You know what''s depressing? Spending a couple hours reading your awful/emo writing from over 15 years ago.
You know what''s great? Actually wanting to write.
I spent a good bit of time trying to figure out how to get my old website migrated out of Drupal and finally found …
read moreBrady said it's time I wrote about my Nexus One, so here it is. It hasn't even been a year since I got my G1 but it was still time to upgrade.
The primary reason I wanted to upgrade was because my G1 just didn't work anymore. I've been running … read moreI couldn't find a "utils.php" script for making it easier to write nagios plugins in PHP so I thought I'd whip one up. This is a combination of the utils.php from CVS I found laying around the web and a port of Nagios::Plugin::Range perl module. It …
read moreI recently bought a couple Western Digital 1.5TB "Green" Drives (WD15EADS) to rebuild my home media storage array with higher-density disks. I already had one Segate 1.5TB drive (ST31500341AS) I was using for a "scratch" drive (rpm mock builds, storing MythTV recordings, secondary backup) that I had problems …
read moreI've accepted a contractor position at Barracuda Networks as a Cloud Network Engineer. I'll be starting pretty much immediately.
What does this mean for Mozdev? Well, a mix of things. I'm not going away will be the first thing I can assure everyone. I've really enjoyed my time here and …
read moreHere's the command I found to set the default gnome-terminal height:
gconftool-2 /desktop/gnome/applications/terminal/exec --type string -s 'gnome-terminal --geometry=85x40'
Now when I hit "meta-t" I get the size gnome-terminal that I like.
Oh, to get "meta-t" to work, you might want to set this as well …
read moreWhile I've owned (and will continue to own) silfreed.net for about 9 years now, I think it's time I reasses my online personality.
"silfreed" will probably be a part of me for a long time, but more and more in online and open source circles I'd like people to … read moreLast night I got a letter from Shippensburg University that stated they would no longer being accepting Visa cards for online payment of classes. The reason Visa has dropped is because the university is looking to begin charging a "convenience fee" for using credit cards which will theoreteically save the …
read moreI couldn't get KeePassX to import my PWManager files natively, so I needed a way to do this in a multi-step fashion (I want to use keepass format so I can have the same password program/database on my computer and G1). The easiest appeared to be:
After some fiddling to get MMS working, this is my complete APN setting for AT&T Wireless (blue) mMode:
Name: mMode
APN: proxy
Proxy: 10.250.250.54
Port: 8080
Username: <Not set>
Password: <Not set>
Server: <Not set>
MMSC: http://mmsc.mymmode.com
MMS proxy: 10.250.250.55 …
The next problem I ran into is sending text messages. I believe this is due to my old AT&T Wireless (blue) SIM card. I found instructions on how to set the SMS Center phone number.
Download Any Cut from the Market. Open Any Cut and click "New shortcut" Click … read moreOf course, I love cell phones. They're my gadget crack. So it's not surprising to my friends and family that I bought a new one for my birthday.
I picked up a T-Mobile G1. It's a nice touch screen device that runs an Open Source OS (Linux) with it's own … read moreYou'll be two years old tomorrow, and it's been an amazing experience watching you grow.
Your first birthday was lots of fun, but you were just beginning to interact with people around you. You had a great time smashing your cake, but you didn't really "get" what was going on … read moreI'm trying to get an hdhomerun set up and my firewall is getting in the way.
After stracing the hdhomerun_config binary and seeing that the discover calls out on the network broadcast (192.168.0.255 here) on port 65001 I did some tcpdumping (also knowing my hdhomerun was at … read moreLots of stuff have been going on around here. I've been busy with a number of household projects and Jocelyn and Jared continue to grow.
Project-wise I've been busy setting up some home-automation. It's mostly focused on Christmas-y things right now, but I'd like to move it past that. I … read moreI've written a little shell script I'm calling gajim-pinger. If you use gajim for IM and ping.fm for updating your social networks, this simplifies things by:
It does this by using zenity to ask you what you're doing, then gajim-remote to …
read moreI got my rack in working order, moved thor (file server/MythTV backend) out to it (with associated wiring) and got my Comcast Digital receiver hooked up with an iguanaWorks iguanaIR usb IR transceiver.
We also went for a nice walk with the Beecher family down to the creek, enjoying …
read moreHere are my slides for the talk I did at CPOSC 2008. The title of my talk was Architecting a Community: How Mozdev Runs and Grows and had the unfortunate conflict with the Git Sucks talk which drew in almost all the attendees.
The event was great and I'm glad …
read moreMy photo gallery has been moved to a sub-site; photo.silfreed.net. I think I got things fixed up so that the links will redirect to the correct location, but let me know if you run into any problems navigating or see broken images.
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Jared Douglas Warner was born September 30th, 2008 at 12:49pm EDT. He was 8lbs 14.8oz and 21.25 inches long.
Tiffany was scheduled for an induction on Tuesday at 7am, but contractions started around 2am that morning. Jocelyn was already staying at Tiff's Parents' house since the induction …
read moreThings
New 2009 Toyota Camry
Hybrid
Nikon D40
Camera Bag
Comparison (Kata
DR-467, Crumpler 4 Million Dollor Home)
Outdoors
Crab Apple
Frohm Home with Red
Maple
Tiffany with Praying
Mantis
Sunset Rocks
Events
Brough Family
Gathering
Carlisle Corvette
Show
Grandparents' Day
Lunch
South Newton/West End Fire
Raffle
Baby #2 …
read moreI've been thinking about updating my [online] identity for awhile now. "silfreed", while unique, is difficult to spell/pronounce when talking to someone (let alone telling them my email address which includes it twice). Ideally, I'd like to update my branding to include:
According to Wikipedia, I have cubital tunnel syndrome, although the orthopedist I saw this morning didn't describe it as such.
I've had a pain in my left elbow for quite some time now; probably over a year and a half (probably closer to 2 years) that although not severe, has …
read moreI'm thinking about ditching my Subaru WRX. The main reason? More space. I love my WRX; it hasn't let me down (although there are those close to me that feel that my rate of 1 accident/yr since purchase is too high) but there just isn't enough space with our …
read moreWow; none of those things are in the correct order.
Going backwards (and the first event of this blog, considering when it started) is the replacement of my living room HTPC. It's been acting funny for some time (ignoring a lot of IR input) and locked up mid-week last week …
read moreSome more photos (end of OSCON, trip on the way through Vancouver to Whistler for moz08).
- Last day of OSCON - Pre-moz08 stop in Seattle on the way to Vancouver - Pre-moz08 trip to Vancouver; border crossing - Pre-moz08 first night in Vancouver - Pre-moz08 day in Vancouver - Moz08 trip to Whistler from Vancouver … read moreLook! Only two months worth of photos this time; I'm getting better!
Here's some things, events and pictures of Jocelyn: http://www.silfreed.net/gallery/v/things/New+Fridge+and+Playground/http://www.silfreed.net/gallery/v/trips/Raystown+2008/Logan+and+Jocelyn+...
http://www.silfreed.net/gallery/v/trips …
read moreMy second day at OSCON was also terrific. I continued to meet new people and got to spend more time talking with others. There were two sessions that I wanted to see, and they were:
- Integration Testing PHP Applications - this was a little more overview that I had hoped, but … read moreBig day at OSCON today. I got into town at 01:00 this morning and taking the cab to the hotel wasn't as bad as I thought it would be (but more expensive than I had planned).
I was able to get a hold of and meet Brian King and … read moreI was able to setup the MediaIndexer (working project name) website and repository tonight so Brady and I have a place to coordinate. Trac + Mercurial was really pretty easy to setup; and I've had the sources in Mercurial for a week or so already (made it nice for copying code …
read moreWe're happy to announce the availability of Mercurial for hosting project sources at Mozdev.
Documentation can be found here:
http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/wiki/MozdevMercurial
The biggest caveats: - CVS is still necessary for maintaining the website and downloads (fixing this is on our roadmap) - Projects' source information page needs … read moreIn 8 days (next Tuesday) I'll be heading to Portland for OSCON 2008. Several days later I'll be heading up to Canada for the Firefox Summit.
This is simultaneously awesome and scary. Awesome parts: - Meeting my colleagues and board members from Mozdev for the first time - Being able to attend … read moreI'm going to be doing my Mozdev status updates and sysadmin meeting minutes over on the Mozdev blog now (rss feed). Hopefully this will be picked up by PMO soon.
read moreI ran into an article that addresses a long-standing problem I've had with OpenSSH's known_hosts file; it doesn't store the port for a host so you can't ssh to different ports behind a router without getting warnings about fingerprint mismatches. The article descries how to access multiple machines at the …
read moreFor awhile now I've noticed that things in my home dir aren't setup optimally for my work flow. I've been trying to run with SELinux enabled and I run into development problems when I try to run web applications out of my home directory. Various parts of my home directory …
read moreWe've been working on getting Mercurial ready to use at Mozdev for awhile now; it turns out there's a lot to do to offer a new VCS for a hosting provider that's only offered CVS for 7 years:
- Write admin interfaces for selecting a project's repository and setting up new … read moreMozdev has long offered free source hosting, but along with that we offer a number of other features that are important to extension developers such as mirroring and distribution and secure installations and updates.
Mozdev has been working hard to try to prepare for the Firefox 3 release. We were … read moreI've been at Mozdev for a full year now. This was a big step for me personally as well as for Mozdev; there was lots of trepidation from both parties, for a number of reasons:
- I was Mozdev's first full-time employee (and without a formal office, all interviews were over … read moreParticipants: davidwboswell, (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: JesperHansen
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - working on WYSIWYG for Mozdev wiki - planning on using mediawiki syntax with FCKeditor (noticed DevMo is switching to DekiWiki) - at ccaygill's prompting (and patch) updated the local.conf … read moreSemi-busy week with not much to show for it:
- Working on providing a GUI for Mozdev's wiki - For now I think I've settled on using MediaWiki syntax and using FCKeditor. The Drupal module for FCKeditor needs some improvements to support to load different toolbars for different content types (so we … read moreParticipants: gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: ccaygill
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - finished new bugzilla bug entry form - helped with Firefox 3 server load (adding additional caches, mostly) - fixed XPI sorting on project overview page - working on improving wiki formatting at Mozdev - investigating … read moreGetting back into the swing of things after vacation.
- Updating Mozdev bugzilla bug entry form - this is ready to go into production to help making requests to Mozdev easier - Handling Firefox 3 release server load - the Firefox 3 release caused lots of additional web traffic to mozdev.org in a … read moreOur recent trip to Lake Raystown:
Events:
We're looking to improve the experience of editing pages in our Wiki, and I'm wondering if we should just ditch "wiki" syntax and just support HTML and use a nice in-browser HTML editor.
It should be easy for us to continue to support CamelCase and square brackets to link to … read moreParticipants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: ccaygill
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - finished up changes to simpler bug entry form - increased timeout on new Mozdev pages that require login (file managment, project tag editing) - wrote Mercurial documentation for Mozdev - Firefox … read moreShort week last week due to vacation.
- Working on streamlined Mozdev bug-entry form to help with submitting VCS change requests (and other requests) - Increased idle timeout on new Mozdev tools - Writing documentation for requesting and using Mercurial at Mozdev We're expecting Mercurial to be released soon at Mozdev; we'll be … read moreMinutes from mozdev sysadmin meeting on Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Participants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)Community participants: ccaygill, JesperHansen
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - added a new mirror for zurich/switzerland - documented some module settings that caused problems … read moreParticipants: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community participants: JesperHansen, djc
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - OSCon/Firefox Summit planning - Styling hgweb (still needs some work) - Sponsor work - Songbird page is now live - new Multi-VCS log RSS feed - lots of unit test improvements … read moreParticipating: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - improved bugzilla Mac OS X detection by adding more versions to OS list - worked with ccaygill of Mycroft to get HTTP header problem fixed that prevented downloads in … read moreMinutes from mozdev sysadmin meeting on Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Present: cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner) Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - sponsor work - fixed bugs in update.rdf generation - documenting move of hg to production - testing multiple-domain ssl certs … read moreToday's the day I said I'd be ditching AIM, so now I'm doing it. If you'd like to IM me, catch me on IRC or XMPP/Jabber.
read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - setup mercurial commit logging last week - upgraded (staging) mercurial to 1.0 - not much other mercurial work accomplished - updated external links in the mozdev.org header - released the … read moreConcordance has finally made it's way into Fedora!
I've been maintaining packages separately from Fedora for awhile now; the review has been there since October 2007! Unfortunately there were some legal concerns about the trademark over the name of the project ("harmony") originally, then when 0.20 was finally released … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - hg testing released; two projects have asked for testing repos already - secure update.rdf generation released; there's been some additional interest on the list, but no direct questions - sent policy update … read moreI ended up spending a large part of last week fixing some architectural problems I created with the ProjectVCS/VCS classes and debugging some test cases, but overall the admin page for selecting a project's current VCS and initializing a repository is ready (announcement coming soon asking for beta testers …
read morePresent: cdn-work (Chris Neale), davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Community present: ccaygill, djc, JesperHansen
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - worked on the backend for choosing VCS and initializing mercurial - didn't get much time to work on the admin interface … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner), djc (autocopy extension owner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - spam attack last week has been cleaned up; old notes system is currently disabled - mercurial is setup on staging at hg.vebzom.org; authentication … read moreMuch of last week was spent getting a test web interface setup for Mercurial. We also had a spam attack on our old notes system that required us to disable the script shortly after it was re-enabled. We're still trying to cleanup from that problem but it should be resolved …
read moreI'm trying to hgwebdir.cgi setup and that part is going pretty well; I have a default config file that is being loaded by the script and serving a collection of repositories properly.
