GPMidi.net blogs

No MP3...Oh Wait! I Have The LP!

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:43:18 -0500

So I just had a "WTF" moment. I realized that I didn't have an MP3 of a song I like. But I do have the LP. That's a record for those of you who are special.
-Paul

debugsources.list: No such file or directory

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:16:18 -0500

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

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:50:19 -0500

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

error: Unable to open temp file.

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:18:03 -0400

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

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:30:52 -0400

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

It's Under 9000!

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:14:34 -0400

ZOMG ITS BELOW 9000!

Great Dr.Who Quote

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:32:51 -0400

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

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:44:53 -0400

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

LulzLunch Downtime

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:39:10 -0400

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

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:58:02 -0400

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

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:54:13 -0400

CoLoc Server Back At Home

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:12:10 -0400

The server hosting GpMidi.Net and various other domains is back at my house. It is now, as far as I can tell, correctly hosting all of my sites. If you are still having any problems let me know asap. LulzLunch.com should be a lot faster since it is now hosted off a 15mbps link. This is 10 times faster than the 1.5mbps that it was hosted off of. I plan on moving it to a new web server and database some time this week or weekend. Odds are that I'll make some improvements to the lulzlunch backend code while doing the move.
-Paul

SELinux

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:20:56 -0400

top - 11:21:07 up 7 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.06, 0.05
Tasks: 2 total, 1 running, 1 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.3%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2059732k total, 291200k used, 1768532k free, 21668k buffers
Swap: 4194296k total, 0k used, 4194296k free, 136964k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3351 root 16 0 66044 1612 1276 S 0 0.1 0:00.03 bash
3386 root 15 0 12584 1020 828 R 0 0.0 0:00.02 top

I'm not sure if I love the fact that I, as root, can't do anything. But not being able to run .bash_profile when I log in is a *bit* annoying. Plus I cant reboot or anything else without changing contexts.
-Paul

LulzLunch Soon To Get More Space

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:13:12 -0400

www.lulzlunch.com will soon get a LOT more disk space. Currently I can only dedicate a few gigs to it. By Sunday it should have almost 1TB of space. Plus it will have 15Mbps upload! I'm not sure how long it will take me to get it up after the move. It will probably depend on the DB.
-Paul

All Sites Down For Maintance

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:41:45 -0400

All sites hosted on this server will be down for maintenance tomorrow or this weekend. I'll be moving the server from my long time coloc, megapipe, to my house. This move will have a few advantages. The first, major one being I have the server local to me. The second is that I'll be able to bring up a second machine that I have to act as a backup. I'll likely use it as a web server and the other machine as a database, primary mail, primary dns, and whatever else. This will offer better redundancy since I can fully take a server down without any problems.
-Paul