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My little girl and I ran about while sleding and laughing with the other kids. Life can sometimes be really good!
I can either trade my current road bike in or sell it myself, so I thought I would put it online should anyone be interested. Here are the component details:
If you are interested in this bike, you are too late as it has been sold!
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##
# Cleans up this packages source build directory.
#
# RETURNS: boolean - True if the completes successfully,
# otherwise false.
##
def remove_build
puts "Removings build..."
if ($REMOVE_BUILD_SOURCES)
buildSourcesLocation = "#{$BUILD_LOCATION}/#{srcDir}"
if (!File.directory?(buildSourcesLocation))
return true
end
if (!FileUtils.rm_rf buildSourcesLocation, :verbose => true )
return false
end
end
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end
As previously stated, awhile back I was added to the Computable Open Source Expert Panel. This week they published two different follow up articles on the latest round of layoffs at Sun (sorry, they are in Dutch):# insert DVD and lookup the device your DVD is mounted on,
# (partial output shown here, look for the Name field).
#
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Vendor Product Rev
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857D GAND
Type: DVD-ROM Name: /dev/disk2
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#
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Tomorrow I will be presenting a more Open Source focused presentation over at Linux World 2008 in the Jaarbeurs Utrecht.
As you might know, I am a big fan of this holiday and again this year we have put out the carved pumpkin assortment. We are lucky enough to get supplied with these pumpkins as a friend has a pumpkin farm in his family. They know I love to do this so he has dropped off an assortment the last two years.
My little girl and boy have gotten into the act this time with each working out their own pumpkin faces (Daddy does the carving still). 
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system("make | tee output.log; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}")
# examine the returned value of the command 'make'
puts $?.exitstatus
A bit of an update on the talk I will be giving in November at the Dutch Linux World 2008 in the Jaarbeurs Utrecht.
Imagine my surprise when I opened my overseas ballot for the coming US Presidential election and saw this guy here in the picture on the ballot for Secretary of State for Oregon! 
The day started out rather misty, with a sun just rising above the waters of the Ij as we crossed on the ferry at around 0830 hrs. As it was a car free Sunday in Amsterdam, we had to park in the north of Amsterdam and cycle into the city. The picture in the top left corner is at the starting line just before departure, with our hopes high and our spirits soaring!
After a very crowded and slow departure though the very crowded and cobbled canal streets of Amsterdam we were off through the various villages that have 'dam' in their names. This was the theme of the ride, a 60 km circle taking us through all the 'dam' villages and along the Ijsselmeer lake. Temperature was around 12 degrees by departure, finished up at around 20 degrees. Took us about 3 hours to complete the ride with two stops at 'refueling' stations on the way.
I actually kept track of the calorie buring and for the complete ride it took over 2400 calories. That is a days food for a grown man, so guess I was doing something right. We also ended up with a total of 75 km for the entire ride, between the 60 km for the actual course and the extra 15 while trying to get from the start to the car in Amsterdam north.
This was a very well organized ride, with plenty of markers, good refueling stations, friendly riders (including a good mix of children and lady riders), and very good helpers along the route. There were even professional photographers from Sportplaat.nl should you be so inclined to want to buy a photo. A beautiful ride in the Dutch landscape, a free water bottle, and a silver medal upon completion. What more could a cyclist ask for!
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I got the chance to meet Mark Little yesterday in a session organized by Atos Origin. I was invited to speak about the usage of Open Source, JBoss, and jBPM in our current projects at SNS Bank. It turned out that I did not have to speak, but could just sit back and enjoy a presentation by Mark Little.# Get to the right location and ensure your current kernel
# headers are installed.
#
$ cd /usr/src$ uname -r2.6.24-19-generic
# so in my case I need the 2.6.24.-19 headers.
#
$ sudo aptitude install linux-source linux-headers-2.6.24-19 \
kernel-package libncurses5-dev
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# points to the source tree.
#
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#
$ cd linux
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#
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# after this is finished I am able to build my VMWare
# driver by pointing it to the /usr/src/linux tree.
#
# note that I do not install the kernel, just create the
# necessary files to build drivers.
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It is turning into a rather interesting experiment to see what the site content does as it migrates from a well known domain name to an obscure new one. I will report the details as Google eventually picks up the content again and the hits start to climb.# install server and the launch script # needed to start it. (I like the -v option # to see what is happening.) # $ sudo port -v install mysql5 +server # initialize the setup as mysql user. # $ sudo -u mysql mysql_install_db5 # start mysql and set your root password. # $ sudo -u mysql /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysqld_safe & $ sudo /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysqladmin -u root password '[new_passwd]'
# Create the launchd directory. # $ sudo mkdir -p /Library/StartupItems/LaunchDaemons # Now create a launch plist file: # $ sudo vim /Library/StartupItems/LaunchDaemons/org.mysql.launchd.mysql.plist # Here is the XML you need to put into the plist file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>org.mysql.launchd.mysql</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/usr/local/mysql-max-5.0.24-osx10.4-i686/bin/mysqld_safe</string> </array> <key>KeepAlive</key> <true/> <key>SuccessfulExit</key> <true/> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <UserName> <string>_mysql</string> <GroupName> <string>_mysql</string> </dict> </plist> # Finally, need to load this into launchd or you can just # reboot to have it picked up automatically. # $ sudo launchctl launchd% load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.mysql.launchd.mysql.plist launchd% exit
"This step will allow the BMW Group to gain an initial knowledge of how mobility can be achieved efficiently using purely electrically powered vehicles. Our task here is to combine the ultimate driving experience with an efficient electrified drive with practically no emissions", underlined Dr. Norbert Reithofer, Chairmanof the Board of Management of BMW AG.Finally a cool car that is a bit easier on the gas budget! Wonder if I could 'port' my 1987 Austin Mini?
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#
// disabel revisions and slow down the saving!
define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);
define('AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 120);
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Taking a look at the Spring framework so thought it might be nice to install the SpringIDE in my Eclipse. Here is roughly the steps I took:
As most of the SNS IT development organization has seen in the last few months, the Java Domain has a new (very) large flat screen on the wall. It is part of the results of the PRIMA project which supplies management information about our running projects.