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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../assets/xml/rss.xsl" media="all"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>duckland.org news (sa)</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/</link><description></description><atom:link href="http://www.duckland.org/categories/sa.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:00:02 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>http://getnikola.com/</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Quick Ansible Tip</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/quick-ansible-tip.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a quick post to capture something seen. &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://www.ansible.com"&gt;Ansibel&lt;/a&gt; is a configuration management tool that I have been learning recently. More details in a future post. This is just to capture this idea:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From: Smith, Chris (Big Data)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To: ansible&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ansible Galaxy is a centralised Github repository of public Ansible content, see: &lt;a class="reference external" href="https://galaxy.ansible.com/"&gt;https://galaxy.ansible.com/&lt;/a&gt; It uses a local routine that is installed when you install Ansible, called ‘ansible-galaxy’, to create a blank template for your Ansible content. What is not well known is you can run ‘ansible-galaxy’ in offline mode to create a blank template using the command:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;# ansible-galaxy init --offline my-role&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Enjoy,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Chris&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More on this as I get some more back-ends stuff taken care of, like setting up a git repo and maybe auto-deploy from git push?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>ansible</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/quick-ansible-tip.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2015 12:24:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, End Report</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/30daychallengefreebsdsa.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, again, I hit something which is causing massive disk performance issues. That, and suspend/resume does not work on either laptop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would try to debug the issues, but that means learning a whole new set of tools, and I will not have time for a while. Next week, I am in week long meetings which will run late every day, and then I have to finish writing and present a training class the last week of the month. The hour or two I can spare will be far better spent for me by backup, re-installing &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://www.archlinux.org"&gt;ArchLinux&lt;/a&gt; than by starting to learn the tools. Yes, a bit of a cop-out, but I need the machines to do what I need to do. I will keep the servers FreeBSD, however, as it works great there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will revisit the issue of FreeBSD on the laptops when I either get new kit, or support for my models gets better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>linux</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/30daychallengefreebsdsa.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:43:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, Day 30 Update</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-30-update.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the month draws to a close, I am further into the switch. I have rebuilt my main laptop to &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org"&gt;PCBSD&lt;/a&gt;. I am still setting a few things up, but it seems to be going well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Two things I need to fix:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul class="simple"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skype&lt;/strong&gt;: While there is not a native client, there are lots of folks who report success with the Linux client. I will need to do some research.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nikola&lt;/strong&gt;: The software I use for my blogs. It throws a python error when I run it, so I cannot update things. Again, I think I just need to do some more research.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, the fun of the weekend is here, so I am off!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-30-update.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2015 21:38:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, Day 14</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-14.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today is day 14 (pushing day 15 at this hour), and things are looking very good. Today, I got word from the &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org"&gt;PCBSD Project&lt;/a&gt; that a patch which I submitted to fix the &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://www.duckland.org/posts/201407freebsd-switch.html"&gt;issue with the WiFi NIC&lt;/a&gt;. Well, I got notice today that &lt;a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/7330"&gt;PCBSD Bug #7330&lt;/a&gt; has been resolved, and I tested on the R810. It works!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, I just need to get a few things configured here first, like snapshots, backups, and porting my SDCARD reading scripts over to FreeBSD, and I should be good.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then, fun things like configure &amp;amp; use IPv6. I have two FreeBSD VSP servers to test with...it will be fun!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-14.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 05:51:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Update on revisiting FreeBSD Challenge</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/update-on-revisiting-freebsd-challenge.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is the 10th day of the month, and I am 10 days in trying to use FreeBSD as my daily non-work driver. How is it going?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, for the most part, well. I can spend most of my personal work-flow on the FreeBSD laptop with no issues. There are a couple of things I have not moved over yet, and those relate to my photo work-flow. The main application, &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://aftershotpro.com"&gt;AfterShotPro&lt;/a&gt; is installed and working (see &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://www.duckland.org/posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-4-6.html"&gt;my previous desciption&lt;/a&gt; of installing in), however, I have not moved over the scripts I use in the flow. I believe they will just come over, but I have not had a chance to test them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was using &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://chromium.org"&gt;Chromium&lt;/a&gt;, but any Flash site did not work. I need to revisit this at some point, but for now I went back to Firefox, and it is working create.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The only major thing right now I need to figure out is how FreeBSD deals with sound. I can hear things from the speakers just fine, but I need to figure out how to enable and use an USB headset. Not the biggest, but still. I also need to either install &amp;amp; configure Skype, or find a replacement video chat to use with the wife while traveling that works under FreeBSD. I like the second option better, but I have not really had the time to do the research.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And, the new site generating suite I am using works under FreeBSD. I wrote and posted this from the FreeBSD laptop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More updates soon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/update-on-revisiting-freebsd-challenge.html</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 04:35:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Goodbye 2014!</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/goodbye-2014.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;As 2014 draws to a close, I look back at the year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Overall, it was a good year. The family staid reasonably health (just a case of the flu which every one of us caught).