New Blog Site

By Robert James Clay on March 13, 2012 2:49 PM
Have moved my primary blogging activities to my new site at http://blog.rocasa.us.

I currently plan to keep this site around, so that I have a MovableType system to play with, but it may or may not be online.




Create TinyTIC generic-linux branch

By Robert James Clay on December 8, 2011 3:55 PM
In order to create a TinyTIC generic-linux branch, did an svn copy from revision 69 to tinytic/branch/generic-linux.   Then created a remote branch for git-svn to use.
 
Continue reading Create TinyTIC generic-linux branch.

Registered the domain bbbs.info

By Robert James Clay on December 6, 2011 10:16 PM
Registered the bbbs.info domain and created the initial DNS configuration for it.

My New GPG Key

By Robert James Clay on December 2, 2011 10:31 AM
Created a new 4096 GPG key. 

pub   4096R/43B7EA9A 2011-12-02
      Key fingerprint = 2448 3AE0 874D 8696 6DCD  ECF4 198C AB6F 43B7 EA9A
uid                  Robert James Clay <jame@rocasa.us>
sub   4096R/D7FAF0E5 2011-12-02

Signed it with my old existing key and sent it to the subkeys.pgp.net keyserver.

Reference also:
  • http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/09/msg00003.html
  • http://keyring.debian.org/creating-key.html
  • http://ekaia.org/blog/2009/05/10/creating-new-gpgkey/

Accepted into Debian Perl Team

By Robert James Clay on November 17, 2011 11:40 AM
Requested and was accepted in to the Debian Perl Team, reference also:

  • http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2011/11/msg00061.html



reprepro bug for format v3 (quilt) debian packages

By Robert James Clay on October 22, 2011 5:10 PM
The following warning came up when using reprepro on a Debian v7 system to install a v3 (quilt) formatted package:

  • dpkg-source: warning: -sn is not a valid option for Dpkg::Source::Package::V3::quilt

Did find a bug for a similar issue in sbuild, #583337, but not yet one specifically for reprepro.

SQL C prgramming libraries

By Robert James Clay on July 31, 2011 5:49 PM
Programming libaries like Perl DBI but for C.

Tntdb Tntdb is a c++-class-library for easy database-access. It implements a simple database independent layer, which loads drivers at runtime. Currently drivers for postgresql, sqlite3, mysql and oracle are provided.

Home page:  http://www.tntnet.org/tntdb.html
Debian:  http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libtntdb1


Comments Spam ...

By Robert James Clay on July 27, 2011 12:50 PM
It appears that the comments spammers have found my site, so I am turning off comments for all entries...

Timestamp corrections in GIT

By Robert James Clay on July 17, 2011 9:49 PM

Reference:

  •   http://www.alexpeattie.com/blog/working-with-dates-in-git/

 which in turn references

  •  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#How_can_I_tweak_the_date_of_a_commit_in_the_repo.3F

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FTNPL project at GitHub

By Robert James Clay on July 11, 2011 3:02 PM
Created ftnpl project (i.e., Organization) at GitHub:


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