Two months and nary an update....no apologies, I've been busy. Two bands, an engaging job, two cats, and a girlfriend. It's been a busy couple of months. Here's some of what I've been doing:
- Fixing the 4Runner: A couple of weeks ago, after a few days of banging away, I changed the rear U-joint on the 4Runner. Lessons learned: get a U-Joint press from Harbor Freight, don't use an impact wrench to force things out (you will break something or bend the ears of your driveshaft yoke), a seemingly easy job will turn to crap in short order. What remains to be fixed is the rear differential; the input pinion has gobs of play in it. I've found a suitable donor truck in a junkyard, so I'm probably going to pull its rear differential and swap it out.
- GCC / kernel recompilations: I have this infatuation with having a modern GCC / kernel / OpenSSH variant running on my boxes. Don't ask me why. I've been recompiling kernels for a long time (it probably would have been longer if I hadn't taken the better part of a year successfully compiling kernels, but failing miserably at understanding the need to run lilo after editing /etc/lilo.conf; thank you grub for bringing sanity to the process). Anyway, I got 2.6.23.13 and .14 running on the boxen. I'm not the biggest fan of the kernel subrelease thing.....we now have subvariants of subvariants....what's the point? Why not release 2.6.24 instead of hoarding patches? But I guess maybe there are corporate interests that don't want to see 2.6.169 or whatever.
- Installing a new faucet at my house: In a fit when my 4Runner repairs were proceeding poorly, I ended up taking a swipe at my sink faucet, which caused the pull out sprayer to break and leak everywhere. I wouldn't have cared if it was just the sprayer, but my faucet was one of those kinds where the faucet head itself pulls out and acts as the sprayer. So, it got replaced over the weekend with a new high-arc faucet.
I probably have more to write here, but after two months of not blogging, I'm happy I wrote anything at all.
Kernel subrevs
2.6.169? Who WOULDN'T want to see that release? C'mon, there's enough of us at corporate wageslave monkey jobs to want that, we just have to make ourselves heard. :)
The reason that there's subreleases, of course, is that new functionality is in the third set of digits, and the fourth set of digits (the subrelease) are only for bugfixes and not adding new functionality. Usually.
I haven't been a programmer in years, but it kind of makes sense; Linux reserves the two front guys for HUGE changes. Now that I think about it, I bet I could enjoy being a Linux kernel programmer, if I got paid. Working on open sources projects for money would kick major butt.
Testing stuff would be a b*tch though. Probably the most boring part of the job. I hate testing.
We'll have to hack on the 4skinner sometime soon, amigo.
-neil
That's exactly my point
Linux should only use the first digit for *huge* changes. I'm sorry, but are you trying to tell me that 2.6 is anything like 2.0? Maybe 2.2 made sense, but 2.4 was a huge change and should have been 3.0, and 2.6 should have been 4.0.
The 2 hasn't been incremented in many, many years. It's quickly becoming irrelevant.
i need some help...
can someone please tell me what this website is about??!!?
is it like an
is it like an internet/computer blog site? where we can exchange ideas on technology?
Yes
That's the idea. Jeremy (the site's maintainer) collects newsworthy mailing list postings and interviews, and posts them on the main part of the site. The subject material is usually focused on open source software development (GNU, Linux, and *BSD), although many other subjects have been covered.
You posted on my blog, which I maintain on KT. Blogs are a bit more relaxed as far as subject material goes. I'm an active Linux user, and have been for over eight years, so my postings from time to time cover technology, but quite a bit of the time, it's just my life stuff, like any other blog.