4June2009
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
“Internet Explorer 8 is the latest version of the familiar web browser you are most comfortable using…”
Well, its not and that is a fair bit of assumption on your part, dear Microsoft. Doesn’t mean I won’t install it though as its better than all the ones that have gone before it so I’ll give you that. That and you seem to be understanding that the word Standard means something that everyone agrees on, not just you.
That still doesn’t stop me installing Firefox on all the Windows servers I manage however, no matter how much your “hardened” IE configuration doesn’t play with Mozilla’s GEOIP-based mirror system thingy. Yeah, I end up at the command line doing an mget from mirrorservice.org…
26May2009
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
No, its not fedora-devel-list, its what I got this morning after our asterisk server ran out of space and I tried to trash the entire recordings directory. rm fail?
Solved with:
ls | xargs rm
by the way as apparently unix rm has a 128k buffer. Or something.
17May2009
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
So having resolved to do more stuff (and less time burning my eyeballs on the flames of fedora-devel) I’ve started poking at ifolder stuff again with a hand-wavy view to F12 inclusion.
Logically I started where I left off with its dependencies. FLAIM has had some changes since I last poked it, most notably it now uses Autotools but requires 2.2 which doesn’t ship with F10. Despite the awesomeness that are koji scratch builds, I prefer to get it building locally on x86 first (Hey, we don’t care about PPC any more right?) and take it from there. I’ll look at simias next.
iFolder should soon be buildable on the latest mono so perhaps its going to happen after all?
11May2009
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
Apparently reading is good for you. Well, I think there has been way too much chatter on fedora-devel recently and not enough doing. So I’m planning on doing less reading of mailing lists with strange people complaining (with two weeks to go before release!) that it shouldn’t ship with Firefox 3.5. Its depressing.
I’ve got work to do which is more interesting, fulfilling, productive etc.
3May2009
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
We’re still in the middle of house-hunting so staying at a friends, high up on the crags.
The Girl is away this weekend on a hen weekend in Liverpool. The last time I had some time to myself I bought a motorbike, ate some ice cream, had breakfast at a greasy spoon, dug for tupperware and caught a stomach bug.
A lot of water has passed under the bridge since. I took the motorbike out for a quick blat round my old town and other places then watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine which gets four stars.
Work-wise things have been hectic. That’s no change from the the usual however we have a new engineer starting after the bank holiday. Exciting times. It will be good to get another set of eyes on the job and maybe even learn some new tricks.
I’m still amazed at the lack of people coming through with solid linux experience. It usually boils down to: “I installed Ubuntu once”. For some this seems to equate to “Experience with linux server installation and administration” on the CV.
9April2009
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
We escaped with out lives … just.
Well okay, I was still at work but The Girl and flatmate were in the building. Counting our blessings as our stuff is okay (but smelling of smoke) and no-one was harmed. The police discovered a bunch of marijuana plants in another flat though…
24March2009
Posted by Christopher under: White Noise.
The Girl had finished painting a bird box and we took it outside to try and find a suitable place to hang it. Which was when I noticed tigger. He was large, stuffed and had been drowned in the canal. Two men were walking towards him holding a bin bag and a hook on the end of a stick. Slavic in features, they proceeded to drag him out of the canal, stuff him in the bag and drag him off by the legs along the bank.
The only thing left afterwards was a pool of water and drag marks leading away from the scene of a very bizarre crime…
4March2009
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source; Travel & Leisure.
A few months ago I bought a motorbike but only recently got around to getting my CBT. The wheels are a Honda CG 125. In late 1997, Honda moved production from Brazil to Turkey. This beast (called Ernie) was no. 492 off the Turkish production line and is a bit special because most CG 125s manufactured in Turkey have square headlamps. I’ve since had a new rear tyre and exhaust fitted so it purrs like a kitten.
Anyway, its been a while since there were some pics on the blog so here they are:
In other news, the Fedora 11 Feature list is pretty insane, when compared with the one for F10 for example.
20February2009
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
I like it when software says its going to do something amazing, then falls flat on its face. Now when I say like it I mean can’t stand it.
I’m upgrading a major piece of software which the clients for my day job run. One of the new features is a workstation update that automatically updates the clients without having to log in to each terminal and poke them. There is a grand box entitled “Workstation update manager” and its blank. There’s only one button - Refresh. This does nothing.
After years of moaning about not really being bothered to upgrade my wordpress installation, 2.7 comes with an automatic upgrade option. Except mine doesn’t. It downloads the upgrade file, then says something about unzipping the core module, then stops. I imagine this is due to my naff hosting package - hey, you pay peanuts …
7February2009
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
Who says kernel developers don’t have a sense of humour? Pass the above to the installer and you’ll have the option of Fedora onto Btrfs, the linux file system of the future. Probably. I love/miss Volume Shadow Copy on Windows so am looking forward to something similar on Fedora.
Edit: Several people have pointed out this is an anaconda option, not a kernel one. Though I did point out that this was being passed to the installer, not the kernel.
Other nice Fedora 11 stuff will (hopefully) be OpenChange, which I’ve been itching to try for a while and um, Git 1.6.1.1. Well I did blog about this before I guess.
In other news Jakub, maintainer of GCC in Fedora, made a brilliant post to Fedora-devel. Its great to see maintainers doing this rather than dropping the bombshell and watching the fallout. Its also great to see quick follow-ups to rebuild problems people encounter. Sure, GCC is pretty core stuff but its still good to see its in such safe hands.
As for the removal of Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X, I’m slightly bemused. I don’t have to use it very often (and perhaps its doesn’t address the underlying issue of _why_ I needed to restart X) but it is helpful and I’ve yet to see a proper reason for this change.
