I created an account on the iFolder wiki to delete some casino spam on one of their developer pages. Bastards. The technology looks good though. I'm wondering how to incorporate it into some of the things we do at my current workplace...

I got my Sun blade 100 in and am working on getting OpenSuSE 10 ported to it. I had to install gentoo on it first. Emerge somethings, rpm, bzip2, etc... I pulled all the rpmbuild macro files from an i586 opensuse box and replaced the /usr/lib/rpm installed macros (from redhat). That gives me something like a suse rpm build environment. I then had to fix up the /usr/lib/rpm/sparc64-linux/macros file to include some things suse sticks in the other arches

LOL, Well I wanted to write more this week, but never did. Oh Well!

It's been an ebay weekend. I'm getting a Sun Blade 100 workstation and a removable hard drive caddy. I've got bids in on another hard drive caddy and a 5-bay IDE hard drive cage for ATA drives. Once I combine that with a 3ware 7500 series RAID controlled I'll be in business!! W00t! I'm sticking with ATA b/c I already have a few of the same size drives to use with it. So I've been having fun spending money on ebay.

When I got home I had a great surprise waiting for me. My new Dell 2001FP was waiting for my by the door. So now I have a 20" LCD monitor hooked up to my linux boxes. It's very nice and I'm typing this now on my KDE Desktop with Firefox open. It makes me very happy! :-)

An earlier slashdot article got me started on it http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/03/2043225&tid=10&tid=219, but I used the game "The Movies" to make a movie, http://www.rdex.net/movies/.

Lost my home database server last night. It had been up and running for a while and I wanted to update it from FC1 to OpenSUSE 10. I've been using OpenSUSE at work for a while and really enjoying it. It seems to be a very viable desktop linux candidate. So I backed up the important data and configs and rebooted with the OpenSuSE cd in. So it took forever to boot, I'm talking like five minutes or more. It finally got to the first setup screen and I tried to use a mouse... It wasn't worki

If you aren't using LVM in linux by now, run to the howto, read it, and start using it on all your servers. IT ROCKS!! I needed more space for my /var partition so I lvextend'ed the partition using the free PV's in my VG and then resize2fs'ed the ext3 fs to use the new space. It's just great to be able to do these operation without having to take the box down. It's much much more flexible that having hard coded partitions. ReiserFS makes it easier b/c then I don't have