Archive for November 2005

my disk died, and i’m in intech

  • Caught Extreme Measures; not too bad a show.
  • My disk on the Thinkpad (potter) died. Taking with it, some recent work, and lots of mail from mid-August till now. So if you sent me something important, don’t hesitate to send it down my way again, thanks. I probably lost a bit of ~/Desktop/Downloads for certain as well. But I don’t think there was much “real work” in recent times that I’d have lost (seeing that everything real, tends to sit on the Net somehow). R.I.P. No more Samsung disks for me, ever. 5,400rpm/80GB.
  • Downloading FC-4/i386 now. Its about time I head out for a hair cut, and get a new disk as well. Point to note is that disks are cheaper in Melbourne than they are in KL.
  • Yes, yes, thanks for all the SMSes telling me I was in today’s Star In.Tech. Yes, it is me. Well, it was me, like seven years ago. I don’t look anywhere near that young any longer. Article in question is the “Protecting our borders in Cyberspace”, yes that’s xearth running on my desktop, with PGP freeware, and the other one has a blank terminal that may have had gpg running.

OSX has bugs…

When I last blogged about the 2005 iBooks with 1.5GB of RAM losing Airport Extreme connectivity, I didn’t realise this was something in regards to the software provided with the iBook itself (10.4.2 afaik). I just popped 10.4 on it (from the ADC seed) and it seemed to work well – doing the massive 10.4.3 update now. Funnily enough, 10.4 itself doesn’t support the trackpad driver *grin*.

Hey, look at /var/log/windowserver.log. There goes my apple+tabbing actions. Thats ok, Fedora will have none of that rubbish. Rawhide on the iBook g4 (ginny) is going well. It installed fine, but I did notice a quirk: the trackpad starts working when firstboot hits, but it doesn’t work at all during the install – so for that I used the Mighty Mouse. Multiple file contexts bug should be fixed with the next SELinux update.

Plague (our Fedora Extras buildsystem) now not only supports postgres/sqlite, it also does MySQL.

I tried using Mail.app for IMAP today. Its a massive failure, though from the folk that use it, they seem to love it. Long live Evolution or Thunderbird, right? Why did it fail in my eyes? It listed everything in ~/ by default – so it started indexing a lot of things I didn’t want it to. That didn’t please me at all.

Livna down, then Fedora Ambassadors

Livna (rpm.livna.org) is down. It’ll probably only be back up this weekend. Machine was to be fsck’ed, but it never came back up alive again. AFAIK, mpackage should be down to. I know there’s a lot of folk asking questions about that, and its coming… If we set build system to be that of livna, that takes away a lot of our problems.

However, all’s not lost. As root, do:

rpm -Uvh livna-release.rpm

Well, you can also use sudo (what I’d recommend, but isn’t setup by default). If you want, backup /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo first. Download it from: http://livna.org/~anvil/livna-release.rpm.

In other interesting news, Alex Maier is clearly good at what she does, and she’s now Marketing lead. I’ve dropped down to co-Lead. The Community Marketing Contact theme from OpenOffice.org has been relaunched as the Fedora Ambassadors. This is greatly good news for me, as attending meetings regularly, and giving good amounts of time for the success of this project, as a lead, I think I was holding the project back. I hope to do the tasks I’m assigned to, and feel at ease (well, more at ease) by being a co-Lead.


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