Staring at the C

The recent release of QEMU 10.1 now comes with its very own vfio-user client.

The meme is real, but I think this particular case is sort of interesting, because it turned out, ultimately, to not be due to DNS configuration, but an honest-to-goodness bug in glibc.

I intentionally have mouse support disabled in vim, as I find not being able to select text the same way as in any other terminal screen unergonomic.

As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been experimenting with replacing davmail with Simon Robinson’s super-cool email-oauth2-proxy, and hooking fetchmail and mutt up to it.

I previously described accessing Office365 email (and in particular its oauth2 flow) via davmail, allowing me to continue using fetchmail, procmail and mutt.

I have the misfortune of maintaining some things using CMake.

I thought it might be interesting, at least to myself, to write up how I approach code reviews.

It’s still common for a systems library to be written in the default lingua franca, C, although Rust is encroaching, for good reasons.

Stefan Hajnoczi recently posted about clean commit history.

For reasons, I now need to interact with Office365 mail and calendar.

I’m apparently old-school enough to find gmail and co painfully inefficient for handling significant amounts of mail.

I’m not the only one disappointed in the way the web has worked out in lots of ways.

We have what should be a simple task: we’re on CentOS 7, and we want to deploy a Go binary that will have USDT tracepoints.

Going to the first matching tag in vim with Control-] can be rather annoying.

With all this free time I finally got around to installing a doorbell at home.

For some time now, gnome-terminal amongst others has had a heuristic that guesses at URLs, and allows you to control-click to directly open it.

With my Coronavirus-related CFT I finally got around to migrating off Blogger.

I’m the old-fashioned type who still likes getting email: I can process it at my leisure while still handling high volume.

I just published new version of zoom-lomax.

Newer versions of Gerrit, somewhat insanely, lack the old “Open All” button to open each file in its own tab.

I found it a little bit non-obvious how to use NAPI to add an external NIC to a compute node so it can reach the external network rather than just the internal admin one.

With the advent of newboot in SmartOS/Triton, newly-installed systems will use loader as the bootloader, replacing grub.

Since Liferea in more recent versions requires a download manager (it does not attempt to deal with the constant “new” podcast downloads on broken RSS feeds), I tried a few different ones.

wodim/k3b are unusable on Ubuntu: after making sure you’re in the cdrom group, you need to add to /etc/security/limits.conf: @cdrom - memlock unlimited (Or some limit, I suppose, if you’re bothered.)

Some prompting on IRC led me to do this write-up on how to configure PCI passthrough for a bhyve instance running on SmartOS.

I joined Joyent at the start of the year while Meltdown was breaking news; it was certainly an “interesting” time to start a new job.

All the procmail recipes I found on a quick search failed to handle quoted-printable HTML encodings, regularly used everywhere.

I’ve been ripping a lot of stuff from vinyl to FLAC recently.

A little note for myself: to get low-latency monitoring, and more importantly, record at the right rate, you need to set the Configuration-Profile to “Digital Stereo Input” in pavucontrol!

I think it's important that everyone should endeavour to maintain existing web content, even if it's not currently relevant.

This is unbelievably stupid of Paypal.

I got some NatWest phishing spam the other day and was amused to notice this: <title>NatWest - Security Information</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.…

To quote 123-reg customer support: > When will you be supporting AAAA records?

Late last year, I was forced to find a new host for movementarian.org, as my previous hosting provider (Blue Room Hosting, who were really great) were shutting down.

I’ve started using pbranch extension for hg more seriously.

Create the following as /etc/hal/fdi/policy/30user/10-x11-zap.fdi: <?

echo ‘gtk-error-bell = 0’ »$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0

Liferea has no keyboard shortcut editor itself, but “Toggle unread status” demands the wrist-breaking chord action of Control-U.

Browsing the net, you might get the impression that Epson Stylus All-in-ones are well supported under Linux.

Audacity is somewhat of a broken joke these days, so I needed to use Ardour to record.

New versions of Liferea refuse to parse any feed that fails to validate, even for relatively “minor” problems (the libxml2 recovery facility is no longer used; besides, it abandons the rest of the feed when it hits such problems).

“The main indicators of egotism as I intend it here are are loud self-display, insecurity, constant approval-seeking, overinflating one’s accomplishments, touchiness about slights, and territorial twitchiness about one’s expertise.

Another significant usability improvement that landed in build 126 is Gary and Bill's work on enabling Xen.

As part of our ongoing work on improving the ease of use of xVM, the newly available build 126 of OpenSolaris has my putback for: 6878952 Would like dry-run migration This feature is useful for doing a simple check as to whether a guest can successfully m…

What does this print: from lxml import etree doc = etree.fromstring('<a><b><c/></b></a>') newdoc = etree.ElementTree(doc.find('b')) print newdoc.xpath('/b/c')[0].xpath('/a') The answer is: [<Element a at 817548c>].

How much time would it really take to order multi-part videos, so the suggestion at the end of the video is the next part?

I recently had cause to try out COMSTAR for the first time, and I thought I'd write up the steps needed.

Imagine you have this in mod.py: import foo class bar(object): ...

Thomas Gleixner: Exactly that’s the point.

Just a quick note: you can follow the instructions I provided for the 2008.11 release, with one change.