What I'm having problems with is configuring authentication. I'm using mod_auth_mysql to try to do authentication under … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - got mercurial plan together; started getting mercurial setup on vebzom - deployed update.rdf generation, but need some testers - various bug triaging - we have some mod_rewrite bugs still lingering … read moreXUL extensions are constructed very simply. Documentation on how they are constructed is excellent.
At Mozdev.org we have been focused recently on helping users find projects more easily as well as preparing for the upcoming Firefox 3 release by creating tools for our projects to perform secure installs and … read morePresent: cdn-work (Chris Neale), davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - testing apache 2.2/php 5 changes - created project tagging policy/docs - started update.rdf generation for secure updates - started setting up test suite for … read moreLast week was mostly monopolized by testing/debugging after our Apache 2.2 and PHP 5 upgrade. There's still some bugs to iron out, but it appears that the main site and most project sites are running well.
Other tasks include: - Creating project tagging policy/docs - Generation of update.rdf … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - project overview page/secure installs was generally well-received - several minor bugs in file management, presentation, and extension parsing were handled quickly - working on a tagging policy to help project owners know … read moreLast week's big event was the launch of secure installs with our project overview page. In only 5 days we already have 27% (119/440) of our extensions registered with our system. Unfortunately we only have 9% of the registered files setup to enable secure downloads (ie, they have verified …
read moreMozdev's project overview pages are now live and feature secure installations using InstallTrigger.
{IMG:503x334:/sites/silfreed.net/files/project-overview-cdn.png} Right now we don't have the download graph or the project stats in place, but the main functionality is there: - Project name and description - Project tags - projects are tagged … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner), ccaygill (MyCroft project)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - about ready to release the secure installation/project overview stuff; been working w/ a PO on testing things; trying to figure out a bug in … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm_home (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - spring theme is updated - the project overview page is mostly complete; just trying to get POs to help with testing - started looking into subversion and … read moreReactions to our project overview mockup were very favorable, and I've made good progress this week getting the page setup and much more functional.
Here you can see our very own 'www' project's overview page:{IMAGE:465x231:/sites/silfreed.net/files/mozdev-project-overview-www.png}
As you can easily see, we don't … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - working on getting a project overview page - this will have links for a project (bugs, source, etc) as well as list some basic information, stats, and downloads for … read moreThe biggest topic of the past week has been mitigating load problems on Mozdev's server when Firefox releases an update. We now have a plan in place to reduce the load by using a lightweight web server to handle update requests. We're also going to help out the Mycroft project …
read moreSomething Mozdev.org has lacked for awhile now has been a project overview page that shows you a nice overview of a project with links to tools for a project as well as some basic information and stats.
As part of working on secure installations for projects I needed a … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Doug Warner)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - working on the UI to allow project owners to verify and release their downloads and extensions - working on mockups for a project overview page that would contain the publicly available downloads … read moreJocelyn's first birthday has come and gone. It was a blast to have all her family around on her birthday while she opened presents and ate cake. It's definitely been a very busy year and has flown by. I'm looking forward to spending many more years with Jocelyn.
The second …
read moreI don't like the new runts.
They replaced the green (lime) and red (cherry) ones that used to be there with a new yellow (pineapple) and red (mango). Here's a look at the perpetrators:
After you remove them, this is all you're left with:
Orange, pink (strawberry), and yellow banana …
read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - skipped; silfreed not present Discussed sysadmin priorities - gjm has written some python classes to deal with mailman configs; this makes it easier to do validation & reconfiguration - defaults for … read moreI've looked for incremental backups that don't require root before, but I finally found it. Similar to rdiff-backup is a program called duplicity. It uses tar, gpg, and the rsync algorithm to store encrypted differential backups.
duplicity needs to be scripted a little bit to automate the backups. I came …
read moreThere were a …
Present: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm_home (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - sick last week; didn't get a lot of stuff done - mostly spent time fixing minor bugs with the new application/extension parsing … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - project searching now searches words 3 characters and more (so searches on things like 'rss' or 'moz' work now) - we're automatically parsing … read moreI'm thinking about getting a Garmin Forerunner 50 but am concerned that the ANT USB thing won't work with Linux. I've seen a thread about ANT development drivers going into the kernel, but I haven't found any firsthand experiences. Anyone with any information about it? If it helps, the Garmin …
read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), cdn-work (Chris Neale), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - project search interface is live; needs some tweaks and am coordinating with sysadmins - parsing extensions for supported applications is underway; I'll be … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), ericjung(Eric Jung), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - Mozdev source code should be publically available now in hovercraft/sandbox/php - admin tools are updated to work with PHP upgrade - project search interface is … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - continuing to get mozdev code working with PHP 5.2 - migrating mozdev code into CVS - updated in Hovercraft project now - mozdev code is checked out on vebzom.org … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser), buanzo
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Mozdev DNS outage - The Web Stop has had a series of outages that affect Mozdev for lengthy periods - the feeling is that TWS can't be used any … read moreMozdev.org is currently experiencing a DNS outage due to our one hosting company being offline. We're aware of the problem but currently don't have an ETR. We'll be looking into making DNS available from more hosts in the near future so that problems like this don't cause outages for …
read moreI've been taking a bit of a break from Mozdev over Christmas, so not as much got accomplished, and I'll be down at FUDCon tomorrow so I figured I'd do my status update early.
- bug#7021 - Project tags - I've added project tagging to Mozdev.org so that projects owners can … read moreSo you have a large PHP deployment that is (still? - this is 2008!) using register_globals. How do you test individual pieces of the site without being able to change the ini variable via .htaccess? Try this code out:
<?phpif (ini_get('register_globals')){ $__sgs = array('_ENV', '_GET', '_POST', '_COOKIE', '_SERVER'); foreach …Heading down with Todd Zullinger today to Raleigh, NC to hit up FUDCon.
I'm pretty excited about this trip; I've been a user of Red Hat products for about 9 years now, and while I've done some packaging for several years I've only recently become a Fedora contributor and have … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - project tagging is moving along well; the PO interface for editing tags is complete; the user interface for browsing tags (tag cloud and project lists) is complete; the … read moreThis past weekend we went to St. Mary's, PA to attend a wedding; that was quite the drive.
We drove about 3.5 hrs on the way there (left around 05:15) on the 29th, then came back Sunday morning the 30th and took about 4.5 hrs. The wedding … read moreI recently purchased a Canon HG-10 camcorder. The primary reason was to start capturing Jocelyn's growth on video; she's almost walking now, and we wanted to get some video of our families through the Christmas holiday.
The camcorder is extremely light. It records directly to hard disk instead of MiniDV … read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - comcast's email block is removed - trying to plan how to move more code into CVS - writing auth, error, database, session, and tagging libraries - the backend for project tagging … read moreThis week I spent a lot of time trying to get a better code library setup for Mozdev code that would be easier to maintain and test (mostly meaning, starting to write stuff in OOP style despite PHP 4's lackings). Towards that end, I've ended up getting session managent, authentication …
read morePresent: davidwboswell (David Boswell), ericjung (Eric Jung) gjm (Gerry Murphy), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Mozdev downtime - no obvious causes for downtime found yet - box was logging up until the server rebooted, so it was still active - suspected hardware problem since the box … read moreOur main mozdev.org server is currently unavailable making all services unavailable (web, CVS, downloads, mailing lists). The problem seems to have started at approx. 22:45 UTC (17:45 EST). We have our colocation provider looking into the problem and will update once more information is known.
Update 21 … read moreI've setup a Mercurial/Hg repo for my packages.
I was going to try out git, but decided Mercurial would be my first venture into DVCSes. The wiki at Mercurial's website was pretty helpful in getting a central web repository up and running; create a single script and point it … read moreLots of progress on squashing mirror bugs!
- Redirecting user to their closest mirror - Downloads directly from D.MD.o for recently-updated files - Per-project RSS feed of downloads Other tasks: - Ideas on various bugs - disaster recovery plan, broadcasting system for problems, centralized account management system, profile page for updating email address … read moreNew features have arrived at downloads.mozdev.org (D.MD.o). I'll just enumerate them to save space:
1. Redirect users to their closest mirror (bug#2807)You can check your closest mirror (and list of other
available mirrors) by visiting the following link:
<http://mirrors.mozdev.org/ip-check.html …Present: cdn-work (Chris Neale), davidwboswell (David Boswell), gjm (Gerry Murphy), kinger (Brian King), silfreed (Douglas Warner), tanker (Michael Dosser)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - theme cleanups for mozdev.org w.r.t. http/https - downloads.mozdev.org updates - redirection to closest mirror and serving files directly … read moreHere's a boatload of photos that I just uploaded, in no particular order. You might be better off hitting the main sections and browsing backwards.
The movies are probably in the H.264 codec. Unfortunately, all these photos (and the ones from Ocean City) still need tagged. You'll have to … read moreThis past weeks activities included:
- Fixed bugs in scripts from bugzilla table move - Created patch for warning new bugzilla users that their email addresses will be public - Staging upgrades to downloads.mozdev.org to serve recently-updated files directly from D.MD.o - Updated blog display on mozdev.org front page … read moreNote: I can't open .docx files so I don't even know what his "Fall Letter" was about. I don't think that sending out office documents is the best idea for a newsletter, either.
Thanks for sending out what I assume is a status update and report on what has and … read moreI like to my rewrite rules performed in the central Apache config (well, individual vhost files) so it can be revision controlled and centrally managed. The recent upgrade to the Gallery 5.x-2.0 module broke the rewriting rules I was using. Below are my new rewrite rules for a …
read morePresent: Chris Neale (cdn-work), David Boswell (davidwboswell), Eric Jung (ericjung), Gerry Murphy (gjm), Doug Warner (silfreed)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - drupal tweaks to install profile - helped move bugzilla bugs along for bz 3 upgrade - updated front page to pull news from our blogs - cleaned up … read moreShort week due to Thanksgiving holiday, but lots of bugs moved along.
- Preparations for Bugzilla 3.0 upgrade - Notifying project owners, working with sysadmin on other preparations - Move bugzilla tables to its own database - In order to reduce the time it takes to backup our main database and reduce complexity … read moreBrady and I did a hike last Sunday (2007-11-18) up to Poles Steeple in Pine Grove. The hike was good; lots of "up". I was hoping for a better view, but the fog prevented that. It also turns out we got up there too late for a good view of …
read morePresent: David Boswell, (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed), Gerry Murphy (gjm), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger), Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - a little Drupal work (theming fixes, install profile fixes) - Thanksgiving theme - replaced mirror content - going to start putting news on front page … read morePresent: David Boswell, (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Gerry Murphy (gjm), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - download counters enabled; projects can use downloads() function again - D.MD.o now shows size of download files - mycroft doesn't use mirror … read moreBrady and I managed a short hike on Saturday in the snow. Brady got some decent pictures, but I didn't have anything with me (well, my cell-phone, but..).
At any rate, you can check out my stats.{IMAGE:/sites/silfreed.net/files/2007-11-10-hike-stage-profile-velocity.png}
{IMAGE:/sites/silfreed.net/files/2007-11-10-hike-map …
read moreAnother big week of mirror work. I received responses from all the current mozdev.org mirrors as well as some that I wasn't aware was acting as a mirror. I have most of the mirrors assigned to regions so redirection to the closest mirror should be happening in the near …
read moreI finally have all my boxes upgraded to F8 (via yum; viva la Live Upgrage SIG!). It really wasn't as bad as I anticipated, and in fact, probably much better than my anaconda-based upgrade for F7 since I had all my third-party repos enabled for the upgrade and didn't have …
read moreArticle where a undercover investigation took place and found that all of the hotels tested did not clean the glasses in the room at all.
One of the comments from the story is about the ice machines at restaurants (think Wendy's or other places where employees stick their hands into … read morePresent: Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Gerry Murphy (gjm)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevI've been using rdiff-backup for several windows computers recently and it has worked out well. I started looking into using it for linux, but ran into a small problem.
Transfers of the backups between computers assumes root access on the destination.
This is a big problem for me; there's no …
read moreOn Sunday, a group to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Giant Center in Hershey. Traveling along was Tiffany (Jocelyn stayed with out neighbors for the evening), Tiff's mom and dad, her sister and friend, and her brother and fiancé.
The show ended up being amazing. I wasn't expecting all … read morePresent: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed), Chris Neale (cdn-work)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities - admin tool for managing mirrors is going well, despite some setbacks last week learning some javascript - mirror management should be finished up today, then will start towards download counters and mirror … read moreThere has been some community discussion about the /drupal (as in http://www.mozdev.org/drupal/wiki) stuck in the middle of the path for the blog, wiki, and forum. Right now that is an unavoidable …
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevecho setterm -powersave off -powerdown 0 -blank 0 >> /etc/rc.local
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevThe big events for the week are:
- New release of downloads.mozdev.org - The new version allows a browseable directory tree inside mozdev.org's site instead of redirecting to a mirror immediately. Our mirror network is still utilized for downloads, however. - Drupal moved to production - Our Drupal installation is now … read moreYesterday Kevin and I swapped in some 250G hard drives for our old 80G drives. The 80G drives were setup in a RAID-1 configuration. With our recent upgrade to CentOS 5 we gained the ability to do online growing of RAID-1 arrays, so it was a good time to upgrade …
read moreI found a new project that looks very promising for loading config for my Logitech Harmony 880 remote. Naturally, I built Fedora 7 i386 packages for it. I'd really like to get more codes programmed on the remote for controlling my MythTV box, and with having software for Linux so …
read morePresent: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevCheck out Jocelyn pushing herself along on a clothes basket at 7 months old! She's trying to grow up way too fast. Last night Tiff was putting clothes away while Jocelyn was playing in her crib and Tiff saw Jocelyn pull herself up to standing using the crib! I guess …
read moreMost of this week was spent working on mirror improvements and preparing for the Drupal rollout.
