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For The Record

My stupid ass cable box finished updating after The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. This was, mind you, only once I:

1. Disconnected it from the mains
2. Connected it to the mains
3. Let it do the hex thing for about half an hour
4. Disconnected it from the mains again
5. Disconnected it from the cable
6. Connected it to the mains
7. Let it sit for ten minutes
8. Connected it to the cable
9. Let it do the hex thing for another five minutes

And before you start screaming that I shouldn't have pulled the mains while it was flashing its firmware: It's not like I wanted to disconnect the damn thing - I left the box for over twelve hours while it was stuck in a countdown (r.578, r.576, r.580, r.579, r.578, …).

My power most definitely did not fail during the update - the equipment is connected to a UPS which also backs my computers. Amazingly (or not), they've been running all day…

Failure to apply firmware updates: yet another reason why Cox sucks.

#lam3rZ

[23:07:18] <@dwc> hmm
[23:07:27] <@dwc> my cable box has been counting down in hex all day
[23:07:44] <@dwc> now it's going back up...
[23:07:48] <@dwc> FPOS
[23:08:20] <@dgr8bob> as long as you don't have to reset it every 108 minutes

Subversion Repositories Moved

I've moved my Subversion repositories to a new domain. For those using my Catalyst repository, you'll have to relocate:

cd /usr/local/overlays/perl-catalyst
svn switch --relocate \
  http://svn.westermann-clark.com/overlays/perl-catalyst/ \
  http://svn.danieltwc.com/overlays/perl-catalyst/

Redirects are in place, but Subversion doesn't handle them. It gives errors like:

svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/overlays/perl-catalyst'
svn: PROPFIND of '/overlays/perl-catalyst': 301 Moved Permanently (http://svn.westermann-clark.com)

Frankly that sucks. I could use mod_proxy to avoid breaking Subversion, but then no one will ever know that they need to relocate. :-(

So, sorry for breaking things, but it's a pretty easy fix.

There's an open bug about Subversion handling redirects. I really like the idea of printing an error message about the relocation.

And in case you're curious about the reasoning behind the change: I figured since I share the last name with other people, I shouldn't use it for my personal stuff. :-)

So Disappointing

I just saw a JCPenny commercial featuring The Flaming Lips' track The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song. WTF? I thought artists waited a while before selling out.

I bought their album for that song alone…

Gentoo Overlays

The Gentoo Overlays site is now public. I saw bits and pieces about it on Gentoo Universe before the release, but it's still nice to see such a well executed idea.

Each project or developer gets their own Subversion repository and Trac installation. Commits are aggregated using Planet to the main overlays page.

It's stuff like this that makes me love Gentoo.

I'm especially interested to see what happens with Project Sunrise. On the one hand, it could be a great source for software that isn't in the main Portage tree for one reason or another. On the other hand, it might get quite chaotic. :)