Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
08 2007
The ILUG committee is organising an introduction to the Open Streetmap project on Saturday, 1st September, 2007 in Dublin.
This will include info on how to use your GPS and upload your data to the project, to contribute to a free and open map of the world.
The Hamlet Pub, Balbriggan
(N 53.61396 W 6.20608 degrees)
Sat, 1st Sep 2007
2pm ~ 5pm
If you have a GPS and a laptop, please feel free to bring them. Wireless internet is available in the venue.
To register interest, please e-mail chairman-at-linux.ie
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...on the birth of Beatrice! May she bring you many years of pleasure, joy, happiness, pride and other good things.
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One of the things I've really liked, and have used for years, is the keyword expansion feature of CVS. This means that, for example, my Perl code can maintain version strings by simply setting
my $VERSION = "$Id$";
at the top of a file - and CVS automatically expands it into something useful. I want the same functionality from Subversion / SVN. Fortunately, svn's developers thought of this, and kindly provided a method of enabling keyword expansion on a per-file basis (so where you have to specifically turn keyword expansion off in cvs with -kb, in svn you have to turn it on, and on a per file basis.)
To enable keyword expansion for $Id$ for a file mycode.pl, you'll want to execute the following:
svn propset svn:keywords "Id" mycode.pl
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Congratulations (slightly belated, due to not logging on to the internet for a few days) to Dónal and Sonya who are now happily married, and somewhere in the wilds of Bonnie Scotland on their honeymoon. Everyone had a great time at the wedding (some photos available here) and most have recovered and lived to tell the tale ;-)
Congrats you two - here's wishing you both a long, happy and prosperous life together.
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Thanks to Stephen Hemminger for giving a most enjoyable and insightful talk on how to get involved with Linux kernel development, and providing some interesting views on how kernel development looks from the inside out; from the point of view of someone actually writing and submitting code. Many thanks to Stephen for taking the time to share his thoughts and views with us. Thanks also to the audience members who took time out of their Monday evening to come and listen.
Thanks to HEAnet for generously providing the venue for hosting the talk. Thanks too to Justin Hourigan for making a video recording of the event, and of course looking after all the post-processing work required to make it available on the internet. I'll provide a link in the very near future, so that those unable to attend can take a look. Finally, thanks to the staff and management of the Isaac Butts café-bar, who looked after the crowd after the talk, and provided a relaxed atmosphere in which we could all enjoy some food, a drink and continue the discussions on Kernel development, DRM, the legal issues of reverse engineering and cracking, and many other diverse topics.
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Stephen Hemminger has generously offered to give a presentation on something to do with the Linux kernel (and possibly related to TCP/IP networking in some way) in HEAnet's Dublin office on Monday 13th August. Details are on the ILUG website. If you're in the neighbourhood and have an interest in such things, do please consider coming along.
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If you're happy and you know it, click my links... ;-)
...to go into a seething rage when Clippy appears with yet another inane and obstructive message prior to Excel crashing and losing the file you've been working on.
I did accidentally find a replica comedy clippy though, which made me slightly less irked. I'm tempted to port it to Linux, for great lol...
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It appears that Hetzner had a problem with one of their server rooms last week, resulting in atlas (one of my servers) losing connectivity to the outside world. Once again, the Hetzner team were quick to respond once I requested them to take a look at the server, and a reboot restored it from whatever state it had gotten itself into.
My munin stats show about 24 hours of missing time, which correlates well with their description of the outage times and when I realised the server was off the air. More annoying though is that I appear to be missing a large chunk of smokeping graphs. It looks like a couple of weeks worth of data in the month of July was dumped. I can only surmise that there was a power outage just as the RRD files were being written, resulting in a large amount of data being unceremoniously lost :-(
I guess the 24 hour outage highlights that I should have something monitoring my monitoring server. I've added it to my 'TODO' list...
posted at: 11:15 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry
It's out, available in a shop near you soon. I've not looked at a complete track listing yet, but the brief chance I got to play it would seem to indicate that it's very heavily based on Guitar Hero II. They have the same characters, though some different outfits available for them. The venues are exactly the same, AFAICS - though they've thrown in a whole bunch extra comments on the song load screen. I've yet to see anything as comedy as "A mini-fridge is more important than a bassist" but I'm sure there are gems to live life by in there :)
This bank holiday weekend should see me (hopefully) finding one of my PS2 memory cards and running some extensive testing on GH:Rock the 80s. it'll be hard to rock as much as these two though :-)
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