- Determined Bouncer won't work for Mozdev - Bouncer's reliance on Product, Version, Language, and OS makes it not quite suitable for Mozdev since we don't make our project owners track language or OS for their … read moreMy recent blog post about direction and online updates sparked some interest - and some interesting discussion. Through that discussion, I wanted to post some clarifications and concessions about the original article.
Concession: I wasn't correct about my statement that Fedora has a "lack of direction" - it's direction is exactly that … read moreSome of the biggest problems I see in Fedora these days are the following:
1. Lack of direction</p>
Since Fedora is a distribution for developers by developers in order
to test out new technology, the main tree ends up being a
hodge-podge of whatever each individual maintainer feels like …Eureka was a nice, light, funny show in its first season. Season 2 has been pretty disappointing; too many new people introduced, relationships forced into being, odd plot devices.
Anyway, the idea is to make Sheriff Carter the genius instead of constantly being put down as the "dumb one." Some … read moreI've had this little script laying around for awhile that I use as a wrapper for RCS to check out a group of files in one batch, edit them all, and commit them. So I setup repository for rcsedit in case others want to try it out.
It should be … read morePresent: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale (cdn-work)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevSo a couple weeks ago I told you about some problems (I created) with our lawn mower. Unfortunately, things have gotten worse.
Well, I guess it didn't have far to go from "potentially dead" to "dead", so it's not too surprising.
My father-in-law was able to get the mower running …
read moreDrupal is ready to be deployed, so that's in a holding pattern waiting for the sysadmins to get time to set things up.
Since Drupal's currently stalled, I've moved onto other projects. Lots of cleanup of various tools that have been implemented recently and started evaluating tools to improve our … read moreFollowing in the footsteps of others, I'll be moving exclusively to Jabber/XMPP starting May 19th, 2008 (Open Discussion Day).
If you aren't using Jabber/XMPP yet and want to start, it might be easier than you thought. If you have a Gmail account, download their Google Talk client and … read morePresent: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger_away)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevDiscussed developer priorities (drupal testing, linking to drupal, rollout...)
- Lots of bug squashing; top-50 page, cvs log rss feed, and admin publish toolare all active now. - Tanker …
So, I'm still running Tripwire 2.3.1.2 (hmm.. isn't 2.4.1.2 out now?) on Argo. You know what? Maintaining it sucks.
I hear samhain is the uber-cool IDS of the day (that actually has database signing using gpg, unlike aide), but then I need to learn … read moreThis past week's progress; somewhat less than I had hoped to finish due to Jocelyn being sick.
- Looking into using bouncer to manage our mirrors - I've only gone through and read all the documentation so far, but the tool seems like it would solve a number of mirror bugs for … read moreMy suspicions about RoR appear to be vindicated; at least by one person anyway.
I've tried to read some examples and howtos about Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails. The language seems very elegant, but I always heard that it's slow and suspected that it's ability to do lots of different things was … read moreWhen I rebooted my firewall the other day I ended up not being able to
route via IPv6. This seemed very odd since route -n --inet6 seemed
very clear that I had a default route.
Tonight I was able to get ejabberd up and running on Argo. I had to use the Fedora 7 package for now until I work out co-maintainership on the ejabberd package in EPEL, but it seems to be running fine.
I imported all the "major" domains - nivek.ws, pyxos.net …
read moreArgo is now upgraded to CentOS 5.0. There was the usual amount of pain for a server that runs all possible services, but for the most part the upgrade went very well.
So far the only remaining problem is jabberd. I don't have new packages available and the old …
read moreI recently (last night) started using Konversation for IRC instead of Kopete and as the title says, it's miles above its main Kompetition (sorry - couldn't resist).
The biggest problem with using Kopete for IRC is that it's mainly an IM program. There's probably only one bug that dramatically makes the … read morePresent: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung), Chris Neale (cdn-work)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities (drupal testing, linking to drupal, rollout...) - Publish tool is working again Discussed sysadmin priorities (stats, mirror improvements, mailman defaults...) - top50.pl page is fixed; Doug … read moreYesterday Scott González and I went to see the FogBugz demo with Joel Spolsky.
We mostly went to see Joel speak about software and how running a software team works. We figured we would get some insights as to how things should run while Joel was demoing FogBugz, and we …
read moreSince yum isn't capable of downgrading the correct package, I decided to try smart.
And after a couple hours (literally) of computing transactions, it worked.
Now, there's definitely some cleanup to do, but it's pretty good. Unfortunately smart isn't available for RHEL 5 yet (I've emailed rpmforge to request it …
read moreDrupal for Mozdev is getting close to being ready to implement in production, so I've been mostly working on other bugs this week.
- Drupal integration into Mozdev site - I started looking into how to link Drupal into Mozdev's site - specifically how to include it in the navigation. I haven't gotten … read moreFigured I'd try upgrading again; this time from CentOS 4.5 to 5. When 4.5 came out I quickly tried just pushing the new centos-release and centos-release-notes packages onto the server and do a 'yum upgrade', but it failed trying to meet dependencies (kernel and kudzu, I believe).
So …
read moreFor awhile now my file server has been running Fedora Core 6. I never have a good time to upgrade it to Fedora 7 because I'm always using it.
In the beginning I had envisioned running multiple VMs on it for compiling packages; it's an x86_64 box, so I would …
read moreTiff and I bought a riding mower last summer. We both knew it was going to drastically reduce the amount of work we had to do to keep the lawn looking decent (it's not possible to make our lawn look nice).
Three weeks ago I was mowing the lawn and …
read morePresent: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung), Chris Neale (cdn-work)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed developer priorities (drupal testing, linking to drupal, rollout...) - Drupal testing went well with the initial bug reporters. Next is to openup testing to the general project …
read moreSouth Park Mac vs. PC. Funny, true stuff.
read moreI took a slight diversion from working on Drupal this week to try to give some other tasks attention.
[silfreed@joshua ~]$ ssh argo
Last login: Fri Sep 7 15:09:38 2007 from *joshua.wl.silfreed.net*
[silfreed@argo ~]$ last -ai -n1
silfreed pts/0 Fri Sep 7 15:09 still logged in
*2001:4830:164c:30:290:4bff:fe4b:d76f*<
I'm such a dork.
read moreI know I said I was using Hurricane Electric earlier today, but now I'm with SixXS.
HE only routes a single /64, which is good for one LAN if you want to use radvd to auto-configure your IPs based on mac addresses. I have two LANs (wireless and wired are … read moreOkay, I said I would do it, but it took someone else beating me to it to get me to get things going.
Andy managed to find out that 6to4 is definitely the way to go if you have a static IPv4 address. There's lots of anycast servers that handle … read morePresent: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed current developer projects and upcoming projects: - Performance problems don't seem to be related to Drupal or staging server;possibly connectivity issues, but haven't been able to prove that yet. - Top-50 page work is …
read moreThis is a short week for me, so I didn't get as much accomplished as I hoped. Still, there was some good progress made, and the Drupal install for Mozdev is progressing well. The test for project owners should be coming shortly.
- Multisite Manager/install profile fixes - Fixing Mozdev's install … read morePresent: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Chris Neale (cdn-work), Michael Dosser (tanker)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed current developer projects and upcoming projects: - fixed new projects showing up on active list - drupal testing went well; fixed bugs that were reported - release staging copy to Project Owners?</p …You can ignore Facebook's stalking side-nature, but what you can't ignore is that other people own your life.
This is the reason I've resisted Web 2.0 social networking sites for as long as I have; and even though I do use some of them now, I try to use …
read moreMostly Drupal happenings this past week.
- Released staging copy to board members - The board members were able to get access to the staging copy I've been working on in order to test installing new Drupal instances, editing and creating content, and working with their user profiles synced to their Mozdev … read moreThis weekend Tiff, Jocelyn and I made a small loop through Virginia to visit the Shipes (my sister) and the Littles (Dennis and Michele).
First stop was Barboursville, VA on Friday afternoon. We dropped my nephew Logan off at my sister's. He was up visiting for the week and since … read morewell, I was going to unrecommend you with stuff like, "sat around and watched anime all day, came in late, left early, and took lots of smoke breaks" but since you used "bizitch" in your request, I'll write a good recommendation — Scott González
read morePresent: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger), Myk Melez (myk), Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev Discussed current developer projects and upcoming projects: - bug#13381 is complete; need to fix bug w/ new projects on active list - drupal installation profile is … read morePresent: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev
Discussed current developer projects and upcoming projects:
- Doug is fixing a minor bug with the active project list, then the "unstarted project list" bug is completed - Doug setup the project stats … read moreI've often wanted to setup IPv6 at home and for Argo, but I was intimidated by setting up tunnels and such since none of my providers (Comcast or CTI|Networks) has direct IPv6 support yet.
Now someone has gone and made a nice and easy how-they-did-it guide: http://berrange.com … read moreThis is a big step for me. It's the first time I've used a non-custom CMS.
Since I've owned silfreed.net it's always been a custom app. I used jogger (then jolem, then blogstar) to create blog posts through a jabber/XMPP bot. However, this lacked the flexibility to create …
read moreMade lots of good progress with Drupal modules and permissions setup this week.
I had some problems with the Liquid wiki module not supporting CamelCase correctly, so I had to use some other modules to implement that as well (pear wiki, freelinking, wikitools). I've setup a default set of permissions … read morePresent: Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung), Myk Melez (myk)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev
Discussed Mic's sysadmin priorities:
Present: Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev
Mic and Ivan have been very busy this week and haven't made any progress on the mirror bugs or project stats.
ClamAV on the production server died on Sunday and has …
read moreOther than my {NODE 399}Dad's 60th birthday{/NODE}, I spent this weekend cutting holes in my walls and running wires in my basement drop-ceiling.
I started Saturday morning around 07:30 and stopped around 10:30 (3 hours). Most of the time was spent figuring out where my one … read moreThis weekend my Dad turned 60. My immediate family had a small gathering on Friday night, with a bigger party with extended family on Sunday.
My dad made out pretty well with birthday presents; he got a set of remote-controlled boats and a 30G black iPod. My brother-in-law seemed very … read moreThere was a great deal of discussion on the project owners list about the upcoming Firefox 3 update security changes. After discussion with Dave Townsend, Mozdev was able to figure out that we don't need to enforce SSL downloads in order to have secure updates.
The secure updates discussion continued … read morePresent: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed), Eric Jung (ericjung), Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale, (cdn-work), Brian King (kinger), Dave Townsend (Mossop)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev
Discussed Doug's developer priorities:
I forgot to write about Ryan and Helena's latest family member: Logan Michael Twigg!
Logan was born Monday morning (2007.07.15) at 02:01 (am) weighing 9lbs 4.8oz and 20.5 inches long. I haven't heard much since the early-morning SMS, so I hope everyone in the family …
read moreAfter seeing the Dell 2007wfp show up on sale, I knew I needed one. I had gotten used to the extra desktop space, and being in several IRC rooms at the same time, it's definitely helpful to have the extra room.
I've used a Dell 2005wfp in the past and …
read moreI pretty much finished up the unstarted project list (bug#13381) near the beginning of last week, so I pushed forward on some other bugs.
For Firefox 3 updates (Mozdev bugs 17110 and 17302, Mozilla bug 378216), I tried to get some clarification to see if we needed SSL at …
read moreLast night Brady and I gave our Asterisk Presentation at CPLUG (slides).
Overall, I think the presentation went pretty well, even if there was a lot of talking and not as much demoing as we would have liked. People had a decent amount of questions at the end that showed …
read moreLast week as mostly spent working on the unstarted project list (bug#13381) and trying to digest how best to handle Firefox 3's upcoming requirement for extensions to be signed or installed via SSL
Most of the work for the unstarted project list is complete; with cvs history in a … read moreI couldn't be left behind, so I was very happy to receive my new toy today. I was very surprised by it's size when I received it - it's barely bigger than my current eTrex - which is a huge plus. And the sensitivity is definitely all that.
There's a number of …
read moreBrady and I went on a nice 2-hour hike this evening up in Caledonia. It was a fairly short loop, but very hilly. There was a nice \~3/4 mi segment on the top of the mountain where we followed the Appalacian Trial for a bit before we went back …
read moreAccording to bug 241403 my package for QGIS has been accepted into Fedora, and pending getting a sponsor I should be getting commit access soon! I've also submitted bug 246460 to get qtpfsgui into Fedora as well.
If this works out well, I'll probably begin working on getting EPEL commit … read moreMuch of last week was spent with me planning how to get moving on the unstarted projects list and reviewing and brainstorming ideas for bugs.
In order to make bug#13381 possible, I've started work on cvs2mysql which will be able to log cvs transactions to a mysql database. This … read moreOther than my previous posting about my home office, this is my first post really about Mozdev (and hopefully will be my first post on Planet Mozilla).
Things have been going pretty well at Mozdev so far. There's a lot of ideas and projects that have been put off for … read moreWe got back from Raystown this past Sunday. It was a nice 5-day vacation. I didn't even pick up my laptop once (although I did take it along - for directions and downloading photos only, of course)!
It was a mix of weather; hot when we first got there; a thunderstorm …
read moreSo I got another cell phone. It's about the same size as my Samsung SGH-D820, but without the dust problems.
I was initially very sceptical about getting another motorola considering how much I hated the address book, but they've fixed that in their newer firmware and I don't really have …
read moreSo this is where I've been working the past couple days. I picked up (er, had delivered) a desk from Office Max and it seems to be working out pretty well so far. I bought the shelves from Lowes and plan on putting some more books up there that I …
read moreMy time at Express Dynamics working on the WorkXpress engine is coming to a close. Friday I gave my notice that I will be leaving the company.
