hmmm… Last post was back in February, lot’s changed since then.
For starters, we are now living in Cary, NC. Why you ask? Well, I got a job offer I couldn’t refuse from Red Hat . I’m working as the sole sysadmin for the release engineering team, but rapidly taking over more of the general engineering boxes (like bugzilla). There’s a ton of work to be done, and it’s an unbelievably cool atmosphere. I’ve often pondered about what goes on behind the scenes at RH, and even scoffed at some of the decisions made over the years. Now all of the sudden I’m right in the thing of things under that sometimes obscuring Fedora and I’m loving every minute of it. It’s also been the reason I’ve not kept things updated here recently… 
We moved in quite a hurry (approx. two weeks!) but we managed to get a really nice apt, or at least a huge step up from our place in the Burg. The move was a bit hectic, but we’ve fallen in love with this area. So much to do, so many educational opportunities for the girls. Housing is a bit high in Cary proper and it is a bit suburban for my tastes, but there’s some really nice areas just a stone’s throw from here.
One unfortunate consequence of everything has been my extended hiatus from BreakMyGentoo. I really miss it and would like to think I’ll be back in it sometime soon, but the reality is I just don’t see that happening. It’s been fun, met some really great folks I still keep in touch with and learned a ton. But it’s time to move on. For now…
I’ll be updating more over the short-term, have a ton of stories I need to put up before the details get cold. I’ve also got a patch someone sent me for the shoutcast stuff to keep pace with some upstream changes. I’ll get that applied and updated soon as well.
I’m also looking for a good Xen-based VPS company to move this and a few other sites to. Right now, RimuHosting is looking pretty attractive but I’m open to all suggestions.
While looking to modular-x-ify the new Metacity ebuild, I needed a way to verify the X deps and used this:
for x in $(ldd /usr/bin/metacity|cut -f2 -d =|cut -f2 -d ' '|grep ^/); do equery -q belongs $x; done
Enjoy!
It’s been quite a while since I posted last, and a lot has been going on. On the life front, I’ve been going through a month-long interview process for a really good job. My first phone interview was about a week or two before Christmas, had another phone interview a few weeks later (on my birthday no less). We scheduled an in-person interview for the following monday and they’ve been in decision mode since. I should find out for sure by the end of the month but, since the job would involve moving at short notice, it’s put a bit of stress on the family.
We’ve been shaking out the last few bugs with our new lab image at work. We are gonna be scrapping the old dual-boot setup in favor of Linux with VMPlayer for other OS’s. If only there was a way to grab the $HOME variable to setup shared folders, I’d be in heaven…
One of the cooler things I’ve done lately was to setup OpenVPN to bridge my vpn’d clients with the wired network. I came across an excellent how-to and was able to follow that almost to the t, but I did have to add the tap devices to my list of trusted devices instead of the bridge. Funny how it’s the little differences in platforms can get ya…
A cool bonus to the bridging setup is multicasting. Setting up mt-daapd and watching all my music appear in Rhythmbox automagically was just damn nice (screenie). I’m using Avahi for my mDNS implementation and can also see my published ssh/sftp hosts in Nautilus…
Gnome released 2.13.5 last week, and I’ve been working on the release for BMG ever since it seems. Several packages have moved to the new GStreamer and still others need the new HAL. That plus new notify stack have kept a pretty steady stream of bugs and fixes (yay!) coming thru our bugtracker. I’ve been trying to keep up, but there’s been quite a bit of involvement from folks on the testing side so I’m still a bit behind. It’s been rather nice tho to have wider testing from folks willing to submit good reports and even quite a few patches. If you’re reading this on the BMG site, please keep those reports coming and I promise I’ll keep plugging along on em…
I went ahead and hacked an ebuild to include the smbk5pwd overlay and submitted a bug to the Gentoo bugzilla. I don’t know how well it will be received since it screws with the Kerberos dependancies, but we shall see…
If anyone wants a more direct download it’s in my overlay, but I’m not gonna drop it in BMG since it just doesn’t seem appropriate…
I think I’ve gotten all of Gnome 2.13.3 in BMG… Lotsa new fun like Beagle search in Nautilus and Yelp, OpenGL support in vte and more stuff I can’t think of at the moment.
GNOME 2.13.3 Development Release | FootNotes
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