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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="assets/xml/rss.xsl" media="all"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>duckland.org news</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/</link><description>News from duckland.org</description><atom:link href="http://www.duckland.org/rss.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2015 21:00:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>http://getnikola.com/</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><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><div><p>As the month draws to a close, I am further into the switch. I have rebuilt my main laptop to <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PCBSD</a>. I am still setting a few things up, but it seems to be going well.</p>
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<p>Two things I need to fix:</p>
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<li><strong>Skype</strong>: 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.</li>
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<li><strong>Nikola</strong>: 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.</li>
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<p>Now, the fun of the weekend is here, so I am off!</p></div></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><div><p>Today is day 14 (pushing day 15 at this hour), and things are looking very good. Today, I got word from the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PCBSD Project</a> that a patch which I submitted to fix the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.duckland.org/posts/201407freebsd-switch.html">issue with the WiFi NIC</a>. Well, I got notice today that <a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/7330">PCBSD Bug #7330</a> has been resolved, and I tested on the R810. It works!</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Then, fun things like configure &amp; use IPv6. I have two FreeBSD VSP servers to test with...it will be fun!</p></div></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><div><p>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?</p>
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<p>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, <a class="reference external" href="http://aftershotpro.com">AfterShotPro</a> is installed and working (see <a class="reference external" href="http://www.duckland.org/posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-4-6.html">my previous desciption</a> 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.</p>
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<p>I was using <a class="reference external" href="http://chromium.org">Chromium</a>, 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.</p>
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<p>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; 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.</p>
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<p>And, the new site generating suite I am using works under FreeBSD. I wrote and posted this from the FreeBSD laptop.</p>
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<p>More updates soon.</p></div></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><div><p>As 2014 draws to a close, I look back at the year.</p>
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<p>Overall, it was a good year. The family staid reasonably health (just a case of the flu which every one of us caught).</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Also, I want to revisit the 30 Day FreeBSD challenge again in January. I have the old HP R810 running <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PCBSD 10.1</a> 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.</p>
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<p>Just to prove things, this post was written under FreeBSD.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>I hope your 2015 is a great year.</p></div></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>Another Year</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/another-year.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>Well, 2014 is drawing to a close. For the most part, it has been a good year with the family, but time is always in short supply. I am going to try to focus a bit more on my photography, as well as technology. We shall see.</p>
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<p>Happy new year, and make it a safe one.</p></div></description><category>personal</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/another-year.html</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2014 00:33:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Look (again)</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/new-look-again.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><p>I was having some issues with my word press site, so I decided to look around for something else. I found a static-site generator, and I think I like it. So, I flipped this site over to it. I might flip the reset RealSoonNow(TM).</p></description><category>sitenews software</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/new-look-again.html</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 06:26:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>This posting thing is not working right now</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201412this-posting-thing-is-not-working-right-now.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><p>Wow...missed November by that much. It was a good month, but busy with the start of the holidays and all.</p>
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<p>A bit of work in the background on some projects, but nothing to show for it. Still a new picture daily over at my <a href="http://www.donaldharper.com/">photo blog</a>, so go check it out.</p></description><category>personal</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201412this-posting-thing-is-not-working-right-now.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:12:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Another Month Going Quick.</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201410another-month-going-quick.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><p>Well, October is almost over already. Time flies. This fall has been very busy with non-work things. Kids in sports (with me being the coach for one of them), kids doing scouts, kids doing Y Adventure program (with me in the leadership), kids in advance classes at school.</p>
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<p>Free time, how I miss you.</p></description><category>personal</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/201410another-month-going-quick.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:10:00 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><p>So, even though I have been starting to <a href="http://www.duckland.org/2014/06/back-to-freebsd-maybe-back-to-the-challenge">work with</a> <a href="http://www.duckland.org/2014/07/freebsd-switch">FreeBSD</a> <a href="http://www.duckland.org/2014/08/one-step-closer">again</a>, I am still running <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/">ArchLinux</a> on my workstation.</p>
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<p>And I wanted to run a script I wrote a long time ago to support a <a href="http://www.donaldharper.com/">website</a> 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.</p>
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<p>Except the script is in perl, and it uses some modules which are not main-stream. While perl has the awesome <strong>cpan(1perl)</strong> command to fetch and install perl modules, I wanted it to be tied into <strong>pacman(8)</strong> . A quick trip to the <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/">AUR</a> turned up the tools <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-cpanplus-dist-arch-git/">cpan2aur</a> and <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgbuild-introspection-git/">mkaurball</a> 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.</p>
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<p>Yeah!</p></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><p>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.</p>
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<p>So far, not much different than running Arch for the server. But, the magic will be when I start working with jails...</p></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></channel></rss> |