Colin Charles Agenda

Archive for the ‘FreeBSD’ Category

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

alias skedit='open -a skEdit' is highly useful. Now I can do skedit foo.php and it opens it up. What joy with such simple things.
Great to see Mono go into Rawhide, meaning FC5 Test 2 will have it. Now I can’t hardly wait. On PPC, if we had Xen working (upstream), life would be the ultimate breeze.
I will not be making it to linux.conf.au 2006 in New Zealand. Despite all good attempts to get a flight leaving KL, I can’t. Well, affordably (hello coach class). Registrations however are still open. There’s a Red Hat/Fedora meetup, and Joshua Wulf would be a useful person to contact if you’re rocking up for it (email discussion still has dates
Is there a reason Fedora disabled updatedb running by default? Now users actually need to specify yes, in /etc/updatedb.conf. Why? Was this for laptop users?
FreeBSD ports has this nice advantage that yum/apt doesn’t get right. Multiple installs! I’ve got mysql5-server and bash being installed in parallel now, and there’s no locks and what not.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

So my server ran out of space, so it’s been NFS mounting more disk from another box. IP address of said box changed, and look: 7:12am up 35 days, 7:28, 2 users, load average: 70.90, 69.24, 65.59.
The F1 in the US, was horrible with only 6 cars running. Big wow Ferrari, hollow the victory was.
My hair is really gone. For all those that asked if it was Photoshopped (really, GIMPed), it wasn’t. I removed it all, completely. This is in lieu of me entering the States again within the next 3 weeks (okay, thats a joke. I just needed a change). This time last year, I straightened my hair.
I purchased a Tungsten C to get organised and stuff. I love the color screen. Too bad the digitizer and the WiFi radio module seem hoarked. Called Palm Support and they seem to be wanting to send me a new unit out (after I send mine in, of course).
Caught The Longest Yard - I don’t like football, but it was definitely funny.
Finally cleared (Fedora) mail. Ever found a package name you completely hated? jonathan-core seems to get on my nerves. Okay, weird.
Want to dual-boot FreeBSD and Fedora? Well, install FreeBSD first (I think it doesn’t matter if you do it later either), and when it comes to installing the bootloader, don’t use BootMgr, but the second option which is not to touch the MBR. Fun with LVM when /dev/hda2 and /dev/sda2 have names VolGroup00, making it oh so hard to get my data off the USB disk.

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

Meet Fedora Core 4 - Red Hat Magazine article. Go read more about our amazing FC-4. Which incidentally released earlier this week
So I spoke to a friend I haven’t spoken to in a while, and Malcolm is no longer free software/Apple hippie, but Microsoft employee working on Transactional NTFS that we’ll see in Longhorn. Well, at least he had finished installing FC-4 when he spoke to me.
Caught The Dreamers. It was, well, truly not something for kiddies. Finished all my One Tree Hill, Season 2 bits.
Been having the usual troubles sleeping, and Ditesh found me the best path to sleep. I guess those Slashdot gems really do exist.
S3 sleep on my R51 does drain power - about 12% of the battery went away during a 24 hour period. It was nice to reboot into FC-4 today (having only gamin, and the kernel change).
Dinesh was here on Friday. Well, he was here all week, just so happens that it was a good time for all of us to have a binging session, at Crown. Saw Gopi, and Tirath after ages as well. Good discussion, and good Hoegaarden’s.
domU images for Xen are useful raw disk images. Pity they lack FreeBSD ones…. 5.3 setup of Xen notes.
To live up to changing my hair-style everytime I enter the States.
So my scratchbox on Fedora issues? Solved not by turning of /proc/sys/kernel/exec_shield, but by going after /proc/sys/kernel/vdso.