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Thursday, March 27. 2008

Disconnected Posted by Filip Van Raemdonck in life at 18:20

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Disconnected

Last week has been a stressful one, for reasons I'll come back on later.
This week had started better, but since yesterday my Internet connection stopped working[1] (for the same reasons). It isn't when until such thing happens that you realize how dependent you've really become on it, even for simple matters as looking up contact information.

[1] So this and the previous post were written from my with my parents-in-law.

Wednesday, March 26. 2008

Lilo LVM fixed root Posted by Filip Van Raemdonck in software at 19:10

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Lilo LVM fixed root

One annoyance with the lilo bootloader that I've ran into a few times recently, is that it apparently turns any root configuration arguments into a device number. Which is then passed to the kernel at boot.
So if the kernel decides to assign a different device number to the supposed root device, your system may no longer boot.

Yesterday I once again ran into this: when I added an additional disk to a system, the LVM volumes which were on that new disk got assigned device numbers before the existing system LVM volumes.
Giving the problem a little thought, I realized that the solution — though silly — is really simple: add an “append="root=/dev/yournode"” directive to lilo.conf, and this boot-time argument will always override the root device set by lilo.

No more changing root devices for me…

Tuesday, March 18. 2008

Clueless Posted by Filip Van Raemdonck in weird at 07:36

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Clueless

I'm a bit puzzled why feedburner would be listing a blog search for Sylvia Saint as a reader of my feed earlier this week. Especially as I can't readily find my blog or feed in the search results.
(I guess this post could start bringing in search results)

Apparently she is a porn star (Wikipedia), and a prototype one at that: blonde and busty.

Ah, the things one can learn through reviewing website statistics...

Sunday, March 16. 2008

Blog migration Posted by Filip Van Raemdonck in Web at 19:39

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Blog migration

For a while now I had been planning to move this blog a different server and URL; a URL that I would have full control over instead of the user directory it was deployed in.

I also had been longing for a different blog platform some time. While the primary reason for choosing Blosxom.PHP, that it did not depend on a database server, still held, I also had gotten tired of having to dig into it's code (usually in several places) for things that in my opinion should not require having to make changes all over the place.

So when the ageing server that held the old blog had temporary IO problems last weekend, I considered the time ready for making the move. Continue reading "Blog migration"

Wednesday, March 12. 2008

Solve problems, not symptoms Posted by Filip Van Raemdonck in health at 21:35

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Solve problems, not symptoms

Today I read in an online news source that the Royal National Institute for Deaf People is advising people to wear earplugs in clubs and asking for more stylish earplugs to be designed so young people would want to wear them.

This looks like a backwards way of dealing with the problem; why not campain to have the clubs' (and pubs, and concerts) sound level reduced so people don't have to wear earplugs? When gardening, you also try to eradicate the weeds' roots...

Wednesday, March 12. 2008

Debian firewire support Posted by Filip Van Raemdonck in Debian at 07:07

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Debian firewire support

Christian, you forgot to mention the Linux kernel, where a member of the kernel team deliberately broke hardware support.
Thanks to Holger for these links, he has listed several more. I disagree with the suggestion that shipping the old firewire stack in the linux-extra-modules package is sufficient workaround; unless this is not prohibiting it from being included in the installer to support ethernet over firewire? (though in such case it will certainly have implications due to the fact that this package should be pulled in when the installer used eth1394)

So Adrian, you too may want to reconsider if Debian really does have less compatibility regressions than other distributions.

Thursday, March 6. 2008

Bye bike... Posted by Filip Van Raemdonck in life at 23:43

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Bye bike...

Or, as it's said, history repeats itself. Today I sold my motorcycle (wait for the “blade” photograph to pass by).
Again it wasn't really old, just 4 years; but it too had over 54000 kilometres; time again to release it.

I didn't quite get the money of it that I wished for, but then again, for a bike with that mileage you can't really be picky about what people pay for it. And in hindsight the fireblade seems to have been a bad choice; there's a lot of them on sale at least over here right now.
Note to self: try to get a less popular bike next time, it pays off when trying to sell it.

Actually I've already made the choice for a new bike (though I do not know if my choice follows the rule I just laid out). But it's been a hard choice; which is a story in itself. And that story is for another time.

Again, I must say it feels strange. While this wasn't the first bike I sold off, I feel a little melancholious about it. I guess that's just part of selling any bike. Assuming you've build a bond with the machine. But then again, any real motor rider would build such bond. IMHO.
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Thomas Koch about I'm junior now
Sun, 06.04.2008 16:59 CEST
You're right, that not only so me, but many questions in the LPI are not up to date and tha t you probably don't use [...]


Filip Van Raemdonck about Lilo LVM fixed root
Fri, 04.04.2008 13:14 CEST
Sure, it does it's job fine (m ost of the time :). And it's straightforward. Why not us e it?


Matthew W. S. Bell about Lilo LVM fixed root
Thu, 27.03.2008 19:53 CET
You still use LILO?!


Anonymous Coward about Lilo LVM fixed root
Thu, 27.03.2008 00:51 CET
Can't you use UUID-naming?


Filip about Clueless
Tue, 18.03.2008 21:45 CET
If it were the old blog, it /m ight/ have been from some comm ent spam. Then again, I cou ldn't find any reference [...]


Filip about Clueless
Tue, 18.03.2008 21:34 CET
That's highly dependent on you r age. I do know who Racquel Darrian is...


Paul Bonser about Clueless
Tue, 18.03.2008 18:16 CET
In my logs I was interested to find that searching for "ladi es pro wrestling" (6 hits from this one) and "jello wr [...]


joe about Clueless
Tue, 18.03.2008 12:12 CET
You dont have to pretend not k nowing sylvia saint, its gener al education! :-)


nona about Solve problems, not symptoms
Thu, 13.03.2008 16:25 CET
Do both. Trying to regulate /eradicate all sound pollution is just not going to work wel l enough. You just need [...]


Ted about Solve problems, not symptoms
Thu, 13.03.2008 14:12 CET
Last time I went out to a live gig I wore earplugs for the f irst time, and enjoyed the mus ic much more because I c [...]