I keep running into this issue everytime I have to run vmware tools so I thought I'd mention it here. vmware-tools insists on rewriting /etc/modprobe.conf and changing "alias sound-slot-0 snd-ens1371" to "alias sound es1371".

I have no idea why, but this keeps removing sound everytime I upgrade a …

Short of implementing some more error checking and making things a bit prettier, the "RPM Query Suite" is pretty much done. I've finished rqp, the counter-part to rqs. rqp imports the requires, provides, and file lists of binary rpm packages into a postgresql (or mysql, or sqlite (although I've only …

Just spent most of the day and quite a bit of yesterday porting a program Stew wrote for the secteam (called srpm) that builds a database of src.rpm files so you can do queries on source files (this is extremely useful for us in determining whether or not a …

Just found today when I was looking to see if I missed something with the mutt sidebar patch (still irritates me that I have to sync a mailbox before jumping to another mailbox in order for the counts in the sidebar to be updated properly), that mutt 1.5.15 …

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to install 2007.1 on a HP TX1120 laptop (a tablet). This is a really slick laptop; it's an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56 (1.8GHz), with 2GB RAM, a Seagate 160GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (ok, the graphics card leaves a …

Well, I've played WoW for about 2 years now... it doesn't do much for me anymore. I had hopes with the Burning Crusade expansion and it was pretty neat playing an over-sized smurf for a while, but now it's pretty much all the same old thing. Kinda frustrating, feels like …

I just setup a CIA.vc account for Mandriva which is available here: http://cia-vc.org/stats/project/Mandriva. Should be interesting to see the statistics, and I presume we'll be "front-page" most of the time simply due to the number of commits that go through on a daily basis …

Well, yesterday was Stew Benedict's last day with Mandriva. Stew has been working with me on security updates for a few years now and it has been an absolute pleasure to work with him for that time. He's moved on, and I respect that... probably needed something different. Stew was …

I came across an interesting editorial today entitled Vista - Arrogance & Stupidity. It was an extremely interesting read. So interesting, in fact, that I had to share it just because it astounds me what Microsoft is (or isn't, as the case may be) thinking. Disclaimer: I have spent all of 5 …

I decided to give the new Mandriva 2007.1 RC1 a try. Since I mirror cooker, I figured I'd do a straight "urpmi --auto-select" upgrade on my 2007 box rather than downloading a bunch of ISOs. So it's not really RC1 (really, with a few hundred packages being changed since …