xvl
Still can't get xvl to work for me. Solved one problem by
hardcoding the directory and now it's got a memory
allocation problem or something.
wiki
Decided to try installing a wiki. Nothing was packaged for
Debian (huh?) with the exception of zope-wiki which is far
overkill, so I grabbed the PHPWiki snapshot tarball and
after some mysql wrangling (wrong table names), it
installed like a charm. rybolov's usually
the mysql/php guy but I can handle it enough to at least
figure stuff out and make it work. PHPwiki is very nice,
much prettier by default than other wikis...
life
With more of my friends (naturedarren,
Kyrgan) joining, I might just find the
discipline to diary more often... we'll see.
Life has
been so busy lately, it's nice to be taking it easier.
Leaving a job and entering the marketplace isn't fun,
but so far so good. Ask me again in a few months.
community
Our local Linux user group, EUGLUG has been wrestling
with finding new places to meet having both outgrown the
old and business changes where we meeting. After weighing
all the options, I decided a hiatus for the summer makes
the most sense. Meeting every week on Thursdays and once a
month on Saturdays has taken its toll, and a break is a
good thing, so we can coordinate something with the other
Oregon LUGs as well as find new digs. It was pretty funny
how many regulars reacted to the news with "Well, now what
will I do with my Thursday nights?" Still haven't posted
the news to the mailing list, I'll go do that.
tivo
Tivoed: too many to count - with my new 60 gig HD
addition, the number of movies waiting to be watched is
just perfect, I can pick and choose from about 7 or 8 at
once...plus all of the good shows I season pass, both new
shows and good stuff i missed the first time round.
At the moment: Pups - spoiled kids rob a bank. Thumbs down.
looking forward to
Jay and Silent Bob - Kevin Smith is a god.
Annual fireworks party at my place
I've followed the certification 'problems' with interest, seeing as I'm rated as Master based solely on 1 Cert for it from kbob, and I'm working on lkcl's xmlvl the next generation of advogato. (Ever notice how Luke ends up being the TNG guy?)
gary wrote:
have a ``show incoming capacities'' link on everyone's personal page. I had a play with mod_virgule to see how easy this would be
Please let me know when you get this working, I'd like to see that... if you get it for virgule, it should work for xvl also
dmerrill mentioned increasing the number of seeds from four to ten or so. If you look at the seeds, however, you will find this: raph has certified loads of people (at least N, where N is a number larger than I can be bothered to count) and seems fairly active. alan has also certified at least N people, although I don't think he is active here.http://daniel. haxx.se/advogato/stats.cgi says it's raph at 70, alan at 76
There are plenty of people here who are:Per the above link, (all thanks to bagder) I nominate, based on community certs:Respected in the open-source community, aka the Masters amongst us
Very active here
Known to be scrupulous certifiers
Perhaps two or three of them should be ``seeded''.
All are active and all are well certified enough that making them a seed is justified by the given trust metric currently.
So, they gave me a USB Compact Flash reader instead. Now the chances of this working under Linux are ...? That's right: zero!
Wrong. There is excellent USB flash reader support in Linux.
In fact, you can do things with it (fdisk flashcards with partitions and more, it's a full scsi-ish emulation) that you cannot do with Windows software. I used it to make a 3 partition flashdisk to install PocketLinux for a Casio Cassiopeia PDA (normally running WinCE). Per the instructions, I created a FAT16 and 2 ext2 partitions, and it worked great, bootstrapping from WinCE into Linux. I could NOT repartition the card under Windows.
SanDisk makes a reader I tried installing on a dozen machines, worked fine on some, blue screened on others, tech support was clueless (It's a really buggy driver). That same reader works like a champ with Linux using usb-storage.o
Long time, no diary. I think I'm gonna try and change
that. I feel like so much of my life lately has been
postponed. So many projects desired, so little done.
Last day at work. I gave notice a month ago, and spent the
last month working harder and longer than ever, trying to
finish/documemt/adjust things to life without me in a
professional manner. Gonna take a week off and then start
my consulting/networking biz. More on that later. First
job: go right back to the same company, this time working
for an outside vendor to finish off a project. Gee, isn't
life ironic... I can't escape from this company even by
quitting. No wonder I felt dilbertesquely trapped
here.
My brother flys in from NY today. Should be fun to see
him, been a long time, 3 years. Going camping over the
4th. Will spend time hacking Tivo, swapping 'deal'
stories, and amazing friends with stories of former
exploits.
xvl: Still working on getting it working. even the CVS version wasn't working right for me... oh well, I'll have free time to mess with it soon enough. Trying to decide on a 'pure' advogatoish site, or something like PHPnuke combined with xvl...
Ugh. I resolve to start this diary up again, and to pick up all sorts of projects that I've dropped the ball on. Too much stress, not enough fun, and next thing I know it's 6 months later and I'm just a mess.
More in the new year...
My god, it's been over a month since my last entry. Depression is not a fun thing. I'll try to get back in the habit. Talk is good for the soul.
I'm putting together a vendor contact list for Linux User Groups, quasi-officially for linux.com, so would all of you wonderful people who work for companies that can, do, or should support Linux User Groups with freebies and more, please contact me (seth@euglug.net) with some info, or even just a quick note saying who I could contact for more info. Mostly, I'm doing for my own LUG, because we are holding a large event at the Oregon Country Fair, and we need stuff, but also cause all of the existing lists are very dated. Volunteerism is good for the soul.
