Infinite Improbability Driver

This is a repost of one of my old Blog Postings from 2005, It’s still current and applies to linux logical volume management. After the jump is the instructions on how to replace a member disc of an LVM2 volume group with a larger one..

I’ve performed this replacement more than a few times, getting rid of small, dying, or poorly performing disks, over the past few years I’ve gotten rid of any disks that aren’t Seagate. I’ve been really impressed with the Seagate drives, they’ve been fast, reliable, and I haven’t had any issues with them.
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I’m trying to update Prelude, but I needed a newer version of GnuTLS, to try and get GnuTLS-Devel building, I updated GetText, which broke everything because of the system ABI change (in a stable release of FreeBSD I might add).

20070318:
AFFECTS: users of devel/gettext (ie: YOU)
AUTHOR: ade@FreeBSD.org

As a result of the upgrade to gettext-0.16.1, the shared library version of libintl has changed, so you will need to rebuild all ports that depend on gettext (ie: most of them, sorry):

portupgrade -rf gettext

After getting this done, VIM was failing to build because of a GTK+ 1.2 dependency that was failing.. After a quick google search, I came across the following blog post: Tequila Fish: HowTo Install Vim from Ports without X-Windows which was a nice polished fix that will prevent VIM from trying to install the gVim GUI ever again.

With VIM installed and happy, and the system rebuilt (after 90mins of recompiling) things seem to be back to normal…

Now to see if I can install Prelude again..

During my travels today I ran across a rather mature-looking hosting system.. VHCS (”Virtual Hosting Control System”) is a control panel software for shared, reseller, virtual and dedicated server management.
I’ve seen a couple hacks to make it work on Gentoo, and I’ll probably give it a shot and let you know how I make out..

Ack! Missed my bus to get to work!

Here are a few projects I visited (some new, some old) while ’surfing’ this morning.. SourceForge and Freshmeat are good mmkay?

• Tor - provides a distributed network of servers (”onion routers”). Users bounce their communications (web, IM, IRC, SSH, etc.) around the routers. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, etc. to track the source of the stream.
• Squid Proxy for Onion Router - can significantly reduce the latency experienced when using the onion router network for web browsing.
• DSPAM - is an intelligent, adaptive spam filter capable capable of learning what spam is and isn’t based on each user’s individual email behavior. It is designed for both system-wide filtering and third party integration.
• Stunnel - is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local (inetd-startable) or remote server.
• PerfParse - facilitates the storage and analysis of binary performance data produced by Nagios and produces high-quality accurate graphs of live data from standard Nagios plugins.
• Gnu Hosting Helper - is a web hosting management package. This package provides tools to manage many of the aspects of a hosting environment. It also provides a client utility to perform tasks that a client needs such as managing email accounts.
• Asterisk PBX - is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.
• AMP Asterisk Management Portal - project to bring together best-of-breed applications to produce a “canned” (but fully functional) turn-key small business phone system based on The Asterisk Open Source PBX.
• IBS - ISP Billing System is an accounting service for ISPs that supports Prepaid VoIP/DialUP/Lan services. It also supports VoIP Call Detail Recording with radius accounting.
• Liquid Weather++ - is a superkaramba theme and desktop applet for displaying weather information and forecasts. You need superkaramba to run it and the kde desktop. It displays weather information in a compact and easy to read format - it’s pretty too.

See the updated post here.

Go Read this at GROKLAW: SCO’s Motion to Compel Discovery, it’s a comical piece.. especially when you think about the fact SCO is demanding IBM give them evidence on what IBM ’stole’.. I especially admired the comment reflecting this as the famous Monty Python Cheese Shop skit.

–shamelessly quoted from here. –
SCO’s Verbal Argument

(a judge takes his seat)

Judge: Good Morning.

SCO Lawyer: Good Morning, your honor!

Judge: Ah, thank you.

SCO Lawyer: What can I do for you, sir?

Judge: Well, I called this hearing to hear your reasons why you are suing IBM.
More specifically, to hear what kind of evidence you have against IBM.

SCO Lawyer: Ah, evidence!

Judge: In a nutshell, yes. So I thought to myself “a bit of verbal
argument from SCO might do this case good and shed some light on what this is
all about.”

SCO Lawyer: Come again?

Judge: I want to know about the code.

SCO Lawyer: Oh, I thought you were complaining about Mr. McBride’s open
letters!

Judge: Oh, heaven forbid - I find those laced with humorous snippets of verbose
prose!

SCO Lawyer: Sorry?

Judge: The letters are funny.

SCO Lawyer: So he can go on typing then, can he?

Judge: Most certainly! Now then, some evidence please, my good man.

SCO Lawyer: Certainly, sir. What would you like?

