Clerical Rigor

Category: linux

  • PocketSphinx on android via the NDK

    While working on my project for the Spring ’10 “NLP on Mobile Devices” course, I put together a PocketSphinx ndk build. You can pull it down from my git repo: $ git clone git://colliertech.org/colliertech/PocketSphinx.git I haven’t written any of the JNI marshaling functions yet, though.

  • John Hodgman is using software that I helped to write

    A recent blog post by The Hodg Man mentions that he uses (AND ENJOYS) a product I’ve helped to build. Yay. *** FULL DISCLOSURE NUMBER TWO FAITHFUL READERS OF THIS IMITATION BLOG know that, having crashed my own website repeatedly while linking to it Twitterphonically, I experimented with NEW INTERNET TECHNOLOGY to try to fix…

  • IronRuby continuous integration back online

    We haven’t done much work on keeping the continuous integration (CI) machines online, and there haven’t been any new builds since November of ’09. I should set Nagios to remind us when things get off track or something. The recent acceptance of the DLR into Debian and our intention to get the next release produced…

  • Font for composing Lushootseed

    At the recommendation of David Beck, I have installed a TTF font from http://www.languagegeek.com/. It took a few minutes for me to figure out how to get it going, but it was pretty straightforward after that. Here are some quick instructions for those of you running Debian variants such as Ubuntu. Fetch the zip files…

  • AoE root for KVM guests

    Intro So. I’m trying to get familiar with libvirt and friends. To this end, I’ve set up a Lucid virtual machine booting from PXE into an initrd environment which does a pivot_root to an AoE block device. The #virt channel on irc.oftc.net told me that in order to have libvirt provide PXE capability, I would…

  • SAN configuration (AoE)

    With the help of a couple of friends, we’ve put a 4.5T RAID-5 machine on our network and I’m trying to figure out how to share the storage with the rest of the hosts. In the past, I have used NFS and CIFS/Samba to provide access to remote hosts. This has generally worked okay so…

  • IRC logs for #ubuntu-us-wa

    Hello, google. I would like to introduce you to our chat logs. Chat logs, google. Google, chat logs. We will discuss things here such as Mono, GNOME and Debian. We may even use it to talk about work on the DLR project stuff.

  • building unmodified_drivers

    This is the gist of it: $ cd /usr/src/ # $ sudo chmod a+rwx . $ wget ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/SLE11_BRANCH/src/kernel-source-2.6.27.39-0.0.0.25.15a4c6f.src.rpm $ alien -tg kernel-source-2.6.27.39-0.0.0.25.15a4c6f.src.rpm $ cd kernel-source-2.6.27.39 $ tar xfj linux-2.6.27.tar.bz2 $ for f in patches.*.tar.bz2; do tar xfj $f || break; done $ for p in $(./guards x86_64 < series.conf); do patch -d linux-2.6.27 -p1 <…

  • Xen PV network driver

    I haven’t used Xen HVM until recently. When I was at Amazon and hanging with the Xen provisioning folks, I recall complaints about the performance of network drivers on HVM instances. I’ve recently discovered that this was due to the use of the ioemu virtual interface (vif) system. In paravirtualized environments, Xen vif devices are…

  • Mono 2.4.2.3+dfsg-2 just hit debian

    Thanks to Meebey! Sorry for the being out of touch thing and the not posting anything recently thing. A vacation took me by surprise and clocked me right upside the head. Next on the TODO list: Update the dlr-languages package to indicate dependence on the new release make sure it builds correctly on my sid…