- bug#7021 - Project Tagging - Getting close to completion for this one - I have the project owner interface for tagging their project completed as well as the profile login/logout area. All that's left is the tag cloud and list of projects per tag for the user-facing pages, and an admin …
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Mozdev Sysadmin Meeting Minutes for 2007-12-18
Present: 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 moreMozdev status update for W50-2007
This 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 moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-12-11
Present: 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 moreMozdev unexpected downtime
Our 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 moreMercurial repo for RPM package development
I'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 moreMozdev status update for W49-2007
Lots 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 downloads.mozdev.org features
New 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)read moreYou can check your closest mirror (and list of other available mirrors) by visiting the following link: <http://mirrors.mozdev.org/ip-check.html …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-12-04
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 morePhotos for the last Three Months
Here'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 moreMozdev status update for W48-2007
This 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 moreReply to Bill Ruud of Shippensburg University for sending a .docx newsletter
Note: 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 moreNew Drupal/Gallery2.2 plugin configuration challenges
I 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 moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-11-27
Present: 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 moreMozdev status update for W47-2007
Short 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 morePoles Steeple hike
Brady 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 moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-11-20
Present: 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 moreMozdev status update for W46-2007
- Fixed Drupal theme selection bug - Users were unable to change their theme due to me forcing the setting in settings.php globally.
- Planning fixes to mysql errors caused by backups - I've been working with Mozdev's sysadmins to try to figure out how best to deal with the two-minute outage daily …
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-11-13
Present: 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 moreSpotts Road hike
Brady 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 moreMozdev status update for W45-2007
Another 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 moreAll your boxes are upgraded to F8
I 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 moreHotels really are gross
Article 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 moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-11-06
Present: Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Gerry Murphy (gjm)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevDiscussed developer priorities - mirror admin interface is complete - waiting on some more responses from mirrors before switching from flat-file redirection to new tool - M.MD.O is updated w/ dynamic content - next todo is …read moreDifferential incremental backup solutions that don't require "root"
I'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 moreMozdev Status Update for W44-2007
- Finished up mirror management - I finished up the admin interface for managing mirrors. This included contacting all existing mirrors and verifying information (admin email, URLs, regions served). I'll still be spending some time adding additional information to the tool (such as availability reporting) and improving the regions served by each …
Trans-Siberian Orchestra in Hershey, PA
On 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 moreSaturday hike and SciFi viewing
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-10-30
Present: 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 moreMozdev Status Update for W43-2007
- Drupal rolled out to
production -
This resolves
bug#7020,
bug#10166,
and
bug#17020.
There 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 …
- Drupal rolled out to
production -
This resolves
bug#7020,
bug#10166,
and
bug#17020.
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-10-23
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevDiscussed developer priorities - Drupal is in production; some use - Need to make a general announcement to PO list and update bugs - Not sure whether to add Drupal to the new project form at this …read moreMozdev Status Update for W42-2007
- RSS icon cleanup on front page
- Vebzom.org DNS was broken for awhile - This kept me from working on the new mirror management library
- Researched email delays - The problem might be related to the massive number of held messages that are sitting in Mailman; it might be the daily nag …
Disable console blanking
read moreecho setterm -powersave off -powerdown 0 -blank 0 >> /etc/rc.local
Mozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-10-16
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale (cdn-work), Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevVebzom.org DNS is broken - Mic trying to get in contact with Andy about zoneedit.com access. - Current IP is 167.206.76.23 if anyone needs access …read moreMozdev Status Update W41-2007
