vinay pawar

2010-02-05

- It's LFS build time. I've been running LFS-6.5 since several months now with any major issues. After picking from the mailing-list that there was to be be the next release soon, I decided to roll a new build, took about 2 days after which I ran into booting problems. It appeared that the root partition wasn't getting a udev device node. Tried rebuilding udev a couple of times and rechecking the bootloader(grub), nothing helped. After digging up the changelog and a few LFS bug reports it appeared there were major changes between udev-145 and udev-151. Then had a little chat with Slackware's Robby Workman over at #udev@freenode. Deal being, either I had to restore back some old udev rules, or remove old IDE/ATAPI implementation from the kernel and let udev do it's thing. After a few linux rebuilds things got on track and were looking good. Problem solved. Thanks Robby.

- Also took this chance to try ALF(Automated LinuxFromScratch). As expected, this was pretty wacky stuff. Using the XML/XSL from the LFS book's source, the command instructions are extracted after some intense parsing and scripts are generated. After some guess-work, a little tweaking and a bit of luck, managed to get this to work, sort of. I believe it did save me time, which was the original intention. I'll be getting back to ALFS later to smooth out the roughs. Should be fun to use. I'll need to figure this XML/XSL magic, which I've always avoided.

2010-01-07

- Another year rolled over. Happy New Year, like they say.

- Nearly done with a 3d modeling project I'd started in early December. I'll try and post an image soon. Preparing for the next project.

- This week went for a little solo motorcycle fun ride with Gaurav. A good motorcycle ride after a long time. Enjoyed it.

- Read through the Gubbins Experiment blog. Must read for people who care.

2009-11-30

- This was one November to remember.

- Experienced my first cyclone - Cyclone Phyan. They say this thing strayed away from the Indian Ocean into our peninsular after more than 60 years. Those terrifying skies. This ofcourse was followed by electricity and telephone problems as expected.

- Plenty family functions that kept me disconnected, enough to feel discomfort.

- Came very close to crashing my motorcycle, thankfully didn't. One of those instances when you thank those automobile designers who built something that holds it's line. Sadly, the near-crash punctured the fuel tank, not at all funny to see fuel dripping down on the engine while it's still alive. Nothing burnt up in flames. Thankfully?

- After close inspection of the punctured fuel tank and the cause, my brother remarked - "major design flaw".

- Finally, after a freaky November weather-wise, winter finally set-in.

- Normality.

2009-11-08

- Upgraded to LFS 6.5 with Xorg 7.4

- Blender 2.5 development slowing down, appears to be nearing a release in conjuction with Blender's the open movie project Durian/Sintel. Plenty bugfixes and most of the 2.4 features are in, I'm looking forward to when knife-cut would get in.

- Tried a new template for this blog, it's called TheBlues, from themes.pivotx.net/freecsstemplates.org. I might change the hue of this thing, though the shade of blue is not ugly.

2009-10-15

- Log time no post.

- Have been busy with some. Blender mostly and the upcoming cool new 2.5 release.


- Also a couple of days back managed to get my iPod Touch working over USB under GNU/Linux and also sync photos for the first time. Earlier the method was using sshfs over Wifi. Thanks for all the work on libiphone, ifuse, libplist and usbmuxd. Also the new gtkpod works well over this new ifuse FUSE module and does it's db magic. Fortunately my device runs and older firmware, support for which was good. Sadly, Apple has since as always continued their stupidity in making sure any non-iTunes software does not work with the device. Good luck to all the newer firmware device owners.