The more eagle-eyed readers may have noticed my recent lack of posts to this site. This has been caused by a number of factors, not least of which is that I have been diagnosed with a bit of a medical condition and have been taking things easy whilst I pop the medication and wait for things to sort themselves out, which they should do, given time. Fortunately I was diagnosed very quickly and the treatment appears to be going well.
I received a couple of emails from people which have not only corrected a mistake or two in ftp-mfxx, but have also given me the necessary nudge to try and get this out as an RFC. I’ve updated the draft (available in publications) and submitted it to be published on internet-drafts… once there, I will try again to get the RFC Editor to publish it as a RFC.
Here is the announcement on the I-D list.
Further to my earlier post about The 56 Geeks Project, Scott has, as part of the Build A Geek Project, inked my very own geek: The Caffeine-Powered Geek. Those who know me know that I tend to drink coffee in humungous quantities.
Here’s the announcement on the EL site, and as you can see Scott’s other custom geek released today is The Chocolate Geek, which is quite funny since I have a bit of a chocolate addiction too (although more for white than Rashid’s dark chocolate).
Fantastic stuff from Scott Johnson of the webcomic Extra Life. A few of those are defiantly me (apple geek; code geek; gadget geek; book geek; engineer geek), but my main geek type is missing… think I’ll treat myself to a Christmas present of having it made.
Update 2007-12-19: Scott is now working on my own custom geek :-)
Update 2007-12-23: Scott just sent over a prelimenary sketch… its looking good for inking and colo(u)ring.
I have bumped my ebuild for argv to version 2.6.1 To get this ebuild into your local portage tree do: And then: Enjoy.# rsync -rztp --delete rsync://rsync.omz13.com/local-portage/dev-libs/argv /usr/local/portage/dev-libs# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge argv
I have bumped my ebuild for asn1c to version 0.9.21.
To get this ebuild into your local portage tree do:
# rsync -rztp --delete rsync://rsync.omz13.com/local-portage/dev-util/asn1c /usr/local/portage/dev-util
And then:
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge asn1c
Enjoy.
I have just sent an email to the RFCEditor to request that draft-somers-ftp-mfxx-03 be published as an Experimental RFC. I would have hoped it would have gone down the standard track path but, alas, the IETF Application Area ADs have shown little interest. (C’est la vie).Here is the response I got from the RFC Editor:
The RFC Editor is more than a little mystified by the utility of these
extensions.
Why would an FTP client WANT to modify the file meta data at the
server, and even more, why would a server ALLOW a client to do
so!!?? I sure as heck would not want MY FTP server to implement
these commands!
I’ll leave it up to your imaginations as to what I think of this slap-in-the-face.
Today, I had a few hours to spare, so I bit the bullet and upgraded Wordpress to version 2.3.1, which brings me, your humble scribe and site administrator, a few benefits (and also hopefully a few less security holes, etc.). The main benefits being native tag support and an inbuilt editor that now works with Safari and not just IE. As the server is running gentoo it was a matter of typing a couple of lines into the bash shell and the upgrade was almost done… a quick visit into the admin pages to upgrade the database, and the site was up again. When I need to make a few behind the scenes tweaks, with 2.3 I can now use the Maintenance Mode plugin, so this was installed and activated whilst I did things like import the article tags from Ultimate Tag Warrior so that they are now managed by the native engine, and upgraded the theme from Copperleaf Plus 1.18 to Fluid Blue. I hope everybody likes the new theme and layout. I have tried to keep the layout nice and clean, and the first page has been greatly simplified.
Those who subscribe to this site using RSS will notice that articles now have a copyright banner and a link to the original article.This is all being done by a spiffy WordPress plug-in called FeedEntryHeader.How did I discover this wonderful plug-in? As ever, it came from one of the feeds that I read: Column2. In an article called Fun with feeds, Sandy talks about FeedEntryHeader, and refers back to an earlier article (on how her feed was abused) which explains why these things are sadly necessary.
It has been a long time, but a new version of cvsnt is out: today 2.5.04.2911 was announced.
I have bumped my gentoo ebuild.
As always, get my ebuilds for cvsnt into your local-portage tree using rsync as follows:
# rsync -rztp --delete rsync://rsync.omz13.com/local-portage/dev-util/cvsnt /usr/local/portage/dev-util
To install, do the usual:
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge cvsntEnjoy!