Amazing Ubuntu Uptime

I honestly can't remember an uptime on my Ubuntu workstations or laptops that has reached this high, pretty sure it was due to the fact that most of the folks at Canonical might have been with their hands full with the Lucid Lynx release.

Samba copy sucks

Today copied a few isos from a Windows 2K box to Trantor, via Samba share on the PowerBook, boy that sucks...

Bs As weather once again

Fucking with us...
The faint winter echo that we had simply vanished over the weekend, leaving us in BsAs with a piece of shit humid weather, and a sky rocket temperature.
Autumn, right, sure, autumn.

The current Ubuntu theme

Been buried by work this week, not much free time to post anything on my beloved Oesediez I'm afraid...
The screenshot shows that it is pretty obvious that I still have that Lucid Lynx fetish (link 1 link 2 link 3) going on...

Now, this is autumn

This is a real autumn, rainy and somewhat cold, with a bit of a wind too.
Nothing like the piece of shit Sunday

CPUs to the n

Two nice & easy screenshots displaying the mighty power of a Dual Quad Core...
Compare these with the little brother, about 2 years ago, although, big brother here has a bit less of RAM.

Autumn... Yeah, right...

We scratched the 30 degrees mark today, yeah, autumn... Sure...

Everything is violet

Already said it, but, I love the look that the new Ubuntu release will have.

Today went to the local mall, couple of blocks from my place, to take a look at some books, and, for what I saw at all the shops, certainly looks like violet it is a truly "in" color for the upcoming winter fashions as well.

Screenshot courtesy of segphault

mod_proxy on Ubuntu Server

These links come really handy with the setup:

How To: Enable apache modules under Debian based system
Install mod_proxy
One suggestion re: Forbidden access via Apache Proxies

PF Sense setup (II)

A little package to show (in real time) the bandwidth use on the PF Sense firewall.
It is called "rate", and it is available from the "Available Packages" menu entry.

This package adds a table of realtime bandwidth usage by IP address to Status -> Traffic Graphs

PF Sense setup (I)

Will try to keep a journal (daily, hopefully) of what I'm doing on the PF setup.

Today got the OpenVPN up & running; it way more complex than doing so if you run, say, Endian, as your router/ firewall/ UTM solution; but once it is up and running, it seems, it feels more robust.
By far, the greatest PITA is setting up the PKI files.

This is the openvpn line to connect as client, for the moment, at least:

sudo openvpn --client --pull --comp-lzo --nobind --dev tun \
--ca ~/ca.crt --cert ~/certificate.crt --key ~/key.key \
--remote my.pf-sense.router --proto tcp

It's alive!!!!!

Ahhh!! Winter, my old friend, you do exit, and you're still alive!!!

It so nice to finally contemplate this summer die, the days are starting to get short, and, boy, you open a windows and there is cool breeze of air flowing!

gcc upgrade

Some notes on a gcc compile/ upgrade I did...

gcc upgrade
-----------
gmp:
[root]# ./configure
[root]# make
[root]# make check
[root]# make install

mpfr:
[root]# ./configure
checking for __gmpz_init in -lgmp... no
configure: error: libgmp not found or uses a different ABI.

[root]# ./configure --with-gmp=/usr/local/lib/
checking for __gmpz_init in -lgmp... no
configure: error: libgmp not found or uses a different ABI.

[root]#  grep "^CC\|^CFLAGS" gmp-4.3.1/Makefile
CCLD = $(CC)
CC = gcc
CCAS = gcc -c
CC_FOR_BUILD = gcc

[root]# ./configure CC=gcc
checking for __gmpz_init in -lgmp... no
configure: error: libgmp not found or uses a different ABI.

[root]# ./configure --with-gmp-lib=/usr/local/lib/ CC=gcc

make
make check
====================
All 148 tests passed
====================

gcc:
[root]# ./configure

[root]# make
Makefile:27: *** GNU make version 3.80 or newer is required..  Stop.

make:
[root]# ./configure
[root]# make
[root]# make check 

78 Tests Complete ... No Failures :-)

The system uptime program believes the load average to be:
uptime
  2:34pm  up 144 days,  1:50,  1 user,  load average: 0.65, 0.41, 0.33
The GNU load average checking code thinks:
./loadavg
1-minute: 0.650000  5-minute: 0.410000  15-minute: 0.330000  

=====================================================================
 Regression PASSED: GNU Make 3.80 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) built with gcc 
=====================================================================

gcc:
[root]# ./configure
[root]# make 
[root]# make check
Completed 1 tests
Finalized 2206/2206 objects - finalization is probably ok
Total number of bytes allocated is 49827512
Final heap size is 5558272 bytes
Collector appears to work
PASS: gctest
==================
All 1 tests passed
==================

[root]# make install

make[3]: *** [sel-sched-ir.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/gcc-4.4.0/host-i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc'
make[2]: *** [all-stage1-gcc] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gcc-4.4.0'
make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gcc-4.4.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Abandon all hope

A japanese site with truly amazing pictures of all kinds of abandoned places.