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Found by lofi in kdemultimedia:
AC_MSG_CHECKING(machine architecture) AC_SUBST(ARCH_TYPE) ARCH_TYPE=`uname -m` if test `uname -s` = "FreeBSD" then HW_MODEL=`sysctl -n hw.model` case "$HW_MODEL" in "Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron") ARCH_TYPE="i686" ;; esac fi; AC_MSG_RESULT($ARCH_TYPE)
*rotfl*
Did I tell you how I hate all those virii? Even more than this Windows viruses.
Unfortunately Peter had to concede to the whining masses, who can’t use their FreeBSD.org email address to impress women or to get jobs, and softened the FreeBSD.org Anti-Spam checks. Now half of the FreeBSD developers spend their time with deleting Spam and improving their Spamfilters. (The other half spends their time surfing on orkut).
FreeBSD is dying!
This weekend is system maintainance weekend on arved.de network.
I need to make world on all machines because of the recent FreeBSD Security Advisory (40% done), upgrade to KDE 3.2 (66% done). Additional I am migrating cvsup and NFS service from huckfinn to sauna.
And there are various other cleanups that need to be done, since I haven’t done any maintainance the last few months
Kweather says its 16� outside, thats around 6 degrees too warm. Additional the sun shines. It feels like springtime in February. Where are my sunglasses?
Surfed on orkut today. Noticed I am connected via 4 hops to Wesley Clark, one of the democratic party’s US President nominations.
Note: This profile is being managed for Wes Clark by Cameron Barrett, an employee of his campaign. It is official.
The profile isn’t very verbose. I have learned that he is loving pets and that he classifies himself as clever. He has joined the communities “Clark for Prez”, “Clark04”, “Military technology” and “Bush is stupid”.
Yeah, politics of the 21. century. Luckily it doesn’t look like he is going to win, he has only 141 orkut “friends”.
KDE 3.2 was released yesterday. This time the ports were not ready in time. One of the reasons, I tried not getting involved this time. But we are nearly done. I am currently testing. So I guess we should be done until tomorrow.
Like nearly Everyone, I got invited to Orkut. Because I read Horsts article I only filled in the required fields. The Website is running on ASP, very un-geeky. Of course I managed to get “Service unavailable” several times during the registration process.
Probably every opensource developer makes this mistake once. Releasing a new version of his program, without bumping the version number in the “About Dialog”. I have always wondered how that could happen. Now I managed it myself in a very stupid way. The rsscript ran successfull in the test environment. I bumped the version in CVS. I discovered a last minute bug, corrected it direct on the testserver and copied the testversion into the development environment and didn’t look careful enough at the cvs diff. D’oh!
Yesterday le got his new commit bit. Now Wien-Hernals has two committers, which is a quite high committer-density.
We are now waiting for his first pointy hat to arrive ;-).
I am wearing the pointy hat now. Yesterday evening I broke the INDEX.
The index is a database-like file to search the FreeBSD ports collection. It contains names, descriptions and dependencies of all ports. It is generated by “make index”. index breakage usually occurs if someone wants to be extra clever and the commiter is not suspicious enough.
I made the commit yesterday, just before i went home, and at home i prefered to read the newspaper before checking email. After I have found the bunch of emails from the Tinderbox, I fixed it immediatly, but bad luck, the tinderbox now has a problem and did not pick up my fix. It continues to email failure reports to ports@FreeBSD.org just to make me feel guilty.