Life

We’re finally making some progress with apache-2.2. It left the package.mask on the 8th of May (that’s like 3 weeks from tomorrow), we split some helper scripts into a separate package (app-admin/apache-tools). I already fixed a few screwup I did myself (like apxs missing from either apache and apache-tools, or the compatibility symlinks being missing), so we “just” need to fix all the modules in the tree before apache-2.2 is going to get the new stable version (and of course anything else depending on. What also remains to do, is committing the new-style virtuals for bug 11007. ...

Well, I haven’t blogged in ages (like about a month). To answer some of the questions I got either via mail or on IRC … yes, I’m still alive; you ain’t gonna get away that easy 😛 yes, I finally managed to buy my shiny new car new car I’m still working on apache, virtualization, mobile, kernel, hardened … Though I may haven’t been that active recently (I don’t look at CIA or do I count my own commits), I think I managed to close some apache bugs and some of my own. I’m still looking for someone interested in working on the ipw3945 related packages, as I’m kinda sick of that buggish thing. ...

Interesting title … 🤷 I’m sitting back home, in my bed, while I’m supposed to be at work. I’m now a certified sicko due to a common cold. Watching the toaster series once again (that’s Battlestar Galactica) and trying to think about some things. Heh, well thinking isn’t the right term; it’s more like meditate over stuff happening in the last few months. Guess this stupid cold is dictating my weekend 😠 and hopefully I’m gonna be better on Monday. Have fun.

OK, so I skipped rebuilding a newer RPM version (for now) and I’m currently rebuilding anything that fit’s into app-dev according to IBM … The list reads like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 $ ls -al ~/app-dev autoconf-2.59-1.aix5.1.noarch.rpm automake-1.8.5-1.aix5.1.noarch.rpm binutils-2.14-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm bison-1.875-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm coreutils-5.2.1-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm cpio-2.5-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm diffutils-2.8.1-1.aix4.3.ppc.rpm flex-2.5.4a-6.aix4.3.ppc.rpm gawk-3.1.3-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm gcc-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm gcc-cplusplus-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm gdb-6.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libgcc-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libstdcplusplus-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libstdcplusplus-devel-4.0.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libtool-1.5.8-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm m4-1.4.1-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm make-3.80-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm OK, I’m not exactly rebuilding these old versions, I’m actually using their old specs to compile newer versions of these. I’m currently at coreutils-6.7, which really takes ages. But will see about the rest. ...

The last few days in Brussels really made me think about learing some french again. There were times, I/we was/were completely lost, and I really hate being lost … So I’m going to look into learning french again. Will see if the local academy has something scheduled in their upcoming program. I really hope so, as I think french is something I could use. Also I’m thinking about taking dance-lessons (yeah, yeah I know - I suck 😛 ), as I’d really like to dance … mmmmmh

As I’m way better writing stuff than saying it with my own words, here a short " Thank you! " Christel, you have been a gracious and honest person, thanks for all the advice and help in the last year Chrissy, thanks for the inspiring words, you really made/make me feel better Alec (antarus), you’ve been a real friend and to say it with your own words “It sucks to be you”; to phrase it differently, I’m really going to miss you Bryan, thanks for all the help, thanks for all the fun at FOSDEM (and after FOSDEM, hah) Ned, Alexander (pappy); you’ve both been an inspiration, thanks for letting me work on hardened foo; it has been real fun Mike (vapier), thanks for being a smart ass and inspiration at the same time Chris, thanks for the inspiration and for being a sarcastic person 😉 Andrew, thanks for trying to make a fun out of me 😛 and thanks for warning me of Chris’s sarcasm

As some of you know, I had some company the last few weeks by two amiable girls from Belgium. We did some hanging out, went out a couple of times and basically had a great time. One thing I didn’t thought was possible, is them getting close to me (as in “I’d really like them to stay some time”) and as I gave them a ride to the train station yesterday, I really had my problems. Out of the sudden I had a feeling not to let them go, or is it the feeling to let friends (and I’m talking about real friends) slip by, without even knowing them for more than 3 weeks. ...

Some of us attended this years FOSDEM in Brussels (thanks to Dimitry it was really, really great). We (at least the ones attending) got to know each other a bit better (I even got to know some pre Gentoo devs .. yeah, you), and some time after FOSDEM (I think it was ~3 days afterwards), Petteri (betelgeuse) asked me why people all of the sudden start to call him with his first name on IRC. ...

OK, today we had somewhat of an emergency. The core-router for our entire network at work had some kind of hardware defect and repeatedly rebooted every three minutes caused the whole network to go cabooom. Usually (you would think), stuff in the same subnet (or VLAN) would still see each other (again, you would think) .. but apparently the VLAN/subnet database is stored on the core router and took all subnets with it. ...

OK, so today was the highlight of the week … We updated apache2 on Tuesday (yeah, that’s still 2.0.49, so if you have some exploits - try them 😛 ) and now out of the sudden we have major performance issues. We looked nearly the whole forenoon for a reason, why the frackin’ apache was using 236% of the CPU’s. In the afternoon, when my co-worker decided to go home (that was ~1500), I decided to revert back to the old patch level. But that isn’t as easy as you think (at least on SLES). The only thing I wanted to do, was something like this: ...