Planet HUMBUG

Ben Martin: Mounting KDE pastebin

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:36:36 +0000

Ferris has extended its claws to allow the pastebin at http://paste.kde.org to be mounted. Since bash doesn't know libferris at all, without fuse you can use ferris-redirect to pipe information into any file that libferris can use as shown below (-T truncates like ">" in bash).


mkdir /tmp/test
cd    /tmp/test
date > df1.txt
cat df1.txt | ferris-redirect -T pastebin://kde.org/new/foo
...
 http://paste.kde.org/199754/

If you just have one file, then the "new" directory itself will act as a target too:


echo anyone, anyone... | ferris-redirect -T pastebin://kde.org/new
...
 http://paste.kde.org/199760/

And because everybody knows that key protected pastebins are the new red, the following will need to have "goodkeyhere" on hand to read the data back...


echo this is secret, dudes | ferris-redirect -T pastebin://kde.org/private/goodkeyhere
...
 http://paste.kde.org/199772/35847813/

The final directory is the "list" which contains virtual files allowing you to get a paste through the virtual filesystem. Of course, you could just fcat the http:// URL for the paste, but a nice tree is a nice tree.


fls  pastebin://kde.org/list/
... 199700
fcat pastebin://kde.org/list/199700

James McPherson: We have a date

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:57:49 +0000

J just got a call from the clinic, her stereotactic radiosurgery will happen next Wednesday. It’s surgery rather than therapy because they can do it all in one hit. *Boggle*.

It’ll take one hour.

Only.

Brain surgery in your lunchbreak, ftmfw.

James McPherson: pssst! wanna darktable package set for Solaris 11?

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:55:56 +0000

A few months ago I got Darktable built on my Solaris 11 Express system. Between then and now I was distracted by $DAYJOB (getting Solaris 11 ready for release seemed to take a few cycles ;->), so it wasn’t until last Friday night that I got around to trying the new version, 0.9.3.

Having learnt something from the previous effort, I used gcc 4.6 from the start, for all the prereqs and darktable itself. I want to make this available to others, too, so I’ve spent a few hours building IPS packages and getting things just right. They’re not _quite_ 100% yet, a few rough edges remain. However, I think they’re generally ready to offer up for feedback.

I’ve built them against Solaris 11 FCS on the x64 platform; they might work with OpenIndiana build 151 too.

You WILL need to add the SFE repo so you can get the GCC 4.6 runtime. To do this, utter

# pkg set-publisher -g http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe sfe

Then download the gzipped p5p archive for Darktable 0.9.3, and utter

UPDATE: Shawn’s comment alerted me to a need to change the syntax here:

# gunzip /path/to/darktable-0.9.3.p5p.gz # pkg install -g /path/to/darktable-0.9.3.p5p 'darktable*'

This will pull in the prereq packages that I’ve identified and should add the darktable elements to your system’s gconf schema.

Here is the content of the p5p archive:

$ pkg list -g /scratch/web/htdocs/Packages/darktable-0.9.3.p5p

NAME (PUBLISHER)	VERSION	IFO
darktable/darktable (JMCP)	0.9.3	i--
darktable/library/OpenEXR (JMCP)	1.7.0	i--
darktable/library/exiv2 (JMCP)	0.22	i--
darktable/library/flickcurl (JMCP)	1.22	i--
darktable/library/ilmbase (JMCP)	1.0.2	i--
darktable/library/lcms2 (JMCP)	2.3	i--
darktable/library/lensfun (JMCP)	0.2.5	i--
darktable/library/tiff4 (JMCP)	4.0.0	i--

Here’s the screenshot:

There were a few diffs required, you’ll find them in the Solaris_diffs files, or here for darktable 0.9.3, OpenEXR 1.7.0 and lensfun 0.2.5.

Ben Martin: ODF+RDF coming soon to an abiword near you!

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:53:48 +0000

Although all the talks are up on youtube, the ogv "free" version is also now available from linux.org.au.

Note that all the talks from LCA 2012 are up there too.