BrakeBlog

Local photography, National rants, Zero navel-gazing allowed… Blogging from Hopkinsville, KY

  • crimp

    I taught myself how to terminate ethernet recently. The crimper and rj45 jacks I bought from Randolph-Hale Electronics. So far I’ve only had one failed cable after making several. I thought I was going to need a cable tester but now it seems I can do without it. Then, on Friday, I decided that I…

  • Maintenance: 3/3/2008

    Upgrades These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies . … done! [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r9 USE=”-build -symlink” 285 kB Total: 1 package (1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 285 kB Physical Changes The case that the server sits in has a lot of gapping holes on the backside…

  • ipw2200 regression fixed in -rc3

    The regression from 2.6.25-rc2 in ipw2200 has been fixed in -rc3.

  • ipw2200 oops in 2.6.25-rc2

    ipw2200 is causing a kernel oops in v2.6.25-rc2. The module seems to load OK but it dies when the interface is initialized.

  • Maintenance 2/26/2008

    These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies . … done! [ebuild U ] app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29 [0.1.28] 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.18.2 [4.0.18.1-r1] USE=”cracklib nls pam -nousuid (-selinux) -skey” 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-boot/grub-0.97-r4 [0.97-r3] USE=”-custom-cflags -netboot -static” 0 kB Total: 3 packages (3 upgrades), Size of downloads: 0…

  • v2.3 installed

    I got WordPress v2.3 installed with no serious issues, yet. Upgraded Barthelme to one that supports WP v2.3 and my Comment Timeout plug-in still seems to work. resolv=open(“/etc/resolv.conf”,”r”) for line in resolv.readlines(): #The first test checks if the line has already been “skipped”. The second test #checks for servers which do not have a private…

  • Upgrade treadmill

    v2.3.3 is the latest version of WordPress. I was wondering why I couldn’t upgrade directly to v2.3 but I see now that there is a upgrade path from version to version. So I clicked to upgrade from v2.1 to v2.1.3 then the next step will be v2.2.1. I’ll wait a couple of days to see…

  • Maintenance: Monday

    These are the packages that would be merged, in order:Calculating world dependencies . … done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 [2.1.3.19] USE=”-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux)” LINGUAS=”-pl” 0 kB *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge. [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libpcre-7.6-r1 [7.6] USE=”cxx unicode zlib -bzip2 -doc” 0 kB [ebuild…