Author: daveg

RPM Packaging

I’ve been occasionally making RPM packages, but I’ve only really followed the method of packaging stuff that came from a tar-ball that needed compiling. Yesterday at work I needed to package a static-binary for some hardware infomation gathering program we use here, and for the life of me I couldn’t find any documentation on how to do it easily for such files. All the howto’s (and even the bloody book I spent all my cash on) didn’t seem to be dispensing much wisdom on it.

After digging through some of Dag Wieers .spec files, I managed to find that using install to install the files from $RPM_BUILD_DIR to $RPM_BUILD_ROOT in the %install stanza of the spec file seems to be the goods (well atleast on my laptop running FC1).

Hylafax

I finally got around to setting up Hylafax on my server at home the other day so that we don’t keep wasting paper with all these darn fax mailing lists that Dad’s fax number seems to be stuck on. I couldn’t figure out why the bloody thing wasn’t answering, so I decided to RTFM. Looks like faxgetty wasn’t running. Once I spawned that, I needed to add it in /etc/inittab like this:

t2:23:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty ttyS1

ttyS1 is the second serial port.

Panic Zone 3

Should be a fun night electro. Rozie and I went to the last one down at Candy’s Apartment and it was rockin’, and I’m sure this’ll be no different.

Panic Zone Part 3

Date: Fri 13th Aug, 2004
Time: 10:00 pm
Venue: SUZY Qs – Oxford Street, Darlinghurst
City: Sydney
Cost: $10.00

Old school Electro to the latest.
No fashion wank music.
Music from the past for the future.

DJs:
BLAZE, OSC-001, SIMON CALDWELL, THE SENTINEL

Live Acts:
The Sentinel will be playing tracks from his upcoming release on Southern Outpost. The Sentinel is….P…… H.. from 2SER’s Dark Energy.

Tickets available from:
On the door.

 Panic Zone 3 Flyer

GNOME 2.7.x

Dopplereffekt running GNOME 2.7.x
I updated to GNOME 2.7.x last night from Nyquist’s RPM repository, prompted by PhotoMatt’s post on GNOME 2.8. I’m also using jdub’s Indubstrial theme, which has been “suggested” to be the standard theme for GNOME 2.8. Also running is RealPlayer 10 streaming C-B-S. So far it seems to be very stable. Actually the most stable I’ve ever seen GNOME (not to say that it hasn’t been stable for a while). But considering that the PC that its running on has a PIII 733Mhz CPU, I’m pretty impressed.

Kosher Candy Mixx

Another great mix of r’n’b, disco and funk from Yoav B. I’m sure I enjoy this kind of music more these days because Rozie has subjected me to so much of this over the last year or so. Check out the Kosher Candy Mixx

Tracklisting:

  1. INTRO-AUTOMAT-ULTRAVIOLET (HARVEST)
  2. PATRICE RUSHEN-WATCH OUT (ARISTA)
  3. ATMOSPHEAR-WHAT DO WE DO (CHRYSALIS)
  4. MORRISSEY MULLEN-COME AND GET ME (BEGGERS BANQUET)
  5. THE WALKERS-SKY’S THE LIMIT (LONDON)
  6. SHAKATAK-NIGHT BIRDS (POLYDOR)
  7. GINO SOCCIO-DANCE TO DANCE (RFC)
  8. CANDI STATON-LOVE AND BE FREE (SUGARHILL)
  9. THE BREAKFEST BAND-SUCH A FEELING (BREAKFEST MUSIC)
  10. EXTRAS-GET DOWN (DANCEFLOOR)
  11. LEON HAYWOOD-DON’T PUSH IT DON’T FORCE IT (20TH CENTURY FOX)
  12. SHARON BROWN-I SPECIALISE IN LOVE (PROFILE)
  13. LYNX-I CAN’T HELP MYSELF (CHRYSALIS)
  14. FREEZ-ONE TO ONE (BEGGERS BANQUET)
  15. CHERRELLE-I DIDN’T MEAN TO TURN YOU ON (TABU)
  16. CONGAC-DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK DUB (CARRERE)
  17. RAZE-BRAKE 4 LOVE DUB (CHAMPION)
  18. ALEXANDER O’NEAL-CRITISIZE A CAPPELLA (TABU)
  19. RAZE-BRAKE FOR LOVE (CHAMPION)
  20. RICK JAMES-MONEY TALKS (MOTOWN)
  21. CHIC-REBELS ARE WE (ATLANTIC)
  22. BRASS CONSTRUCTION-NO COMMUNICATION (CAPITOL)
  23. KANO-ANOTHER LIFE (TELDEC)
  24. FIRST LIGHT-EXPLAIN THE REASONS (LONDON)
  25. THE FORCE-IT’S OK (RHYTHM KING)
  26. DENISE MOTTO-MISS DEMEANOR DUB (PLAYHOUSE)
  27. LIME-ON THE GRID (PRISM)
  28. OUTRO-AUTOMAT-ULTRAVIOLET (HARVEST)

Yoav B brings the Bisexual Funk…

A fantastic mix of 80’s funk, r’n’b, disco and soul from Dj Yoav B mix courtesy of Rushhour

Yoav B is from Tel Aviv, Israel, he just dropped his debut ep on Delsin, picked up by Terrence Parker, Aaron Carl, Charles Webster a.o. After summer coming with another ep for Delsin Records, and the first releases on his own new label Wabi Sabi.

