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Managing HPE SAS Controllers
Notes to self. And anyone else who might find them useful. Following are some ssacli commands which I use infrequently enough that they fall out of cache. This may repeat information in other blogs, but since I search my posts first when commands slip my mind, I thought I’d include them here, too. hpacucli is…
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OMG Maven 3.0.4 on stretch
“Why?”, you might ask, would one want to run something other than the most recent version of Maven on the very newest and fangledest breed of the linux distribution we have all loved for so long. “Because!”, I might answer, I’m trying to get the nexus-apt-plugin working on nexus.fd.io, and the version of nexus we’re…
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GSoC 2010
Earlier this month, I applied to the Mono Project (and the University of Washington, and Ubuntu, and Debian, and The Perl Foundation) requesting a mentor to get Perl6 hosted on the DLR. Last Tuesday, Miguel contacted me and asked that I chat with Michael Hutchinson about possibly taking up a different project. It seems that…
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Locale configuration post-Intrepid
I was reminded this morning after a bit of chatter on #debian-cli that my previous write-up on setting one’s locale on Ubuntu is out-of-date. Instead of running dpkg-reconfigure locales and selecting your locale, the new incantation is as follows: Magic $ sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 Environment Variables You’ll also want to set some environment variables. Put…
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dlr-languages package passes another hurdle
It looks like the upload of the Iron* languages to Debian is imminent. We’ve gotten the debian/watch file downloading a tarball of the git tag we’ve chosen for this release. This was the last bit meebey needed in order to present it to the maintainer of ironpython in lenny. He has agreed to let the…
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Randal Schwartz interviews Michael Foord about IronPython
The FLOSS Weekly folks (including my homie, Randal) just published this week’s interview. It is with Michael Foord, who I just met a couple weeks ago. He published a book about IronPython. He mentions Mono, the DLR and IronRuby, too ;)
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dlr-languages packaging
An update on recent changes to the IronRuby packaging. We’ve changed the name of the source package because We’re packaging IronPython as well as IronRuby (thanks doko!) I’ve added the wrapper scripts (irake, igem, etc.). Maybe this is showing that I’m not a heavy user… After building meebey’s packages and installing them: $ cat /etc/debian_version…
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IronRuby .deb is looking better
cjac@dev0:/usr/src/git/alioth$ sudo dpkg -i ironruby-cil_0.9.0+dfsg_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package ironruby-cil. (Reading database … 67034 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ironruby-cil (from ironruby-cil_0.9.0+dfsg_all.deb) … Setting up ironruby-cil (0.9.0+dfsg) … cjac@dev0:/usr/src/git/alioth$ which ir /usr/bin/ir cjac@dev0:/usr/src/git/alioth$ ir IronRuby 0.9.0.0 on Mono 2.4.2.3 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. >>> exit
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Hey, look! debian/control and friends are on Alioth!
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-cli-libs/packages/ironruby.git;a=tree;f=debian;h=c5642e8a4a4aa3b5e15af5f607a1604f3169bd47;hb=449af4392c1fbddacee4f52b9998e23e674a7434 *whew* now I won’t have to worry about losing (or misplacing) my changes. Thanks meebey and #debian-cli for your help. Now to tune those files a bit and get something that actually does what users expect ;)