IMAGE: CAFUEGO BLOG - Yes, Andy Fitzsimon, this header image is ironic
Saturday 14 April, 2007 @ 09:48:01 by Cafuego
daily / internode

Aaah, there we go. A shiny new internode.php version that finally scales ALL data across the width of the graph. Whilst I was at it, I also twiddled the internode usage meter gnome panel applet to work with Ubuntu Feisty. (sed -i python2.4/python2.5/ Makefile)
Monday 19 March, 2007 @ 15:38:32 by Cafuego
work / backporting

Becasue I have a client who wants to run a specific version of EzPublish I spent a day last week doing apache, apache2, php4 and php5 backports from Etch to Sarge. I left mysql alone for now, so these use libmysqlclient14.

If these would be useful to you, you can find them at  http://debian.cafuego.net/dists/sarge-cafuego I've not tested them extensively yet, but apache2+php4+mysql works okay :-)

In unrelated news, to be more web 2.0 compliant my blog is now labeled BETA.

Tuesday 27 February, 2007 @ 18:13:01 by Cafuego
daily / Cafuego versus KDE

This 'everything must be tweakable, and users will hate if if they can't click here and tweak it to make it do something different' mentality of KDE is a disease. I don't use KDE, because in striving to be configurable, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.

KDE people seem to think that you always want to tweak every single setting. Not true.

Why the hell do you have to have right click menus and on-hover hilights everywhere? I *know* what I want. I *know* KDE doesn't support it. How do I know? I've used it.

I personally just encourage people to switch to Gnome.

</sarcasm>

Honestly, just don't use it if you don't like it. Jumping up and down and yelling is really not doing anyone any favours.

Monday 5 February, 2007 @ 09:12:54 by Cafuego
daily / free?

FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'paravirt_ops'

And with that joyful message I turn out to not be free to run whatever I want on Linux. Fortunately the kernel is GPL, so with a small patch to remove this dumb restriction on paravirt_ops, NVidia can be made to compile again.

2.6.20-paravirt-nvidia.patch