Upgrading software

I just installed a new version of quickcode, used below. Also did a huge yum update on Solo, which included a new kernel, which means that I then need to install the NVidia drivers, and run vmware-config.pl (rebuild vmmon modules) and vmware-config-mui.pl (generate new SSL cert). Then to build the webcam driver: rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.11.11.something/kernel/drivers/usb/media/pwc /sbin/rmmod pwc wget http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/files/pwc-10.0.12-rc1.tar.bz2 tar -jxvf pwc-10.0.12-rc1.tar.bz2 cd pwc-10.0.12-rc1 make && make install chmod 744 /lib/modules/2.

PostgreSQL

Been playing with PostgreSQL and Python again. I’ve installed pyscopg, pgdb and pg modules, as well as the adodb database wrapper. I must say I am impressed with the number of RPM packages available for Fedora 5 via yum, I’ve only had to install three or four programs manually, and that’s mainly because they were closed-source (Java) or very specialised (Sybase). Just watched episode 22 of Lost series 2, one more episode left….

Friday

Went to the pub at lunchtime today. Other than that I’ve just been rewriting a crappy script that some Scottish kid wrote that’s now broken due to the read-only fileserver. Mother’s Day in France on Sunday. I bet the card I left has been lost put somewhere safe 😉 Gonna finish watching Lost tonight I think, the final episode is in the mail apparently!

Thursday

We finally got SharePoint installed today, also migrated the fileserver to a Netapp Filer. I downloaded a bunch of ebooks today – SQL, PHP, Java, XSLT etc. I’m up to 19/23 of Lost 2 now….

Wednesday

Didn’t get much done at work today – well we did, but we have to do it all over again 🙁 Dad said someone possibly wants to rent my house out for a year, I’m not keen, there’s not enough money in it to be inconvenienced for a year. 3-4 months would be fine whilst I’m working next year, I guess it would pay the mortgage….. I’ve watched like five episodes of Lost tonight I think, it’s getting really weird with everyone halucinating.