Present Perfect

My X just shut down during a yum upgrade. I don't think something like this *ever* happened before in my history with Fedora and Red Hat. But goddamnit, is that annoying.

Last update that it had installed: Dec 03 17:13:25 Updated: selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 2.4.5-3.fc6

Of course, logging back in and allowing the upgrade to continue fails because a bunch of cleanups have not been done, so suddenly I am left with some packages that have multiple versions installed and complain loudly.

Sigh.

My X just shut down during a yum upgrade. I don't think something like this *ever* happened before in my history with Fedora and Red Hat. But goddamnit, is that...

... but after 8 minutes of running a freshly installed FC6, a process called yum-updatesd has managed to eat up 90.8 % of my 2 GB of RAM.

This is after trying to make my Dell GX620 not hang with the on-board Intel 945 graphics chipset after installing.

Somehow this jump to FC6 was a lot more painful than any previous jump to a new FC release.

... but after 8 minutes of running a freshly installed FC6, a process called yum-updatesd has managed to eat up 90.8 % of my 2 GB of RAM. This is...

Deep in the trenches of after-work experimenting because my work days do not allow me the time needed to investigate proper migration of our mail servers. Setting up Fedora Directory Server, which has some quirks but seems to be simpler to set up than OpenLDAP. Toying with getting Evolution to show Person objects defined in it, and allowing each person to edit themselves, I stumble across the problem of Evolution insisting on adding the "calEntry" objectClass to each object that I change a property of.

Some mails suggest that calEntry has an RFC but no "official" schema file, and that Toshok once made a patch to support this properly by checking the server for existence of this objectClass. That part was probably removed because it unconditionally tries to add this property value now.

Anyway, to get to the point. Evolution comes with an evolutionperson.schema file which you could load onto the server, but not with a calEntry.schema file, sadly. The evolutionperson.schema has this gem of a comment in it:

# spouseName
# single valued (/me smirks)
attributetype ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.8506.1.2.8
NAME 'spouseName'
SUP name
SINGLE-VALUE )


I guess way back when this file was written nobody expected Ximian to be taken over by Novell - a company originating from the heartland of mormonism.

Deep in the trenches of after-work experimenting because my work days do not allow me the time needed to investigate proper migration of our mail servers. Setting up Fedora Directory...

Dear VDR developers,

I wanted to try VDR for the first time in my life with a spanking new DVB-T card.

I installed vdr and started it and here's what happened:

[root@sangria ~]# vdr
vdr: please turn off UTF-8 before starting VDR
[root@sangria ~]#


Could you please tell me where in my BIOS I turn off this UTF-8 you speak of. Also, is there any chance this UTF-8 thing could actually be resolved in software somehow ? I don't know what it is but it sounds really complicated so I can understand if that would be too much work to do on behalf of a simple user like me. Really I just want to watch some TV, that's it.

Thank you for your hard work !

Thomas

Dear VDR developers, I wanted to try VDR for the first time in my life with a spanking new DVB-T card. I installed vdr and started it and here's what...

Learned a new Spanish negotiation trick this week: when being asked to provide something, say "yes of course" then talk about the weather, the place you are in, show the other person around your building, and not mention the requested thing anymore. Repeat on each request until requester is out of time and needs to fly back to another part of the country.

Next milestone is to actually be the applier of the trick instead of the applied-to-er.

Two - I have to find a way to not have my working day end past midnight.

I've been meaning to self-glorify extensively by listing books I've read over the past few years - as the subway has made me rediscover reading with a vengeance - but for now I just want to say that I really enjoyed reading "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut, and "Slaughterhouse five" was not bad either, though slightly less riveting.

Congratulations to Jeroen and Ingrid, who were joined by Jasper during the past week !

Looking forward to some friend's 30th birthday party this weekend, I expect to see a lot of people I haven't seen since university.

Also, good news ! I am going to LCA ! I will be presenting Flumotion, of all things. I am probably the only one accepted with three rejection mails in the INBOX as well, which is amusing. I really would have liked to do a presentation on Savon at least, since I think the marriage of Subversion and System Administration is A Good Idea, but obviously I'm biased. I guess I will need to draw my motivation for a release of it from another source of dark energy instead.

Now let's see if my food-deprived brain will be able to put itself to sleep...

Learned a new Spanish negotiation trick this week: when being asked to provide something, say "yes of course" then talk about the weather, the place you are in, show the...