The 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 moreArgo hard drive upgrade with growing RAID1 array
Yesterday 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 moreLogitech Harmony software for Linux
I 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 moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-10-09
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevDiscussed developer priorities - Drupal still ready to deploy - mirror-up script ready to deploy - working on browsable downloads.mozdev.org - working on mirror admin tools - soon to work on mirror redirection to …read moreJocelyn Walking on Clothes Basket
Check 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 moreMozdev status update W40-2007
Most 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 moreSome Clarifications and Concessions
My 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 moreWhat Fedora needs is some direction - and online upgrades
Some of the biggest problems I see in Fedora these days are the following:
1. Lack of directionread more</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 …
Story concept for Eureka: Make Carter the Genius
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 morercsedit
I'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 moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-10-02
Present: David Boswell (davidwboswell), Doug Warner (silfreed),
Michael Dosser (tanker), Chris Neale (cdn-work)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdevDiscussed developer priorities - cvs log rss feed is live; docs for how to add links are added - top-50 page was released - bouncer probably won't work right now w/o changes to …read moreDead lawn mower happenings
So 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 moreMozdev W39-Y2007 status update
Drupal 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 moreremotebackup project
Migrating to XMPP by May 19th, 2008
Following 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 moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-09-25
Present: 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 …
Maintaining Tripwire Sucks
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 moreWeek 38 Year 2007 status update
This 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 moreRuby-on-Rails is not a PHP killer
My 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 moreIPv6 default route problems
When I rebooted my firewall the other day I ended up not being able to route via IPv6. This seemed very odd since
I eventually found that this is a kernel bug through a message on Sixxs' forums … read moreroute -n --inet6
seemed very clear that I had a default route.Argo jabber up and running on ejabberd
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 CentOS 5 Upgrade
Argo 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 moreKonversation is miles above Kopete for IRC
I 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 moreMozdev sysadmin meeting minutes for 2007-09-18
Present: 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 moreFogBugz demo in Philadelphia
Yesterday 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 moreCentOS upgrade success
Since 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 moreWeek 37 Year 2007 status update
Drupal 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 moreCentOS upgrade time take 2
Figured 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 moreFC6 Xen now working
For 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 moreBad lawn mower happenings
Tiff 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 moreMozdev admin meeting minutes for 2007-09-11
Present: 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 open
up testing to the general project …
read moreSouth Park Mac vs. PC: Computers suck
South Park Mac vs. PC. Funny, true stuff.
read moreWeek 36 Year 2007 status update
I took a slight diversion from working on Drupal this week to try to give some other tasks attention.
- Drupal Mozdev theme work - Just minor tweaks to make the theme more "mozdevy" and work better with Mozdev's rotating themes.
- Setup custom project - This is a project to hold custom code …
Look! It's me!
[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 moreIPv6 for my LAN
I 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 moreIPv6 for me!
Okay, 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 moreMozdev admin meeting minutes for 2007-09-04
Present: 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 moreWeek 35 Year 2007 status update
This 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 moreMozdev admin meeting minutes for 2007-08-28
Present: 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?read more</p …
Why social networking is scary
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 moreWeek 34 Year 2007 status update
Mostly 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 morektwitter script
Visiting the Shipes and Littles
This 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 moreDoug's LinkedIn Recommendation Request
well, 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 moreMozdev admin meeting minutes for 2007-08-21
Present: 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 moreMozdev admin meeting minutes for 2007-08-14
Present: 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 moreWeek 33 Year 2007 status update
IPv6 for everyone
I'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 moreA non-custom CMS!? What are you thinking!?
