June 24, 2004
Windows Sux
Again, I have to go to Sacramento. Apparently the only thing we didn't swap, the hard drive, has something majorly corrupted or something. He's going to do a backup, and we are simply going to swap the entire damn box.
Gaaah!
Posted by ljl at 11:32 PM | Comments (1)
June 20, 2004
No, You Can't Print
Why in the hell is it that all of the latest Linux printing tools are friggin' HUGE. Cups is huge, foomatic is huge, and wants Perl, which is even bigger. Even simple LPRng is a massive piece of crap that won't leave out all of the kerberos crap if you are compiling it on a system that has it!!
I'm doing this for an embedded Thin Client, folks! That means small code, minimal libraries, and no friggin bloat! It has to be compiled on a seperate development system, but the stupid config and Makefile checks to see what the system it's compiled on has, and expands to that capacity. Even the options won't let you whack cruft.
BTW, pivot root with NFS never did work quite right, so we shelved it.
Posted by ljl at 12:38 PM | Comments (0)
June 14, 2004
Mail Down
What is it with hosting providers? I've been trying to log in to my https webmail for the last hour, and it's down - just does the stupid loading go round thing in the tab. I almost have all of my sites moved over - I hope these guys don't go craptacious on me too.
Posted by ljl at 07:08 PM | Comments (0)
June 12, 2004
Tech Support
Murphy's Law. Whenever you plan on a purely vegetative weekend to get over the sinus attack that has been plagueing you for the past week, you have to go out of town on a tech support run. This week, it's Sacramento, to do a videocard-ectomy and transplant on my roomie's brother's computer. *sigh* And I couldn't afford the $1400 it would take to get my air conditioning working again on my Jeep. Argh!!
I've got to get going soon, and I'm gonna melt.
Posted by ljl at 11:27 AM | Comments (0)
June 11, 2004
I Hate Sh!t That Doesn't Work
Grrr. Ther is a routine that is part of network booting Linux called "pivot_root", that gets called in the "linuxrc" script (nash) in the initrd file. It is supposed to swap your root filesystem to the one that you will run on, rather that the one you booted from. Even using the instructions and examples in the 2.6.5 kernel Documentation, it doesn't friggin work!
It's bad enough that a lot of the older tools won't compile in things usefull with a 2.6 kernel because it's "too new". But this is annoyance making.
At least I'm getting paid, but my boss is starting to get impatient.
Posted by ljl at 05:53 PM | Comments (0)
June 10, 2004
Revived Blistering Blog
My hosting provider terminally fucked up my blogs with a supposed "upgrade". I now have a new provider, but my databases were so screwed up that I have to start over!
Since there were very few entries in my old blog (only 28), I am simply going to link to the archived entries here: Previous Incarnation of the Blistering Blog
Posted by ljl at 09:40 PM | Comments (0)