gregoa's blog
random musings about computers, life, and everything
random musings about computers, life, and everything
entries from April 2006
2006-04-29 16:45:22 +0200
"last movie" in blog
I've just written a tiny nanoblogger plugin that shows the
"last movie" I've seen (taken from my movie diary feed) in my blog's side bar.
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2006-04-28 16:16:46 +0200
successful afternoon
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- bought a "new" (i.e. a used but it's new for me) bike; the old one's back tyre looked like 88 or something, & several other parts were b0rked too.
- cleaned my CPU fan again; & oops — the CPU temperature went down!
2006-04-25 01:08:09 +0200
2006-04-23 04:59:31 +0200
ignoramusses & iptables
ignoramusses shouldn't play with iptables; I just locked myself out from the
Debian box at the office (while flushing(!) a chain).
*sigh*
update:
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- went to the office & did a hard reset on the server. *urgs*
- played with iptables again. now the portforwarding stuff works.
2006-04-22 00:17:12 +0200
x.org 7
upgraded to x.org 7 today. no big deal, some minor adaptions were necessary,
then almost everything worked. with one exception: my hand-crafted
xkbd-variant is not "found" anymore. & xmodmap -e 'keycode
bla = foo bar baz' was not my friend either.
& I had to accept the removal of mgp & xli due to unsatisfied
dependencies. & I lost axyftp but that was my own fault.
well.
update: fixed the keyboard: xlibs -> xkb-data,
/etc/X11/xkb/ -> /usr/share/X11/xkb/. not really difficult
;-)
& I substituted xli with xloadimage at the only occurence where I used it. — 2006-04-23
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& I substituted xli with xloadimage at the only occurence where I used it. — 2006-04-23
2006-04-21 18:56:11 +0200
winter gone?
finally once again a "weather blog entry" ;-)
today some hopes arose that winter is finally defeated. I went to work by
bike without the thick winter pullover, & during the day the temperature
rose to something above 20°C.
but I'm still not sure if I should trust this development ...
on other news: the day after tomorrow brings elections to the city council
of innsbruck. I'm rather curious about the outcome ...
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2006-04-19 13:25:55 +0200
fun with packages & sponsors
during the easter weekend I had fun (more or less) with our three Debian packages
(fullquottel, mimetic, & mailtextbody — cf.
my last blog
entry on this subject). a short chronology:
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- I had contacted debian-mentors@l.d.o on staturday one week ago in order to find sponsors - no reaction; I tried it again this saturday.
- on saturday afternoon tony mancill contacted me & said that he would upload fullquottel and check the other two packages as well. shortly afterwards he uploaded fullquottel; thanks!
- a short time later I got two REJECTs - one for fullquottel ("is already in the NEW directory"), & one for mimetic ("missing .orig.tar.gz").
- it was not until sunday morning that I found out that christoph haas was the one who had uploaded these two packages; thanks! — no further actions on sunday except for some mails & me preparing a new version of the mimetic package.
- on monday I suddenly got two new mails concerning uploads: a confirmation for mimetic & a REJECT for mailtextbody: ".orig.tar.gz is already in the NEW directory". this time it was martin würtele who did the uploads; thanks!
- no further actions up to now except from a clarification mail from me to our three sponsors on monday ...
2006-04-14 01:04:45 +0200
one more debian box
we have an old red hat computer at the office, and I've been thinking about
migrating it to Debian for a long time.
today I took another old machine (PII-200, 96 MB RAM, 2x2 GB HD on some adaptec SCSI controller, winbond NIC, IDE CD-ROM) and installed Debian. some notes:
btw: spamassassin (with a well trained bayes db) rocks! — 2006-05-01
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today I took another old machine (PII-200, 96 MB RAM, 2x2 GB HD on some adaptec SCSI controller, winbond NIC, IDE CD-ROM) and installed Debian. some notes:
- downloaded the sarge net-install iso.
- in the meantime I grabbed a keyboard and a monitor, booted and went to the BIOS - oops, no CD-ROM in the boot options (well, the box ist from 1996 ...).
- the Debian CD-ROM really didn't boot.
- downloaded Debian floppies.
- reset. "boot failure".
- still no success after re-writing the boot disks; neither with tom's rtbt floppy.
- then I found sbm.bin on the Debian CD - a floppy image with a funny boot loader.
- yeah, I could boot with the floppy and tell it to use the Debian net-install CD-ROM!
- "expert26 $funny_kernel_&_boot_options" - "too many parameters".
- "expert26".
- I tried LVM for the first time. funny.
- no network for apt - huh? well plugging the ethernet cable into the correct socket helped.
- writing the boot loader (no grub because of LVM) - installation of lilo threw errors. I continued the installation nevertheless.
- reboot. well ... no bootable device.
- tried some things. no success.
- then - ähemm - I re-enabled booting from hard disk in BIOS; & - it worked. good to know that LVM (from debian-install) & lilo work.
aptitude install less joe ssh- locales, .bash*, ...
btw: spamassassin (with a well trained bayes db) rocks! — 2006-05-01
2006-04-06 00:06:52 +0200
/dev/fd0
there are people who keep asking
what floopy drives could be useful for nowadays. one (additional) answer is:
automatic
debian installation (IOW: preseeding the debian-installer and putting
the config on a floppy).
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2006-04-02 19:31:20 +0200
first guitar player
today — after more than a week of absence from felicidad — I felt like the
first-guitar-player-ever: so many strings, so many frets, so many fingers.
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