The week had been treating me with bowls of work, and plates of exhaustion. This weekend will not be any different either. The crunch time is here again and I have to make the most of my waking hours working and meeting deadlines and all the effort that I put forth aren't wasted. So what the hell happened?
- Reading reiserfs. 2.6.7 and reiserfs didn't work on the dual proc Xeon with 3 SCSI hard drives, RAIDed. It kept crashing and giving some kind of rfs_inode_read_error() or something like that. I didn't have time to fix it, so what I did was downgrade the kernel to gentoo-sources, and recompiled glibc. That worked great.
- module-init-tools madness. Somehow, something was updated and modprobe went crazy and vomitted some QM_MODULES error. reemerging module-init-tools fixed the problem.
- Eclipse sweetness. And a file-locking bug. Eclipse 3.0 is sweet! Portage, of course, gave the big red warning about Eclipse and how it much better to use 2.1.3 for serious and productive work. But I unmasked it and compiled it. Well, it can't start and drop a "Volume too large for defined datatype" schnitzit. Fix was by giving
-vmargs -Dosgi.locking=none as command line argument. I still can't get the bloody line numbering to work though!
- Jack in the box. Registration is now open for the up-coming HITBSecConf2004. Things are looking good so far. Call for papers is also open, and we've received quite a number of cool papers so far, with titles like GSM and wireless hacking, and one that deals with getting some service from some API hookers. Oh well. Time to crunch that Capture the Flag Game. Whee!
- Windows in a box. While I work eclusively on Linux, mainly Gentoo system, still, I just can't get away from Windows. And I just hate batch programming! I just don't get it. Anyways, I managed to make myself a portable Cygwin. The idea: 1) Install Cygwin 2) Zip it up 3) Move it to another folder or PC 4) Repeat ad-nauseum. The tricky part was automounting drives, which I solved by writing an ugly (albeit simple) bat script. Gah!
- And yes, I am still not impress with yum. Or Fedora Core 2.
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dll. Heh.
Listening to: Shivaree - Goodnight Moon
