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jaimef's Blog or place to complain about everything.
2009-02-14
- Helping test for regressions in NetBSD current
- Went to Developer-Day here in Austin.
- Checking out Jruby for those places where ruby binaries lack.
- Learned about Clojure and am impressed with it so far as I try to pick it up.
- Some work on ZFS on NetBSD to help stabilize it on current.
- Hmm 1 week vacation down on the Texas beach first week of March.
2009-12-24
- Almost xmas!
- A commercial on Time Warner Cable said we would be losing Fox on Jan 1st.
- Seems our internet access to the website advertised is blocked by TWC.
- http://keepfoxon.com seems accessible from my remote systems but not from
- My business class Roadrunner that I pay 150$/month for.
- From TWC connection at home
nc -w 3 -vz keepfoxon.com 80
Warning: inverse host lookup failed for 209.249.222.18: Unknown host
keepfoxon.com [209.249.222.18] 80 (http) : Connection timed out
nc -w 3 -vz keepfoxon.com 80
Warning: inverse host lookup failed for 209.249.222.18: Unknown host
keepfoxon.com [209.249.222.18] 80 (http) open
- Time to find a new provider...
2009-11-14
- Did some Sysbench runs over OpenSolaris,Linux,Net/Open/Free on MySQL
- Results here
2009-10-26
- More benchmarks. This time for Ruby 1.9 on an 8 core system.
- Available here
2009-09-21
- Spent most the weekend hammering out updates to kunabi
- The purpose being a capture program for NetBSD netstat -s, vmstat -s, and
- provide looping, storing, plotting all in one interface.
- Using it to capture important metrics during the rubyBench
- Into an sqlite db and make it easier to chart them, as well as capture for specific durations.
- Still a work in progress.
2009-09-02
- Working on Ruby Benchmarks available at rubyBench
- Results were sort of interesting.
2009-08-29
- Got a picture with Matz at the Lone Star Ruby Conference.
- He signed my laptop and shirt.
- Had dinner as well the day before
2009-08-28
2009-08-15
- Been a while since I posted.
- Taken up getting in shape, the whole gym/diet thing with the wife.
- Will be 38 next week. Eek.
- Secret to get netbsd to netboot on sparc20 is to use 'boot net-tpe' otherwise timeouts ensue.
2009-03-15
After a weekend of work have compiz working on my new Sony Vaio
- Update /etc/mk.conf to contain: PKG_OPTIONS.modular-xorg-server+=dri
- Update pkgsrc/x11/xf86-video-intel to change x11/modular-xorg-server to wip/modular-xorg-server (assuming you have wip checked out in pkgsrc/)
- make install in x11/xf86-video-intel
- make install in meta-pkgs/modular-xorg- apps,fonts,libs
- make install in graphics/glx-utils
- make install in meta-pkgs/compiz-fusion
- Build kernel with drm. (e.g. cd src/sys/i386/conf && grep drm ALL >> GENERIC && config GENERIC && cd ../compile/GENERIC && make depend && make && mv netbsd / && reboot)
- Running Gnome/KDE I would run the following command
- Cut here -----------------------------------------------
- LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 INTEL_BATCH=1 compiz --replace ccp &
- gtk-window-decorator &
- Cut here -----------------------------------------------
- Could not locate a kde-window-decoration so just used gtk-window-decorator
- In Gnome there is a compiz control panel to adjust the options.
2009-03-10
- Added support to evilwm to be able to cycle endlessly through virtual spaces in either direction.
- http://mauthesis.com/evilwm.diff
- Acquired a SGI O2 10k, a 12K and a Octane all working.
2009-03-02
- Added tests to a dual AMD 2.1GHZ 1GB system.
- Setup same pdf but advanced 10 pages at a time inside xpdf.
- Ran a CVS co out from /usr/rsync which is a mirror of netbsd anoncvs server.
- Running the test on an idle system, and then again with a cvs co src running.
is the results
- Will be posting total wall clock time on future runs.
- Establish a base line on 5.X line and perhaps current.
- Data sets: http://mauthesis.com/raw_cvs http://mauthesis.com/median_cvs
2009-03-02
- Been testing vncplay at http://suif.stanford.edu/vncplay/freenix05-html/
- Testing interactive performance on NetBSD during compile builds
- Using a large Python Programming pdf and xpdf the test just goes through 100 pages.
- Test run with and without a single kernel compile.
- More charts to follow on current/previous releases.
2009-02-13
- Working on netbsd releng now.
- Got flash finally working on every site I can find under netbsd.
- The secret is installing wine from pkgsrc then installing the win32 version of firefox from firefox.com
- Then proceed to install flash for windows. "wine install_flash_player.exe" restart firefox and poof.
- Sound and all with no crashes.
2009-01-31
- Back onto NetBSD. Got the neXTstation booting current.
2009-01-11
- Trying to migrate the last of my home servers to the panix account.
- Great setup so far. I would recommend panix to other netbsd users.
- Trying to unslack on netbsd.
2008-12-31
- Last day of the year.
- Moving to virtual hosting at panix.com.
- Get to keep my OS of choice and it's inexpensive.
2008-12-08
- Got bitlbee working with Google Talk.
- The key on NetBSD/pkgsrc is to change openssl to gnutls in both cases it appears in the chat/bitlbee/Makefile.
