Archive for January, 2006

CCP 0.3

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

CCP 0.3 is out! The major new feature in this release is the addition of automatic uncommenting support.
CCP will now try to detect which options the user has uncommented from –oldfile and automatically uncomment them in the resulting –newfile. This should *greatly* decrease the amount of oprhaned options that occurs. Also added is an automatic [...]

Italian ssh tips translation

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Now this is quite cool, Davide Duina (I think I spelled it right! :) of http://mandrakeitalia.org/ has posted an Italian translation of my SSH tips and tricks.
Original at: http://zerodogg.iamaturtle.org/index.php?type=docs&page=sshtips
Italian at: http://www.mandrakeitalia.org/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=151

The Greatest Music Video. Ever.

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Here’s a music video for the band Grandaddy written by some guy using an Apple 2!
It’s located at: http://www.stewdio.org/jed/MEDIA/jed_movie.mov
Or, for the oh-so-lazy of you:
cd /tmp/; wget http://www.stewdio.org/jed/MEDIA/jed_movie.mov; mplayer -fs ./jed_movie.mov; rm -f ./jed_movie.mov

CCP 0.2 released

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

This version contains multiple bugfixes, some which could cause various configuration files to not upgrade correctly. Among others, it fixes bug #15364.
In other news, the first package using CCP in Mandriva is out - which is squirrelmail :)

Todays word of wisdom

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
- Rich Cook

CCP 0.1 released

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

CCP version 0.1 has been released!
It can be downloaded from http://ccp.nongnu.org/download.html.
It’s also in Mandriva Linux (cooker) contrib.
The first package to use it is squirrelmail, which I updated today.

CCP can now autogenerate templates :)

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

CCP can now autogenerate the templates, so it’s pretty much ready for real-life testing.
Here’s the same example used in earlier posts.

[0 zerodogg@drizzt ccp]$ cat example.conf
# Example configuration file
SystemVersion = 0.1
Mode = public
Extensions = off

[0 zerodogg@drizzt ccp]$ cat example.conf.rpmnew
# Example configuration file
SystemVersion = 0.1
Mode = private
Extensions = on
AllowUsers = yes

[0 zerodogg@drizzt ccp]$ ./ccp –oldfile example.conf –newfile [...]

Hope you can have a happy new year

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

I wish you all a happy new year, and try to be nice to each other when it’s not christmas too.