I ride east every other Friday
But if I had it my way
A day would not be wasted on this drive
And I want so bad to hold you
Son, there’s things I haven’t told you
Your mom and me couldn’t get alongSo I drive and I think about my life
And wonder why that I slowly die inside
Every time I turn that truck around
Right at the Georgia line
And I count the days
And the miles back home to you
On that Highway 20 rideA day might come you’ll realize
That if you see through my eyes
There was no other way to work it out
And a part of you might hate me
But son, please don’t mistake me
For a man that didn’t care at allAnd I drive and I think about my life
And wonder why that I slowly die inside
Every time I turn that truck around
Right at the Georgia line
And I count the days
And the miles back home to you
On that Highway 20 rideSo when you drive
And the years go flying by
I hope you smile
If I ever cross your mind
It was the pleasure of my life
And I cherished every time
And my whole world
It begins and ends with you
On that Highway 20 ride….— Highway 20 Ride, Zac Brown Band
Oh how I love git, let me count the ways!
Initially I kept separate repositories for each portion, most notably the EPI core and build system. Since Trac was selected for part of our web stack for getting stuff done, and it can be a tad pissy about multiple repositories, I’ve opted to create a “Merged” repository from the others. Essentially the Trac will require multiple Trac environments or a singular repository; while my we take the time to decide which to use, I just whip up a solution out of my hat like a good little geek &(^_^)&.
The trees were located in dixie:~/Projects/EPI/repo/ and still are. After backing up the repositories, I created a new ‘work’ tree to become the home of this merger, threw them together, and did some clean up. First I tried using git filter-branch and git format-patch together with a few other mungies to get the history retained how I wanted it, then I decided to screw it and just make branches reflect the history—even better then what I wanted.
I then used git format-patch to create patch sets, placing them in temporary directories. Rather then change the patch sets to reflect the merge (good task for perl scripting), I decided to rely on git mv for something more full proof then hacking patch files by hashed out automata.
Creating a new ‘work’ repository, I made an initial commit with a stub file, then created suitable branches for each in my original repos, which is a task easily automated in sh or Perl, for people with lots of branches. A little bit of git checkout and git am, then slurped up the patch sets bringing each repository (and it’s associated branches) under one roof.
Creating the new merged ‘master’ was a simple octopus merge.
$ git checkout master
$ git merge repo1 repo2 ...
$ git mv ...
$ git commit -a
Job done, good night!
Note also, I wanted the trees merged, so conflicts were not even present, hehe.
Spent mos of the day working on the [SAS] Dept. of Agriculture map… been in a terrible mood all day. That’s just the way things have been rolling here of late :-(.
Sorted out the details at the outside spawn point, adjusted the fire escapes accordingly, but had to remove both the window frames and glass in order to move through it. After shooting out the planes of glass, there’s to much stuff left, and it blocks you from climbing through lol.
Got a brain fart, and added extra rooms/doors connecting that spawn poin to the basement garage; just need to sort out the nodes properly before that is finished.
Began work on redoing the central office upstairs, only to find out that I can’t look up the same brick wall paper used all over the blasted map, so I’ve had to substitute a more fierce kind of brick. Gonna sort out that office space and rebuild the bombed out bathrooms below, then the structural changes will mostly be complete.
I have to do the AI related work and tidy up the marketing office area, but otherwise the map is basically done, it’ll be ready for a little testing soon, hehe.
Full throttle
So far so good, managed to burst through my weekend todo’s hehe. Completed my work for [SAS], got time to play a couple games, did the setup for ticket and documentation management needs on a personal project. Plus I’ve been aggressively moving ahead with the [SAS] Dept. of Agriculture map for SWAT 4.
All this while upgrading my laptop >_>.
Remaining to do with The DoA, is setting up the access from the outside spawn on level 1, to the window breaching point up on level 3. I’ve completed the relighting and half the general cleanup of the building, so the only big task: redoing the AI. I plan on setting up an interesting little “Scenario”, hehe. If I could, pushable barricades would be a nice touch but I’ve yet to figure that out in SwatEd.
Most of my time has been spent on the Encapsulated Package Installer (EPI) project. We now have a forum, issue tracker, and wiki system going. Things are not moving as quickly as I would like with EPI, but the past two weeks have advanced rapidly on infrastructural issues. When our new systems are more established, I’ll likely make references to it here.
