A day's worth of Twitter (103)

[afuna]

00:01:41	—	5000MB for the old disk image (some day I can delete it), and some 7000MB for the new one!
00:03:26	—	okay, trying to boot up the 64-bit profile (kernel disk image with ubuntu LTS 64bit)
00:03:43	—	hooray it didn't shut down on me!
00:37:07	—	whee copying over my files, pitifully small, but connection is also pitifully slow!t
00:45:27	—	hmmmm the amazon honor system thinks I'm my brother. Not cookies... IP?
00:51:01	—	Yay, booting into the 64-bit profile, and hopefully staying there
00:56:10	—	hmm, cannot ping afunamatata.com, even by IP
00:58:14	—	oh, it says powered off :( Well, let's see what's up
01:05:06	—	hmmmm it keeps powering off... :(
01:10:10	—	ta, searching for information on linode 64-bit. Maybe that will give me a clue
01:11:16	—	okay, this one looks promising (advises to use logview from lish) http://tinyurl.com/5apylc
01:31:07	—	just watched Idiocracy
01:50:14	—	being held up by problems with crashing when I try to use a 64-bit kernel :(
02:11:22	—	while waiting for a response from Linode (they are generally fast, so I am hoping before the weekend?), think I'll try on my macbook
02:11:54	—	so I know my MacBook is 64-bit capable (Intel Core 2 Duo, plus sysctl -a hw | grep 64bitcapable)
02:12:12	—	now I need to compile mysql and perl and maybe apache with 64bit architecture
02:12:42	—	$ file /usr/bin/perl indicates that it's not 64-bit! (ppc7400 and i386)
02:13:41	—	$ file /usr/sbin/httpd says that apache has four architectures, including 64bit capable! ppc7400, ppc64, i386, x86_64
02:14:17	—	hm no mysql installed
02:16:05	—	hmm putting /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin to force my compiled apps to override system compiled. Good idea, bad idea?
02:16:14	—	maybe I should just use it explicitly...
02:19:47	—	hehheh, the perl website has an <a href="current"> where it should say name="current" making the anchor not work/jump to the section!
02:27:11	—	getting more and more used to downloading source code to /usr/local/src :-) It's now consistent in all my environments
02:41:18	—	installing pel
02:41:25	—	make that perl!
02:41:46	—	start with downloading the source code (curl -O http://tinyurl.com/5asq9s ) to /usr/local/src
02:42:26	—	then extract to a temp dir, oh say ~/Downloads (tar xzvf perl-5.10.0.tar.gz -C ~/Downloads)
02:42:38	—	then go to that directory (cd /path/to/extracted/perl/directory)
02:42:57	—	and read the INSTALL instructions! (probably can find HTML formatted on the web) perlpod INSTALL
02:47:45	—	reading INSTALL to see what options I should be passing
03:09:55	—	./Configure -Dcc=gcc -Dprefix=/usr/local -Duse64bitall worked!!! I wonder if I can get it to accept a couple of other options...
03:12:33	—	I am excited. This is the first time I've looked at the manual to configure something, and been able to decide what options to use
03:13:04	—	instead of blindly following instructions in a tutorial, by people who know what's best for me!
03:13:24	—	and now that I have said this, it's probably going to break :p
03:16:08	—	@mayerman mac only though! Or at least, a few of these options (the ones for architecture) are macspecific
03:20:25	—	*not* indexing everything in ~/Library. Was regularly making Quicksilver use ~50-60% CPU
03:20:49	—	I think it was something like 90,000 items? It couldn't have been as many as 900,000...
03:21:16	—	so now just the Application Support, Preferences, Widgets
03:21:43	—	*yawn* make test is taking so long
03:21:54	—	oooh but the mysql tarball is almost done!
03:22:18	—	I love that I finally have time to do coding type work in my spare time again :)
03:24:01	—	All tests successful!!!!!
03:35:37	—	make, make test, sudo make install. Andnow! And now!
03:35:56	—	$ file /usr/local/bin/perl --> /usr/local/bin/perl: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64 \o/=====
03:36:53	—	hmm though I need to test in runtime. Crossing my fingers...
03:43:00	—	hmmm the instructions for installing the mysql binary may not be as easy though. (no groupadd for the mac. I think a GUI app?)
03:44:00	—	hmmm. maybe dscl?
03:47:01	—	aaargh google. Don't want to sign up for google groups with this account. I just want to read a thread!