2008-12-07
- Been working on getting nmap working on NetBSD 5.
- Seems the SIOGCIFCONF is broken and need to convert nmap to use getifaddrs instead.
- WAPBL fun causing laptop to not be bootable despite many fscks and tunefs -l0 /
- Time to make a kernel that is WAPBL free.
- fsck only cleared it when booting off other media. boot -s then fsck did not do it with a ro /
2008-12-03
- Finally got a backtrace on the emacs crashes here
2008-12-02
- Picked up a massive HP 9000 D class system. info here
2008-11-27
- Key to stable emacs-current and multi-tty is to not use gtk.
- Way too many crashes and endless error loops in glib. On athena all works great.
- Much more stable.
2008-11-26
- Get ready to travel to east texas for Thanksgiving.
- Watching the movie "Tank" from 1984. Wow is that really Shirly Jones?
- Working on getting Zaurus documentation up to speed for install. 5.0 release coming soon.
- Finally getting over this cold I think. Seems to be just allergies now.
2008-10-02
- Sick as a dog. Trying to get over this damn bug. Not too productive.
- Taking a poke at getting zaudio working on Zaurus.
- Need to find some time to work on releng for 5.x
- Have emacs doing my web browsing with w3m, and email finally working with mh-e and pgp.
2008-09-30
- Too much work with deadlines.
- Taking a poke at Lua seems pretty simular in syntax
2008-09-20
- Xen went boomboom
- How to explain the complete frustration with trying to get the latest source on dragonflybsd without having to first cvsup their WHOLE repository...
- On top of that it's SLOW checking out.
2008-09-18
- Took today off to sleep.
- Working on testing Hammer FS on Dragonfly.
- Default GENERIC has no MP support.
- Build it with MP support and it hangs on boot.
- So sticking to UP as I only care about the Hammer testing.
- Typoed and ran 'man /usr/bin/time' and got a interesting this
- Untar of pkgsrc.tar.gz on hammer resource times
2008-09-17
- Nother BSDMeet. Always fun.
- Key to getting sxemacs to configure on NetBSD is
- mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.orig && cp /usr/pkg/bin/bash /bin/sh # When will linux coders realize bash != sh
- ./configure --prefix=/usr/pkg --libdir=/usr/pkg/lib --includedir=/usr/pkg/include --x-includes=/usr/pkg/include --x-libraries=/usr/pkg/lib
- mv /bin/sh.orig /bin/sh
- Now to see if it builds.
- With some patching to remove assumed linuxisms it builds.
- Guess the work is under the covers.
2008-09-16
2008-09-04
- I get to join releng!
- Get to help do the nightly builds and do pull up requests.
2008-09-03
- A lot of Ruby...
- Really tired of the memory growth and lack of native threads.
- Taking a stab at python.
- Really like coding in Ruby but just too slow on my meager hardware.
- And for the love of god. SOAP in RUBY != Rails...
2008-09-01
- Impressed by the ultra 5.
- Plays mp3s well even during large compiles with no skips.
- Built-in speaker works well.
- If power consumption is not too bad I might have to investigate another ultra 10.
- Sun stuff always has that "unix" feel, and less of a perversion than running on a Mac g4.
2008-08-31
- A lot of WOW.
- Setup my ultra 5 as my primary work station. Key to good resolution is to make sure the horiz/vert freqs are in your XF86Config.
- Now to build my primary packages on my x1.
- Miss using a sparc keyboard.
2008-08-27
- Too much Ruby unittesting.. Deadlines at work.
2008-08-25
- Two much wow this weekend.
2008-08-21
- The big 37...
- 40 is going to suck. it's all down hill from here.
2008-08-205C
- tftpd from xen domU not so much fun
- Working on getting some machines up and tested with latest -current.
- Need to work on zboot. So afraid to actually use the zaurus as I might drop it...5C
- Seems http://bsdnews.org is up now, but seems to be ripping off articles from other folks blog.
- Finally have the iwn(4) man page commited. Waiting for flack^Wfeedback.
2008-08-19
- Seems over the years I remember mathesis as mauthesis... too bad. A nice non-word is always good when
getting a domain.
- Time-Warner business class FINALLY got around to changing the PTR records... Man they don't even try.
- Now let's get ipv6 going and resurrect the OpenAFS porting effort.
- The key to Sexy Fonts in NetBSD X is this
- Playing with opensolaris to measure their ufs journaling write speeds. quite impressive.
2008-08-18
- World of Warcraft is the killer of time...
2008-08-17
- Working on porting zboot from openbsd to netbsd. So far I just load my own kernel from the linux rc.zboot script.
- Would have saved me time had I read the boot(8) from openbsd first. :P
2008-08-14
- Time to brush up on math. finally returning to the college and calculus 1 is required...
- Made a patch to evilwm 1.0.0 to fix a couple of issues I could not stand.
- Removed the mouse jumping to the corner on alt-tab.
- Added short cuts for emacs/xlock/firefox ^+alt+ (e)macs/(del)xlock/(f)irefox
- Made the kill key alt+q vs ctrl+alt+esc
- Patch here http://www.mauthesis.com/evilwm.diff
2008-08-12
- Finally got up a new domain to free up linbsd for use on something more apropos.
- Went to the local Austin BSD meet up. Very good group.
2008-08-10
- Testing out the yaws server yet again. See if I get OTP/Erlang down this time.
