Someone has put together a pile of patches from the OpenSuse repository to bring Xen into the newer kernels for the greater good of the internet. Well, they really did it for gentoo, but patches are patches!

This is great for hardware support and the newer features.

It’s unfortunate that citrix is working so hard to make Xen obsolete. The open source community flourishes when the Release Early, Release Often(tm) doctrine is followed. It keeps people interested, advertises of bugs fixed, and well, is just good publicity. Unless all your releases suck. Of course, Source Mage doesn’t really have “releases” in the typical sense. We release new stable grimoires about every other month now. I may have even had some small contribution to the most recent one. But it’s not a new ISO or something tangible for people. Which seems to be a requisite for some odd reason. I have yet to figure it out…

I should really get my OMFG Automation project up and running. Have been kind of burnt out the last couple days.

 

So yeah, I haven’t blargd much lately. Haven’t had anything interesting to talk about. I could talk about the election some, but I don’t really want to. I’m writin ruby software and makin stuff happen. Go checkout my redmine projects.

 

Found a nifty firefox extension: ScribeFire
It’s nice to be able to do some lame blogging within the page. Works well, except I’m currently typing off the screen…
I know you didn’t see that, but it doesn’t scroll well. Make sure to close the side bar on the right so you can see all the things you’re doing. It provides all the nifty interfaces and such.

I don’t see tags or categories in here… Maybe it’ll show up when I hit Publish

Edit: Nope it didn’t :/ that’s lame. It’ll probably be uninstalled.

 

Article

It’s an interesting read.  From the article:

“Our country allows fringe groups like the American Nazi Party to demonstrate, as long as they are peaceful. Americans are permitted to burn the national flag. In 1989, when so-called artist Andres Serrano displayed his work “Piss Christ” — a photo of a crucifix immersed in a bottle of urine — Americans protested peacefully and moved to cut off the federal funding that supported Mr. Serrano. There were no bombings of museums. No one was killed over this work that was deeply offensive to Christians.

Criticism of Islam, however, has led to violence and murder world-wide. Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie over his 1988 book, “The Satanic Verses.” Although Mr. Rushdie has survived, two people associated with the book were stabbed, one fatally. The 2005 Danish editorial cartoons lampooning the prophet Muhammad led to numerous deaths. Dutch director Theodoor van Gogh was killed in 2004, several months after he made the film “Submission,” which described violence against women in Islamic societies. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Dutch member of parliament who wrote the script for “Submission,” received death threats over the film and fled the country for the United States.”

“Religion of peace.” Right…

 Also: “These liberties have been won through centuries of debate, conflict and bloodshed. Radical jihadists want to sacrifice all we have learned by returning to a primitive and intolerant world. While modern society invites such radicals to peacefully exercise their faith, we cannot and will not sacrifice our fundamental freedoms.” That sums it up.

 

I’ve my own meter now.

That’s using vnstat and the vnstat php frontend. It’s hooked up to watch the internet interface on my router. It’s also going to watch the VPN interface between a friend of mine and I. I’m just watching that because. No particular reason.

The one of interest, however, will be the Internet. I’m curious as to how much bandwidth I use in a month. It’ll be nice to use as protest material when ATT tries to implement metered lines. Of course, this is assuming that I actually use more than 40GB in a month. We’ll see.

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