Nathaniel McCallum

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systemd Rocks My World

In the spirit of giving credit where it is due, I had my first foray into systemd last week. It is well designed, implemented and documented. Kudos! If I have one complaint, its that in the documentation many subject matters that are related are divided into different areas (for example systemd.socket, systemd.service and systemd.exec). I’d [...]

Testing Needed (MongoDB)

I’ve built packages of MongoDB 2.0.2 for f15, f16 and f17. This should be a drop in replacement for your 1.8.x server. See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/2.0+Release+Notes#2.0ReleaseNotes-Upgrading for further details. However, I had to rewrite the patch providing js 1.8.5 support. So I’d like some hands on testing before I push out this update. The builds should appear shortly in updates-testing and [...]

Q: What do you call a Ruby programmer?

A: A rube

Arrived at FUDCon Blacksburg

I arrived at FUDCon this evening at about 5pm after picking up tdfischer and codeblocker from the airport. We went out to dinner with Colin Walters and John Palmieri and a bunch of others. It was a lot of fun. It was also great to meet up with Dan Walsh again and to meet Dave [...]