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Archive for February, 2007
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Raven Rock orienteering
Monday, February 26th, 2007Raven Rock event results were announced some time ago.
The meaning of forever
Monday, February 26th, 2007Most of us can’t quite grasp the term “forever”. At least, for me, it was not until I signed the mortgage.
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NetworkManager and virtual interfaces, again.
Monday, February 26th, 2007Zeus has a point in his comment, I should blog more often.
Here’s the first: NetworkManager again. I noticed that it doesn’t bring my interface alias up anymore. Must have happened after some upgrade. I am not sure.
As I was trying to figure out what’s going on, I opened the network management interface and looked at various things – and it started to work after that. Kind of frightening.
Even more frightening is looking at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases. Looks like there are people who need such a large number of network interfaces, that they needed to assign them in ranges, hence the ifcfg-$DEV-range* files.
OK, this is not that exciting of a post. I’ll do better next time.
Random bits
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007Apparently I didn’t get in the habit of blogging short entries often.
Today liferea notified me there is a new release of WordPress that I should upgrade, so I figured I might as well post something.
First off, liferea is slowly becoming a habit. I use it to track announcements about new software (see paragraph above), keep in touch with my friends, read news from ./ and some other news sites. To the point that I have now to see how I can replicate the feeds on all of my computers. Maybe I should try a news reader from yahoo.
A lot of exciting things happened. We’ve finished upgrading rPath’s issue tracker, Jira, to the latest version. And we did it in a eat-your-own-dogfood way: it’s a software appliance living on a Xen machine, as a domU. I was involved in this initially just for the Mercurial plugin for Jira, but figured we might as well go to the latest version of Jira. I had to fix several other plugins that were broken by API change (yes I wish you didn’t have to touch plugins to make them work on newer versions). It’s pretty cool, if your reference a Jira issue in your mercurial commit message, it will get indexed by Jira and linked to the issue (viewable as the Mercurial Commits tab). This link is an example.
The software appliance lets you isolate the application from the base operating system, and it makes it trivial to update it. No mess left on the host operating system either. I know package managers are supposed to help there, I’ve been installing rpm packages for almost 10 years now, trying to achieve that. But the very moment you deploy the system in a production environment, you know things get installed that you didn’t plan for. Conary helps a lot here.
I am looking forward to version 0.45 of Inkscape to land in Foresight. The screenshots look awesome. Ken promises he’ll have it committed in a couple of hours. It’s very nice to have the latest and greatest software, and Foresight is doing a great job there. A big thanks to the Foresight community and to Ken for making Foresight a great distribution – which DistroWatch reviewed yesterday.
On the personal front, we’ve been unhappy with my daughter’s school (or maybe looking for a reason to move into a larger home). At any rate, we’re in negotiations for the repairs the seller has to perform before we close. This is exciting. Except for the hour I spent today with the heating technician inspecting the gas pack in a chilly 18 degrees Fahrenheit. And for the amount of siding that has to be fixed. Hopefully we’ll get to an agreement on this. But I had to spend a lot of time on the phone with lenders, insurance agencies, inspectors, real estate agents and the such.