Archive for November, 2005
Ruby is nice
Well a bit of yesterday and most of yesterday resulted in my first RubY program. 200 lines and really good. Object orientated where reasonable, exceptions etc. And Ruby is really nice. Not hacky like Perl. Not a pain in the neck (read “indent sensitive”, tells you about typos when it tries to execute the line [...]
Posted: November 24th, 2005 under Linux.
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Xen now quick
Well it turned out that disabling domain validation had a bad effect – the hard disks were being talked to at async SCSI speeds. So I bit the bullet and tried the 2.6.14 merge tree (the “stable” version rather than the “unstable” version). The config options have moved around (mainly that xen is now a [...]
Posted: November 17th, 2005 under Linux.
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Xen failure only temporary
Fixed that problem. To explain what I did, just a little information about Xen. Your machine boots and runs a boot loader to pick what operating system to use. Most Linux boxes use “grub” these days. It”s much more flexible and convenient than Lilo. Xen also won’t work with Lilo IIRC. Grub then boots the [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2005 under Linux.
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D600 build – linux
I’ve documented on the wiki how I’ve configured Debian Linux on my Dell D600.
Posted: November 12th, 2005 under Linux.
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Xen failure
Hmm – Xen seems too be misbehaving on another box (SMP, SCSI disks). Most kernels crash (looks like in the domain validation code of aic7xxxx), however I’ve compiled up a shiny new kernel and Xen doesn’t even seem to be using it. I just get “Domain 0 shutdown”. I think it can’t boot the image, [...]
Posted: November 11th, 2005 under Linux.
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Xen 3
Well, just got Xen 3 compiled up nicely with my old kernel config and ndiswrapper. I had to disable kprobes and config_pci_mdi due to undefined symbols (stuff which is in x86 but not xen architecture). Had to patch update-grub along the way which I’ll be sending off to fix the worst cases (ignore symlinks). I [...]
Posted: November 9th, 2005 under Linux.
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Grumpy old man
It’s official. As of 5th November I’m now old (30). Boo hoo
Posted: November 7th, 2005 under Life.
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Suspend on dell D600
Now I’ve had a little time to finish investigating, I’ve confirmed a misunderstanding between Debian’s initramfs and the kernel – one talks hexadecimal, the other talks decimal (the kernel). So I’ve changed the scripts to talk decimal and life works wonderfully. patch sent off. The last one was integrated in about 8 hours! However that [...]
Posted: November 1st, 2005 under Linux.
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