And On This Farm He Had A Blog

Mirroring final release repositories of three defunct distros to keep things limping along until the new release is done and I can kiss the Linux-only server-side stuff goodbye.

This proved difficult as rsync or ftp access was troublesome or non-existent where the archives were concerned. So, open VIM. Whip up a JAVA program to take a HTML snapshot of a repo page, parse out all RPM package urls, and create a shell script to download them with "play nicely" restrictions on bandwidth.

Mental note: Buy another 2TB SSD the next time I'm on Amazon.

I have one client who has Enterprise Linux 5 workstations for his route guys to look things up on. They aren't internet connected so the obvious security issues are a non-concern. I can still build a client for those machines via a RHEL 5 VM. At least until a server upgrade here. Could no longer SSH into it.

Ah Linux. Home of such descriptive error messages…

No kex alg

I guess it was too much trouble to have an error message along the lines of, "Server was offered and refused diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1".

@matigo Yes. Mostly Tally/Genecom printers. Some being full line printers that cost about as much as a good used car. They're antiquated, yes, but nothing is more cost effective. The slew rate on the line printers is such that brass chains touch against the paper to discharge the static electricity. Without them, touching the printer can put you on your backside. Several thousand pages in no time flat.

matigo.ca.

Only 860 pounds of stuffed moved from the south side of town and stacked on pallets in my basement. I have that much to be thankful for. I can remember stacking that stuff as high as seven feet at one time. Thank goodness there aren't that many left using fanfold forms and line printers.

And for the non-kvetching portion of today’s program, the meat market a few blocks from the house, in business since the 1920s, has a blowout sale on ground chuck, chicken breasts, and New York Strip tomorrow. I foresee a lot of cooking.

@matigo it’s just me right now. Since I am the sole source of financing to get this off the ground (out of stubbornness), I can’t afford to hire yet.

matigo.ca.

Impatiently waiting on a semi load of business forms to arrive. More than half of it needs to be shipped back out to customers by Friday. I think I might have time to eat today so I have that going for me at least.

The only political gripes you will ever hear from me happen on this day.

Sets a ton of clocks and watches back an hour as I do not plan to be awake at 02:00

My vote and lifelong allegiance to the individual who puts an end to this nonsense.

I vacuum and clean cat hair off every surface in between calls. The cat follows behind me and lays on every freshly cleaned surface because he is a jerk.

Ubuntu install media situation rectified. In a pique of, "It's ridiculous but why not?", I re-flashed the target machine's BIOS (same version it was before) and, lo and behold, it accepted boot media. Go figure.