This 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 moreWeek 31 Year 2007 status update
Made 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 moreAdmin meeting for 2007-07-31
Present: Doug Warner (silfreed), Michael Dosser (tanker), Eric Jung (ericjung), Myk Melez (myk)
Discussion was held publically in #mozdev
Discussed Mic's sysadmin priorities:
- Amazon EC2/S3 setup is going well
- Need to determine whether to move old logfiles to EC2 for processing
- Just running EC2 is $72/mo ($0.10 …
- Amazon EC2/S3 setup is going well
Week 30 update
Admin meeting for 2007-07-24
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 moreSpeaker wiring
Other 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 moreHappy 60th birthday, Dad
This 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 moreWeek 29 update
There 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 moreAdmin meeting for 2007-07-17
Present: 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:
- Unstarted projects list - receiving Mic's help to implement in production
- Making progress on blog/wiki/forums - see Doug's …
Congratulations & Welcome to Logan Michael Twigg
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 moreDell 2007wfp
After 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 moreWeek 28 update
I 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 moreCPlug Asterisk Presentation
Last 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 moreWeek 27 update
Last 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 moreGarmin GPSmap 60CSx
I 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 moreStats would be helpful
Nice hike; Electricity to the shed; Need a good tax consultant
Brady 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 morePackaging for Fedora
According 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 moreWeekly update June 25th - 29th
Much 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 moreFirst Mozilla posting
Other 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 moreRaystown 2007 photos online
We 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 moreMotorola RIZR Z3
So 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 moreHome office is up and running
So 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 moreLast day at Express Dynamics
Time to Move On
My 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 moreJocelyn's first shots
That 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 moreJocelyn's first website
I've setup a short web redirection page for Jocelyn's photos. You can visit them at: Jocelyn.WarnerFam.net.
read moreWho hates you?
Apparently 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 moreCentos 4.4 to 5 upgrade too much of a pain
Apparently 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 moreThank god for backup superblocks
Last 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 moreGarage cleanup
Last 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 moreCentOS 5 packages available
I've built a couple CentOS5 packages (syslog-ng, eventlog, and bash-silfreed-prompt-command). Let me know if there's others you need.
read moreReseting image number counter on Canon (S2 IS)
I 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:
- Delete everything off your card or format it
- Take a …
AT&T Wireless (mMode) settings for Samsung
AT&TWS WAP 2.0 Settings:
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>
MMS Settings:
read moreName: <whatever you want …
Dust!? I hate dust!
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 moreDynamic Konsole Session Tabs/Names for Gentoo
Last 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 moreDynamic Konsole Session Tabs/Names Updated
I've previously wrote about setting konsole's tab names dynamically, but there have been some problems with my solution.
- The prompt gets kinda messed up for non-xterms (like when logging in locally
- You have to modify each user's .bashrc file
So I wanted to make sure these changes only got set …
read moreMotorola RAZR v3i review
[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 moreInterview with Central Penn Business Journal on Open Source
Dennis 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 moreJocelyn's birth story
Of 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 moreWeb 2.0 upgrade
I'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 moreInbox under control
Despite 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 photos
- Jocelyn's Birth
- Jocelyn and family
- Jocelyn and her moo outfit
Announcing Jocelyn Renae Warner
Jocelyn 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 moreFile server finally done
I was finally able to get all my drives into my file server and get the array fully upgraded. First, the results:
read more# 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 …
Problems with Samba and newly created files fixed
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:
read more[silfreed@joshua test]$ ls -ld .drwxrwxrwx 13 nobody nobody 0 Feb 12 09:17 .[silfreed@joshua test]$ touch junktouch: setting times of …
Flame war - why not to use Gentoo on a server
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 moreXen and ivtv not quite happy yet
I 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 …
read moreLink and Quote of the day
Responsible Adult (beta) T-Shirt
Get webulant! Synergistically hypercast your eternal youthgasm!
Dynamic Konsole Session Tabs/Names
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 moreCarlisle MAIC meet
We 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 moreProject overload
Thor upgrade complete
Pictures, 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 moreLVM member drive dies; 180 billion bytes sent to an agonizing death
In 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 moreStore returns for Walmart.com suck
Tiff 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 moreNew array running
# cat /proc/mdstatPersonalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]md0 : active raid5 sde1[3] sdd1[2] sdc1[1] sdb1[0] 1562834944 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/4] [UUUU_] Now to just get … read more# df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/md0 1.5T 198M 1.5T 1% /mnt/storage
And then the drive goes
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.
read more# 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 …
Dead DVD burners suck
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 moreSqueeeePOOF!