Track listing:

  1. INTRO- RONALD SHANNON JACKSON-THEME FOR A PRINCE (ABOUT TIME)
  2. ARNIE’S LOVE- I’M OUT OF YOUR LIFE (RADAR)
  3. MOUZON/CORYELL- OLD FRIENDS (PAUSA)
  4. THE ANTILLES-I’VE GOT TO HAVE YOU (THE HIVE)
  5. GEORGE BENSON-LOVE WILL COME AGAIN (WARNER)
  6. SERIOUS INTENTION-IT’S SERIOUS (LONDON)
  7. LOOSE ENDS-EMERGENCEY DUB (VIRGIN)
  8. PHYLLIS HYMAN- YOU KNOW HOW TO LOVE ME (ARISTA)
  9. THE ISLEY BROTHERS- PASS IT ON (TNECK)
  10. COLONEL ABRAMS- I’M NOT GONNA LET YOU (MCA)
  11. GINO SOCCIO-YOU MOVE ME (ATLANTIC)
  12. CORY DAYE-GREEN LIGHT (RCA)
  13. CLAUDJA BARRY- DOWN AND COUNTING (CBS)
  14. SHALAMAR- TAKE THAT TO THE BANK (SOLAR)
  15. T.C. CURTIS- BODY SHAKE (GROOVE)
  16. POUSSEZ- I’LL ALWAYS BE YOUR FRIEND (VANGUARD)
  17. QUEEN SAMANTHA- SINGING HALLELUJA (MARLIN)
  18. PRINCE CHARLES- BEAT THE BUSH DUB (VIRGIN)
  19. THE SYSTEM- NOW I’M ELECTRIC (POLYDOR)
  20. SUZY Q- GET INTO THE FUNKY MUSIC NOW (ZYX)
  21. YAZOO- STATE FARM (MUTE)
  22. RAWW- DON’T YOU TRY IT DUB (JONATHAN)
  23. ETAT MAJOR- ETAT MAJOR (VIRGIN)
  24. SYLVESTER- DO YA WANNA FUNK (MEGATONE)
  25. AMII STEWART -FEVER LINE (RCA)
  26. IMAGINATION- STATE OF LOVE (R&B)
  27. T.H.P.- HALF AS NICE (BUTTERFLY)

Stuff I’ve been up to

Work
I’ve been quite enjoying the new job. New challenges, new environments, new people. Different people make such a difference. In my old team for the most part people weren’t horrible or anything, just not that friendly, socialable or something. The new team everyone gets on really well, shares knowledge, helps out when others are in a bind. It makes working so much more enjoyable. I don’t dread coming to work anymore. Quite an unusual feeling for me. I haven’t felt depressed since I got the new job as well. So guess I wasn’t mental. Just work was bringing me down so much… too much.

Working outside of normal business hours have been different for me though since I’ve never had to do it before. Last Thursday morning I was up at 3.20am and Saturday morning 7am to do work. Luckily thanks to the wonders of computers I was sitting at my desk in my study in my pj’s doing it. So good!

Personal
I got a new ring a couple of weekends back. Well its supposed to be temporary. It looks almost exactly the same except its a little bit chunkier. Its silver instead of white gold and it only cost me $58 from Baku. I probably won’t get another white gold one for a while more because of cost and since I’m trying to save money at the moment. Rozie doesn’t seem that bothered at all just as long as I’ve got something on my finger.

Gaming
One thing that I’ve been getting into since I’ve been in Epping is games. I never really got into video games when I was younger, tending to lean towards messing around with operating systems, applications and networking. I guess I’ve got to a point now where I know enough of that now that I don’t feel I have to messing around with that sort of stuff every minute of the day. So since I got that dirt cheap Dreamcast earlier in the year I’ve been fiending out. Soul Caliber, Gauntlet Legends, Ikaruga, Crazy Taxi, Gundam: Renpou vs. Zeon DX and Border Down have been some personal favourites.

I’ve completely been loving Ikaruga and Border Down though. If you like shoot ’em ups like R-Type and Gradius, then Ikaruga and Border Down you’ll love. So bleedin’ hard, but you want to come back for more and more.

And also I’m now up to my *cough* third Sega Saturn. Time to get some solder, DIL switches and start on those region mods. 😀

Birthday shouts
Happy birthday to Josie and Thommy for last week, who’s birthday’s fall within a day of each other. We popped down to Soul Biscuits for Josie’s birthday last week for a bit of northern soul and some pool. And props to T-bird for the fine spread of grub on Saturday!