I saw Dead Can Dance at the Palais in St Kilda last night – their first tour back in Australia in over 20 years. I’ve wanted to see them perform live since I first discovered their music in the dim dark past – bought the tickets as soon as the tour was announced last year [...]
OK, I’m finished my experiment. It’s over now and I can “break character”. First, I have to offer special thanks to “tshirtman” for being the first to unambiguously exemplify one of my main points. well done! In case it’s not blindingly obvious (as it should be), the reason for my post was that I was [...]
I had a dream that many prominent members of the Linux community were dressed in Nazi SS uniforms on the Arctic ice, clubbing baby seals to death. I can’t bear the thought that so many Linux people may secretly be Nazi seal murderers, so I demand that they be excluded from any future Linux-related events [...]
I just posted the following question to ServerFault….and then realised there might be people out there in magical internetland who know the answer but never visit any of the SO sites, so i’ve posted it here too. Feel free to respond here on on serverfault. In a recent upgrade (from Openstack Diablo on Ubuntu Lucid [...]
from the whinge of the day dept: I started a bzr branch of calibre about 2.5 hours ago because I wanted to see how difficult it would be to understand the code and make a few changes. The calibre Get Involved page warns that it can take about an hour….which is excessive to begin with [...]
how embarassing, i make a point of asking for comments and critique on my previous post but comments didn't actually work unless you're logged in. I only noticed because someone emailed me. It was the admin-ssl plugin. de-activated now, so comments are working again. A few people tried to add comments according to the log [...]
I’m finally getting around to making myself learn python as more than just a read-only language. Working with Openstack kind of requires it. So far, I like it. Much more than I thought I would as an unrepentant sh and perl using systems geek. And getting over my distaste for the white-space issue is also [...]
zfsonlinux recently added support for visible .zfs snapshot directories, so you no longer have to mount a snapshot to browse/view/recover files from it. This is good, but has caused my rsync backup to zfs script to complain about being unable to delete files in the .zfs directory (which is in the backup but not in [...]
Does anyone use fstrim on an XFS formatted SSD partition? I’ve got two systems with XFS root partitions that fstrim seems to do (almost) nothing on, but it seems to work correctly on another system with formatted with ext4.
This has been a minor annoyance for the last few months, and I've finally figured out how to fix it: Sometime within the last few months, an upgrade prevented Chromium from finding its application icon…with the result that when minimised (or displayed in the panel window list or Alt-Tab) it used the default application icon. [...]