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Work slowed down a bit after only three trips, and the last one was in June, but I did get to spend two weeks in London which was cool. While the work has been not what I really want to be doing, it has been interesting, and next year promises to be very interesting. I have no clue if travel is in the cards or not, but I will keep the camera handy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the coming year, I plan to focus on health, photography, and technology. I want to get back to taking photos every day, and to bring the quality back up to art level over the snapshots and historical documentation that I have been doing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, I want to revisit the 30 Day FreeBSD challenge again in January. I have the old HP R810 running &lt;a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org"&gt;PCBSD 10.1&lt;/a&gt; already set up that I have been using for a couple of days working the kinks out of it, so I think I can do it this time. Normal caveat applies...I have a work laptop which dual boots Windows 8.1 and Fedora 21 for my work stuff. The home stuff should work nicely on the laptop.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just to prove things, this post was written under FreeBSD.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also need to fix up my virtual host farm. I have one too many, and do not need it, but of course, it is the one with the main mail and other services, so I need to hurry up and migrate things off of it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I hope your 2015 is a great year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>personeal</category><category>photo</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/goodbye-2014.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:44:55 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Perl, Modules, and Package Management</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201409perl-modules-and-package-management.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;So, even though I have been starting to &lt;a href="http://www.duckland.org/2014/06/back-to-freebsd-maybe-back-to-the-challenge"&gt;work with&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.duckland.org/2014/07/freebsd-switch"&gt;FreeBSD&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.duckland.org/2014/08/one-step-closer"&gt;again&lt;/a&gt;, I am still running &lt;a href="http://www.archlinux.org/"&gt;ArchLinux&lt;/a&gt; on my workstation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And I wanted to run a script I wrote a long time ago to support a &lt;a href="http://www.donaldharper.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; of mine, which I have not updated in a while. The way I would update the site is by doing some batch editing of photos, park them in a directory, and then run my script which pushes the photos to the web server, and then interfaces with the CMS software to schedule the posts and all is good.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Except the script is in perl, and it uses some modules which are not main-stream. While perl has the awesome &lt;strong&gt;cpan(1perl)&lt;/strong&gt; command to fetch and install perl modules, I wanted it to be tied into &lt;strong&gt;pacman(8)&lt;/strong&gt; . A quick trip to the &lt;a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/"&gt;AUR&lt;/a&gt; turned up the tools &lt;a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-cpanplus-dist-arch-git/"&gt;cpan2aur&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgbuild-introspection-git/"&gt;mkaurball&lt;/a&gt; which made it pretty easy to package up and post the the AUR the 9 perl modules I needed to get my script going and keep track of things with pacman.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yeah!&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>arch</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201409perl-modules-and-package-management.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:09:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>One step closer</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201408one-step-closer.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;So, I have upgraded my servers at the house to FreeBSD, and have set up the basic functions needed on them. So, now, I am down to only my main laptop running Linux. Oh, and the work machine which runs Windows 8.1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So far, not much different than running Arch for the server. But, the magic will be when I start working with jails...&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201408one-step-closer.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 01:08:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Switch</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201407freebsd-switch.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I just noticed I have not updated this in a few weeks. Sorry about that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have my R810 running PCBSD 10.0.2, and I just patched and configured WiFi on it. I need to figure out how to submit a patch to see if I can get the Centrino supported in the main-line kernel so I do not have to compile a custom kernel just for that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I almost have this working where I can switch to it full time. I need to deal with getting my &lt;strong&gt;killer&lt;/strong&gt; apps installed and working. I had most (all?) of them working before, so I know I can do it again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Currently, FireFox is not working for me for some reason, but Chromium is, so I will use that for now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have started a wiki to keep some notes for myself on this (what SA has not done that?), so I hope this process will be easier this time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;peace.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201407freebsd-switch.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:07:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Back to FreeBSD (maybe back to the challenge)</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201406back-to-freebsd-maybe-back-to-the-challenge.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;So, I had a bit of time over the weekend, and spent it doing a bit of hacking around.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I had re-installed &lt;a href="http://www.pcbsd.org"&gt;PC-BSD&lt;/a&gt; on my HP EliteBook R810. I used 10.0.2, and everything but the wireless looked good. I decided to try to get the wireless working with the internal WNIC. &lt;a href="http://www.duckland.org/2014/04/freebsd-challenge,-day-17"&gt;Previously&lt;/a&gt;, I used an external dongle to get WiFi working, but it was a pain to remember to pull it out, so I decided to try again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I updated the base OS to 10-CURRENT, and then 'patched' the source tree using the info I found &lt;a href="https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=35467"&gt;in this forum post&lt;/a&gt;. Once I rebooted, and used the PC-BSD tools to enable the device, things worked! Since this was only last night, I need to test it a bit to make sure it stands up to load.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169433"&gt;PR&lt;/a&gt;, and support &lt;strong&gt;has&lt;/strong&gt; been added to HEAD. I am going try to write a patch to get this added before then. I will need to see if I can figure out how to do that. :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Since my work laptop uses the same WNIC, I am one step closer to being able to install it on the work machine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am going to see about trying to use &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;dragon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as my non-work daily driver and shake out what I need to do, so I may be restarting the &lt;a href="http://www.duckland.org/tag/30DayChallenge"&gt;30 Day Challenge&lt;/a&gt; again, but a lot of that depends on how work goes.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201406back-to-freebsd-maybe-back-to-the-challenge.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 20:06:09 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>