Paul's Journal

11/12/2011 18:03 #55489

King Kohlrabi
Category: food

(e:tinypliny) and I headed down to the Farmers Market and Guercios. At the market we got this great Kohlrabi that is bigger than my head.

lilho - 11/13/11 12:46
looks yummy, and healthy.

11/10/2011 22:11 #55481

Basra the Hornball
Category: pets

He does tortoise B like 4-5 hours a day. Its at the point were he is starting to experiment with new positions.

metalpeter - 11/12/11 14:18
One day this will be the newest documentary sensation on Youtube ?

paul - 11/11/11 12:49
I dont think he cares. Its better than having to eat wood chips and living in a fish tank like he had it before. The thing is they have shells so its not quite as invasive as you would think.

tinypliny - 11/11/11 10:37
I feel bad for the little one. This is a sorry existence.

11/09/2011 23:24 #55476

Encrypted Secrets
Category: secrets

Well, I love secrets... If you ever need to communicate with me in an encrypted fashion use my public key. Its here

This should be enough info to get you started

tinypliny - 11/09/11 23:53
"Should you lose trust in or contact with a person with a key in your ring, youâ€™ll want to delete it"

tinypliny - 11/09/11 23:52
LOL that is hilarious for some reason

11/09/2011 02:07 #55470

Fedora 16 - Easiest Upgrade Ever?
Category: linux

So far everything works. I didn't have to destroy anything. It has been the easiest upgrade ever. I will post any weirdness I find tomorrow.

sudo rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/A82BA4B7.txt
sudo yum update yum
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum --releasever=16 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync
sudo reboot

paul - 11/11/11 15:28
Okay so grub2 was awesome for the main drive and not so awesome trying to get it to add a secondary linux load line on a second encrypted drive. The instructions were all over the place as grub2 has obviously changed a bunch.

I ended up need to put the config in /etc/grub.d/40_custom and then rerunning grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Part of the problem was just trying to figure out the right device id. "sudo blkid" is your friend in that case.

tinypliny - 11/09/11 23:51
So what's changed and what are you liking/not-liking??

paul - 11/09/11 23:37
ya, I went straight for it. I am using an nvidia card with the nouveau drivers and it works perfectly well for me. Not sure. I haven't used the nvidia drivers since F14.

tinypliny - 11/09/11 22:35
have you switched over completely from the virtual machine?

tinypliny - 11/09/11 22:34
Folks are having issues with nvidia cards (my stupid card with the switching technology, in particular). Apparently, the noveau drivers aren't out for this version of fedora yet or something of that sort.

Anything absolutely excellent?

paul - 11/09/11 22:21
I did not switch to grub2 yet. Regular grub works fine with fedora 16. I have so many other things in my grub setup and I didn't feel like dealing with conversion issues last night.

uncutsaniflush - 11/09/11 22:19
Did your bootloader change to grub2?

11/08/2011 09:11 #55464

Hiking at Niagara Gorge
Category: hiking

I can't believe how low the Niagara river is. I have been there 100 times and never seen the parts of the river bed that were unconvered this time. It was a good 15 feet lower which revealed a lot of interesting rock structures. This time instead of going back up the steps we climbed directly up the cliff. When we popped out at the top we were in a cage of sorts. The weather was so beautiful.