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Setting up a cluster
So… I guess at this point, the hosts on colliertech.org could be considered a cluster. We have all of the services you would expect from a real ISP running on the network at this point. I think. I’m learning more and more as I go along. I set up autofs for the first time this…
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Mediawiki, Mozilla, and remote pages linking to local files
So I’ve got mediawiki running on an intranet web server, and I use it to store notes about the things I’m working on. I downloaded a bunch of docs and started making links to the local copies of the manuals using the standard mediawiki notation, [url alias]. However, in its default configuration, for security reasons,…
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autotools build error – resolved!
I googled all over for this error with no results: autom4te: unknown language: Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4 aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 It turns out that I had built an obsolete version of autoconf (2.53) and it was in my $PATH ahead of everything sane. Building and installing 2.61 (the latest version as of 2007/08/15) fixes…
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Back online…
Sorry for the outage, folks. We’re back up now. This time with a firewall. Ain’t that fun? Someone broke in to the machine in February and was using the un-throttled bandwidth to spam the world. I’ve added a throttle and firewall, much stricter access to the internal network, monitoring tools and an alert infrastructure. Hopefully…
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Article on Paco
Paco, a friend of mine and fellow contributor to the Mono project was recently covered in an article in the Ft. Worth/Dallas Start Telegram. Paco’s an inspiration to a lot of us. He recently joined up with the Air Force reserves and is stationed at Lackland airforce base. Paco’s son, Paquito was shot and killed…
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Mono Project on Launchpad
Hey folks, Robert Collins and Mark Shuttleworth were kind enough to add a Launchpad project for Mono. It will be nice to have a presence on Launchpad, as it is one of the focus points of the Ubuntu development team. We should be able to wrangle some more ubuntu devs with this exposure. The Prebuild…
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Why can’t I communicate on cell phones with static?
I was thinking… When there’s echo on the line or when I can hear breathing, I respond with silence and a delay to see whether the line is clean. This reminds me of [[CSMA/CD]]. Ha. My communication system is like a computer networking device.
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Wisdom from IRC
08:41 < cj> dmoonfire: I did a bunch of line breaking and whitespace reduction tricks to keep all columns below 80 chars. Maybe I should use more terse, context-specific variable names… 08:42 < dmoonfire> I like verbose names, even with 80col, no idea why. 08:42 < cj> https://svn.colliertech.org/mono/dnpbAutotools/dnpbAutotools/test.cs 08:42 <@jonp> name length should be proportional…
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Conservapedia: the wiki for the elite
So, I’d heard a thing or two about this Conservapedia thing. It turns out that they don’t actually want any contributions or editorial review on most of their poorly written and obviously biased articles. Maybe the site administrators feel that a more [[facist]] approach to the concept of wikis is the way to go. In…
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Prebuild Autotools target
Hello public, I’m putting some effort into GtkGlAreaSharp again. The supporting bits aren’t really production-ready, though, so rather than hacking on the widget itself and its associated examples, I’m beefing up the underlying platform. The first step in the process is making Prebuild a viable meta-build system. Right now it works pretty well for generating…