Overall, the highlight of my weekend, has been (at long last) getting my invitation request to Google Wave accepted. So far it seems to be coming along well, but I have almost no one to wave with at the moment lol. The ability to invite 8 others came along with it; most of which I’ve mentally reserved for a few close friends and a couple for good uses. The main downside of Wave, is simply that e-mail and traditional IM systems have been around a really fraking long time; so it’s an uphill battle. One that I expect the world is not quite ready for yet, although it is very much a technology in the direction of our Internet future.
I’ve even found the time to migrate most of my gaming related pictures on to the WWW! The old home directory is getting thinner ^_^. Another thing I’ve gotten down, is transferring Live Journal entries from November 2008 to this Blog. I really need to pick up the pace on that. As much bother as it is, one thing I really do like about this migration procedure, is it gives me the ability to organise my old entries using lables; walks me down memory lane, and helps me to find ‘useful’ posts that were forgotten.
Life is busy, the serious issue is advancing forward quick enough for my tastes… rather then being bogged down and omni-tasked to death. My family is good at doing that.
Haven’t been keeping pace with my Journal for the last couple days, let’s just say I don’t want to talk about the Holidays.
Dixie spent about 2 days solid compiling ports, nearly 240 of mine and well over 800 when dependencies are included. That’s finally finished, so my beloved laptop is again ready for getting stuff done :-D.
Here’s the list I fed through updater.sh:
devel/pkg-config
devel/gmake
devel/autoconf-wrapper
devel/automake-wrapper
lang/perl5.10
devel/p5-ExtUtils-Depends
devel/p5-ExtUtils-PkgConfig
lang/python26
devel/py-setuptools
lang/python31
lang/ruby18
lang/guile
java/javavmwrapper
graphics/png
graphics/ruby-libpng
graphics/jpeg
graphics/tiff
devel/nasm
devel/php5
devel/glib20
devel/glibmm
devel/gamin
devel/gio-fam-backend
devel/p5-Glib2
devel/py-gamin
devel/py-gobject
devel/ruby-glib2
converters/libiconv
converters/ruby-iconv
devel/gettext
devel/p5-Locale-gettext
devel/ruby-gettext
devel/p5-ReadLine-Gnu
devel/p5-ReadLine-Perl
devel/p5-Storable
devel/p5-Term-ReadLine-Zoid
devel/p5-Term_ReadKey
devel/pcre
devel/pcre++
devel/php5-pcre
security/gnupg
secruity/ca_root_nss
security/gnutls
security/py-gnutls
security/nss
security/openssl
security/php5-openssl
security/py-openssl
www/libwww
ftp/curl
ftp/curlpp
www/p5-WWW-Curl
ftp/py-curl
ftp/wget
mail/php5-imap
net/php5-sockets
net/librsync
archivers/p7zip
archivers/unrar
archivers/unzip
archivers/zip
devel/bison
devel/bisoncpp
ports-mgr/portmaster
ports-mgr/portupgrade
ports-mgr/psearch
graphics/dri
graphics/libdrm
x11/xbitmaps
x11-themes/xcursor-themes
x11-fonts/xorg-fonts
x11/xorg-apps
x11/xorg-libraries
x11/xorg-server
x11/xorg-drivers
x11/xorg-docs
x11/xdm
x11/rxvt-unicode
devel/dbus
devel/dbus-glib
misc/hicolor-icon-theme
misc/shared-mime-info
x11-fonts/terminus-font
x11-fonts/webfonts
textproc/expat2
textproc/libxml++26
textproc/libxml2
textproc/libxslt
textproc/p5-XML-LibXML
textproc/p5-XML-Parser
textproc/py-expat
textproc/py-libxml2
textproc/ruby-libxml
devel/libIDL
devel/ORBit2
devel/boost-all
accessiblity/py-papi
audio/freealut
databases/sqlite3
databases/py-sqlite3
databases/ruby-sqlite
databases/p5-DBD-SQLite
