Google Foo
Apparently, the correct links for inotify are falling down the google listing. Time for some Google Foo (not that I have any…)
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Best Sketch Evar!!!!!!111!2!11!
No one can resisit my Schwettie Balls.
Planet Gentoo
Hello, Planet Gentoo.
maintainer
I’m now officially maintainer of app-admin/logrotate, my first package. It’s been quite interesting getting a new version of it together, and aggregating patches from various other distros. New features in logrotate-3.7.1:
- dotfiles in /etc/logrotate.d/ are now ignored. This means emerging packages that put files there doesn’t break logrotate before etc-update is run
- upstream fixes to ownership/permissions. Rotated files are now owned and permed like the original file.
- dateext is now supported. This means that rotated files can be tagged with the date of rotation, rather than numbered sequentially.
- maxage is now supported. This means that, when rotating a file, versions older than a certain age are removed.
Alpha Computer Geek
Still, it’s not a good quiz. It didn’t ask anything about kernel hacking, it didn’t ask anything about hardcore gaming, it didn’t ask anything about hardware hacking, it didn’t…
Basically, I’m an uber-computer-geek, compared to wannabes.
Nerdy
Apparenly, I’m super nerdy, too.
Dev’d
I’m finally officially a Gentoo dev. I even made my first commit today, adding ~amd64 to xchat-gnome.
I’ve also added a category for Gentoo to my blog, and all my Gentoo Dev related crap will go in there. That way, if I decide to going Planet Gentoo, I’ll be able to follow their policy of only-gentoo-stuff.
Poetry, take 2
I wish I could write like this.
Exchange Sucks
IWLTA that Exchange is a piece of crap. I always thought it was a decent mailing system, and it certainly has the best integration of mail/calendar of any server out there. Boy was I wrong.
A couple of weeks ago, our Exchange server at work crashed and burned. I mean hard. No incoming email, no access to archived email, nothing. The reason for this? Get this, it has a built in limit of 16 GB! That’s right, you cannot store more than 16 GB of mail in your this Exchange server. And if you do hit the limit, exchange crashes. Not stops and complains, chrashes. And, deleting mail doesn’t free space, you have to delete the mail and then run some offline database compression program to actually get the space back. And, if you hit the 16 GB limit, you can’t start Exchange back up after it crashes to get the space back, you have to run the compression program and hope it gets enough space back to bring exchange back up so that you can delete mail so that you can take exchange back down so that you can run the compression program so that… You get the picture.
Anyway, here we are, weeks later, and mail still takes hours to be delivered, and that’s mail sent from inside the company. With any open source setup, there wouldn’t have been any stupid limit, and even if it crashed, we could have built and installed a replacement server in a day. No go with exchange.
Microsoft? You suck.