bash-completion
How could I have been so unaware of the bash-completion framework for so long? It’s completely awesome.
LMSensors Install
When I rebooted my machine yesterday, I realized that I didn’t setup lmsensors to automagically insmod the modules into the kernel on boot. So, I had to toil around for about 30 minutes and figure out what modules I needed to insert, and put them into my /etc/modules autoload file, and copy some script into /etc/rc.d/init.d to insure that everything works at startup. I don’t understand why the sensors-detect script couldn’t have done all that for me. I guess learning how to install archaic packages is part of the right-of-passage for a *nix user.
FSCK!
I had to reboot _the_ box this morning as some rogue wine process insisted on crashing X11, and locked up everything. Then, stupidly, I screwed-up the firewall rules remotely and had to make a special trip over to HQ to reboot at lunchtime. Fun fun fun. Then, to top it all off, I had to run fsck on my RAID array which took forever. Today is starting off great!
Gentoo
After much work, I managed to get Lotus Notes and Sanity working on my Gentoo machine tonight. Omkhar (who helped me with my firewall script way back when) managed to setup a fairly neat internal ebuild repository. Unfortunately, I’m still running MTS under a 2.4 kernel on my firewall and MASQUERADING the ipsec device to my Gentoo machine from my Redhat machine.
Intraweb TV
CNet had an article today scolding CNN for not putting the much-talked about John Stewart/Crossfire segment up on their web site. I’ve thought about this quite a bit despite the fact that I don’t really watch television, and I always wondered why the networks didn’t put high-quality video clips up on their respective web sites to downloaded at a nominal fee. I’d pay $5 an episode for a professionally produced 600MB DivX’d Sopranos episode. This would have the side-effect of domestic Television shows being bought outside the designated viewing area. I seriously wonder why none of the big networks have gotten into this yet. I would think it would be like free money to them. The average TV-watching drones that sit there having commercials pushed into their faces every 2 seconds will continue to sit there, 1984-style, and watch the pretty colors for 4+ hours a day. Weird crazy intraweb people like me would just as well _legally_ download an entire season of Law and Order or Teen Hunger Force if I could (for a reasonable number of coppers.) I guess it’s just as well, I don’t need any more distractions these days.
One of These Things is Not Like the Other….
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Whilst roaming the catacombs of the Parmer Lane Target (tar-jay), I noticed the following non-sequitur on their Grocery Clearance end-cap. |
Gentoo?
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I’ve been playing around with Gentoo on one of my machines here at HQ. This is a direct fbgrab screenshot of Gentoo in bootsplash mode. This is not X11 loaded (as a matter of fact X isn’t even installed yet). It’s simply the kernel in Vesa framebuffer mode. It was actually kind weird taking the screen shot because I had to use “fbgrab -c 1″ due to the fact that the virtual terminal that I wanted to grab was ssh’d into another box. |
RHEL4 Beta1
Hmmm, I didn’t realize this, but RHEL4 Beta 1 is out. You (Decibel) can download it here.
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/nahant/iso/i386/.
Livejournal Posting
I managed to h4×0r some php to allow my web site to automatically post news items to my livejournal. Also, I’ve managed to add myself to the Nuclear Tacos Community which causes my postings to be monitored by ljbot in #alg on irc.distributed.net.
In other news, Steakum is using some nucleus-powered blog, and it was highly annoying me that there wasn’t a Firefox-compatible RSS feed, so I coded-up a severely brain-damaged php hack that made it so. You can live bookmark this link with “teh Firefox”:
