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3 months ago
in capturing on revjim.net
Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom - Screenwriter's Blues
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Jim Reverend
One of my favorites.
3 months ago
in Tweet Digests Suspended on revjim.net
Thank god :) I was seriously thinking about just removing you from my standard filter. Your posts made up a good chunk of the size of each update and I can't make heads or tails from most of the entries anyway.
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Jim Reverend
Ha. I knew you would be on that side of the fence.
More than anything I wanted them for me because I don't trust twitter to keep a permanent record. I'm just going to whip up an rss archiver and store them that way instead.
(sent via BlackBerry)
More than anything I wanted them for me because I don't trust twitter to keep a permanent record. I'm just going to whip up an rss archiver and store them that way instead.
(sent via BlackBerry)
4 months ago
in Virtual Machines and the search for freedom on revjim.net
VirtualBox is pretty great compared to VMWare. Did you install the guest additions?
I've only used it with Linux (Ubuntu) on Vista so I have no idea how shit-tastic it'll be with Vista *in* VirtualBox, but it's worked well for me so far.
I've only used it with Linux (Ubuntu) on Vista so I have no idea how shit-tastic it'll be with Vista *in* VirtualBox, but it's worked well for me so far.
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Jim Reverend
Ha. No no. Vista is my host. XP is the guest. And, yeah, I installed the guest additions.
4 months ago
in Ubuntu Live and Java on revjim.net
Say... what? I have no such dir, and got no such errors...
In fact, to find this, I did :
apt-get source sun-java6-jre
fgrep "cow" sun-java6-6-03/debian/* -R
And I find no references to cows. You sure it's not a previously misconfigured package?
In fact, to find this, I did :
apt-get source sun-java6-jre
fgrep "cow" sun-java6-6-03/debian/* -R
And I find no references to cows. You sure it's not a previously misconfigured package?
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Jim Reverend
I even tried performing a complete uninstall of everything Java and
then reinstalling and it still failed. As I was poking around the
internets looking for a solution I found someone offering this tidbit
of info. I knew the problem I was having was somewhere in the postinst
script, so I greped in it looking for "cow" to no avail. Willing to
try anything I said, "what the hell", made the symlink and it worked.
I was as shocked as you.
I believe this is the web page I found that referenced that fix:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-j...
then reinstalling and it still failed. As I was poking around the
internets looking for a solution I found someone offering this tidbit
of info. I knew the problem I was having was somewhere in the postinst
script, so I greped in it looking for "cow" to no avail. Willing to
try anything I said, "what the hell", made the symlink and it worked.
I was as shocked as you.
I believe this is the web page I found that referenced that fix:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-j...
4 months ago
in Portable Ubuntu: working! on revjim.net
Multiverse contained both 1.5 and 1.6 for me. If you're getting 1.5, you can probably also get 1.6. (Or at least, I was able to simply install them).
mreynolds@onosendai:~$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
sun-java6-bin: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
mreynolds@onosendai:~$ apt-cache showpkg sun-java6-bin
Package: sun-java6-bin
Versions:
6-03-0ubuntu2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
Description Language:
File: /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages
MD5: 026bcd0fe69901775823d7dfb9da4a5a
Reverse Depends:
turkey,sun-java6-bin
sun-java6-plugin,sun-java6-bin 6-03-0ubuntu2
sun-java6-jre,sun-java6-bin
sun-java6-jre,sun-java6-bin 6-03-0ubuntu2
Dependencies:
6-03-0ubuntu2 - sun-java6-jre (5 6-03-0ubuntu2) unixodbc (0 (null)) libc6 (0 (null)) debconf (18 0.5) debconf-2.0 (0 (null)) libstdc++5 (0 (null)) binfmt-support (0 (null)) libasound2 (0 (null)) libgcc1 (0 (null)) libx11-6 (0 (null)) libxext6 (0 (null)) libxi6 (0 (null)) libxp6 (0 (null)) libxtst6 (0 (null)) libnss-mdns (0 (null)) binfmt-support (3 1.1.2)
Provides:
6-03-0ubuntu2 -
Reverse Provides:
mreynolds@onosendai:~$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
sun-java6-bin: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
mreynolds@onosendai:~$ apt-cache showpkg sun-java6-bin
Package: sun-java6-bin
Versions:
6-03-0ubuntu2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
Description Language:
File: /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages
MD5: 026bcd0fe69901775823d7dfb9da4a5a
Reverse Depends:
turkey,sun-java6-bin
sun-java6-plugin,sun-java6-bin 6-03-0ubuntu2
sun-java6-jre,sun-java6-bin
sun-java6-jre,sun-java6-bin 6-03-0ubuntu2
Dependencies:
6-03-0ubuntu2 - sun-java6-jre (5 6-03-0ubuntu2) unixodbc (0 (null)) libc6 (0 (null)) debconf (18 0.5) debconf-2.0 (0 (null)) libstdc++5 (0 (null)) binfmt-support (0 (null)) libasound2 (0 (null)) libgcc1 (0 (null)) libx11-6 (0 (null)) libxext6 (0 (null)) libxi6 (0 (null)) libxp6 (0 (null)) libxtst6 (0 (null)) libnss-mdns (0 (null)) binfmt-support (3 1.1.2)
Provides:
6-03-0ubuntu2 -
Reverse Provides:
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Jim Reverend
Thank you! That was the trick. Didn't know the package name.
I'll add Multiverse and try that tonight.
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I'll add Multiverse and try that tonight.
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5 months ago
in Portable Ubuntu - Part 2 on revjim.net
Pro Tip : Drop to one of the background consoles to see extra errors not reported by the UI.
J/k about the "pro tip" part, that just seemed funny at the time.
AFAIK, if you can boot off of another USB installed OS, then this should work. However, the fact that partitioning is failing is far more suspicious.
Other note, it could be a drive ordering thing, but I think Ubuntu has moved to using the drive UID instead of the old clumsy path names.
If you think it's just grub, you can install it manually via another linux install. There are directions on how to do this under something like "grub recovery". Grub, at the very least, would show you a nice prompt, since it's good like that.
BTW, I thought your site used le OpenID? Discuss doesn't seem to like me.
J/k about the "pro tip" part, that just seemed funny at the time.
AFAIK, if you can boot off of another USB installed OS, then this should work. However, the fact that partitioning is failing is far more suspicious.
Other note, it could be a drive ordering thing, but I think Ubuntu has moved to using the drive UID instead of the old clumsy path names.
If you think it's just grub, you can install it manually via another linux install. There are directions on how to do this under something like "grub recovery". Grub, at the very least, would show you a nice prompt, since it's good like that.
BTW, I thought your site used le OpenID? Discuss doesn't seem to like me.
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Jim Reverend
Looks like partition was failing due to using a USB cable that wasn't
supplying enough power. Grrr. While this application is mostly useless
to me if I have to occupy more than one USB port, for the time being,
I'm moving forward using both ports and the manufacturer supplied
cable.
(and, Disqus does support OpenID. It just does it TERRIBLY. Like,
really terrible. If they weren't so good at everything else, I'd
probably walk away just for this. I've mentioned it to them before.
They say they are fixing it.
Here's a link to the required procedure for logging in using OpenID
with Disqus...
http://revjim.net/2008/03/13/disqus-and-openid/
supplying enough power. Grrr. While this application is mostly useless
to me if I have to occupy more than one USB port, for the time being,
I'm moving forward using both ports and the manufacturer supplied
cable.
(and, Disqus does support OpenID. It just does it TERRIBLY. Like,
really terrible. If they weren't so good at everything else, I'd
probably walk away just for this. I've mentioned it to them before.
They say they are fixing it.
Here's a link to the required procedure for logging in using OpenID
with Disqus...
http://revjim.net/2008/03/13/disqus-and-openid/