I've decided to begin doing my own consulting/contract work as systems administrator/network administrator/solutions architect/information architect. To that end I've … read moreThat was a lot rougher for Tiff and I to watch than we thought it would be. And we know the worst part is coming up as she has reactions to the various vaccines. She got four shots - two in each leg, and an oral vaccine for ~~Rhinovirus~~Rotovirus. We …
read moreI've setup a short web redirection page for Jocelyn's photos. You can visit them at: Jocelyn.WarnerFam.net.
read moreApparently Microsoft loves bignate, but not me (last 4.25 weeks of logs, not years):
# for i in 'googlebot' 'Yahoo! Slurp' 'msnbot' ; do echo -n "$i: "; cat silfreed.net-access_log* | grep -ic "$i"; donegooglebot: 19043Yahoo! Slurp: 28627msnbot: 12348 read moreApparently upgrading from CentOS 4.4 to 5 isn't as easy as updating the centos-release package and typing `yum upgrade`. This is unfortunate, as the computers that I have running CentOS are typically the ones I like to have a high uptime, so this means I need to take them …
read moreLast night I had a bit of a scare; I was googling around and got an error message in Konqueror that was very odd - something about a "read-only filesystem".
`dmesg` confirmed my fears; lots of ext3 errors and DMA errors. Well - nothing left to do here but reboot. Only my … read moreLast weekend my Dad and I spent an afternoon building shelves into the shed we got last year and we moved a good bit of stuff out there. This past Sunday I did some more work to get all the lawn equipment and supplies out there as well. My Dad …
read moreI've built a couple CentOS5 packages (syslog-ng, eventlog, and bash-silfreed-prompt-command). Let me know if there's others you need.
read moreI had reset my camera image counter to test out a new firmware and wanted to restore my camera's image counter back to 1720ish instead of 0001. I found the threads below on how to do it; here's an overview:
Name: <whatever you want>Homepage: http://homeProxies: EnablePrimary proxy address: 010.250.250.054Primary proxy port: 8080Secondary proxy: <keep it as is>Data Bearer: GPRS Bearer SettingsGPRS Access Point: ProxyAuthentication type: NormalLogin type: AutomaticUser name: <blank>Password: <blank>
Name: <whatever you want …A couple months after I got the Samsung SGH-T809/D820 I started having dust problems with the screen. The first solution was easy enough - pull up the screen and clean it. Unfortunately, this didn't last.
Twice now I've taken my T809/D820 apart to clean the dust. This time I …
read moreLast time I made a file for Red Hat/Fedora, this time you can use this for Gentoo. I dropped this into /etc/profile.d/konsole-prompt-command.sh and made it executable (chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/konsole-prompt-command.sh). The problem is I have to modify each user's .bashrc because Gentoo …
read moreI've previously wrote about setting konsole's tab names dynamically, but there have been some problems with my solution.
So I wanted to make sure these changes only got set …
read more[Brady] complained that I didn't have a review for my wife's RAZR. Well, it can be summed up pretty succinctly by the statement "Motorola's address book sucks".
read moreDennis threw me any opportunity to interview with the Central Penn Business Journal on an article they were doing on open source, and I made a decent showing. Feel free to check the article out.
OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Open-source programs help technology take off.
read moreOf course, this really started last father's day (2006.06.18) when we found out Tiffany was pregnant, but we're going to skip ahead to the birth part.
Early morning (01:30ish) Sunday, February 25th, Tiffany thought her water broke. We called the on-call doctor (Dr. Benanatti) who said we … read moreI'm thinking I should go register warnr.net and setup a Web 2.0 site for myself that's a mashup of my currently blog using reflective web-2.0-approved colors for logos with reflective article titles. My website could be dougls.warnr.net.
The other alternative is to register ougl.as … read moreDespite only getting a couple hours sleep last night (this morning?) I managed to get my inbox under control after a week and a half of barely picking up my computer. If you emailed me and I didn't get back to you, you probably want to email again.
Everyone here …
read moreJocelyn Ranae Warner was born on February 26th at 15:15 EST after approx 24 hours of labor. She was 7lbs 7.7oz and 20.5 inches long.
Even from this cell-phone quality pic, you can see how little the little nose has changed since we last saw it.
Mom's …
read moreI was finally able to get all my drives into my file server and get the array fully upgraded. First, the results:
# df -h /dev/md0Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/md0 1.8T 742G 1.1T 41% /mnt/storage# df -H /dev/md0Filesystem Size Used Avail Use …For a very long time I've had problems that I couldn't get access to files I had just created on a SMBFS/CIFS mount. The problem was clear:
[silfreed@joshua test]$ ls -ld .drwxrwxrwx 13 nobody nobody 0 Feb 12 09:17 .[silfreed@joshua test]$ touch junktouch: setting times of …I bet this guy didn't intend to start an Internet flame war, but he did.
I agree with most of his comments, even if they are a bit naive. But for the most part he's correct - Gentoo likes to change things far too frequently.
If you take the time to …
read moreI tried to setup a separate domain to run ivtv and the mythbackend, but it apparently wasn't meant to be. After trying various incantations of "swiotlb=force" in both dom0 and domU, thing still didn't work. I eventually got the devices passed through (PVR-500 - essentially two PVR-250's on a PCI …
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I was finally annoyed with having to rename my Konsole sessions every time I ssh'd somewhere, and I finally found a really slick way to do this dynamically. It's only a slight pain of having to put a custom \$PS1 on every user you touch, but this would typically only …
read moreWe finally got a local MAIC meeting together at the Carlisle Red Robin. It was a pretty nice turnout, even if the day wasn't. We were all seated in one big line, so we pretty much only got to talk in small groups, but this was our first meet so …
read morePictures, yeah! I've got four 400G drivfes, a 160G and a 250G drive LVM'd together to make a 400G, and another 400G in an RMA process. Add it together and you have around 2TB of data at home. Not too bad.
I managed to get Xen up and running - Fedora …
read moreIn the process of moving the data from the old LVM array to the new RAID array, I noticed a lot of "file disappeared" or other bad I/O-type errors. Upon further investigation it looked like one of my 120G drives was dying in the old array.
Eventually the drive …
read moreTiff and I ordered a number of the "bigger" items from our baby registry with Walmart cards we received at our baby shower. One of them, the Graco Spree 520 Travel System (Danbury) came damaged badly. The box was split down two corners and looked like it had been crushed …
read more# df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/md0 1.5T 198M 1.5T 1% /mnt/storage
The latest bit of fun is the 40G drive (that was in the computer that went poof and is probably over 5 years old) is now dying/dead.
# smartctl -a /dev/hdasmartctl version 5.36 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce AllenHome page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/=== START OF INFORMATION …So apparently my laptop's DVD burner is dead - not the entire DVD drive, just the burning part. That's the first hardware thing that's died in 5 years, so it's not too bad. Hopefully this latest rash of hardware problems doesn't persist too much longer, though.
read moreSpammers have been quite annoying for me recently, but I think I'm starting to get the upper hand.
For NetMRG's Forums we run phpBB. We've had to resort to manually approving user registrations since we get all these spammers trying to setup a user to get in our member list …
read moreSeems like I managed to have a fairly productive night. I finally got the photos of Virginia Beach uploaded (but not labeled) as well as the photos of our recent trip to Cowan's Gap. My family also had a birthday party for my Papap Warner this past weekend - his 81st …
read moreMy first politcal blog post. That has to mean something.
Have you seen the news about the bill recently passed into law? I just happened to stumble upon a blog mentioning the Military Commisions Act. This basically throws out anything about habeus corpus, and possibly the Geneva Conventions. And reports …
read moreSince I've been hiking a bit more recently I've gotten it into my head that I should be GPS-tagging my photos. Unfortunately, this isn't easy since the camera doesn't have any way of putting the location tags into the photos itself. Pretty much the easiest way to do it is …
read moreMy in-laws, Tiff, Brady and I went camping at Cowan's Gap this weekend. Despite being very cold, the campground and facilities were quite good. Brady and I spent the time hiking up to an overlook on one side of the valley one day, then up a "Three Mile Trail" the …
read moreThe phone is working pretty well so far. It's definitely a lot thinner and lighter. The display is extremely clear and bright. The biggest thing I've noticed so far is that some actions require going through menus more than I would like, but I'm starting to find shortcuts through most …
read moreTiff and I spent the evening showing off the pictures that we got. Unfortunately we didn't get to be on a 4D ultrasound machine, so we just got normal fax-paper quality pictures. Still, the whole experience was great. We got to see the baby moving for the first time, and …
read moreWoo-hoo! Appointment is at 14:00 - I'll post back when everything's taken care of.
read moreUnfortunately, I made a bad choice with the Sony Ericsson s710a. It's just too big. Fortunately there's an alternative with a much more attractive alternative, but it breaks my ties with Sony Ericsson : the Samsung SGH-T809.
The current plan is to re-flash the unit to the SGH-D820 firmware which will …
read moreLast Saturday there was a raffle held to benefit Fire Companies 15 (West End) and 49 (South Newton). Overall it was a big success, raising a bunch of money for both companies. I was in charge of the registration process - mostly.
In the beginning (almost a year ago) I thought …
read moreGiven that I got my laptop over 3 years ago and it's currently out of warranty, I thought it might be a good time to start looking at upgrades. I still don't have any real gripes about my laptop - it's performing incredibly well for being over 3 years old. The …
read moreTiff and I had our 17 week prenatal visit last Thursday. We got to listen to the baby's heartbeat again and the doctor told us it was in the 140-150 BPS range. We also had a pleasant surprise - the Chambersburg Hospital does have some of the newer 4D Ultrasound machines …
read moreTiff and I had our 12 week prenatal visit and everything seems to be going well. There is a concern that the pregnancy might have brought out diabetes in her or that she's developing gestational diabetes early since her diabetes screening test came back a little high. I think it's …
read moreGot home tonight and got gas for the lawn mowers so Tiff and I could mow the weeds for the first time in 3 weeks (the grass is all brown - it really was just weeds). We then went over to the South Hampton park and walked a mile and a …
read moreEver since I upgraded to FC5 my Flash plugin has crashed Firefox. This typically wasn't too big of a deal since I primarily use Konqueror, but I've been using Firefox more often recently since it's javascript support and web debugging tools are a little better. The browser crashing was getting …
read moreSorry - guess all the space shuttle stuff is getting to me ;-)
Thanks to a recent deliver of one ATI X300 w/ s-video output, my HTPC seems to be running. I'm currently watching The Polar Express through Xine, but there's a lot of configuring to go.
The display is currently pretty …
read moreI got my Schwinn back together yesterday. All cleaned up and in once piece :-D.
I ordered the tubes and tires from Bikeman.com. The tires looked fine, but the tubes looked a little odd. Did you know they make different style valve stems? I didn't either. So, my new …
read moreWell, I made my decision. I'm killing my desktop.
I swapped Thor's Athlon 64 mobo with Manfred's Athlon XP motherboard under the assumption that the 64bit stuff will be put to more use in the PVR. That went fine (Thor was still FC4 - i386 version :-/). The problem came when I …
read moreSo, I'm trying to figure out what to do about my dead Xbox. Well, not about the dead Xbox, but about not having a PVD. The problem is I don't have the hardware laying around to build a PVD/PVR/DVR. Unless I use something I already have - like my …
read moreFirst picture of our baby! It was really neat to watch the baby's little heart fluttering on the ultrasound machine. Tiff had to have an internal ultrasound since she's 7 weeks 5 days and the baby isn't big enough to be seen on an external ultrasound (more likely it's not …
read moreTiff and I made a small purchase this weekend.. a 2001 Coachman Clipper travel trailer.
We managed to get pretty wet at Raystown this year. We had at least one thunderstorm every night this year (except Saturday). Friday night it literally rained all night, and started dripping on us around …
read moreMy bike has been in my Dad's shed for quite awhile now. Quite awhile. I think it's time for me to get it out and use it a bit.
The first thing it's gonna need are tires and tubes. I remember that getting them isn't a great deal of fun …
read moreWell, while I might have spent about 4 hours of my evening trying to get my Xbox to work, I did manage to take 10 minutes and replace a dying fan in Thor to get my file server up and running again. I guess that should account for something.
I …
read moreLooks like I might have to revive my PVR project. My Xbox's network card appears to have gone out, and after a night of fiddling w/ it, I don't think I want to put any more effort into it. Now I just have to get it working again so it …
read moreWell, it still tries to force the bcm43xx driver in place, but at least I can rmmod it and modprobe ndiswrapper without things getting wacky. I'm going to try to get the bcm43xx driver loaded up w/ WPA and see if it works at all... here's crossing my fingers.
read moreThe vacation was very nice, and much needed. We left Saturday morning around 07:00 for Ruckersville, VA and arrived around 10:00 - pretty good time. We went to the ACAC waterpark (mostly a big pool with a couple slides) and spent the afternoon there, baking and swimming. We ate …
read moreFigured I need to throw a ton of stuff out there, since it seems like so much is going on.
Last Tuesday (the night before my vacation to Raystown) I had a trustee meeting at church. I had no clue what was going on, but I was supposed to go …
read moreAh .. the blogger returns! At first, you might think I'm referring to some other recent life happenings, but there's a lot more than that.
Life at PA.net was good. I didn't really like where the owners of the company where going (or not going, actually) but the work was …
read moreWe spent the weekend running around all over the place. Saturday we had a birthday party for Gabe Burkholder at Adam and Shanen's place where we got to see a bunch of people we hadn't seen in awhile (some of them very pregnant!). After that we went to my parent's …
read moreDue to comment spam, I've had to disable trackbacks. I don't think this is a big problem for anyone; the technical implementation was really bad. I don't have any approved trackbacks, but 1,938 non-approved trackbacks - all spam. This should hopefully slow down the flood of 'approve this comment!' emails …
read more[Brady] and I managed to find N3MMH in a little over an hour today using a 3-element yagi we built yesterday (and finished this morning) out of an old TV antenna. Not bad! Of coruse, that means we have to be the fox next year...
