I answered the question of what laptop to get by buying an Apple MacBook. I got the simplest (and cheapest) model. I put 2 GB of RAM that I bought from Fry’s. One reason is that I could pick it up from an Apple Store. Another is that I liked the flexibility of the choosing […]
I have been thinking about getting a laptop. Seeing all the laptops at OSCON made me want to get one now. The problem is, I am not sure which one to get. I want to get a small, light one. I have never gotten the point of the big laptops; the point is to carry […]
This year, I only went to the sessions for OSCON. This is the sessions on Wednesday. ### [Big Bad PostgreSQL: A Case Study](http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/view/e_sess/8379), [Theo Schlossnagle](http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/view/e_spkr/1788) This talk was about migrating some data warehouse systems from Oracle to PostgreSQL and the issues they ran into. Some of the issues were ones we had run into at […]
I foolishly had left trackbacks on by default on this blog. I just noticed that some of the articles had hundreds of trackbacks on them. I doubt this blog is that popular. I think I would have noticed if I got on slashdot. They all looked like link spam. Unfortunately, Typo does not have any […]
Over the weekend, I got the [SVK](http://svk.elixus.org/) version control system included in [Fedora Extras](http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras). It is in the perl-SVK package. I also packaged up a bunch of its required Perl modules. I actually used svk for the spec files for the packages. It was very handy for synchronizing and merging changes between home and work […]
If you already have Linux installed, it is possible to boot the Fedora installer to do installs or upgrades without a boot CD. In the [images/pxeboot](http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/images/pxeboot) directory of the [distribution repository](http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/), there is vmlinuz kernel and initrd.img ramdisk image. Download those and put them in /boot. Then edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add the following entry: title […]
Yesterday, I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. A coworker’s, Mike, birthday was yesterday and to celebrate, we went skydiving. It was Mike, me, two other coworkers, Aaron and Michael, and a friend of Mike’s. Aaron’s wife and later another coworker came to watch. We went to [Skydive Oregon](http://www.skydiveoregon.com) in Molalla, which is thirty […]
I already have a mirror of [Fedora Core](http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/) current release and updates to make updates and installing packages faster. I have been doing more development recently which means installing Extras and Rawhide package. I wanted to have a mirror of those but didn’t want to have a complete mirror and do the large rsync updates […]