General Ramblings

vMware workstation 6.5.3 on openSUSE 11.2

I have just upgraded to 11.2 from ubuntu 9.10 on my IBM / Lenovo T61 laptop. ( I will post a better blog about that later) What I wanted to mention here is that the current vMware workstation 6.5.3 does not want to run on my system. I have found this post …

Great News About rPath Images

General Bongo rPath VMware

I have great news about the images on the rPath system. I have been able to get Bongo 0.6.1 to build on the rPath system with a json patch from Alex. I have promoted it to the QA and RELEASE repo's so it should be available for you guys. Please test and let me know if you have any issues. You can find the images here

Bongo rPath Images

General Bongo rPath

I have been trying to get the latest 0.6.1 release of Bongo onto the rPath images. This unfortunately has not been possible due to our reliance on a newer version of Python than what is available on the rPath system. This is a sad moment as I have been doing that for quite some time now and will not be able to …

Images for Bongo 0.6.0

General Bongo rPath

I have been working on the images in the Suse Studio environment as I mentioned in my blog post here. I started the investigations to find that our RPM repository was in need of a bit of work. I wanted to create a new repository in my own name that would allow me to build these RPMs for the project. Thinking about the …

HTC Hero owner

General Personal Thoughts

Over the weekend I was able to have my mobile contract changed and part of the deal is that I get an HTC Hero. This has made me quite happy as I have been forced to run windows mobile on my old phone for far to long and it is refreshing that I have an android phone. The first thing I noticed was that the box was really …

Results of the OS poll

General Bongo rPath

You will be able to see from the poll archive that the following OS versions seem to be more popular Ubutnu 9.04 (53.0%, 19 Votes) Debian 5 (39.0%, 14 Votes) CENTOS 5 (28.0%, 10 Votes) openSuse 11.1 (22.0%, 8 Votes) Fedora 11 (19.0%, 7 Votes) I will now start to work on the packages for these OS's. From the outset I …

Reflection

Nature

Reflection Originally uploaded by lhaig This was taken in the Sandringham Estate. I found this puddle and tried to focus on the tree and got this strange result.