In other ham-related news, I …
read moreAfter a FC4 glibc update a couple weeks ago, I've found that yum updates stopped working. When I went to debug it, I eventually found that the "lesser" programs like ping and ftp worked, while the "higher-level" programs didn't; like curl, wget, ncftp, and yum.
I tracked this problem back …
read moreFor the most part my upgrade to FC5 went very well. I spent a lot of time upgrading things I had done incorrectly in the past (like installing Eclipse plugins in the wrong place) and trying to get the Broadcom Linux Driver working w/ WPA, but for the most part …
read moreYou may remember me talking about LED lights for marker signals after I baked my headlights. Turns out blue isn't the best idea for marker lights, as it's a bit illegal.
Last Thursday on my way in to work I got pulled over by a state cop sitting right along …
read moreYeah, I did get my car back last month. Really should've blogged about that awhile ago :-/
Got my first "Genius of the Day" award yesterday at work. Made me feel good, even if it was just a small suggestion for a change to how the customer sees stuff.
I got …
read moreA lot of stuff has happened in the past month. I still don't have my car back, Tiff and I got some new living room furniture, and my family had their Christmas get-together. Well, that's probably not everything, but it's a good start.
You might have seen some pictures of …
read moreYep. Accident number two for this year - I haven't even had the car for a year yet. This was right outside the Murata Business Center; I had barely left work. Should be totally the other guy's fault; he even got cited for it.
While his Pacifica was fine, my car …
read moreThis T-Shirt is awesome: failure is always an option.
So far I can't find it online anywhere; I guess I'd have to get it custom printed somewhere.
read moreFirst couple weeks at Express Dynamics are over, and they've been a stressful couple of weeks - albiet quite productive. You might have noticed that we have a new website; I think it's much better than the one we had before - there's a ton more content and it explains what we …
read more[Brady] and I finally found a VoIP provider that seemed to have decent rates and local DIDs in Teliax. This spurred us both to get Asterisk setup on our home networks. I purchased a Sipura SPA-1001 a while back (beginning of October), but haven't had the time or motivation to …
read moreSo, it looks like I'll be ending a 5 year run at CTI/PA.net. I'm going to be going to work at a new software development company, Express Dynamics.
I think things went well today at CTI - I still have two weeks to document everything I've done there - and …
read moreIt's been quite the busy weekend. I'm not sure what all's going on in my life right now, but I know something that is getting done - rearranging my living room.
The "what all's going on" part I can't really talk about right now - hopefully an update soon.
On top of …
read moreWe're headed back to to Virginia again this weekend - this time to visit [Dennis] and Michele Little. It'll be nice to see them and their new place and will be a nice distraction from the normal rush of life.
We were worried that we wouldn't be able to go down …
read moreSo shortly after claiming that the Karma's life may be extended, I'm thinking about getting rid of it. I kind-of feel bad for the thing - it was really the best competitor that Apple had, but it's clunky UI and the fact that there have never been any third party integration …
read moreThis is some exciting stuff. I've always loved my karma, but hated the interface. Having the possibility of real filesystem access to the Karma opens up whole new possiblities for syncing music to it. Bring it on!
read moreSo Tiff and my weekend was pretty much taken up by both of these two things.
Logan's 7th birthday party was on Saturday (his actual birthday is Thursday, so my parents and I drove down to Virginia for the day. It was nice to visit with them, I managed to …
read moreKonqueror's Web Shortcuts are very nice; it's really handy just to be able to do "<alt-f2> gg: stuff n things <enter>" and have konqueror launch from the run menu searching google for stuff n things.
So, I figured I'd add an eBay shortcut - makes sense, right? It's all good, except …
read moreI've recently been trying out Kopete, and am very happy with its integration w/ KDE and KAddressBook. However, I've run into a snag.
Actually, it might not really be Kopete's fault, but it is really annoying. The only way to configure socks support for Kopete is to configure it globally …
read moreWe just got Tycho back tonight around 17:30. It's very good to have him home, and I think he's very happy to be home. He did have to get catheterized, which I know he probably didn't like (I know I wouldn't like it). We still have a couple weeks …
read moreI caught Tycho yesterday going to the bathroom somewhere he shouldn't - plus it didn't look like it was going so well. Tiff decided when she got home that she needed to call the Vet, and they told her to bring him right in.
Well, it looks like he's got a …
read moreRetract what I said about the Silverstars - this is the way to go. Using LEDs to replace all the other marker/turning bulbs will be much cooler; and I will (theoretically) never have to change my bulbs again. I guess I'll have to just go buy some cheap 7440's for …
read moreFollowing a thread on NASIOC about clearing my headlights, I did the same on mine. Tiff helped me separate the two halves of the headlight - I bet you can imagine what she said when we were in Walmart and I told her I was going to bake my headlights ;-).
They …
read moreWhile some other blog software has had comment moderation before, since I use a completely hand-written CMS, I needed to implement it myself. I've been having quite the problem with comment spam recently (as any of you with RSS readers has seen, I'm sure), but hopefully my solution will fix …
read moreWow; quite the lack of updates. The LAN Party was done on August 6th; pretty much with no hitches. You can check out all the pictures, as they've been up for awhile.
Tiff, her parents, sister, sister's boyfriend, and I spent last week (13th - 20th) down at Myrtle Beach. Surprise …
read moreSeems that a little lm_sensors/net-snmp bug has bit me on the new Argo. Well, it might've been there before but I forgot about it. Anyway, according to Red Hat bug#150199, net-snmp is supposed to be pushed out with the next release with a fix; but that was 3 …
read moreLooks like our house will finally be getting a paved driveway! I hadn't quite understood how big 1400sqft was until I saw this carved out of our yard and old driveway. Of course, this will preclude us from doing much else the rest of the year; or at least until …
read moreNot sure if you noticed a bunch of websites on Argo being down last night, but they were for awhile. We installed new 80G hard drives in RAID1 configuration that should give us a good bit more reliability (not that we've had problems). They should also be a good deal …
read moreApparently Xen doesn't cooperate kindly with the sata_nv driver. I've only found a little evidence of this so far, but the fact that it was 8 months ago doesn't bode well for me. I had really hoped that Xen would have much better performance and be more stable than VMWare …
read moreSo I've tenatively sold my Axim x30 to Chris (I still have a VGA Cooler available!). I've also got the SonyEricsson s710a I've been looking after.
Last night I managed to get stuff exported from KeePass into PwManager. So far it seems to be working fairly well and is fairly …
read moreEvery day I go to work, I grab several pieces of electronics to take with me: my cellphone, my PDA, my laptop, and my camera. Even when I go out somewhere, I typically have the cellphone, camera, and leave the pda in the car in case I need it. It'd …
read moreThis past weekend we got a pretty good storm which washed out our driveway. So I spent about an hour raking the stones back in place. Good thing we're going to get our driveway paved this summer. We're probably going to have Fayetteville Contractors, Inc. do it as we haven't …
read moreTook another trip to Raystown on Saturday. It was a really nice day of pretty much just hanging around. We tied up next to some family friends' boat and just lounged around for the day. There were a ton of boats up there, but from what I hear, not as …
read moreWe left Thursday morning for Lake Raystown Resort and just got back mid-afternoon today. We had four beautiful days; which made all our activities that much more enjoyable.
Thursday was spent setting up camp and taking a quick ride around the lake. We did a little tubing, but I ended …
read moreSo far the phone seems very nice; it has a very bright, hi-res, and hi-color display. The phone is fairly configurable, if not initially obvious. For example, I found that the phonebook can be configured to what I expected (that is, have multiple entries per name); you just need to …
read moreSo, I kinda went and busted my cellphone. I think it happened when I got out of my car and I rolled out, pinning my cell against the door jam. I now have several cracks across my LCD rendering it useless.
So my first instinct is to go to a …
read moreFinally got around the login problems I was having trying to automate polling values. Unfortunately I just realized that they don't have transmitted bytes in the RMON page; how disappointing.
Anyway, you can track the work-in-progess of my gathering script in NetMRG's SVN tree. It can login and download the …
read moreGot the Dell PowerConnect 2708, and just like the docs say; no SNMP. It has RMON support built-in and viewable from the web interface, but you can't gather the statistics remotely via SNMP. I guess they're trying to justify how cheap it costs. I guess I'll have to whip up …
read moreWhich can only mean one thing: [Brady] is having his 2nd annual LANnic!
Instead of the Hard Drive dept this year, it's going to be the rest of the guts to give Thor a (substantial) speed boost, and hopefully make the gigabit switch I bought from Dell worthwhile. The specs …
read moreThe unofficial start of summer went pretty nice, if busy.
Saturday was spent yard-saling again. I managed to sell my motorcycle, but that was about it. We went to a cookout in the afternoon; after getting soaked carrying the stuff in from a surprise shower. Guess it really was summer …
read moreAlthough I'm not part of any cool group like RPMforge.net, I still do like to build packages. Unfortunately I've been a little lazy recently and have gotten behind in some that really should be done.
I've been working trying to get a bunch of different Jabber-related packages together …
read moreYep, it really does work. Maybe not quite perfectly, but it's pretty nice that it works at all. Linux (in the past) has lagged behind new technologies, but it seems to be doing a good job at picking up new techs like this pretty quick.
I'm using both the Microsoft …
read moreYep; I was one of the geeks that went to see the midnight showing - but I didn't stand in line all day to get tickets. [Kevin] and I ordered tickets at like 10:30p last night after Ben invited us to go along; since he was saving seats we figured …
read moreI've been putting a good deal of time into ripping some Star Wars DVDs so I can watch them on my Xbox. Unfortunately, things don't want to cooperate. First I encoded everything into an OGM container using xvid4 and vorbis for the two english tracks (5.1 and directors commentary …
read moreWell, I went in to visit the doctor this morning to get some Zyrtec for my seasonal allergies, only to have him tell me I'm pre-hypertension. Well, at least I got my zyrtec and can breath now. I guess I just need to keep walking w/ Tiff.
read moreI took Friday off to be with my Wife, so we did some driving around, I got some summer-clothes shopping done, and we visited w/ Paige, Ryan, Holly, and Brooke in the evening. I also got a nice suprise in that the FedEx guy dropped my PS and DVD-burner from …
read moreStrangest thing just happened: both [Brady] and I had these CoolMax quiet Power Supplies that we had been very impressed with.. up until this past weekend.
[Brady] emailed me Saturday night asking if I had a spare power supply as his in Oak had bit the dust. After I got …
read moreEarlier today, David Donovan lost his battle with Mesothelioma Cancer. Our thoughts and prays go out his family and friends who have stood with him through his two-year struggle.
I've known David for as long as I've been dating Tiffany (almost 8 years). David could always be found with a …
read moreAs Chris noted, Spring is very nice. I had the chance the other day to get out and cleanup the outside of our house a bit. Raking stones and tanbark out of the yard - lots of fun - at least it was nice and warm out. Patches enjoyed being able to …
read moreWhy, oh why does Apple ignore open standards like Ogg Vorbis? iTunes is a very slick program for sharing music, especially once you get DAAP working properly on your linux box (I'm using mt-daapd right now), but even with a DAAP server that supports OGGs, and the OGG Quicktime Component …
read moreI was finally able to pickup my WRX yesterday. It looks very good so far, but I haven't had it in the sunlight yet to really checkout the paint job (more snow today :-P). It's a good thing insurance paid for it, though ;-).
read moreI guess I'm just generally having a 'not fun' week. Shucks.
Update 19:47
Looks like I should be getting towed out of the retention pond within the hour. My dad and I went to make sure it was still drivable (it is), but I bumped into the trailer park …
read moreTiff and I went down to visit my Sister over President's Day weekend. It was nice to go down; we haven't been down to see her in Virginia for several months, so I was happy to go see her at her place (as opposed to her coming up here to …
read moreXBMC recently added EXIF parsing to their 'my pictures' section, so now your photos are all rotated correctly! Yeah!
I also recently discovered DAAP and a couple projects for serving it up from linux: daapd and mt-daapd (look: RPMs!). daapd seems to be working well, but I'm not overly fond …
read moreActually, this was happening and resolved last weekend (Feb 4th-Feb 7th), but I'm just now getting around to blogging about it (bad Doug!).
Apparently resize2fs is broken in fc3. There's even a Red Hat bug about the problem. Of course, I discovered this the hard way ;)
Turns out resize2fs (used …
read moreIt was good to go see my Pap last night. He seems to be doing much better. He seems to have all his color back and was sitting up and talking with us very well (for having a breathing tube down his through, anyway). He instantly recognized each of my …
read moreWhen Tiff and I went over to my parents' for supper last night I thought it was odd to see my aunt's car therel. When we got inside I thought it was even more strange that only my two neices were there. Then I found out that my Pap was …
read moreYep, I did manage to get out to get my car yesterday. Dennis went with me; we left about 06:30 and managed to get there around 09:30. Pretty quick. Handed the sales guy papers and money, and we were on our way by 10:00. Pretty snappy. Oh …
read moreIn light of the fact that we're going to get our first significant snow on Saturday and this little playoff game (football) going on this weekend, I decided Friday might be better to get the car than Saturday. [Dennis] is taking off (thanks!) to go down with me and drive …
read moreI don't use the TopoUSA 4.0 Compilation DVD I made that often, so I didn't notice it before; but the DVD I made is missing elevation information. That makes the DVD about useless as a topographic map. Guess I'll have to try, try again. Or buy TopoUSA 5.0 …
read moreIn the past, I've typically used fuse taps when I need to add accessories to my car. This relies, of course, on the availability of unused fuses and the correct type of fuse (switched or non-switched).
