Category Archives: irc
GSoC 2010
Earlier this month, I applied to the Mono Project (and the University of Washington, and Ubuntu, and Debian, and The Perl Foundation) requesting a mentor to get Perl6 hosted on the DLR. Last Tuesday, Miguel contacted me and asked that … Continue reading
Importing darcs into a git branch
Maybe this will make it more google-able… Looks like you can export your darcs repo with darcs-fast-export and then import it with git-fast-import 18:15 < wakko666> I have kind of an odd question that google doesn’t seem to know. I’m … Continue reading
IronRuby on OS X
We had a visitor on #ironruby today asking for help getting IR running on his mac. I gave him the following directions, and they seemed to work aside from one glitch. I tested them on my wife’s mac, and it … Continue reading
dlr-languages_20090805+git.e6b28d27+dfsg-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED
I’m happy to announce that after the filing of an Intent to Package and nearly 2 years of work, IronRuby 0.9, IronPython 2.6b2, and the DLR are now in Debian. To my knowledge, this is the first package in Debian … Continue reading
Locale configuration post-Intrepid
I was reminded this morning after a bit of chatter on #debian-cli that my previous write-up on setting one’s locale on Ubuntu is out-of-date. Instead of running dpkg-reconfigure locales and selecting your locale, the new incantation is as follows: Magic … Continue reading
Connecting to MySQL with ODBC on Mono
We had a visitor on #mono today who needed help with his homework. It seems that Reggie is happy to have forgotten everything about using ODBC to connect to MySQL. I was curious and feeling helpful, so I figured it … Continue reading
AoE root for KVM guests
Intro So. I’m trying to get familiar with libvirt and friends. To this end, I’ve set up a Lucid virtual machine booting from PXE into an initrd environment which does a pivot_root to an AoE block device. The #virt channel … Continue reading
IRC logs for #ubuntu-us-wa
Hello, google. I would like to introduce you to our chat logs. Chat logs, google. Google, chat logs. We will discuss things here such as Mono, GNOME and Debian. We may even use it to talk about work on the … Continue reading
Mono 2.4.2.3+dfsg-2 just hit debian
Thanks to Meebey! Sorry for the being out of touch thing and the not posting anything recently thing. A vacation took me by surprise and clocked me right upside the head. Next on the TODO list: Update the dlr-languages package … Continue reading
Looking to get Iron* and the DLR into RedHat
I sent an email to the Fedora Legal list asking whether they will accept software released under the MS-PL license. My friend and former colleague, Brett Lentz mentioned that he was concerned that the Fedora folks might not accept software … Continue reading