posted by steve | Category: Useful Items That I Forget

This doc is subject to unexpected editing by me, as necessary. Okay, here’s what I’m doing: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ I’m building a Debian package for Parrot, or trying to anyway. Make sure that you have your gnupg stuff setup! tar -zxvf source.tgz cd source dh_make -e email -f ../source.tgz edit debian/rules file and other files. (optionally, cp ~/rules debian remove references to /usr/local `grep -rn usr/local *` config/gen/makefiles/root.in (2, 1 of them comment) Change to: $(DESTDIR)/usr/parrot… No, [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

When one doesn’t understand computer security one is destined to design a system that appears to be secure while in fact merely hiding the underlying insecurities. Take for example all of the newfound security alerts and dialogs in Windows XP Service Pack 2. It seems as though my computer may be at risk, according to one of the balloons that keeps popping up. No kidding. Makes me wonder why that balloon only pops up when [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

Now there comes to light some level of dissent among the LWM editors as to the best path to follow. I’m fairly well done dealing with it. My feeling was made more concrete by the story on Slashdot today that linked to a LinuxWorld article written by a fellow editor, Maria Winslow. The article was written on TCO studies and was posted as being related to Ballmer’s latest clueless, idiotic rant about Windows and Linux [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Useful Items That I Forget | 1 Comment »

Okay, so the date command in Linux. How boring is this? That’s what I thought until yesterday when I was playing around with it for a script. By now, hopefully everyone knows the runquote trick to name a logfile. Like: log.`date +%m%d%Y` That works great to name a logfile based on the date when you’re moving them around or simply creating them. But I did an `info coreutils date` yesterday and saw this tasty example: [...Read more...]