databases/p5-DBI
databases/php5-mysql
databases/php5-sqlite
graphics/GraphicsMagick
graphics/ImageMagic
graphics/freeimage
lang/clisp
math/py-numeric
multimedia/libdvdcss
multimedia/libdvdnav
multimedia/libdvdplay
multimedia/libdvdread
textproc/docbook
textproc/docbook-tdg
textproc/docbook-xsl
textproc/doocbook-xsd
textproc/py-docutils
textproc/aspell
multimedia/win32-codecs
emulators/linux_base-f10
x11-toolkits/py-tkinter
devel/libglade2
devel/libglademm24
x11-toolkits/p5-Glade2
devel/ruby-libglade2
devel/libnotify
devel/libnotifymm
graphics/cairo
graphics/cairomm
graphics/p5-Cairo
graphics/py-cairo
graphics/ruby-cairo
graphics/ruby-gdk_pixbuf2
x11-toolkits/pango
x11-toolkits/pangomm
x11-toolkits/ruby-pango
graphics/cegui
accessibility/atk
accessiblity/ruby-atk
x11-toolkits/gtk20
x11-toolkits/gtkmm24
x11-toolkits/p5-Gtk2
x11-toolkits/py-gtk2
x11-toolkits/ruby-gtk2
x11-toolkits/qt33
devel/qt4
x11-toolkits/qscintilla
devel/py-qt4-qscintilla2
devel/qscintilla2
multimedia/mencoder
multimedia/mplayer
www/opera
www/libxul
www/firefox35
www/mplayerplug-in
www/linux-f10-flashplugin10
www/nspluginwrapper
x11-toolkits/vte
archivers/php5-bz2
archivers/php5-zlib
devel/php5-spl
devel/py-xdg
devel/xdg-user-dirs
graphics/driconf
sysutils/fusefs-kmod
sysutils/fusefs-sshfs
audio/cdparanoia
deskutils/notification-daemon
devel/cmake
devel/cscope
devel/ctags
devel/doxygen
devel/bazaar-ng
devel/git
devel/mercurial
devel/subversion
lang/pcc
devel/qtcreator
devel/xdg-utils
devel/desktop-file-utils
editors/abiword
editors/emacs
editors/mg
emulators/wine
graphics/evince
graphics/dia
graphics/geeqie
grahpics/gimp
graphics/hsetroot
graphics/inkscape
mail/hairloom-mailx
math/gnumeric
net-im/pidgin
net-im/pidgin-libnotify
net-im/pidgin-otr
net/rdesktop
net/rsync
shells/bash
shells/ksh93
shells/pdksh
shells/v7sh
shells/zsh
sysutils/bsdstats
sysutils/cdrdao
sysutils/cdrtools
sysutils/dvd+rw-tools
sysutils/e2fsprogs
textproc/antiword
textproc/webcpp
www/arora
x11-wm/fvwm2-devel
x11-wm/transset-df
x11-wm/xcompmgr
x11-wm/xfce4
x11/xrefresh
games/chromium-bsu
games/doom-data
games/doom-freedoom
games/doom-hr
games/openarena
games/prboom
games/supertux
games/wesnoth
games/xgalaga
accessibility/atk-reference
x11/libgnome-reference
x11-toolkits/pango-reference
devel/ORBit2-reference
devel/glib20-reference
devel/glibmm-reference
devel/libglade2-reference
graphics/cairo-reference
textproc/libxml2-reference
textproc/libxslt-reference
x11-toolkits/gtk20-reference
x11-toolkits/vte-reference
FreeBSD 8.0 day 2.0: upgrading ports
Since I have accumulated a lot of stuff since 7.0 was released, I have elected to do a clean slate — nuke it all and rebuild. The perfect chance to get rid of any stale leaves hehe.
# cd /var/db/pkg && pkg_delete -f *
As Mal.exe reminded me, this is equalivulent to pkg_delete -a; I forgot about that hahahaha!!!
while all the ports are being put under the hbomb, I set to work in an already running session of vim (since it depends on plenty of ports with my builds!) and wrote a list.
Every time I update my laptops ports, I use a customised “updater.sh” script, which does exactly what I want. The portmaster and portupgrade systems are only used when needed for an expedient coverage of issues marked /usr/ports/UPDATING. It was just smoother to write my own small script around the ports tree, then live with the qirks in portmaster and portupgrade: mine does just what I want and without the hub bub.
