For some reason my involvement with Fosdem is going up, not down. I've installed Debian sid in a FreeBSD 8.2 jail and I'm seeing this weird effect:root@debian:~# aptitude upgrade
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
User defined signal 1
root@debian:~# I'm experimenting with zfs at home, for the moment on top of my md/lvm setup, and I ran out of disk space. Growing the lv is pretty easy:frost:~# lvextend --size +110G /dev/new-vg/zfs-test Extending logical volume zfs-test to 120.00 GiB Logical volume zfs-test successfully resized frost:~# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT zfs-pool 9.94G 9.78G 161M 98% 1.00x ONLINE -
frost:~# zpool export zfs-pool frost:~# zpool import zfs-pool frost:~# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT zfs-pool 120G 9.78G 110G 8% 1.00x ONLINE -
With a lot of help from Far and James Y Knight we have now the incredible disappearing common-lisp-controller v7. We went from 617 to 267 lines which in fact are only 193 lines excluding comments and empty lines... Yesterday webex started failing for me. I did not change anything related to java recently so I was a little perplexed.The conclusion of this discussion is that systems like cmucl are no longer possible under this new system.You are wrong. If there is a good reason, there can be exceptions. As we mentioned. One of those is for new architectures. Another can be for such packages. But not for I am too lazy to do that , only for it is impossible . Whatever it might be in the cmucl case. Anyone else up for a useless discussion via blog posts?
Following the announcement of the source+throw away binaries route for uploading packages I've had a brief discussion with our FTP team. In the last few weeks I needed to write a short utility at $WORK. I decided to use my trusted Common Lisp. Turned out that my old utility still would be ok, but 'upstream' had changed from CSV files to 'json' files. This year I managed to go to fosdem every day, even at the beer event. Not that I attended many talks: I was quite busy getting the network to work. We got wireless in almost all locations in the end. Setting up and fixing the problems took most of Saturday. On Sunday we added the final 'experimental' room via a wireless bridge link across the square, with the beam over the heads of the people in the queue for Belgian fries. I installed the 4.2 KDE from experimental and ... wow. Nicer. Faster. Less display corruption. All in all good.http://kuix.de/sslhazard/sslhazard.phpFor the last few months I've been running the latest git versions of xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd on my $WORK laptop with a Mobility Radeon X1300.Bool RADEONDRIGetVersion(ScrnInfoPtr pScrn)
...
/* Low level DRM open */
fd = drmOpen(RADEON_DRIVER_NAME, busId);$ glxinfo grep direct direct rendering: Yes
My wife has a laptop running Vista because she wanted to try out the operating system before having to decide on using it at work.frost (debian) --cat5--> sharrow (debian): 35 Mbit/sec frost (debian) ---WL-cat5-> sharrow (debian): 18 Mbit/sec sharrow (debian) ---WL-cat5-> frost (debian): 18 Mbit/sec sharrow (debian) --cat5---> frost (debian): 35 Mbit/sec frost (debian) ---WL---> martha-jones (vista): 0.2 Mbit/sec sharrow (debian) ---WL---> martha-jones (vista): 12 Mbit/sec sharrow (debian) ---cat5-SMC-WL--> martha-jones (vista): 6 Mbit/sec martha-jones (vista) --WL-cat5-> frost (debian): 18 Mbit/sec martha-jones (vista) --WL--> sharrow (debian): 18 Mbit/sec martha-jones (vista) --WL-cat5-> sharrow (debian): 18 Mbit/sec
frost (debian) ---WL---> martha-jones (vista): 18 Mbit/sec sharrow (debian) ---WL---> martha-jones (vista): 18 Mbit/sec sharrow (debian) ---cat5-SMC-WL--> martha-jones (vista): 18 Mbit/sec
The one problem I have with my server at home now seems to have a fix.After upgrading to 2.6.26 I could not associate with my AP anymore. After searching I noticed that the amount of channels reported by iwlist wlan0 channel had changed. And the channel that my AP was using (13) just disappeared. options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=EU
After upgrading an ubuntu LTS server at work proftpd (not my choice) would not transfer files anymore. It would die with:The Belgian minister for Economy was seen with an iPhone recently. However Apple does not sell these things in Belgium.For a long time I wanted to play with IPv6, but I never liked any of the tunnels I saw. This evening I started wondering if my Cisco 837 ADSL router cannot handle some form of tunnel.router#ping ipv6.google.com
Translating "ipv6.google.com"...domain server (195.238.2.21) [OK]
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 2001:4860:0:1001::68, timeout is 2 seconds:
!!!!!
Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 276/278/284 ms
ipv6 unicast-routing
ipv6 cef
! enable ipv6
ipv6 inspect name MyIPv6Inspection tcp
ipv6 inspect name MyIPv6Inspection udp
ipv6 inspect name MyIPv6Inspection ftp
ipv6 inspect name MyIPv6Inspection icmp
! let's have a firewall
interface Tunnel1
no ip address
no ip redirects
ipv6 address 2002:51F0:CCA5::1/128
ipv6 enable
ipv6 traffic-filter ipv6ip in
ipv6 inspect MyIPv6Inspection out
tunnel source Dialer1
tunnel mode ipv6ip 6to4
interface Ethernet0
ipv6 address 2002:51F0:CCA5:DEAD::1/128
ipv6 enable
ipv6 route 2002::/16 Tunnel1
ipv6 route ::/0 2002:C058:6301::
ipv6 access-list ipv6ip
deny ipv6 any any
proc doconf section setting
if [ catch ios_config $section $setting errmsg ] error "configuration of $section $setting failed";
set ipaddr [exec "show ip interface Dialer1 i Internet address"]
regexp is ([0-9.]*)/ $ipaddr match ip
regexp ([0-9]*).([0-9]*).([0-9]*).([0-9]*) $ip match a b c d
set newipv6 [format "2002:%2x%2x:%2x%2x::1" $a $b $c $d]
set newintipv6 [format "2002:%2x%2x:%2x%2x:dead::1" $a $b $c $d]
doconf "interface Dialer1" "no ipv6 address"
doconf "interface Dialer1" "ipv6 address $newipv6/128"
doconf "interface Ethernet0" "no ipv6 address"
doconf "interface Ethernet0" "ipv6 address $newintipv6/64"
# ip addr show dev wlan0 scope global
4: wlan0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:19:d2:28:2c:a4 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.53/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global wlan0
inet6 2002:51f0:cca5:dead:219:d2ff:fe28:2ca4/64 scope global dynamic
valid_lft 2590061sec preferred_lft 602861sec
The fglrx driver contains 28 million lines of code (!).To see what happens if you hire people who think the average page on myspace looks good to redo your news site you only have to look at the horror of the new site of the vrt.Next.