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debugsources.list: No such file or directory

Technology

I was getting "debugsources.list: No such file or directory" errors. Turns out I was moving the BUILD dir to the BUILDROOT. Copy, don't move. Once I changed mv to cp in %install it all worked.
-Paul

Upgraded all 4 accounts

Games

Upgrading four copies of WoW for Wrath of the litch king is a pain in the dick.
-Paul

error: Unable to open temp file.

Technology

Got this error while a script was building an RPM:

RPM build errors:
Unable to open temp file.
error: Unable to open temp file.

Turns out the permissions of /var/tmp were wrong. I did a 'chmod 777 /var/tmp' and 'chmod +t /var/tmp' to fix it. You can check what rpm's tmp dir is by running 'rpm --eval %_tmppath'.
-Paul

Reasons I Dislike MSSQL

Technology

1) No MD5/SHA224-512
2) No indexing of varchars
3) It's slooooow to access via freetds+pymssql

It's Under 9000!

Politics & Religion

Great Dr.Who Quote

General

Seer: You must have been born under a particularly favorable conjunction of celestial circumstances
Dr: I was
Seer: What sign where you born under?
Dr: Crossed computers
Seer: Crossed what?
Dr: computers
Dr: It's a symbol of the maternity service on Gallifray

DefCon 16

Technology

Most of the talks were boring. I did enjoy Ian Clark's presentation on predicting people's behavior. :(

LulzLunch Downtime

GpMidi.net

Lulzlunch.com had a bit of downtime earlier due to a temporary disk failure. I'm not sure if this is a sign that one of the disks is about to completely fail. I'm really wishing I had a real hardware raid card in it to protect it from single disk failures. Software raid is fast but won't save you if /boot is on the failing partition.
-Paul

LulzLunch.Com Gets Links To Threads

GpMidi.net

I've added a new feature to LulzLunch.Com that should let it link to threads. Since most of the images are without threads it make take some time before they most images have a thread. I am not sure yet whether or not it is working right. I don't feel like fully testing it now.
-Paul

4chan For Dummies

Spooge

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