Typically I run several extra compenents in my car; mostly not high-amperage items: Radar …
read moreI occasionally dabble in Mac, although I've never been a big fan. Of course, Apple had their Keynote w/ Steve Jobs today (which was followed by Chris and Sam on IRC) which announced a couple interesting products.
If you're an Apple user, you might actually be interested in the new …
read moreNope; not a New Years Resolution as that would doom it to failure.
I've been gradually starting this 'work out' routine (which should be called 'work in' as I haven't left my house yet) for the past 3 weeks starting out with just lifting weights twice a week. Of course …
read moreI recently upgraded both [NetMRG]'s and my own CVS repositories into subversion repositories. Everything seemed to go pretty smoothly. I setup ssh access for developers, and have both the webdav stuff setup for anonymous checkouts and the new ViewCVS setup for tree browsing. The only thing I recommend is …
read moreOh; that's probably ™. Crap.
Anyway, the Xbox is up at my house running EvoX and XBMC; and it seems to play my anime very well so far; and they look great! I need to try some higher-quality stuff (I have an HD-version of The Punisher), but so far it's really …
read moreThis whole 'Xbox as DVR' thing has been a real nightmare. I expected it to be fairly easy to pick up a 3 year old gaming console after Christmas, but that wasn't the case. After looking everywhere to find one, I finally ordered an Xbox from Walmart.com. It came …
read moreTiff and I spend the night at Lindsay and Kelly-Jo's place. We had a great time; it was nice just having a smaller group get together and hang out.
read moreIt's probably bad karma to not update about my Christmas. Even though my camera ate the previous Christmas pictures, I was able to get some more on Christmas day of Tiff and I at home and the Beecher Christmas.
I made out pretty good this year, but still needed some …
read moreCell phone exchange: going well so far. My old phone kept getting worse and worse. It started with this annoying 'white spot' in the display, and eventually led to lockups and problems turning the phone on. On the replacement, I have all the sounds and pictures transfered and have the …
read moreYeah, so I realized that when you upgrade your WAP from 11Mbps to 54Mbps you need to upgrade your ethernet connection, too. So.. we'll just try putting a 10/100 card in the router tonight to see how that goes..
read moreWell, things are progressing slowly with the hard drive. Got the first three drives' zcavs done; the one on the 400G is still going. Things are looking pretty good, though.
Things aren't looking quite as good for the WAP54g. The best I can currently get in G-Only mode is 900KB …
read moreDennis stopped by on his way back from visiting Michele in VA to pick up a 400G Seagate 7200.8 hard drive that was being run at CompUSA with this deal. $0.50/GB for 400G? I'll take that. I'm currently zcav-ing my drives to see how they all stack …
read moreover wireless. So I bought a Linksys WAP54G to put up in my house. This can do 802.11g (which is backwards compatible w/ 802.11b), so I shouldn't have a problem streaming videos over it. Should be a nice speed improvement. I imagine I'm going to setup crazy WEP …
read moreIn NetMRG's bugtracker, I always thought it'd be nice to have a comment every time a commit to a bug was made. That way everyone involved would know when changes were being made, and what changes. Luckily, Mantis allows for this via its Source Control Integration.
If only it …
read moreAfter upgrading my laptop to FC3, I noticed that my system notifications in KDE no longer worked. After a little googling, I stumbled upong a thread that describes how to fix the KDE KNotify problem. I like having my sounds work!
read moreJust uploaded some photos of Tycho hiding from the dog, the dog actually being good, and our decorated Christmas Tree.
read moreKeeping on top of security updates can be quite the pain sometimes. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) bugs are probably the worst threat to server admins these days; popular packages that are widely deployed are much easier for script-kiddies to target than people's Bind or Sendmail installs of yesteryear. So this morning …
read moreBut if you're like me, it probably isn't.
Besides my own computers there are really only two sets of people whose computers I maintain; my parents', and Tiff's parents'.
My parents' computer isn't too bad; typically my mom (Tiff said it doesn't matter if 'mom' is capitolized or not) will …
read moreLooks like there's a nifty undocumented feature for gpg-agent that limits your max passphrase cache time to 1 hour, despite what you set the default-cache-ttl to. Luckily, it's just undocumented, not non-existant.
There is also a 'max-cache-ttl' parameter that you can set which defaults to 1 hour. The default-cache-ttl defaults …
read moreSomehow, somewhere, Thor's cron jobs for backing up stuff from my big (493G!) disk and for emailing me updates that need applied managed to disappear. Not good, not good.
read moreWell, maybe not great, but it's a test at least.
Previously I've mentioned that I've gotten more into RSS recently; and it just so happens that akregator [RPMs] links into Konqueror quite nicely.
So, I've been using Konqueror recently. And, it seems to work pretty well for me. Most of …
read moreRecently I've been more and more annoyed by the fact that linux doesn't have some sort of auto-network-selection thing. Specifically, what I'd like is some applet to switch between wired and wireless and select the best wireless network (depending on work, home, etc).
So eventually last night I found NetworkManager …
read moreHad my meeting with the Deckerts yesterday. The big topic was probably called 'problems w/ management in multiple departments'. We also talked a bit about scheduling, as I'm getting very tired of weekends having worked them since I started at CTI (about 4.5 years ago).
Things seemed to be …
read moreTiff accidentally backed into Brady's Car this evening. She just forgot that it was in our driveway and backed out of the garage like she normally does and didn't expect his car there (starting the day at 5 am to go Black Friday shopping probably didn't help). Oh well; things …
read moreJust a warning to the squeamish; don't follow the link below.
We butchered hogs this morning; but for me and Tiff that only meant cutting everything up; the hogs were killed and gutted yesterday. This has been an annual thing for Tiff for as long as she knows, and I've …
read moreTiff was looking up ways to control dogs that are getting into chewing on people, and found that if you just say 'Ow' (like you mean it), the dog will typically stop and try to make up with you.
Tiff used this tactic last night and I was able to …
read moreI've got some older computer stuff for sale on eBay, if you're interested (and a slightly-broken PS2 ;).
read moreI know I previously said that I was probably going to build a PVR myself, my friends at work convinced me that an Xbox might be the way to go. Using a Xecuter 3 modchip and Xbox Media Center, you can pretty much watch or play any video or music …
read moreEverything's fine; just a bit stressful at times ;)
If anyone's been stressful, it's been Patches. Despite the (very poor) picture from the other day, most of the time she still tries to play with the cats; and they don't want to play - at least not with a dog.
To make …
read moreThis weekend I took Saturday off to help make potato chips over at Tiff's uncle (using the lard from last year's butchering). Tiff also had off Friday, so she said it'd be nice for us to both have off both days. Sounded good to me - four day weekend!
Unfortunately, you …
read moreWell, Thor is proving to be more stubborn than I thought. Apparently it's unhappy having all its PCI slots plus it's AGP slot used. Something about "IRQs" or something.
So, Thor's going back in the closet. [Brady] might be right about the box though; I'm afraid it might be ending …
read moreIt's probably been almost a year since I've been to a CP-LUG meeting, so I figured I should check it out again (plus it gave me a chance to talk to Andy about jobs over at Intellimark). While the meeting topics (synergy, VNC, and RDP) weren't too interesting, it did …
read moreWhile I'm not overly fond of how the Electoral Process works in the USA, I still voted. Mostly Democratic, but that's because I wasn't aware enough of the canditates (other than the Presidential Candidate). You still have two hours - get out there and vote!
read moreFollowing Ian's suggestion, I updated NetMRG's forums so it should be a little more crawlable. When you have that much data (especially Ian), it's really worth it to do that type of update. I generated a patch for my installation; hopefully it will help the next time I upgrade PhpBB …
read moreLast night we went to Molly's Place Rescue to pick up a new family friend - Patches! She's a border collie/beagle mix (see description). So far, she's been very friendly, and has been trying hard to get along with the cats, although they're still not too happy about it. Tycho …
read moreWell, the closet is done, but not the other stuff.
There was a lot more work involved here than I orignally thought. I had the sheet of plywood to use (and it looks great!), but it didn't quite work the way I had imagined. The original piece that was in …
read moreOver the past week I've been preparing to turn Thor into more than just a fileserver. I've purchased a nVidia MX440-SE video card which has both composite and s-video outputs for about \$34; this card also has hardware mpeg-2 decoding, so it should prove very nice for video output. I …
read moreYes, I think synergy as the word is often overused in marketing-type appliations, but [Daniel] pointed me to Synergy which is an open-source keyboard/mouse/clipboard sharing program.
"Big deal"™ you say? It's not. This gives me the ability to use one keyboard and mouse between my desktop and laptop …
read moreSpent Sunday afteroon going leafing around South Mountain with Brady and Dennis. Almost broke Brady's muffler off (definitely did some damage) going down the notorious Ridge Road. Sadly, we didn't get very many photos; looks like stuff hasn't changed much on South Mountain. Anyway, the results of the leafing adventure …
read moreYep, I know you've been waiting awhile, but the deck is finished. This includes staining and all edges. Isn't that nice!?
read moreBeen a busy week so far; This past Saturday, there was a trip to Virginia for my nephew Logan's 6th Birthday Party. Yesterday and today I've spent my drives home tracking what [Brady] and I believe to be a US Sprint (long distance) fiber line along a railroad, and today …
read moreYep, released another version of this website. Although I still think it needs some work, I'm much happier with it at this point than my old website, and wanted to stop looking at it. Feel free to leave me comments; I plan on updating it a bit more to fix …
read moreFor those that bought TopoUSA 4.0 on CD (7 CDs - 1 install and 6 data), there's a fairly easy way to convert them to DVD and have all the regions available to you at all times.
Basically, you need to make a new directory structure with a 'Data' directory …
read moreIt's been both awhile since I blogged about NetMRG and since NetMRG has had a release, so I figured it's worth a mention
As you can see, we've been making some changes, and hopefully have 0.17 out either Monday or Tuesday. The good thing is, it's still exciting to …
read moreIn case you haven't heard, I talked myself into buying a Dell Axim X30. It's an amazing little PDA; 624Mhz, 64/64 MB RAM/Flash, Bluetooth and 802.11b. What talked me into it was the price - \$267. That's \$3 cheaper than the slower model. With free shipping. I couldn't …
read moreJust so everyone's aware, I finally got my picteres up of our Ocean City Vacation.
read moreI finally have a new photo album up (see link on the right). It does a number of things I've wanted to do; mod_rewrite, descriptions, and fairly easy uploads. Check it out, it's pretty neat.
read moreLast weekend (yes, I should have written then) Tiff, Chrissy, Ryan, and our two cousins went to Hersheypark. Their new attraction, the Storm Runner, is *really* fast. It's over in about 30 seconds (maybe not worth the 1.5 hour wait, but..). All the other roller coasters were there as …
read moreWhich is close to Lewes, DE, which is where we stayed. We got back Thursday (the 12th) around 14:30ish.
The trip was a lot of fun, if expensive. For a rundown of events:
Tiff, her parents, her sister Chrissy, Chrissy's boyfriend Ryan, and I will be heading to Rehobeth Beech tomorrow. That sounds like a big list, but it's really only 6 people.
Even though I haven't figured out if Rehobeth is in Deleware or Maryland, it has typically been a good time …
read moreKDE Bluetooth is pretty slick; if you have a phone with bluetooth, that is ;)
It's able to send/receive files from OBEX compatible devices through Konqueror, and it has a nice program to do call-management (answer, hangup, deny, place calls; show caller id). It also does device detection, and can …
read more[Brady] and I went for a hike to Lewis' Rocks on South Mountain tonight. It was a really nice trek, and had a great view at the end.
Thor recently got an upgrade to the sound of 250G. It has some relief to it's previously-full 120+160G hard drives. Now …
read moreI setup my own yum repository to hold packages that I create. I don't create many packages, but the ones I do are often useful to my friends, and possibly others. Feel free to look at my repository.
read moreI should have something to write about everyday, right? Maybe.
I managed to get a SATA controller for cheap (read < \$20) in an effort to get some more storage in my fileserver. I already have a 120G + 160G drive in there, but I maxed it out at the lannic. I'm …
read moreGot back from Raystown yesterday around 15:00, and finally got all my Raystown Vacation Pictures uploaded (it's a problem when your fileserver's hard drive is maxxed out ;).
It was a really nice vacation. When we arrived Thursday, it started to rain a bit while we were setting everything up …
read moreI really need to updated more often.
Tiff and I celebrated our one year (woo!) aniversary by going to the Inn of the Dove in Harrisburg. It was nice to get away for a night; as Tiff said, if we would've been home, we would have found something else to …
read moreIt's okay, Johnny Five, we're taking apart a Tungsten T, not you.
Usually you don't take apart your \$400 PDA, but the digitizer problems of my T|T have gotten so annoying that I had to. It's relatively easy; the biggest problem is all the stupid ribbon cables they used …
read moreSo, I was doing that whole case swapping thing the other day, and all was going well. The desktop was now in the mid-tower case and up and running, when all of a sudden it just shut off. Very odd. My first impression was that the CPU overheated and the …
read moreI've been having problems with my router (gunter) for awhile; sometimes named will die, sometimes dhcpd will die. Just 'give up the ghost,' as it where. I've always attributed this to my overclocking the box (it was originally to be an mp3 player). I though it was only overclocked from …
read moreYep - that's pretty much what I've done this week. We got 3 tons (as in, 6000 lbs) on Saturday, and we decided Monday night would be a good time to move them. We got about half of it done w/ a wheelbarrow, but then Tiff's dad showed up w/ a …
read moreTrying to transfer files at [Brady]'s the past couple times has been a pain; I've only been getting half of what I should from 100MBit (\~5MB/s). I surmised that it might be the test 2.6 kernels I was using from the Fedora development tree.
Needless to say …
read moreYeah, I realize I've been bad blogging about 'life stuff' (so Tiff reminded me). And Spring looks to and has been very expensive.
