Balance Through Extremism » Redhat perl. What a tragedy.
Balance Through Extremism » Redhat perl. What a tragedy..
Wow, I wonder if any of our server have been bitten by this nasty Perl bug. It’s hard to believe that RedHat has taken so long to provide a fix for this problem.
Grooveshark — Listen to Free Music
Grooveshark — Listen to Free Music.
Just found this website tonight for playing music online for free. It’s a community based service where you can have friends to share music with. It’s kind of like Last.fm and Pandora, but with a much nicer interface. It seems to load very quickly and the music seems like decent quality.
New Gentoo Home Page Coming Soon?
I saw a posting today on one of the Gentoo listservs about the recent lack of newsletters and website updates. Unfortunately, the lack of updates isn’t unusual, but I did pickup an interesting bit of information.
It looks like there is a new index page coming soon to the Gentoo website. It looks like it’s just a matter of when it gets committed. The new page appears to provide automated news updates with information such as:
- Latest GLSA’s
- compilation of dev blog posts from p.g.o
- latest package additions
The look of the page is pretty much the same as the old page.
Combine your partition space with mhddfs.
As I was browsing the Gentoo forums today, I came across a very interesting post.
A user had 2 partitions on different hard drives that he wanted to combine the space on. Ok, well the interesting part was one persons reply about a new fuse filesystem called mhddfs. He pointed out an article on debian.net that explained a bit about this new filesystem and how to use it.
Sure, there’s multiple ways to combine the two drives, but this one is pretty intesting. You can use mhddfs to combine 2 partitions into one virtual partition. Mhddfs will automatically merge (overlay) the contents of both partitions so it looks like one big partition.
The advantages are:
- No need to move and backup existing data on the partitions.
- Easily implemented in fuse.
- Allows a regular user to mount and unmount the filesystem.
According to the forum thread poster, his tests show there is virtually no speed difference when using mhddfs, which is very surprising. My experience with using fuse in the past with NTFS, was that it was painfully slow. I’m sure things have matured greatly since I tried it a few years ago.
Conky now supports MOC player
So, I found myself tweaking my Conky rc file today. I’ve been using mocp for playing music becuase it’s a really lightweight, versatile and can run detached from the console. I really wanted to see my currently playing music info on my desktop in Conky, but Conky’s documentation shows no mention of any support for moc and thier are no mention of variables to use for the config.
So, in doing some googling, I found a website that has a patch for moc support and also mentions that it’s been in Conky since September 28th! I guess they haven’t updated the documentation yet.
Here’s a list of the new variables you can use in your conkyrc file to add moc support.
- $moc_state: Current state of MOC; playing, stopped etc.
- $moc_file: File name of the current MOC song.
- $moc_title: Title of the current MOC song.
- $moc_artist: Artist of the current MOC song.
- $moc_song: The current song name being played in MOC.
- $moc_album: Album of the current MOC song.
- $moc_totaltime: Total length of the current MOC song.
- $moc_timeleft: Time left in the current MOC song
- $moc_curtime: Current time of the current MOC song.
- $moc_bitrate: Bitrate in the current MOC song.
- $moc_rate: Rate of the current MOC song.
Think You’ve Seen Amazing Gaming Chairs? You Haven’t. [PICS]
Wow! I have to have one of these chairs!
Perhaps the most amazing gaming throne you will ever see.
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Linux 2.6.28’s five best features
Nice little summary of great features of the 2.6.28 kernel. I have to agree. I just installed the 2.6.28 kernel as part of my new Funtoo install a few days ago, and I haven’t run into any problems yet. I’m about to give ext4 a try. Hopefully all goes well.
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This Christmas Linux kernel release brings several great new features to Linux, and its improvements promise even more Linux desktop goodness in the future.[/excerpt]
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Huge List of Tips and Tricks
I can’t believe I never saw this before. Sourceforge has an absolutely HUGE list of tips and tricks. There’s hundreds of Linux tips and lots of programming tips as well.
Funtoo Articles
This is really old news, but it’s new news to me because I just noticed this.
Daniel Robbins Funtoo site now has some articles on it that he recently created. Right now, he has posted some of the articles that we’ve previously seen on the IBM Developer Works website, but there’s also now a quide for installing Funtoo.
Using CPAN Unattended
CPAN is great for easily installing and updating Perl modules. I use it all of the time on my servers. It’s a lot easier than managing Perl modules through the systems package manager. The problem is, when you want to install or update a Perl module, it asks you if you want to follow and install all of the dependencies and the dependencies for that… and so on. Sometimes you want to be anal and make sure it doesn’t install any extra crap, but quite often, it would be nice to just have it install what it needs automatically, so you can walk away and do other things while it’s installing.
I found this nice little blog post that shows you how to have CPAN automatically install all of the dependencies without prompting you.