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RT Install : t/heuristic……FAILED test 6

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Installing RT on Debian today I got into a bit of a CPAN dependacy loop with the make fixdeps tool :(  I eventually tracked it down to the URI module.

Basically the URI module fails to install because of :

t/heuristic……FAILED test 6

On doing some digging this was to do with checking correct name resolution and looking for a picture of a camel on the perl site (you can’t make this stuff up 🙂 ).

At the moment something is a bit screwy and this test is currently failing but it is not a big issue for correct operation.  The simple work around is to attempt to install it (  cpan URI ) wait for it to barf and then pop into /etc/resolv.conf comment out your nameservers,  rerun cpan URI and it will install correctly (remember to uncomment your name servers again in resolv.conf! 🙂

Now to get the rest of it up again 🙂

Oh BTW I installed XML::RSS and DBD::mysql via apt-get in the end 🙂

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Ubuntu on the Eeee battery life

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Well the battery monitor app either needs housetraining or something as it bounces up and down more than I do 🙂

10 mins ago it told me I had 6 mins remaining and now it has crept back up again 🙂

Currently :

tigger@eee:~$ uptime
12:13:00 up 2:39, 2 users, load average: 0.66, 0.50, 0.47

This is sitting in the pub (tea and orange juice sadly) waiting for my car to be fixed. So well over two and a half hours of wibbling and wifi on a low backlight and it has not run out yet. Battery monitor still says 10% remaining but now thinks that will only last 5 mins!

Something is amiss here 🙂

edit : right in the end it lasted about 3 hours or so but then died with no warning just a sudden power off.   It had warned me I was low on power earlier but not right at the end.  It might be that it has not had time to profile the power use yet but although it is a bit flakey it seems to be slightly more useful than the Xandros one which I never did trust.

Lastminute copyrighting a colour?

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I am not a lawyer but I would have thought that you could only trademark something in reference to a particular aspect of your business. The lastminute website though currently reads :

lastminute.com”, “lastminute” and the colour (block of magenta) colour are all trademarks owned by Last Minute Network Limited and/or its group companies.

Erm wtf. I know the Easy Group will hunt you down if you use easysomething and use a predominantly orange colour scheme but I don’t think even they actually claim they have trademarked orange itself.

If this sort of nonsense carries with other companies some of my more colourful trousers may have so many copyright notices on that they will start resembling a F1 car….

Silly Ibex wont start X

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Meh my Eeee had just decided that it did not want to start X due to an internal error. A most odd occurrence and after a bit of digging I found the culprit, a read only file system.

It seems my disk had a couple of errors on it and thus had been mounted read only. A quick sudo up to root privs and brisk fsck later, reboot and done 🙂

One of those things I suppose…

Intrepid Ibex on the Eee701

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Despite being quite happy with the default install of Xandros on my Eee701 that I have been using for nearly a year now I have taken the plunge and installed Ubuntu on it, partly to standardise (all my other desktop role machines are running Ubuntu) and also because there were a few features I missed from Ubuntu/Gnome when using Xandros, mainly network manager and decent battery status reporting 🙂

Ubuntu on the Eee has been around for ages but there seemed to be a whole raft of little spin off projects dedicated to it. After much consideration I decided to go with the stock image and the patches from http://eee.ricey.co.uk 🙂

Followed the install notes and it all worked flawlessly which was a relief as earlier versions of Ubuntu needed a bit of tweaking to get running, but I am pleased to report it is all running fine 🙂

Boot up time is not quite as fast as the stunning boot up time of xandros but it seems ok and I might have a go at tweaking it a bit to shave a few seconds off the boot time 🙂

River Severn Sillyness

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Yesterday I  went out for a trip on the Severn with Dave and Alan from SoTP.  Was good fun 🙂

Our put in point was at Hampton Lode, there used to be a ferry over the river there until last year when it was washed away in the same rains that did for the SVR :(    Our take out point was at Arley which is approx 4.7 miles down river.

The river was a little, erm,  frisky :)  It was estimated that it was about 8 feet higher than normal and there was a lot of debris in the river.   Dave estimated that last time he did this trip it took him about 3 hours ish.  Due to the strong current we flew down it in about 1.5 hours 🙂

Damn good fun :)  Landed at Arley for a cup of tea and a bacon sandwich in the tea rooms 🙂

One thing that puzzled me with the bacon sandwich was that for some reason it was served with a small stack (about 5) plain pringles.  This did baffle me somewhat but at least it was not grated carrot 🙂

Bala

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Went for a paddle at the weekend with some lovely people off SOTP 🙂

Went all round Bala lake (in Wales for the geographically disadvantaged) in the wind, rain and glimpses of sunshine. Weather was not too bad though but I must remember to keep my boat inflated 🙂

My new dry trousers worked though which was a bonus as although I did not fall in I did have to wade a little bit 🙂

Sadly no piccys as they did not come out very well, I think I need a new camera, one that is waterproof might be an idea 🙂