll prolly get em poste...
Week till release…
Yup… One week from today we will be releasing the core Leopard environment. I hope. I’m not really worried about making the deadline, but I gotta say this ...
Gaim updated… Jabber rules all
The Gaim folks got Yah** working and have release 0.70. From the announcement it looks like this is gonna be a moving target so god only knows how long it w...
FYI
Tom Adelstein (heading up the Leopard project) has an interesting interview titled “Linux from the trenches: A frank analysis of Linux as it moves toward cri...
Work
Ansible variables
Been doing some abstraction refactoring for work and ran into a situation where I had a task that used the command module in a loop and I needed to be able t...
Xen and vlans
During a big lab move at work a few months ago, we decided that our utility virt server needed VLAN support. The dhcp vm needed interfaces on three differen...
New Bugzilla!
So we finally wrapped up the big migration of bugzilla.redhat.com yesterday morning. We moved from an internal system (1 web, 1 db w hot spare) to one in th...
Subversion and mod_auth_kerb issues
Been trying to track down some issues with the new Subversion servers at work. They are setup to be accessed via https only, authentication provided by mod_...
virt-install
My favorite RHEL5 feature by far is the new ‘virt-install’ utility. Being able to do a VM install by running:
Raises are cool…
That’s it. Nothing more.
Only 8.5G?
Brew/Koji’s db is well over 100G, Bugzilla is ~11G so your puny 8.5G RT database fails to impress. :)
RHEL5 XEN nat’ing
Been playing with the new virt layer in RHEL5 and having a blast. I did have to make some changes to get NAT to work with guest domains. Nothing huge, just...
Postgresql replication blows
Yup, that’s right. I said it. Postgresql replication options blow. Hardcore. To summarize the options:
Openssh pts fun
So… Came across a whole new bug today that had me scratching my head for quite a while. One of my servers at work started hanging during ssh logins complete...
smbk5pwd followup
I went ahead and hacked an ebuild to include the smbk5pwd overlay and submitted a bug to the Gentoo bugzilla. I don’t know how well it will be received sinc...
Fedora Directory Server v1.0 released!
Sweetness!
Heimdal, Samba and system password sync
I’ve been looking for ways to keep passwords stored in LDAP in sync, and I came across the smbk5pwd module/overlay for OpenLDAP. It only works with OpenLDAP...
Securing SSH with DenyHosts
Good read if you have folks trying brute-force attacks….
Two NICS + One subnet + Linux = Headaches
Meethune (mostly) and I have been trying to wrap up the final bits of our new Xen toy at the office, and had run into a roadblock on the networking end of th...
FeedWordPress
Wanna add posts from other sites into your own? Rad Geek has a plugin that does just that called FeedWordPress. I’m thinking moving PlanetOSSI over to this...
Weekend Fun
Learned a few things this weekend about computers and religion: xfsdump/xfsrestore is a beautiful combo. Had the root partition decide to develop bad secto...
Slashdot Posting
Seems fitting that my first Slashdot posting is about this CRADA…
Navy R&D project looks to open-source use – Computerworld
Getting press for this CRADA in ComputerWorld ain’t half bad! And to think, one little LiveCD helped kick the whole thing off… ;)
RAID 5 via mdadm
Finally got the SATA PCI cards (SIIG SC-SA4011) in at work today so I was able to go ahead and build the new RAID array.
Planet OSSI
We now have the startings of Planet OSSI! The design is a quick hack job and the logo is a Gimp, but I think it will do for now…
mdadm RAID 1 Migration
I’m migrating our work server over to a complete RAID setup (software) and needed to find a way to migrate the system partitions over to RAID 1 with a minim...
Weekend
Got to just mope around the house this weekend with Tiff since Britton decided to spend the weekend with the grandparents. Been rather nice with the excepti...
Technorati tags and WordPress themes
Just discovered something rather interesting. If you are using Technorati tags, make sure your WP theme includes the rss links in the header. This will make...
TGIF
Yea, this is certainly a big fscking TGIF kinda day. This week has pretty much wiped me out just dealing with the monkeys at work. When you ...
Coolest admin tool ever!
phpLDAPadmin has gotta be one of the coolest tools I’ve seen for administering an LDAP server. Ton of nifty features and all sorts of extras like copying en...
Request Tracker on RHES3
Here’s my notes from an install of Request Tracker on a Redhat Enterprise 3 boxen. The owner of the box got in touch with me after his admin(s) had tried ev...
OGO – Evolution Connector
Now we get a true open groupware solution!
SNMP, MRTG and Squid
Meethune got me on a MRTG kick this past week, which lead me on a SNMP frenzy.
Evo and OGO
Anders Carlsson has an update on the work being done on an OpenGroupware.org plugin for Evolution. I’m really looking forward to seeing this, since we are l...
Jobs Suck
Well the accreditation team finished up their sweep of the department and left this afternoon, but not before screwing me completely. It seems that some of ...
Super Size Me
Watched Super Size Me tonight while discussing ebuild conversion for PMF/Bob/epac with Meethune. It was actually quite good, tho quite disturbing to see the...
Promotion?
Not really sure if it is, but I’m now the “Senior Technical Advisor” with OSSI…
Work
Let’s see here… I just wrapped up getting everything together for the accreditation board’s visit to the department which wasn’t really a big deal, just a b...
More Sparks Fly in Open-Source Copyright Fight
You know, for what’s supposed to be a “community” project, the Mambo folks sure are acting a fool. I’ve seen all the communications between the two companie...
Routing loop
This pretty much speaks for it’s self…
New (kinda) ThinkPad
Finally replaced that old, overheating Dell Latitude C600 with a slightly faster and smaller IBM ThinkPad T21. The Linux support this laptop has is pretty s...
OSSI Move
We (OSSI) finally got moved into our new building yesterday… Had to do the usual fight with Comcast to get a working internet connection, plus I’m still tra...
Compile Cluster
Now that I’m back in the blogging mode, I figured a quick rundown of how we (Jake and I) got this compile cluster up and running. We started with Gentoo Lin...
LinuxWorld/NYC Recap
Wow! This was one hell of a trip!
New York, New York!
HELL YES!!!
Comdex: Day One
This has been a very, very fruitful day out here. All 250+ Leopard CD’s and our promotional lit within the first 90 minutes of the exhibit floor opening thi...
The Saga of the tg3 Module that Killed a Server (or The Monday that Wouldn’t End)
Our story begins in the early evening of an unassuming Monday evening, November 3rd to be exact.
Samba 3.0! Finally!
Thank god this one is finally here… Samba/Windoze has been giving me fits for months now and I’m hoping this will ease that somewhat. Release notes show so...