So back on this topic again today. I am going to take a look at a few different statements here in this post, and then I’m going to go over them and explain why these statements are or are not correct. Should you wish to verify any of my information, you’re more than welcome to [...]
So, this weekend was… interesting. Through something of a comedy of errors, the server suffered some strange software issues that prevented it from working this weekend. There was a bug in a recent update to the server software (running testing software) and that caused longer downtime than it should have due to various interactions between things [...]
In 40+ years of computing, there is bound to be software and tools that people are simply not aware of, or have forgotten about, or have moved from the forefront to behind the scenes—there are actually lots of these. One of the reasons that I watch Freshmeat for software releases is to constantly look for things [...]
Yeah, alright. Those are words I would never have thought I’d see in a title in a blog post, “thanks to Microsoft.” But, it is true. Microsoft is adding C# and the CLI to the list of technologies that it promises it will not sue for. This is Microsoft’s “Community Promise”, which means that to [...]
Just a quick set of notes I accumulated earlier when I installed the new JRE on a couple of 64-bit (AMD64) Intrepid machines. Download the JRE or the JDK for 6u12 from Sun Microsystem’s Java download page. Select the bin option, NOT the RPM. Save the file to your home directory. When the download is [...]
So, one of the things that I have wanted to do for a long time is setup the network at home such that it could become easier for us to use, and for me to manage. For some time now, Kerberos, LDAP, and NFSv4 is a combination of things that I have wanted to get [...]
Ubuntu’s latest release, version 8.10, named the “Intrepid Ibex”, is coming—tomorrow. This is wonderful, because there are a great number of improvements, particularly in the 64-bit version. There is one problem lingering with Pidgin sometimes spinning a CPU and crashing, and PulseAudio is still a bit finicky, but I am very happy with this coming [...]
The timestamp resolution is cool, the fractional part isn’t all zeroes anymore (see a file not yet touched and a file touched with touch after my upgrade): File: `workspace’ Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 3228229 Links: 4 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ mbt) Gid: ( 1000/ mbt) Access: 2008-10-23 [...]
Alrighty, so I wanted to play with Mono 2.0. I thought about packaging it up, but the packaging for Mono in Debian and Ubuntu is extremely complex, and would have taken me a lot of time that I simply don’t have. So, instead, I wrote a BASH script that pulls Mono 2.0 and friends from [...]
Sometimes, I run into something so totally special that I am prompted to start thinking again. Does anyone else think that it’d be a good idea to segregate the core of the system and the application software into two separate bundles of packages? Say, for example, that the base system would comprise the absolute core [...]
