On an RPM-based system, yum-utils provides a utility called ‘package-cleanup’. It has two useful options: –orphans shows RPM packages that do not belong to any currently-configured repositories, and: –leaves shows RPM packages for which there are no dependencies; that is removing them won’t trigger the removal of other packages. By default it’s concerned with...
Read more →Folks running their own local yum repositories using cobbler will have to add new repos to get continued updates, the ones signed with the new signing key. This isn’t hard, simply pick your mirror for f8 or f9 and add it to cobbler like the following: cobbler repo add --mirror=http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386.newkey/ --name=f8-i386-updates.newkey cobbler repo add...
Read more →Fraser Speirs, former iPhone developer, had his application rejected by Apple on grounds that it might compete with iTunes. Unfortunately for Speirs and every other developer out there, you have no way of knowing if an app will be allowed by Apple until the last step in the development process, unless the app already...
Read more →Some e-mail systems, notably Earthlink, employ a challenge-response system whereby when you send a user an e-mail you get a response asking you to fill out a form to allow your e-mail to go through. This is improper behavior because spam filtering is your problem (just like I filter my spam) and you’re pushing...
Read more →DRED has published its ’Broadband Action Plan’ with recommendations on how to improve the penetration of high speed Internet service in NH. I attended a session in Plymouth last year to provide input on the plan. Overall it’s a good report. I’m especially impressed with its recommendations to get State out of the way...
Read more →LEBANON, NH, September 1, 2008 – BFC Computing, a computer consulting firm based in Lebanon, NH, has launched McCainPalin2008.us, a website dedicated to news about the McCain-Palin Presidential Campaign. The site is updated with the latest headlines and videos gathered from thousands of news sources around the globe. McCainPalin2008.us provides a single location for...
Read more →If compiling transcode for macports has you stuck at ‘undefined symbols’ for _mpeg2convert_rgb24 , the problem is that configure isn’t finding the ports version of pkgconfig, so it can’t find the library’s symbols. The right thing to do is to make transcode depend on pkgconfig, so the ports version gets installed for you. I...
Read more →While looking for articles about doing programming on font files Google mostly found me people talking about typefaces for programmers. Jeff Atwood made a very nice gallery of rendered typefaces for folks to look at to help decide which typeface is best for them. I’ve been making do with the default fonts that xterm...
Read more →There’s been much made of the revelation that Diebold voting machines run an install of McAfee Anti-Virus, and that it’s caused trouble with the voting software. The arguments against it typically boil down to: * Your voting machines shouldn’t be use for anything else * Your voting machines should be secured against anybody installing...
Read more →Following up on my March 2007 article Conflict of Interest at Comcast, in excerpt: Odds are those high-traffic users are downloading video. … This is directly in competition with Comcast’s other, main, business, providing video services. The amount of traffic they’re killing at (~250GB/mo) is probably just about what you need to replace a...
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