Blogging this from the middle of the East Hill cemetary. I got my old 13 db wifi antenna hooked up and a network set up to down the street (245), and it seems to reach over a block in most directions. I'd get more if the antenna was mounted on my roof.
Wish I could remember the name of the daemon that watches for new clients on an AP and logs or sends mail about them.
The US government's plan to boost energy savings by moving Daylight Saving Time forward by three weeks was apparently a waste of time and effort, as the technological foibles Americans experienced failed to give way to any measurable energy savings.
-- http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070403-the-daylight-savings-change-no-savings-no-point.html
But lots of benefit for IT people who got to work extra hours updating systems for the change. So yay US congress! Let's move DST forward three weeks more, every year. :-P
LinuxWorld.com has published my article about ikiwiki
I had a bit of a hard time finishing this article, though I got through it eventually. While LinuxWorld pays pretty well, I'm no pro writer, I do so much better just writing if/when the urge strikes me, and not to a deadline.
(PS: Don, you're entirely too kind)
This was one of the better Debian releases to get out that I've been involved with. There was the obligatory, thankfully minor server problem and the one obligatory panic and attendant phone call, but it mostly went smoothly and according to plan, and consisted of hanging out with some great folks for rather too long (21 hours).
(Having the DPL election in the same day was weird.)
I've changed the urls of everything in my website, including the blog. Feeds are limited to displaying new items to avoid flooding aggregators. Old urls will continue to work thanks to rewriting, and the rss feed url didn't change at all for the main blog (though some of the minor feeds urls did change and will redirect). Nothing you haven't seen a million times before, move along..
Leo has been missing for a few days. I was too distracted this weekend and the weekend is too much of a blur to be sure when I last saw him, probably either Saturday or Sunday.
I'm hoping this is just a typical cat on walkabout thing, although Leo does not normally do that.
Worried.. :-(
Apparently animal control picked up a cat matching Leo's description on Taylor St (1 block away..) on Monday. I'm waiting for a call back from arresting officer Boggs.
(Live updates on this important case as it happens..)
I got Leo back..
A complete set of Debian 4.0 on CD and DVD consists of 292 CDs and 39 DVDs. If you've downloaded or bought all 331 discs, here's how you can throw 324 of them away. Or, how to pick the right ones to get in the first place.
First, the one disc that is all you really need for Debian 4.0: The multi-arch DVD! This is the neatest disc available for etch, it can boot on x86 systems, both 32 bit (i386) and 64 bit (amd64), as well as on powerpcs. It will detect the architecture and automatically boot the right one. It contains enough software to install a nice desktop using only the DVD, no network needed. And it includes the source code to all that software on the same DVD. This DVD is perfect for giving out at conferences, or to friends, or for that desert island scenario, and it's really the only Debian disc you need.
If you want a second Debian disc, I recommend the netinst CD. This disc is under 200 megabytes in size and is designed to be written to a 3" mini-CD. Much easier to carry around than a full-size CD, so it's great for those Debian installs that you didn't expect. It's also a handy rescue disc (just boot with "rescue").
Four other CDs are of some interest, to round out your collection. The multi-arch CD has the same software as the netinst CD, but it's a full-size CD, that supports the same three architectures as the multi-arch DVD. The first CD from the CD set can install a Gnome desktop system without accessing the network and is a good general-purpose CD. The KDE CD and XFCE CD provide some choice in which desktop environment you install.
Finally, one other CD merits mention. The businesscard CD is a tiny but full-featured Debian CD that can be written to a square or "hockey rink" shaped disc that is sized the same as a business card. This can be an eye-catching giveaway, if you can get the businesscard CDs produced in bulk on the cheap (if you do, please let me know). My experience with putting them in a wallet though is that they won't last more than a few weeks. If you want to have Debian installation/rescue media you can carry with you everywhere, you'll have better luck with an inexpensive bootable USB keychain.
The other 324 discs are only of interest to archivists, completists, and those in certian oddball scenarios.
Gliese 581 c: First Earth-like planet discovered in a star's habitable zone, only 20 light years out. It's always interesting when stuff like this stops being science fiction.
Valenti dead: Thanks Seth for giving me a tasteful reaction to link to. I couldn't come up with one on my own!