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June 2nd, 2011
A new awesome function in OpenBSD-current breaks software that is written
on 32 bit operating systems. In a mail by Marc Espie to the
OpenBSD
misc@ mailing list he says:
Not surprisingly, a lot of software that claims to be 64 bits-ready isn't.
This touches all web navigators, most jit engines, and probably lots more
of software (our ports tree version of gnu-grep, for instance).
He goes on to say:
So, a lot of developers are hard at work figuring the problems, getting the
word upstream.
So further in the thread Theo de Raadt dug up some
stuff that
Linux is using particularly a flag in mmap that forces
64 bit kernels to only allocate in the low 32 bits for its programs
, like Theo said this is sickening.
Later I
wrote asking what the OpenBSD community would do if the browsers can't
be fixed in time for the 5.0 release. Because that's what it comes down
to for me. When I boot my OpenBSD/amd64 vm instance "dione" I log into
X and open usually 1 or 2 xterms and firefox. I do most of my surfing
on OpenBSD and only when I need flash do I change to another operating
system such as Windows 7. This habit may be in danger here, if the
firefox mozilla team can't fix their software in time for the 5.0 release.
I have some experience with getting programs fixed "upstream" and not always
is there willingness to fix what is wrong out of whatever reason.
So for me, this means relax and sit back and wait. Its unlikely OpenBSD
can bundle a browser with their software in time for 5.0 and we may have to
go without one in the amd64 platform. Or perhaps the fixes for mozilla are
trivial and I'm worried over nothing. But this makes a good writeup for my
blog :-).
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May 27th, 2011
I did what I noticed some major newspapers (globeandmail.com) have done.
Every 30 seconds or so a javascript program refreshes the blue eye on the
bottom right corner. This is to show me that someone who is looking at
my blog is "alive" or human. This may seem invasive but I'm interested
in how long a human looks at my blog, but I'm unsure how to read the logs
for that yet. At least I'm collecting the data. Sorry if it creeps you
out.
Ich habe getan was meinche online zeitungen tun (globeandmail.com). Jede
30 sekunden erfrischt ein Javascript programm das blaue auge das unten
rechts ist. Dies zeigt mir ob jemand die meinen blog lesen am leben oder
menschen sind. Vielleicht ist dies als privatssphaere invasion angenommen,
aber ich bin interessiert in wie lange ein mensch meinen blog liest, ich
weiss nicht wie ich die logs dazu lesen soll. Auf jeden fall sammle ich
die daten. Schuldigung wenns dich stoert.
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May 27th, 2011
I'm back working. The welfare office gave me work to do. Had I refused it
they would have sanctioned my welfare. This sorta makes me mad. But what
gets me right mad is that the work is for 1.50 euros an hour. Is there any
honour left in this system? I feel deeply disappointed.
Ich arbeite wieder. Der Jobcenter hat mir arbeit vermittelt. Wenn ich es
nicht genommen haette wuerde mein geld gekuerzt. Das macht mich ein bisschen
aergerlich. Aber was mich richtig aergert ist das diese arbeit fuer
1.50 Euro die stunde ist. Gibt es noch so was wie "Ehre" in diesem System?
Ich fuehle mich sehr entaeuscht gegenueber dem System.
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May 21st, 2011
When I grew up in Stratford, Ontario I became infatuated with Hip Hop. I
dressed like I thought a rapper would dress and my friends all listened to
Hip Hop as well. We were a small group called "the rappers". It was
isolating but we couldn't hold back our faith. I longed for more. I
needed to move to the big city to live Hip Hop. *chuckle* So in 1994
me and a friend moved to Toronto to take part in the Hip Hop scene there.
We visited clubs and bars to see acts that came through the city and then
there was Saturday's. From 1PM to 4PM we listened to the Powermove show on
CKLN 88.1FM. This spot was perfect and a time to chill on a saturday afternoon.
I have fond memories of listening to MC battles conducted over telephone
call-ins. One particular still stands out in my mind when one person won a
battle when he rapped about his bike with a banana seat. I loved those
times then.
On February 12th, 2011 CKLN 88.1FM had a tribute to all the shows that
played on the 1-4PM timeslot. This was a historic show and many blogs
and media outlets picked up on it, here is some:
I also listened to this show and even taped it. You can check it out
here.
Today 88.1FM doesn't exist anymore, only as an online radio station at
ckln.fm and for some reason the 1-4 spot has
no more mixtape massacre. This is too bad, and people in Toronto who
listened to 88.1FM have lost a great pillar that upheld hip-hop in TO.
Well that's all I wanted to blog about today.
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May 20th, 2011
At work I found a bug in dspam which caused the daemon to be killed on
a SIGFPE. Here is
the link.
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May 19th, 2011
Sorta too bad the show is over now...
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May 14th, 2011
I've changed the blog. Manouvering to individual articles should be easier
now and an article can be entered completely making google caching easier
probably. We'll see. Also changed is that you can now read the blog by
click next or previous at the top or bottom. You can also find articles
quicker I believe. This article is also a test.
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May 8th, 2011
I've ordered two books on PHP from amazon.de. Should be wicked!
Ich habe zwei Buecher ueber PHP von amazon.de bestellt. Sollte toll sein!
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April 30th, 2011
One of the features I waited for in OpenBSD 4.9 was Wake-On-LAN. This
allows a program on OpenBSD 4.9 to boot another computer simply by running
arp -W MACADDRESS Interface. I could have done the wake on LAN feature with
codeblue but with OpenBSD 4.9 I didn't have to use it. So I have it booting
Uranus (with the heart of Saturn) every morning at 9AM. It'll serve as an
alarm clock too.
Why is it called uranus with the heart of saturn? Because it should really
be called saturn but I'm afraid that vmware workstation will cease to work
when I change the hostname in linux.
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April 29th, 2011
Well I could have waited 2 days for packages to be available but I couldn't
wait. I installed OpenBSD 4.9, which I got in the mail yesterday from pre-
orders and installed it on cupid.centroid.eu (IPv6). Then I built packages
for uranus, it didn't take long and I was ready to binary upgrade uranus.
Everything went well except mailman had a problem which was solved by editing
the FLAVOR section of mailmans makefile. Most ports upgraded very well and
easy with a mere; cd /var/db/pkg; pkg_add -u *. Anyhow here is the uname
for uranus:
$ uname -a
OpenBSD uranus.centroid.eu 4.9 GENERIC.MP#794 i386
I'm excited that I have 4.9 running in production 2 days before everyone else
can download it. Pre-orders rock! Get your CD!
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