Archive for October, 2004

Pants

Friday, October 8th, 2004

Most silly day. I broke my pants while trying to tuck my t-shirt in. Right before going to church. While I was her place. Rest assured, I went to cell, with pants that could’ve just fallen off.

<beg-for-donations>I just realised that in terms of PPC testing, I lack ppc64 (read: G5) testing, as well as SMP testing. Kind souls reading this? I’m still mainly testing on G3’s, which are slow, old, and well, my time can be saved if I have better testing machine(s). </beg-for-donations>

Got a new Fedora PPC tree (0810), usual /dev/console not found error. So mknod /mnt/sysimage/dev/console c 5 1 was to be the fix in rescue mode, and this got the system booting just a little further. Now with complaints that /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit being read only and more related issues like my keyboard not working, etc… my poor iMac DV SE. Its not having a “good time” any longer with Fedora PPC. Apparently, its also broken on G5’s as two (including BenH!) are complaining about its brokenness.

Update: Image of the brekage after manually adding /dev/console.

RMS

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Richard Stallman is in Melbourne for most of the week (till Sunday?), and today was at the Telstra Auditorium giving a very good talk about free software. Some rough notes from the talk entitled The Free Software Movement & The GNU/LINUX Operating System.

How lucky can we get? Jdub two days ago, RMS today. He’s also at UniMelb tomorrow.

Ubuntu

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

The long “holiday” is over. Well, it involved taking my mom around most of Melbourne’s great shopping sites, and a few touristy spots. Most fun, no Internet, a lot of walking, and a lot of Melbourne/Victoria I’ve not seen in a while.

Jdub was in Melbourne, giving us his talk on Ubuntu Linux, going thru an install, answering many questions, and I have some rough notes of what happened. They built up something so quickly, and where are we? You can tell I had a rough train ride home, thinking…