We (read: Tiffany) purchased a 2004 Jeep Liberty Sport; Atlantic Blue, sunroof, etc. It seems to be a very capable SUV, and Tiff enjoys it a lot …
read moreI recently purchased the Dunlop SP Sport 5000 tires from The Tire Rack, and while I haven't had them installed long (just this morning), so far they are excellent. I know I'll never use their W-rated abilities (up to 168 MPH), but the road noise and handling is superb. Much …
read moreIt's updated again. Woo-hoo. Most of the pages are XHTML Transitional (I have some legacy stuff to port), and I have some wierd issue w/ IE6 not showing the date of the articles (but you can select it..). Hopefully it's more accessibly now; I just need to work on the …
read morePete Buchy has leukemia. I think most other people knew this, but I didn't. I met Pete in 2000 when I started working for CTI, but haven't seen him for a couple years now. I can't imagine what that's like; good luck.
read moreYeah! The Index page of my beta site Validates!
Of course, it's quite ugly right now, but I assure you I'm fixing that ;)
The page doesn't have any tables on it, and since I've always used tables for formatting, it'll take me a couple more hours to figure out how …
read moreI have a 1998 Subaru Legacy GT whose keyless entry hasn't worked fully for awhile now.
When I got the car, I don't think the keyless entry was installed quite 'professinoally'. It was dangling by my left foot, and was quite annoying. I repositioned it, but since then it never …
read moreHopefully that was my one illness for the year. I had pneumonia last year, the flu this year. Should be done now (right?).
Tiff continues to have bad health. She now has a sinus infection, bronchitis, and laryngitis. So, she's off today and tomorrow. Luckily, Big Spring already had off …
read moreI've been home sick the past two days; and when I mean sick, I mean when I had pneumonia this summer I felt better.
I woke up around 03:30 Monday morning to go to the bathroom and felt fine, but then had a dream that my stomach wasn't feeling …
read moreIn this month's update, jabberd 2, and other fun!
Okay, so Jabberd 2 is the biggest thing I've done. Oh, and wireless works in linux now. I've spent the last couple weeks on and off setting up a Jabberd 2 server on Argo to be running a more featureful and …
read moreI'm even writing this blog on my new laptop! You can view pictures of my new laptop, and read how my linux installation has been going (Windows is boring, it just works ;). Things are pretty cozy now, just trying to get some things situated, but I am carrying it around …
read moreIt's here! I've been taking lots of pics, so I'll try to update the page soon with more details.
read moreYeah; I know. Slacking on the 'Happy New Year.' At least I update ;-)
Happenings? Not much, thankfully. The mortgage company finally decided to pay our (almost) deliquent School Tax bill.. on December 31st. Makes me happy that I don't have to pay it, anyway. I had a nice extended vacation …
read moreI finally broke down and spent my Christmas Bonus.
In a previous post, I wrote about this laptop; today I finally ordered it. It's a custom order, and isn't scheduled to ship until January 13th, but I've been reading about other orders that have arrived before their estimated ship date …
read moreIt's been a great day. Merry Christmas everyone!
read moreMiscellaneous update this week.
I recently got a Rio Karma portable audio player. This tiny thing is great; 20G hard drive, it plays OGGs, and generally is everything I wanted in a portable music player. It did require some extensive ID3 tag renaming, but nothing that couldn't be handled by …
read moreFor a while now, I've been thinking that Apple has been the only people making a truly inovative laptops. However, I just can't 'switch', as they would say. I need to understand an OS before I change platforms; so I got myself a older 300MHz Blue & White G3
Now, I …
read moreI've got Fedora Core 1 installed on my IBM T20 now, and it doesn't really seem all that different from RH9. There are some new things that I want to play with; namely the laptop support (supposedly caches i/o things) and ACPI.
The laptop support will be kind-of difficult …
read moreI guess the house will stand.
Not too much has been going on recently. [Brady] and I got my Ham Antenna (a dual-band Comet SBB-5) mounted on my car last Monday. Now I just need to get my radio mounted. I think I'll mount it in my 2nd DIN in …
read moreOh; I did see Matrix: Reloaded the other night. I thought it was pretty good (despite what others think). No, the acting wasn't the best, and neither were the fight scenes (physics, what's that?), but it did progress the storyline. Almost too far, though; b/c now all I care …
read moreJump up and down and curse.
Then settle down and call the mechanic ;)
I went down to start my car today around 11:00 (EST, now ;), and to my surprise, it did absolutely nothing! No click, no crank, no noise whatsoever. To make matters better, I couldn't get it out …
read moreYep. So, today was a nice day off just baking potato chips (mmm.. potato chips). Worked a bit more on the deck, too. The edges are all finished now, and we have the 4x4's up for the railing. Steps have been put up since I last blogged, too. Jeez - it's …
read moreJust a Birthday announcement for Dennis, Tiff, and Michele. Happy Birthday everyone!
read moreIt almost even works now! Things don't time out (thanks Daniel!), and it looks much better with everything else. In case you're wondering, I called the package 'phalbum', and I should be releasing it soon (once I get viewcvs setup). In the mean time, check out my online photo album …
read moreYes, it's time to redo the look of my website again ;)
You'll probably find broken links, if you do, please email them to me. I've moved my articles into a database now (finally; the guy that loves databases and still has flat files laying around) and reorganized my downloads, so …
read moreChants and Incantations; that's the best way to run a network
read moreAnother version of everybody's (well, [Brady]'s and mine anyway) favorite graphing software, NetMRG, has been released! This is mostly a features and bugfix release; FreeBSD support has been improved, Group History Navigation was added, Graph titles and options were added, an user preferences are notable. Enjoy!
read moreWell, I figured out one reason my radeon 9600 pro doesn't work in linux; the AGP driver doesn't work with the Via KT400 chipset in Redhat 9! Apparently linux kernels < 2.4.21 don't recognize the chipset and won't load the agpgart driver; I'm recompiling 2.4.22 right now …
read moreYeah; the SE T616 is just too new (so the sales rep says). The best he could do for me was \$219, which of course I'm not paying right now. I guess we'll wait..
read moreA lot has happened in the past month; most of it I will probably forget to mention here ;)
There was a lan party around the 8th of this month (there are some pictures in the Photo Album); there was much fragging all around.
Tiff and I have continued settling into …
read moreI should know by now that installing a new motherboard isn't gonna be simple.
I picked out the Asus A7V8X (w/ SATA & Firewire) and an AMD Athlon XP 2600+. Seemed like an awesome combo - until I tried to boot. After much unjoy (no POST or screen), I decided to plug …
read moreI guess there hasn't been an update here for awhile ;)
In case there's any doubt, I'm married now, and got back from our honeymoon a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately, I ended up getting pneumonia, so that kinda kept me down for awhile. I'm finally getting over that, so things should …
read moreThis is my first time back online since Friday when I left work. Tiff and I have been moving pretty much all weekend (except for Saturday afternoon/evening when we were at Brett and Ann's wedding). We have a good deal of our stuff in the house now; just need …
read moreWhen I was at the house yesterday, the appliances were in, the drop ceiling was in place, the carpet was laid, and the brick was done. I imagine today will finish up the siding outside, and hopefully the electrician will come and finish wiring up the applicances and coax. Some …
read moreWell, the wedding's getting pretty close. By this time in two weeks, I'll be married. Pretty exciting
The house is coming along very well. Most of the plumbing is done; all the sinks are in, and almost all the trim work is done. The mason had started also; not sure …
read moreSince [Daniel] complained that I didn't update recently..
The house is coming along great. Hopefully the mason came today and did the front brick (it's been raining about every day for the last couple weeks). I've got vinyl flooring, most of the trim, and cabinets in place. [Brady], [Dennis], and …
read moreWell, the house is coming along rather well. We have siding on 3 sides; the walls have one coat of paint, and the vinyl is due to be installed on Friday. Things seem to be moving well there.
What I don't like is how much cable looks like it will …
read moreI wasn't sure what category to put this in; It's both code and deals with my life.
I've gotten a basic photo album online, and it seems to work fairly well. I intend to add more features in the near future (and make it prettier ;) like thumbnail caching; a mid-level …
read moreIt's here, it's here, it's here!
What? You don't know what it is? The Canon Powershot S45, of course!
And lemme say; this thing takes awesome pictures. They're so big, and crisp; and the on-screen histogram -- awesome! And the size? Awesome! The smoothness of the lcd? Terrific! (you thought I …
read moreWell, got duo upgraded again. This time to RedHat 9. There were some minor difficulties getting services running again, but overall I think things went pretty well.
AFAIK, the only service currently not running is the MSN Transport for Jabber. I'm not even sure if that affected anyone. [Brady] had …
read moreA website devoted to AT&T Long Lines has linked to Brady's website! Isn't that neat!? The website has lots of features, and one page includes links to Brady's web site including the two recent McConnellsburg and Cashtown former AT&T Long Lines sites we visited the other week. That's …
read moreWell, the house is moving along well; I have a second floor now (and some bathtubs - woohoo!). It shouldn't be too long before it's under roof. Getting excited now :-D
I finally found an image management system that I would like to use, so you all can look forward to …
read moreI hate waking up irritated. I mean, it just throws off the whole day. It's 9am, and I'm so irritated I don't know what to do.
For some background, we have this T1 to a customer that's having problems (taking CRCs) - so I call Sprint to report it. I tell …
read moreWell, it's been a long time since I updated this. I've noticed that I often update in bursts; then take a long break (like a month). Not that I'm saying I'm going to change it, but I am aware of it ;).
Tiff and my house is coming along pretty well …
read moreI finally figured out what the problem with my slow booting win2k partition was; it all started after installing SP3. The old drivers for my promise controller were incompatible w/ SP3, and thus unhappy. The old drivers were v 1.60 build 33; to get the new ones to work …
read moreWell looky there! Dennis has a new website!
It looks pretty spiffy, and it even has an RSS/XML feed!
read moreI've finally replaced my old, kludgy iPAQ. I have intentions on making the iPAQ a car mp3/gps thing (if compaq ever gets off their butts and replies to my email about getting the digitizer repaired). In the meantime, I got myself a new handheld - a Palm TungstenT!! So far …
read moreI went to the viewing for my High School classmate, Hannah Showaker. I can't believe she's dead; she was only 24, and a great person. To see that, you only have to know of where she died and what she was doing there: she was in Indonesia teaching English to …
read moreDennis found a website for a 2.4GHz Bazooka Yagi. We built it tonight, and was able to get about 10-12dbi gain out of it. Not bad for a night's work.
And the three of us that went for our ameteur radio licenses got our call signs! Mine is KB3IZJ …
read moreWell, [Brady] and I have been making great strides in NetMRG, which you can follow in the NetMRG CVS Tree. We're working for an 0.9 release - but we still have a number of showstoppers (see TODO).
We hope to have this done in a couple weeks, but no promises …
read moreAfter months of talking about it, I finally got a new laptop. Man is it nice! More than twice as fast as my IBM Thinkpad 390e, this IBM Thinkpad T20 is a terrific little (really!) guy. At only 1.3" thick (thin?) and 5 lbs, it's almost half as thin …
read moreWell, I think things went pretty well. Christmas has come and gone, and now we're preparing for New Years.
I don't have much to say; just that I hope another (late) Chirstmas present arrives soon; although I don't expect it to be here until Thursday; while I'm at work. Annoying …
read moreWell, finally did the musical/play thing that Tiff and I had been practicing for the past two weeks for. Overall, it went very well, and Tiff's mom said that we sing very well together. She seemed very sincere about it, but I have a hard time believing it since …
read moreWell, I did go to see Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on Friday, but didn't get to write about it yet... until now!
Contrary to what [Brady] said, I thought the 3 hours was well spent. I did feel like some parts were slightly drawn out, but overall …
read moreWell, I felt Nemesis was a bit disappointing. It really did feel like it was supposed to be a 3 hour movie, and had bunches cut out. Don't get me wrong, I still liked it; but the parts used from other STs ("Auto-Destruct is offline") was annoying, but other parts …
read moreWell, I bet you were thinking there was going to be some big comparison of ST:Nemesis and Christmas, but there isn't. I'm just commenting on both ;)
Going to see ST:Nemesis w/ [Dennis], his g/f Michelle, and possibly [Brady]. I've heard its dissappointing, but I'll probably enjoy it …
read moreWith [Brady] here watching the TNN ST:TNG thingy tonight (prepping for Nemesis!), I got bored and started working on the frontend for the gabber + tkabber database logger. Well, it got pretty far along, and wound up being a pretty decent frontend, I think. Check out the latest version, and …
read moreWas playing around Freshmeat's user prefs, and found a feature called 'friends.' After Ian and I messed around w/ it, this is what we concluded:
[22:46]<Ian Berry> well that's useless, IM and e-mail capability
[22:47]<silfreed> yep
[22:47]<silfreed> but now we're 'friends'
[22:48]<Ian …
read moresilbot has been retired - but only in name. It is now known as 'jolem' - the Jabber Golem. I thought it was different the the boring old *bot scheme. I'll release the code soon, as well. Just some minor cleanup to do, then we're ready.
read moreDennis, Michelle and I went to Ski Liberty tonight for their first day open this season, and the snow was pretty good. I'm definitely out of shape, but I think I'll get back into it pretty quick. It was loads of fun; I can' wait to get back out there …
read morein preparations of (maybe) releasing silbot code for others to enjoy (mostly for educational purposes), I've been hacking it to do xml config parsing and to start using the 'show' (online, away, dnd, etc) and 'status' (text messages describing your 'show'). You can see this in operation on my site …
read moreWell, [Dennis] has been bugging me for months, and I finally did it. I'm completely happy with it yet, but it'll do. It's much better than the old site, so I'm happy with that; it just doesn't have everything that I wanted yet. I'll just have to live with it …
read moreI've updated the mod_auth_mysql plugin to have real md5 support (as opposed to md5 crypt or whatever its called). You can download my new version while I try to get with the developer to figure out what to do.