Applied to be a Debian maintainer. Free software is good for the soul.
Work: spent the last few days wresting with routers of all sorts. Routing is bad voodoo and bad for the complexion, and the soul. Exhausted and ready for a change. Anyone with some neat job openings?
something new every day: I tend to write an entry then go back afterward and put urls in by doing a quick google search, and picking something. Often, I discover a new site that way. After looking over the Crais website, I learned that he's got ties to the sci-fi community, and written for many tv shows, probably stuff I've liked and never noticed was by him. Advogato diary writing can be self-educating.
Hamfest: I have a amateur radio tech class license I never use, but once in a while, I go to the ham radio shows to find goodies. Bought a tiny little Yaesu VX-1R that fits in the palm of my hand, runs for 14 hours on a lithium cell and can receive a huge spectrum of things besides just the ham frequencies. Of course, the major software to tweak the unit is commercial windows stuff, but I did find some linux code for it right away. Now I have to either buy or make a cable for it. Combined with the Espresso pc (review coming one of these days), I could have a completely mobile packet radio station, which these days is internet capable.... of course, I wanted to do this years ago, when nobody was doing it, now it's pretty common. Any old Palm 7 can do it.
Iluvyou-youloveme: The night before this hit, I was thinking of improving the mail scanner setup I had. Of course, I decided against it at the time. Next morning, drive to work, turn on radio and hear that 'a new virus' is out. Bang head against steering wheel over missing chance to look really psychic. Luckily, only person who got it that morning (8 times) was one of the very few who uses netscape for mail, not outlook (in some form). Turned off sendmail, installed procmail filter and turned sendmail back on. Caught every variant (and a few prettypark.exes) with just that one fix. Good thing to come out of it: boss is willing to look at other email packages. Eudora seems to be in the lead. Must be free, windows, easy as outlook, and full featured. Any others anyone can think of?
God:
I added some stuff to the Universe,
and you removed it. I'll have to let people know: Jesus
saves, but God deletes.
Linuxcare layoffs: Not that it's any of my bizness, but it'd be interesting if someone did a tally of where the people all end up. Here's hoping you all land feet up someplace else soon.
Physical labor: mowed lawn. (most of it)
i-opener: It's a version3 which means Netpliance removed the shadow passwd and disabled the root login windows that worked before. Someone will have to hack this puppy and gain root so we can reflash the bios. They will. Netpliance will learn that if they'd been nice, we'd be on their side, spending time doing cool stuff with them, but no... they had to goop and clip and piss people off, and now the effort is spent fighting what they did to stop us from doing things we'll do anyway. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, don't put epoxy all over them.
Television: I own a 60 inch Sony tv with a Tivo and DirecTV. TV on demand - only shows I want to watch, and I currently don't get the major networks. I mostly watch movies or scifi channel. The tv was a present to myself, it's too big sometimes (it's almost a full wall in my tiny place), but it's fun watching movies on it.
Implemented the antisymmetric tridimensional cross operator, spatial cross operator and spatial transpose operator and used them to compute the spatial inertia and articulated-body inertia of a two-link manipulator.
Now hand me a sonic screwdriver and we'll watch those Daleks scurry around! Then back to the Tardis...
Seth puts on his long scarf and offers you a jellybaby.
Got an i-opener finally. Out of 5 ordered, only 1 1/2 months later, I get one. Manager swore up and down that I couldn't get any, they weren't carrying them at all anymore, and yet when I asked for a copy of my receipt to be printed, the store clerks said "well, we have one in stock, would you like that one?" Duh.
Luckily, all of the bugs are worked out of hacking it, it's a simple qnx flashbios, install linux flashOS, and bingo: xterm for $99 + usb ethernet ($39 - bought for espresso also). Not bad for under $150. Now I just have to actually do that... I just unpacked it.
I'll post a complete review of the Espresso in the next few days. Still working on it. I want to build a battery pack for it.
Satan: I have prior art on the following: death, spam, commercial airlines, puns, red kryptonite, and slaying of the first born. Get in line. Maybe we can cross license.
Schoen:
I also came up with 21 right away, and according to the Sloane's
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, that is the
only
number that works well. There is one similar sequence that
differs by a second 1 at the start, and it diverges only
later at 110/111 - very interesting. Wonder how many of
those there are.
grepmail: David posted a new version, and credited me with some work. Nothing like the feeling of contributing to something. Powerful. I've missed it.
Lubbock: Decided (pretty much unilaterally, though nobody piped up otherwise) that Lubbock will use .deb as it's package format. .debs just have so much to offer compared to rpms. Current cvs burns into a disc, now we rip the whole thing apart and start making massive changes.
Voice over IP:
Went to see some demos at Cisco. Cisco is far and away the
choice here, due to embracing open standards. They don't
want to sell phones or servers, they want to sell routers
and gateways, and the product demos stress that. But they
too suffer from vaporware: everything 'next quarter or
later' for all of the useful features that we need.
Microsoft's got em snowed:
At the Cisco demo, I asked the engineer what other platforms
besides NT they would be running on, and his answer: "well,
2000"
as if Windows 2000 isn't NT5 really... but something
completely different. M$ marketing success story. (They
did say Linux or Unix, based on market demand eventually)
Ciphersaber:
working on something evil but fun: Word Macro based.
Encrypt/Decrypt from within a Word document (including
uucode if needed) Should be released in a few days...
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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