My updater.sh is programmed to parse a file, expecting input lines in the format of category/portname, which tell it what ports need upgrading. In my experience, it works better then portmaster and without that need for constantly asking “Are you still running?” that portupgrade has…
updater.sh is in the middle of fetching ~230 distfiles, and setting any stray build options. So that everything will be ready op for compiling all this junk. At least I can go play SWAT while things compile, but need all the stuff fetched and recursively configured before I can have fun hehe.
Will post the input list later.
The first FreeBSD upgrade to ever piss me off
I built world, two kernels: (my custom) VIPER, and GENERIC. I took about 2 hours using make -j6 on my lowly Sempron.
Fetched updates to the ports tree via portsnap while waiting for the install kernel to finish; I noticed that the boot into single user mode for mergemaster’ing was blazingly fast. Everything went well until the first multi user boot.
The blasted wireless card stopped working. Changing in the ath manual and the release notes info about Atheros support made me expect there might be problems. Plugged in a spare (broken) Ethernet cable and did a search on the FreeBSD forums where a thread mentioned cloning the wireless interface to a generic wlan0…. it worked.
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
and volia!
So, just how did this creep up on me, and why wasn’t it in the release notes… (that anyone I know seems to have noticed)???
The manual for rc.conf explains this under network_interface:
If a wlans_
variable is set, an wlan(4) interface
will be created for each item in the list with the wlandev
argument set to interface. Further wlan cloning arguments
may be passed to the ifconfig(8) create command by setting
the create_args_variable. One or more wlan(4)
devices must be created for each wireless devices as of
FreeBSD 8.0. Debugging flags for wlan(4) devices as set by
wlandebug(8) may be specified with an wlandebug_
variable. The contents of this variable will be passed
directly to wlandebug(8).
which makes the fix in rc.conf, adding wlans_interfacename=”wlan0″ into the mixture:
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan="self censored :-P"
In order to find some backstory in /usr/src/UPDATING, I had to GREP for it:
20080420:
The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
operation on devices that are capable. The underlying device
is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
cloned with ifconfig. This requires changes to rc.conf files.
For example, change:
ifconfig_ath0=”WPA DHCP”
to
wlans_ath0=wlan0
ifconfig_wlan0=”WPA DHCP”
see rc.conf(5) for more details. In addition, mergemaster of
/etc/rc.d is highly recommended. Simultaneous update of userland
and kernel wouldn’t hurt either.As part of the multi-bss changes the wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta
modules were merged into the base wlan module. All references
to these modules (e.g. in kernel config files) must be removed.
If changing from FreeBSDs natural
The release notes in provides two helpful sentences: wlan pseudo devices are now used and check out the ifconfig manual.
Other then wasting an two hours of my time over a change that probably isn’t even the bloody handbook yet, everything went smoothly.
Wow, either Internet Malware is getting worse then ever or Firefox 3 just sucks worse then ever >_>. Javascript just took over Firefox, tried to convince me to install an Antivirus program — loaded “Explorer”‘s my computer page (in Firefox), obviouly faked scanning files and finding a few thousand bits of malware, before trying to redirect me back to their “Antivirus program” — and setting a Windows XP like pop up right in the middle of the Explorer-replicating page, that’s so obviously not a pop up window but a web hack. The irony of this? I’m running FreeBSD, and the most damage the account being used can do is write data to /dev/null (a black hole file). Are Windows lusers really stupid enough to fall for that trick? Wait, don’t answer that question.
Dential update
Things went fairly well, saw the dentist on the 23rd and he proclaimed the problem after a short inspection, proclaimed it an abscessed tooth and infection causing the face to swell. He proscribed a choice of antibiotics, a heating pad, some pain killers, and a referral to a suitable dental surgeon.
According to Doctor Maddux, I should be fine in the short term as long as the swelling doesn’t interfere with my breathing (that was actually a comforting thought), but it can get serious enough that I could end up down the road at the hospital. Considering that my mothers bills over routine stuff totalled around $20,000—I have little interest in being admitted to a hospital, ready to keel the flug over! Our orders were to try and get the infection in check with the antibiotics and setup an appointment with the other office; and do so A.S.A.P. if things didn’t improve within a day or two.
