Patrick Volkerding of Slackware fame is feeling much better I guess. He’s mentioned on Slashdot this morning. Anyway, he’s back to working on Slackware and has made a number of changes in slackware-current.
I also moved my MySQL server from running on the router to running on the machine that serves as the web server. Page load time went down quite a bit as a result.
Here’s what Slashdot says about Patrick:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/12/19/2251212.shtml?tid=99
Many changes have taken place in Dropline Gnome, and there are many more to come.
Todd, the founder of Dropline Gnome is no longer participating in the project. He’s handed the project off to some forum members that he felt he could trust.
Those guys have done an excellent job so far. I’m running their test release of DLG 2.8.2 and it works wonderfully on my 2 Slackware machines. One is running a 2.6 kernel the other is on a 2.4 kernel. No problems what so ever on either of the systems so far.
Here’s some screenshots of the new Dropline Gnome:
http://dropline.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3676
As most people know, Peterson was sentenced to death in California the other day. The BBC had a section about this on their evening news lastnight.
While watching the BBC, I learned more about the case in 5 minutes than I’d learned in 1 year watching Fox News and the regular news outlets. The coverage provided by Fox was bullshit. Stupid ass comentators and hosts blathering on about neverending “what if’s” and arguing with eachother.
But yah, the asshat is gonna die in California…I heard lastnight that California has some 650 other people waiting on death-row. I just think it’s funny hearing what foreigners have to say about it. They do a much better job of giving the facts than anyone here in the states…they didn’t seem biased. That can’t always be said about the BBC though.
Communication between the U.S. Military and their contractors must be real shitty. I lost the story that I read yesterday about this.
But, there’s one company that makes the armor for the Army’s Humvee’s. A spokesman for that company said yesterday that they could boost productivity by 20% without any investments. He also stated that they’re waiting on the Army to “give them the word” to start making more.
I think this whole “lack of armor” deal stems from bad communication between all parties involved. The contractor could have made it known earlier that they can ramp up production without any investment. The Army could have asked if an increase in production was possible.
I still haven’t heard if the Army did give go-ahead to start producing more armor for the Humvees. I can’t find the original story I read yesterday, but here’s another one that deals with the subject:
http://www.usatoday.com/short-military-armor_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
The Albuquerque Tribune online has an interesting article about Donald Rumsfeld answering some questions from troops in Iraq. I guess he went to give a pep talk sorta thing.
During a question and answer session, Army Spc. Thomas Wilson brought up the fact that military vehicles are lacking armor:
“Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmor our vehicles?”
Rummy asked him to repeat his question:
“We do not have proper armored vehicles to carry with us north.”
Rumsfeld’s response was bullshit and probably caused more harm to soldier morale. Pep talks are usually meant to boost morale, not degrade it.
Rummy’s reply was simply “You go to war with the Army you have, not the one you want.” And “You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and it can (still) be blown up.”
I can’t believe the Secretary of Defense would say something like this. It almost sounds like he doesn’t give a shit about the troops in Iraq. A person in his position should be more sensetive to topics like this. It’s very important for the soldiers and their families.
Here’s the full story:
http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news04/120804_news_rumsfeld.shtml
