YAPC::NA 2008 round-up
On the first day of YAPC, I gave a talk titled Perl on Fedora.(Google Docs lost a little formatting in translation, but I've cleaned that up, and I think the results look substantially better than what...
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$ rpm -q rakudo parrotrakudo-0.6.3-1.fc9.x86_64parrot-0.6.3-1.fc9.x86_64$ perl6 -e '"Hello".say;'Hello$ perl6 -vThis is Rakudo Perl 6, revision 0 built on parrot 0.6.3for...
View ArticleSELinux
For the record, I've always been of the opinion that SELinux was a great idea, and it would be incredibly useful. I personally think there are just too many moving parts on the average server (much...
View ArticleI'm not dead (yet)
So the month of September was consumed by work. If I've been less than responsive lately, blame the 12+ hours/day, 7 days/week lately. (Whee!) And to top it all off, since I've been trying to slack off...
View ArticleWhen will the fun ever stop?
I think the drama with my desktop system is almost at an end. Let's see if I can remember what all went wrong...My new hard drives (Seagate 7200.11 1TB SATA drives) apparently run crazy hot. My old...
View ArticleI, for one, welcome our Google overlords
After battling (or running away screaming from) various open-source CMS solutions, going through a few iterations of rolling my own, and putting up with a really, really, crappy "temporary" (only 4...
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My life has apparently hit a point where finding 5 minutes for anything is next to impossible. I seem to need to be in no less than 4 places at any given time. My contributions to Fedora are suffering...
View Articleldapsync
Very slowly catching up...A few years ago, I wrote a script that I called ldapsync that compares and synchronizes two LDAP servers. The options are designed to mirror the ones used by OpenLDAP's...
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Shiny
I love this effect.I highly recommend perusing the gallery. Kara has some great stuff (although I think this is the only Fedora-related photo, and it was a happy accident).
View ArticleI don't know what I would do without Google and bugzilla.
Eric Sandeen is my new favorite person.I'm finally watching a Fedora 11-based custom live CD boot...
View ArticleCan a phone change your life?
To answer my own question, probably not. I did however get a Palm Pre when they came out (just over a month ago), and so far I like it. I was replacing a craptastic LG flip phone, so my smartphone...
View ArticleHey, spot!
After reading spot's post, I wanted to try out chromium. Shortly after installing it, I realized that name resolution stopped working.The problem? Installing chromium.i586 pulled in nss-mdns.i586 on my...
View ArticleNote for amavisd-new users
I just pushed amavisd-new 2.6.4 to rawhide. The major new change in this version is the introduction of a script called amavisd-snmp-subagent. To quote the release notes...- newly supplied with the...
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Ohio LinuxFest 2009
So I'm trying to prepare for the 7-hour commute to OLF on Thursday and Friday's class. It should be fun, as always...If anyone reading this is within driving distance (which, in my mind, includes most...
View ArticleWhy developers suck as admins
So Fedora 12 allows regular users to install packages as long as a) the user is logged in on the console, and b) they are signed and from a trusted repository.I think it's great that we can enable this...
View ArticleOpen-Source Point of Sale?
Dear Lazyweb,I need an open-source POS solution for a client. They have a small cafeteria-type restaurant + gift shop. Currently they are using a craptastic closed-source commercial solution that...
View ArticleWhere do we go next with RAID?
So a friend of mine sent me a link to this blog post. A couple of things jumped out at me...When a drive fails in a 7 drive, 2 TB SATA disk RAID 5, you’ll have 6 remaining 2 TB drives. As the RAID...
View ArticleStupid git tricks
I had a directory in CVS that I used for a catch-all for random scripts. (For example, this is where cpanspec lived before moving it to Sourceforge CVS.) Now that I'm using github, I'm trying to split...
View ArticleGenerating ssh keys in PuTTY
I had to fire up Windows today to explain to someone how to generate ssh keys (for use with PuTTY). I figured since I went to all that trouble, I should share...Note: The Linux version of puttygen is...
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Ohio Linux Fest
It's time again for the Ohio Linux Fest (September 10-12, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio). I'm going. So should you. :-)I'm teaching an abbreviated version of my Data Recovery class (for an abbreviated...
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