Since I can sooner die in the middle of the street then see a $100 prescription filled for the heavy duty stuff, we went with the less effective but much more affordable antibiotics, which when subbed for the generics at the supermarket pharmacy, became 500mg tablets of Penicillin VK, of all things Penicillin lol. The last time I can remember hearing of Penicillin since WWII, was a pharmacist my mother once worked for long before I was born, who, or so she had told me years ago, used to give out pills of it to poor coloured in the hopes of curbing syphilis; although I’m not quite sure if that was even legal back then >_>. But hey, when the price difference in what the Dentist is prescribing is like $90~$100+ atomic bomb versus a $0 gamble that it might work… it’s worth a shot, isn’t it?
Borrowed a heating pad, but didn’t put it to much use. Willow trying to climb on top of it, and pushing a heating coil into my face made it clear that it would be a bad idea; reverted back to a wash cloth, and for the first time in my life was glad the kitchen sink can output burning hot water liquidy split. Either way, I found the heat on my left cheek very soothing.
For good measure, the Dentist proscribed a small supply of mild pain killers for use `as needed`, which when filled in for by generics, is a smidge of Hydrocodone and a hefty shot of acetaminophen/paracetamol (better known to most of us in the USA, generically as Tylenol, even though that’s actually a brand name not a substance lol). I’m not like the average American, who takes a pill for anything. For me to even take two Tylenol over a headache or toothache, means I’m probably ready to smash my head through a wall because of the pain. Throw the other crap in the mix and yeah, I’m not inclined to take it unless absolutely necessary. Life’s given me a nice threshold against pain anyway… so as long as I’m able to sleep, usually not much to worry about.
Spent a about 20-30 minutes walking around the supermarket while the prescriptions were being filled, my tooth was agonising and the left side of my jaw looked like I had cotton balls stuffed between my choppers and cheek. But on the upside, by the time we got to the checkout most of the pain subsided for a couple hours. Took the first dose of antibiotics in the car and noted that the pharmacists directions said that this Penicillin is better absorbed on an empty stomach—perfect for me.
Refused my mothers attempts to push food my way at every opportunity; hopped on the computer to check in with a friend on AIM, then hit the Proving Grounds for a couple. Soon gave up on playing SWAT 4, and laid down with the heating pad. I just crashed on the bed for a few hours, ended up napping with my head at the foot of the bed, cover drapped over me, and the dog near my feet.
Seems that the Penicillins only adverse effects on me have been causing me to feel cold, chilly at times I guess; but that is basically it. Woke up around 1800-something and had a bowl of soup with some cold meatloaf for dunkin’ for dinner; the hot broth was just what I needed. Having *officially* declared war on this S.O.B. of a tooth and infection, I inspected the problematic tooth with a tooth pick eariler, and flossed / brushed my teeth after dinner, plus rinsed out with mouthwash before bed.
After finishing my meal and brushing with a militaristic determination (lol, don’t ask), I settled down on the couch for a good nap: and focused every fibre in me towards kicking this thing to the curb. Woke up in time for the second dose of antibiotics and another short nap. By the time I got up to go to bed, I no longer had a toothach—much appreciated.
By morning most of the swelling went down, but if I place my hand to my face, I can still feel the buldge on the left. So far, so good, and I’ve not had any serious pain since before the second Penicillin pill. Managed to get to work this morning feeling pretty normal.
Have the appointment for next Tuesday programmed into my Calendar, and hopefully will be rid of this damaged, deranged, bastard of a tooth as soon as we can figure out how to pay for it… and hopefully any part of this infection will be K.I.A. by then.
Ma finally woke up a little past 0800 local, so I briefed her on the problemo—helps to be well prepared. She had me bite down on a tea-bag, which IMHO increased the swelling :-(. Ma called the CMC which directed her to a pharmacy, at which point I bet the $5 remaining to my name that any pharmacist we could ask, would likely say get a dentist. So she called the nurse we worked for, who agreed with me: this is a job for a professional. Have an appointment at 1900Z with a dentist that came recommended.
Tried to lay down and get some sleep, but it still feels like someones standing on my face with a work boot… Got up and took a shower, but skipped ditching the whiskers, don’t want to put that much pressure on that spot. Headache is a bit better but the teeth/gums are worse.
I’m not sure what to expect, last time I saw a dentist, it ended in a futile sortie and being made to feel worse then the scum of the earth over the shape of my teeth. Today can’t go much worse, assuming I actually get to see the DDS