03:49:59	—	adding a user from the commandline with leopard! http://tinyurl.com/39pl2p
04:01:19	—	ohhoho "dscl . -list /" and "dscl localhost -list /" are both useful for digging
04:05:18	—	ooh and "dscl . -readall /Users" makes some things clearer :)
04:19:17	—	hmm okay other than the dscl stuff, the rest of the installation works fine. I just need to remember how to make it start the daemon so ...
04:23:18	—	for some reason, aliases for me have always worked best in .bash_profile. Or is that .bashrc?
04:32:39	—	now on to installing mercurial! either easy_install -U mercurial or, a binary package (doing former)
04:34:00	—	oh, it's not working. nevermind
04:40:22	—	hmm easyinstall didn't work
04:56:36	—	oooh the openid thing is pretty
04:56:44	—	dropdown thing I mean
06:18:26	—	I tend to get really preachy in instructing when I am sleepy, ahahha
06:18:36	—	I say instructing. I mean giving out instructions. Oh dear
06:30:50	—	too much handholding. I find *everything* hilarious when I'm in this state of miiiind
06:35:02	—	so sleepy I'm not making any sense. And I *still* find everything hilarious
06:50:26	—	hmm I wonder if it'll be easier to install libgdbm or whatever it was that xmlparser needed, on Leopard?
06:51:02	—	running into problems because the mac is case insensitive!!! And there's an early.gif and an Early.gif in the same folder!!! grar
07:19:03	—	hah I am so sleepy that I cannot stand to hear any sounds. Hm
12:39:02	—	they fixed the case insensitivity thing! YAY happily downloading the code now
12:41:09	—	Now on to my server: Server has migrated me to a host that supports 64-bit!
12:41:47	—	huhhhh weird. I didn't realize that I'd not shutdown my linode. I said I did in preparation for migration. Oops
12:44:59	—	hm. on laptop, something timed out? and cvs/vcv/bin/vcv --checkout doesn't seem to be a valid option..
12:45:13	—	starting from scratch there
12:45:27	—	issuing a shutdown for my linode! Migration, here we come
12:52:47	—	migration done! Now trying to create a new disk image, and then boot..
12:59:55	—	eeeeeeeeeeh I am now on a 64-bit capable host. NOW TO INSTALL EVERYTHING
13:10:08	—	setting up everything from scratch. Mmmm
13:24:03	—	sudoers file: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers (how many times am I going to rediscover this link? or need to?)
14:21:09	—	on server now. Installing apropos..
14:21:26	—	oh no such. oh well
14:22:53	—	doing an install of `file command instead!
14:45:30	—	editing /etc/apt/sources.list...
14:48:21	—	installing screen!
14:48:31	—	umm or not. Damn
14:50:46	—	sudo aptitude update first! Good practice, yadda
14:51:43	—	okay, repository all right now (changed from us.archive to archive -- though I think I didn't need to do that)
14:51:57	—	what I needed, I suspect, was the aptitude update command!
14:57:34	—	installing irssi for private use *g*
15:06:06	—	hrrrm no irssi. Where did I get it before?
15:08:27	—	ooh it's not installing because I installed it a bit earlier. But now... why won't it read the config fil?
15:15:45	—	hmmm and need to set up a crontab...
15:25:20	—	oh hmm I'll need to set up the mail server and all *again*
15:40:09	—	dig is found in dnsutils package. So installing that now
15:51:09	—	okay! on to the serious business of creating dreamhack accounts!
16:10:28	—	yay back on irssi!
16:10:44	—	no bitlbee yet though!
16:35:18	—	whoa, man as in manpages isn't installed?
16:43:40	—	changing to intrepid so I'm getting mod_perl 2.0.4 so I don't get segfaults
17:13:25	—	okay now I'm finally at a point where I can try building a local apache..
17:38:55	—	hmm getting apache
17:38:59	—	also getting perl
18:11:38	—	dre just told me I don't need a separate apache instance for each dreamhack! MUCH BETTER
18:12:02	—	(hopefully I can figure out how. I suspect the thing with goathack is an artifact of lj using apache1.3?)
18:30:07	—	running apache with multiple httpd.conf files?
23:41:26	—	oooho you can run multiple instances of Apache with the same binary. Just did it, I think.
23:41:48	—	but... I am so excited about it, I can't make myself settle down enough to streamline it enough to be useful! *embarrassed*

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