Posted on 6/2/2004, 12:07 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Compiled 2.6.2-ben1-hermione today. Everything worked on first try (I installed module-init-tools, and added agpgart, uninorth_agp, and radeon to my /etc/modules – the order is important), except wireless. Load sungem before airport, and all is well – wireless was eth0 otherwise. Hard disk blinking light on activity patch from benh doesn’t apply (but that’s because the patch is merged and needs to be enabled in your .config file).
It’s not the fault of Yellow Dog Linux’s installer. Apparently, anaconda barfs when it sees Apple’s HFS+. So its time to wait for new ISOs, that has the “fix”. So there is hope, after all, to get YDL on cho.
Posted on 6/2/2004, 8:16 am, by Colin Charles, under
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Well, got 3 ISOs today – Yellow Dog Linux 3.01 (because I couldn’t get 3.0 to boot on my iBook G4 14″). Guess what? Same error with anaconda crashing. Bug 53 seems like the correct bug, and Terrasoft don’t seem to be doing anything about it. Annoying as. Maybe its time to look at Debian (again).
Why doesn’t OS X burn .iso images into fully capable CDs? Retarded really, though I downloaded Burnz – 10 free burns, USD$12.50 afterwords. I’ll be apt-get’ting cdrecord via fink, thank you.
Posted on 5/2/2004, 10:38 am, by Colin Charles, under
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So, I’ve been significantly busy, getting site updates sorted. My Debian GNU/Linux on an iBook 2.2 guide is up. Finally uploaded the pictures from Christmas as well as some from the Tamil OpenOffice.org native-lang co-Lead Mugunth, when he attended my OOo Talk in Malaysia (circa early January). Oh, and from even earlier (hack in the box security conference), what are Dinesh and I exchanging?
Mandrake Linux has an interesting new development method. I guess we have it simlar in Fedora – we release several testX releases, and then roll it all up into a new Core release.
Romantic love? Well, time to go watch Big Momma’s House.
Posted on 5/2/2004, 6:06 am, by Colin Charles, under
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albus has died again, in spite of luck earlier. I really have to go buy a new box now, because there goes my build box and data store. The motherboard looks like whats wonky because I’ve played with the PSU with a multi-tester (and I’m alive).
Why can’t motherboard manufacturers provide data in an open format? They have PDFs there, but damn, it’s in one large .exe – how do I work with a .exe without a Windows box? Good thing I was talking to a friend on ICQ.
Kernel 2.6 scales well it seems; I agree, it’s snappy. I’ve started playing with Straw right after reading Planet Blog. Straw is cool (apt-get-able on debian/fedora as well).
Posted on 4/2/2004, 2:05 pm, by Colin Charles, under
General.
It’s out at http://fedoranews.org/colin/fnu/week5.shtml. That’s the Fedora News Updates #5.
Covering Eric Raymond’s new Multimedia HOWTO, the updated schedule (for FC2 test1), a report on the Fedora Bug Squad, as well as important changes to how the #fedora IRC channel works now (where you need registered nicknames).
Posted on 3/2/2004, 8:16 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
Well, was at the LUV meeting for February. I’m seriously interested in Python, Zope, and well, Plone now. Since with us moving to Plone for OpenOffice.org docs (real soon now), I can hardly wait to get stuff going. Possibly going to visit the OzZope folk sometime later this week too.
My iBook’s so sluggish today; its almost time for a reboot I reckon. Init says it was started January 16th; its been up for over 18d now, and urgh, sluggish. Re-designing my website and stuff to make it more simple and more standards compliant.