Judge: Well, eh, how about some SMP code violations?

SCO Lawyer: I’m afraid we couldn’t actually find any, sir.

Judge: Oh, never mind, how about JFS?

SCO Lawyer: I’m afraid we won’t have that till after discovery from IBM.

Judge: Tish tish. No matter. Well, stout lawyer, let’s see what you have
about NUMA.

SCO Lawyer: Ah! It’s still waiting on someone to put it on a cd, we were
expecting it this morning.

Judge: It’s not my lucky day, is it? Aah, RCU then?

SCO Lawyer: Sorry, sir.

Judge: Memory Allocation?

SCO Lawyer: Normally, sir, yes. Today the courier’s van broke down.

Judge: Ah. USB?

SCO Lawyer: Sorry.

Judge: LPT ports drivers? Serial ports?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: Any evidence about IDE drivers?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: SCSI?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: SATA?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: Floating point emulation?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: Video drivers?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: Keyboard drivers? Vi, emacs, sendmail, x-windows, man pages, bash
shell?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: “Tux Racer”, perhaps?

SCO Lawyer: Ah! We have evidence for that, yessir.

Judge: (suprised) You do! Excellent.

SCO Lawyer: Yes sir. The media it’s on tho, it’s …ah…it’s a bit smudged
up…

Judge: Oh, I don’t mind a bit of a reading challenge.

SCO Lawyer: Well…It’s very smudged, actually, sir.

Judge: No matter. Fetch hither the evidence of IBM’s wrong doing!

SCO Lawyer: I … think it’s a bit more smudged than you’d like, sir.

Judge: I don’t care how ****ing smudged it is. Hand it over will all speed.

SCO Lawyer: Ooooooooooohhhh…!

Judge: What now?

SCO Lawyer: The paralegal’s eaten it.

Judge: Has he.

SCO Lawyer: She, sir.

(Pause)

Judge: Grep?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: Gzip?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: You… do have some evidence, don’t you?

SCO Lawyer: (brightly) Of course, sir. It’s a lawsuit, sir. We’ve got…

Judge: No no… don’t tell me. I’m keen to guess.

SCO Lawyer: Fair enough.

Judge: Uuuuuh, Gimp?

SCO Lawyer: Yes?

Judge: Ah, well, let’s see the evidence on Gimp!

SCO Lawyer: Oh! I thought you were talking to me, sir. Mr. Gimp, that’s my
name.

(Pause)

Judge: KDE?

SCO Lawyer: Uh, not as such.

Judge: Uuh, GNOME?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: Ximian?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: OpenOffice?

SCO Lawyer: Not today, sir, no.

(Pause)

Judge: Aah, how about how you found your evidence then?

SCO Lawyer: Well, we weren’t expecting to have to answer that.

Judge: Weren’t expecting?… It’s one of the single most important pieces of
discovery!

SCO Lawyer: Not according to SCO, sir.

Judge: And just what is the most important piece, “according to
SCO”?

SCO Lawyer: Our MIT analysts.

Judge: Is it?

SCO Lawyer: It’s our number one piece of evidence, sir!

Judge: All right. Okay. ‘Are they here today?’ he asked, expecting the answer
“no”.

SCO Lawyer: I’ll have a look, sir … nnnnnnnnnnnnnnno.

Judge: It’s not much of a lawsuit, is it?

SCO Lawyer: Finest money can buy!

Judge: (annoyed) Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please.

SCO Lawyer: Well, it’s so full of legal jardon, sir!

Judge: It’s certainly uncontaminated by the burden of evidence…

SCO Lawyer: (brightly) You haven’t asked me about Pine, sir.

Judge: Would it be worth it?

SCO Lawyer: Could be….

Judge: Have you - (to McBride)SHUT THAT DAMN WORD PROCESSOR OFF!

SCO Lawyer: Told you sir….

Judge: (slowly) Have you any evidence that IBM misappropriated SCO UNIX code
into the PINE e-mail program?

SCO Lawyer: No.

Judge: Figures. Predictable, really I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism
to have posed the question in the first place. Tell me:

SCO Lawyer: Yes sir?

Judge: (Deliberately) Have you in fact got any evidence against IBM at all?

SCO Lawyer: Yes, sir.

Judge: Really?

(Pause)

SCO Lawyer: No. Not really, sir.

Judge: You haven’t.

SCO Lawyer: No sir. Not a scrap. I was deliberately wasting your time, sir.

Judge: Well I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to sentence you to death.

SCO Lawyer: Right-Oh, sir.

(The Baliff takes the SCO Lawyer out of the courtroom . A few minutes later, a
distant scream can be heard while the lights in the courtroom dim momentarily)

Judge: What a senseless waste of human life.