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Posting here in case anyone else needs to know.

Was trying to debug a ssh+svn connection. There is a very simple way to get debugging turned on:

$ export SVN_SSH="ssh -v "
$ svn checkout svn+ssh://

Any other ssh commands can be put in that env variable too, so ports and such.

note to self, if you are having trouble with nuvexport / mythtv, rememember to use the latest svn copy. Its fixed so much more than the 0.3 tarball.

Soon I might actually be ordering cable again, whoot

Apparently setting up a gforge setup with true chroot shells and such is alot harder than it looks.
I’ve been quite happy with the patches to openssh for this.. but trying to re-create an environment that is conductive to building projects is that much harder.. I’ve given up right now on copying all the files i might eventually need and focus on looking into distcc.. I’m wondering if i can use that tool to escape the chroot long enough to compile everything and send back the code.
I wish i could just easily search for forums on gforge.org.. I mean its doable, but a pain in the ass.
Its really made me appreciate packaging again. So much so i’m thinking of getting my own 1U server going up at peer 1 or something. Something I have physical access to, can pre-setup and harden on my own before putting it on the net, and not be stuck with redhat EH. I can’t even use the auto updating tools to update it.

technorati tags: gforge, linux

I will be the first to admit that I hate cygwin, it works just enough that its nice, but breaks more often than not so its so frustrating.

But as I was reading up on setting up the mail server properly, I found a quick tip for cygwin. Just install the X Server so you can X-Forward to a regular box.
So now I have the option of running applications on my server (well firewall / dev box, server is elsewhere) and having the GUI show up here. No sound, but thats dealable with one other day anyways.

And yes, on that screenshot is Evolution AND Ms Outlook 2003 (been playing with thunderbird forever, but it keeps breaking, timing out connections on me, I have to tweak with settings)

So yes, I totally recomend the x-server section of Cygwin, don’t need anything else.

After a couple of emails about MTLJPost and working with MT for HiSciFi, I think I might go back to using MT.

That way I can work on MTLJPost again neatly.

If it wasn’t so late, I’d also, I’d also talk about my experiences with Postfix+mysql+sasl+imap and the 3 week fun it took to get it all working nice and cleanly. But its late, I’m tired, so I’ll just say Wh00t, linux does rock, ’cause i was able to hack an open source pam module to get things working the way i wanted.

I proved to myself I could write a CMS, and I did, now i’m thinking i’ll go back to the hardened MT.

Tried LEGO Starwars this morning. Man, it was very cute, everything is done in LEGO, and you can destroy most things with your lightsaber / blaster.

Okay, overall it was kinda enjoyable once I got into it, but the default controls were atrocious at best, there were at least 4 main keys, one for firing/attacking, one for jumping, one for “special” and one for talking. And they aren’t the normal layout one expects for games, they are layed out so one player is on the keypad, one is on the keyboard. Which is really annoying when you are used to having it spread out.

Though I have to admit, it brings back a bit of memories from the old arcade style double dragon games, where you could grab a friend and play 2 players. It even has puzzles that you would need to cooperate on.

The first time through the game, I was really, unimpressed, but for some reason, I went back and tried it again, I think because at one point they suggest you go around collecting all these “extras” to gain some secret demo code or something. And I have to admit, trying it again, it was alot more interesting than I though.

The only truely downside was that they tried to be funny a few times, when something blew up and a person was in the object (such as a ship), they’d do the old looney toons cliff drop style .. thing. Where they suddenly realize there is nothing underneithe them, and suddenly fall down into peices of lego… I found that really didn’t belong in a starwars game.

Overall, I’d say it was a fun demo, but I wouldn’t buy the full game, its just not that interesting.

Tried LEGO Starwars this morning. Man, it was very cute, everything is done in LEGO, and you can destroy most things with your lightsaber / blaster.

Okay, overall it was kinda enjoyable once I got into it, but the default controls were atrocious at best, there were at least 4 main keys, one for firing/attacking, one for jumping, one for “special” and one for talking. And they aren’t the normal layout one expects for games, they are layed out so one player is on the keypad, one is on the keyboard. Which is really annoying when you are used to having it spread out.

Though I have to admit, it brings back a bit of memories from the old arcade style double dragon games, where you could grab a friend and play 2 players. It even has puzzles that you would need to cooperate on.

The first time through the game, I was really, unimpressed, but for some reason, I went back and tried it again, I think because at one point they suggest you go around collecting all these “extras” to gain some secret demo code or something. And I have to admit, trying it again, it was alot more interesting than I though.

The only truely downside was that they tried to be funny a few times, when something blew up and a person was in the object (such as a ship), they’d do the old looney toons cliff drop style .. thing. Where they suddenly realize there is nothing underneithe them, and suddenly fall down into peices of lego… I found that really didn’t belong in a starwars game.

Overall, I’d say it was a fun demo, but I wouldn’t buy the full game, its just not that interesting.

Man, dovecot is more my favorite email imap server software.

I just installed squirrelmail from scratch, and man, its so fast. with my old server, i was using courier and squirrelmail, both debian packages, and man, it’d time out half the time, break others, etc etc etc.

The server isn’t any more powerful than the one i had at home, but man, its nice. Except it looks like squirrelmail caches sometimes so some emails don’t get moved right away.

19:34 < ShadowRage> lowkey: so could activate.
19:34 < ShadowRage> halkeye, huh?
19:34 < ShadowRage> halkeye: I?ve heard of you
19:35 <@synic> there?s an idlerpg on freenode as well
19:35 < ShadowRage> halkeye: Mike from slurrey.com talked about you once.
19:35 < lowkey> yeah but Mike from Slurrey.com was an ass.
19:35 * lowkey pokes binky who was mike from slurrey.com?
19:36 < ShadowRage> hahaha
19:36 < ShadowRage> synic: and on slashnet
19:36 < lowkey> lol
19:36 < halkeye> i know mike
19:37 < halkeye> i went to school with him
19:37 < ShadowRage> halkeye: ah :P
19:37 < lowkey> wow….the lag time on halkeye is something else.
19:37 < banshee> does that actually run?
19:37 * halkeye is too tired for a godo comeback
19:37 < ShadowRage> halkeye: didnt you work on the livejournal code or something like that?
19:37 < lowkey> lol
19:37 < halkeye> i did that too
19:38 < ShadowRage> halkeye: how long you?ve been using linux?
19:39 < halkeye> ~4 years?
19:39 < ShadowRage> nice
19:39 < ShadowRage> 2 years here
19:39 < ShadowRage> loving about every minute of it
19:39 < halkeye> yea, its nice
19:39 < ShadowRage> halkeye: you need to tell mike to use that shit for his home webserver
19:40 < halkeye> i did
19:40 < halkeye> repeatedly
19:40 < halkeye> offered to set him up
19:40 < halkeye> write him custom software too

Man this kernel is so much of an improvement over 2.4.x
I mean, so many things that wern’t supported last time I tried running linux on my desktop.

But for some reason, I’m back to having really crappy luck with kernels.
Luckly I am using grub this time, otherwise it would really be painful.
But I wish I didn’t have to reboot to test them, since its kills what little productivity I have.

Lets just say, I’m bored enough I’m spending time fighting with it again.. and I might have a webcam again *GASP*. And maybe my graphics card drivers will work again at some point… stupid radeon.