Everything is a Freaking DNS problem

Devops Needs Sushi

Contributing Back

A while ago Dries wondered about Contributing back to Drupal .

Now Inuits is not a Webshop, we are an Open Source shop, so you won’t see a zillion Drupal modules being contributed by us in the near future (albeit there are a couple) , we are company assisting other organisations in their adoption of Open Source, and Drupal is amongst the projects we care for. You’ll notice code from us in the different other Open Source projects, including the Linux Kernel and other core infrastructure. And not all of it was code, there is a lot of published documentation, methodologies, bughunting and also spreading the words, or talking about our experiences around different topics such as MySQL Cluster and Drupal, or different alternatives to Monitor , or to Monitor MySQL etc ..

ShareoMatic Drupal6

As asked long time ago by different users I finally ported the Shareomatic module to Drupal6 .

Bug reports are welcome. as is an affordable bigger house.

Anyhow Enjoy !

Crazy stuff over DNS

Pascal tweeted me te following link.

From the site :

I had written some code to take wikipedia articles and summarise them. I wanted to offer this for use in various places, now the obvious way to offer it is just a web service (via REST, SOAP, etc), but that’s boring and I had a cunning plan. Why not offer it over DNS - it is basically a huge associative array and DNS is designed for this stuff.\

Buddylist, Buddlist2, Friendlist

Dear LazyWeb

Buddylist is aimed at Drupal 5, so when porting to a site to Drupal 6, you need Buddylist2. However the BuddyList page mentions one should look at FriendList as that project is supposed finished ..

At first sight it seems like FriendList indeed most advanced in its efforts
As I was also using Invite, which also is still under development for 6,
I was assuming that upon installing it the dependencies would tell me which one to use.. however it seems none of them already hooks into Invite

Everything is a Funky DNS problem.

Nils has a good writeup of what Dan Kaminsky talked about at 25C3 Interesting read as after al.. Everything is a funky DNS problem.

Should send him a T-Shirt one day .. he seems to appreciate my site slogan :)

Oops, Free beer for some ..

So yesterday around 2010 a bunch of us arrived at the Kulminator,

To our surprise it was closed :(
We opted to move to the closest available place , the Zeppos and
I called pretty much everybody who’s phonenr I had handy that I knew could come. (much voicemails) I hope not too much people ended up standing in front of a closed door with no idea where to go (my phonenr is easy to find) but the ones that made it to the new place benefitted from Free Beer sponsored by Inuits

Joke of the Day

Overheard today in our technical workshop.

Q: Does anyone have a stable Debian with him ?
A: Yes
Q: Can you pass me the floppy.

Planet Grep.be meetup

As I got a lot of positive reactions for the idea I posted last week, here is some more detail for the beerdrinking next monday.
29 december 2008 that is ..

The plan is to meet from 20:00 onwards in the Kulminator in Antwerpen.

I already got feedback from over a dozen PGB readers and posters that they will show up !

But feel free to abuse the comments to let us know you are coming too !

MythTV recover Lost+Found

My MythTV store lives on an LVM volume that is spread over 2 disks, one of them is an external USB disk. So the cleaninglady seems to have touched a cable and after coming back from holiday I had a read-only filesystem that afer a remount had about 350Gb in lost+found with irrelevant filenames.

1. total 337407844
2. drwx------   2 tv   tv         4096 Dec 17 22:47 .
3. drwxrwxrwx  15 tv   tv         4096 Dec 17 22:44 ..
4. -rw-r--r--   1 root root  423343556 Dec 14 07:10 I303109.RCN
5. -rw-r--r--   1 root root 2990538924 Dec 13 19:05 I303107.RCN
6. -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1023691768 Dec 13 08:10 I319494.RCN
7. -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1023622348 Dec 13 07:45 I327684.RCN
8. -rw-r--r--   1 root root  423735892 Dec 13 07:10 I327682.RCN
9. -rw-r--r--   1 root root  466749476 Dec 12 15:43 I135169.RCN
10. -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1023314212 Dec 12 07:45 I098309.RCN
11. -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1022459928 Dec 12 06:35 I098306.RCN
12. -rw-r--r--   1 root root 2458822948 Dec  9 22:50 I139264.RCN
13. -rw-r--r--   1 root root 2129683736 Dec  9 21:30 I323592.RCN
14. -rw-r--r--   1 root root  466735992 Dec  9 15:43 I323590.RCN
15. -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1022747296 Dec  9 07:45 I323588.RCN

Obviously I wanted to recover my data.
So I had files with a wrong filename on a filesystem but with a correct timestamp and probably the right filesize.
Luckily the mythconverg.recorded table also gives me lots of information about the files that mythtv had originally stored the content in.