Also, this project combined with mod_auth_cache can do some cool stuff …
read moreAlong with silbot's new features, a new site has been in the works at beta.silfreed.net for quite some time now. I'd appreciate any feedback anybody gives me, but I understand that I don't get that many hits. I really like the new 'category' support. Its very helpful (well …
read moresilbot now has category support. Just ask it. Really. Say things like "help log" and it will tell you all about it. Pretty spiffy, eh?
read moreMy IBM Thinkpad 390e is happy again. After a couple weeks where I couldn't use it on battery power, it turned out it was just the battery, and not the dc-dc card that I suspected. Oh well. I did find a good source for IBM Thinkpad Parts at ACS Parts …
read moreI've been working on a AT&T Wireless Bill Parser. Things are going pretty well so far. I'm able to jump though all the login hoops and download the invoice page - now I just have to parse the invoice page. At that point I want to be able to stick …
read moreWhen I found a thread on google groops about a power macintosh 5500 freezing, I thought I was finally going to fix my stupid 5500/250. I ordered a new Rayovac Alkaline 4.5v battery and installed that. I got the whole way through the MacOS 9 installation. Then the …
read morefor the new duo! I know you all could tell that duo is much faster than he was. I really should have some pics of him, but I don't. You'll just have to take my word that the paint job is awesome and the ultra-bright blue (power) and orange (hd …
read moreNow I have a chatbot (of chatbot fame) running on duo's jabber server, and is very nice. You can read all about [Brady]'s conversations with chatbot at my chatlog
read morewow. duo's gonna be even more of a beast than he currently is ;)
We're getting dual p3 450's for him now, as well as the new case and mobo we already have. Of course, I had to buy a new stick of ram since I fried one when I removed …
read morewe finally got a new case, motherboard, and a bigger hard drive for duo. The motherboard is an Intel 440GX+; and after a bios update we were even able to install redhat 7.3 (only took 2.5 hrs to get to this point - would hang on aix7xxx previously)!
Now …
read moresilbot has slowly gain more and more functionality. It can now ping, traceroute, log messages (ie, blog), and now has my sms-splitter functionality. I intend to add category support to the blogging; this way you can update multiple sections of your website from one place. I guess I need to …
read moreMy friend Lindsay found out how to move through tabs in mozilla:
ctrl-pgup and ctrl-pgdn
Yeah!
read morehe's tired of the 'pre' tag messing up my site, so i'm sending this to push it off the front page.
read morewell, i got redhat 7.3 installed on my box, and am starting to get programs re-installed (like gabber ;). Thankfully my /home directory wasn't wiped. I was able to save all of my /home, which was very good. I did have backups, but they were about a week old. Guess …
read morewell, after surveying the damage after the fsck, it looks like my /lib directory is gone. Now, some people might be inclined to say, 'just copy one over from another computer!' But no.. I'm taking the more painful approach of backing everything up (the rest of my drive is fine …
read moreman this sucks. kernel says it's mounted root, but it can't find init; i've fsck'd the drive (lots of errors); stat'd the /sbin/init file (returns fine) - but the kernel can't find it. Acts like it's not the correct root partition; but everything seems to be there. I wouldn't mind …
read moreSo, I've finally gotten rid of that PoS jogger stuff. I've written my very own bot to handle my updates called 'silbot'. If you'd like to talk to it, just point your jabber client at 'silbot@silfreed.net'.
read moreFinally have the latest jabber server up and running. I've still been trying to get the latest Jogger (from CVS) to work correctly. It dies with the error:
I just realized I need to get to work on duo. I need to make jabber site-wide; by this I mean that all the domains hosted here can get 'userid@domain.com' jabber addresses, which would be really easy to remember. This way, my email and jabber id can be …
read moreIf anybody tries to email me this week, you'll get a nice little automated response telling you I'm on vacation. I'm going to Myrtle Beech along with my fiance and my family; it should be a lot of fun.
And oh yeah, I graduate tomorrow! (about damn time ;)
read moreI recently got the Logitech Mousman Optical, and I have to say it rules. I had the Logitech MouseMan+ (the curvy one), and it was terrific as well. The new mouse is incredibly smooth, and I'll never have to worry about the rollers gunking up ever again!
The new mouse …
read moreWell, after about 3 days of downtime, we're back! My domain expired, and then I couldn't renew it for some strange reason. Anyway, it's fixed now, and all you people who were trying to get to my domain can again.
read moreI've written a Nagios SNMP Gauge plugin. It allows a person to check a series of mibs (oids) for data out of bounds (min and max). I mostly wrote this to do remote disk checks, but it could be used for cpu on some devices as well. It also has …
read moreWell, I've finally updated my site's layout. I believe it's much better to get around. I know the color is still off a bit; but overall it seems much nicer to look at and easier to read.
Of course, email me if you have comments.
read moreI've written two nagios/netsaint plugins. They can be found in the downloads section.
The first is check_snmp_counter - it's purpose is to watch counters via snmp and make sure they don't go over or under a certain range.
The second is check_tcping - it's a tcp ping for when udp or …
read moreKevin (friend @ work) discovered the problem: don't use the '@xxx.net' part of your username. This worked for me; other people can try it out now!
read moreOkay, I've discovered that what I called a 'Gauss rifle' is actually a railgun or coilgun. Hehe..
read moreI need to look more into making my own gauss cannon/rifle. That would be really neat. Here's a little homemade toy version: Gauss Rifle
Also, I stumped my Calculus 3 professor when I asked whether two lines in 3d space would be considered perpendicular if they didn't intersect, but …
read moreI'm running audiogalaxy on linux, and i'm having this problem where the satellite deletes my account.txt file and then tells me my account is invalid! This is very annoying. I know they're providing a free service, but this is quite irritating. I guess I'll write them and see what …
read more[Dennis] and I would like to start a community wireless project in the Newville, PA area, and are looking for some help.
Check out his NFWP website for more info.
read moreHeh. Okay, this should be the last one (don't want anyone to get hurt). I definitely need to update my site layout. The webcam thingy is getting old and takes up lots of space, and all my navigation is along the bottom. Just warning everyone in case it happens sometime …
read moreI'm not sure this new jogger is all its cracked up to be..
When I subscribe to jogger using 'jogger@jogger.jabber.silfreed.net', jogger dies without allowing my subscription to its presense.
When I subscribe to jogger using 'jogger.jabber.silfreed.net', it allows me to see its presence …
read moreWell, I'm testing out jogger v0.8 from cvs. I hope this version works a little better...
read morewow.. it took almost 30 seconds for jogger to do that last update.. I guess jogger needs updated itself...
read moreWell, classes are going pretty well. Calc 3 is loads of fun, even if I don't remember how to do integrals all that well. My other classes are mostly filler; working towards that May 11th goal of graduation.
I've found an awesome wireless site at wardriving.com. Included are links …
read moreWell, I had a nice weekend of Snowboarding and finally seeing The Lord of the Rings. Both were terrific.
Classes start today, and I only have one: Calc3. Math is fun, so I hope this goes well. Only one semester left!
read moreAlright! Now I can announce to the world that my Jabber server is up and running. I finally have a Java web-based applet up and running, so I can access Jabber from anywhere. The JabberApplet is terrific. It does have its quirks, but hopefully those will be ironed out. Of …
read morephpAIM has changed it's name to phaym - I think it stands for something like 'php aim - AOL Yanks Monkeys' - or something like that.
read moreThe only three numbers in computer science that matter: 0, 1, and infinity. As far as my life goes, I can't do everything, so I need to choose what one thing I'm going to devote my time to, or I'll end up with nothing.
read moreokay.. this is a little better. maybe it just needed nudged...
read moreseems jogger is getting finickier to configure. ick.
read moreI've been playing with a bunch of wireless stuff recently, and I've found out it rocks. I have a Lucent Orinoco (WaveLan) card that works beautifully under both Win2k and Linux; and I have a Raylink card on the way as well. I've set up an 802.11b network in …
read morewow. i've had an ibm 390e for about a month and a half now, and it rules. I can do all sorts of wireless stuff now that I couldn't before, and it's pretty kewl for portable transport as well.
read morewow. now I need nat on gunter for stuff to get to the outside world. makes sense I guess, but it's a pain.
read moreecho 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to forward ip traffic on a host. very useful when you have another router behind your firewall.
read moreThis is what I wrote to my SourceForge account about the development of phpAIM (AIM is (tm) AOL).
Unfortunately, development has stalled before it really started. I was originally going to design a PHP script that modeled the Perl Net::AOLIM module, but I think I'd rather write an extension …
read moreiptables are neat. I'm using them to block people trying to do bad things to duo.
read moreI feel much better today. Went running around with Dennis today, and got a compact flash reader and 350va APC Back-UPS for $30 each! Not a bad deal, I though. Of course, I'm staying up way to late tonight, and It's gonna ruin my whole week, so I best get …
read moreWhat a messed up tragedy. Knocking out the world trade centers with our own commercial jetliners. To quote my good friend [Brady],
" good night to look out at the night sky. prolly the last time in our lifetimes that there will be no planes..."
That is so true. Very sad …
read moreFound out that usb mass storage in linux needs scsi support. Didn't determine how much - just enabled scsi support, scsi disk support, and generic scsi support. wierd.
read moreWell, i finally got a digital camera, so i guess i'll have to get an online photo album soon. It'll be l33t.
read moreKernel Panic! At least, that's what duo did. arrrrgh. definitely need to get some monitoring software on that box.
read moreDespite having renewed hope in wireless networking between [Brady]'s, [Dennis]'s, and my houses after finding pretty cheap 2.4GHz Antennas, [Brady] and I were spoiled once again by distance and LoS (Line of Sight) factors. If we could just see each other's houses...
read moreHmm.. really getting interested in the Kodak DX3500 camera. It seems like a pretty decent deal.
Gotta finish shopping for Tiff soon, too ;-)
read moreYou know, I really think PHP could be a really good scripting language, but there are definitely some things holding it back.
For one, there is no support for SIGnals from the OS. Things like SIGKILL and SIGHUP. These would be really useful. I love PHP's native database support and …
read moreYou know, I was wondering if html worked in these messages.
That would be really neat, but could lead to some other issues, like the need for javascript filtering.
read moreSo - it's morning. Just making sure jogger is still up.
You know, I'm really starting to get tired of classes...
read morewow. My first jogger page. And it matches my site! This is soooo awesome. And easy too!
read morenote: readme for installing jogger needs a little updating. doesn't even mention that you need to modify the jabber.xml file and add a component for it.
read moreThis is my first update using jogger. If this works, it's pretty sweet.
read moreOkay, I realize that I'm not doing my job of maintaining this site, and it really isn't what I wanted it to be anyway. I will leave it up for the time being, but I want to create a more professional, and personal site. The content here will remain up …
read moreOoo. Y2k is here.
My computer is getting another upgrade, and the network is being started. Other than that, there is one more download in the Downloads section. Nice
read moreWell, again I'm a week behind. I got a K6-2 400 last week. It is sweet. $46 dollars or so @ a computer show. The heat sink I bought is monsterous. I also got a 48x CD-ROM drive. Can we tell I'm on a budget? Check out the updated rigs page …
read moreI updated my Escort page. It now has future customizations, as well as some other info.
read moreSweet! I got myself a 1997 Ford Escort LX! Burgundy! Very nice. I'm going to be starting a page for my Escort with pics. mods, and customizations I add to it. I'll probably get a pic up of my old car, a 1987 Nissan Sentra. Damn that car did good …
read moreAnd yet another month goes by...
I've updated my Rigs page. I now have a server built. Hopefully it will be running better soon.
Also new: I have Apache Web Server 1.3.9 for Win32 running on my Win95 machine (manfred). For perl, I'm running ActiveState's ActivePerl for …
read moreAlright, so the banner is slightly annoying, but click on it anyway. It'll make us both some cash. And an unlimited amount at that. Whatever on how much a advertiser pays for 1000 ads (usually \$30), you get 40% (about \$12). Each ad is about a minute. If your online …
read moreThe beast has finally been built. I thought it would be easy, but noooooo. Win95 has to be a pain in the ass. Oh well. It's up and running now, OC'd to 300 (100x3) instead of 266 (66X4). Sweet. Now to reinstall apps...
Oh yeah-check out the details on my …
read moreI have finally started college, and already have changed my schedule twice. Not cool. My class list has been posted on my background page, and the download page has been updated as well.
Other than that, I plan on adding/re-arrangeing some things. The palm and Mp3 pages will probably …
read moreYes, once again, it has been a very long time since an update. I have finally added the Palm Pilot page as well as a Mp3 page. These Palm page basically contains the apps on my Palm IIIx right now, and why they're there, and the Mp3 page just has …
read moreIt has arrived! Actually, I've had it for a week, but I've been too busy at work to update this page since (and playing w/ it!). If you want one of these puppies, get one. They are the sweetest thing on the planet (next to my girlfriend, but she's taken …
read moreWell. I did it. I got a Palm IIIx. I think it's a better bet than the Palm V. It's a little bigger, doesn't have rechargeable batteries, and the screen's a tiny bit worse quality, but other than that it's the same. Plus it has 4megs of RAM instead of …
read moreWell, I finally have a job. Yep. At a grocery store called Nell's Market in Carlisle, PA. I work in the deli section. Fun, fun, fun. I might get a picture up sometime of me in there if I get a chance.
Oh, does anyone have a PalmV I can …
read moreAs you can see, this site has undergone a change. Not extremely dramatic, but enough to be noticed. The background page remains, but none of the others do. Instead of a current page, this page will host all updates, and old updates will be moved to the old news page …
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