ken’s blog

NCMLS and the Tree Lighting

Had a great day! Visited the NC Museum of Life & Science in Durham. Ashlyn was old enough to do some of the activities and had a blast. The butterflies are always an attraction, but i have to say it was wierd to walk into a room that felt so tropical in November

Afterwards, we mosied over to Southpoint for the tree lighting. It seems a bit early for christmas stuff, but seeing Ashlyn light up like that was quite exciting. While waiting for the show, we spent some time in the Kids stadium… what a zoo and where were all the parents??? So many kids didn’t seem like anyone was watching them. There were actually kids standing on top of some of the toys and kicking all the other kids in the head. The cops came in and ran them off… no parents in sight.

The show was good, but it was hard to see in the crowd with two kids. Ashlyn was so excited that Santa was coming to light the tree and she also got to do some dancing. What a cutie! Let the holidays begin, I guess

Atari

I finally got around to hooking up my Atari 2600 2.0 that I got back in September. It is pretty cool… The games are even simpler than I remembered them. Even pong… which I played for like an hour last night

On a almost related note… our old TV is about had it. The tuner in it is about had it. It has been getting bad for a while now. All the lower channels are pure static and as they go up they get better. The cable is fine, MythTV records great. It isn’t a huge deal since we don’t watch TV live often, thanks to MythTV. Either way… it is probably time to buy a new one

Sleep FULL night and an old friend

Wow…. I slept all night last night… The kids didn’t wake us once. So, 11PM to 6AM is 7 hours… Oh what to do with myself after getting so much sleep?

This is only the second time since Drew was born that we weren’t woken at all. It would be great if we get a few more of these nights this weekend, we will be having a guest stay with us. I would hate for him to go thur the sleepless nights

This afternoon our old friend Slade is driving in from Ohio for a visit. We knew Slade from the On The Verge days, back in San Diego. We haven’t seen him in 2 years, I am quite excited to see him.

New gig!

I am excited to say I started a new gig today… and I am still very much getting my feet wet. Anyone have a guess where??? rPath!

I don’t suspect anyone is surprised to hear I believe in what rPath is working on. For me, rPath has the coolest technology I have seen. Also, don’t worry… I will not forget Foresight!

On that note, we are hiring! Software developers and technical writers. If you are interested, please submit us your resume here.

Conary article on Linux.com

Good article about package management on Linux.com. Highlights portage and conary. Also mentions Foresight

LAMP

I forgot to post about this when I did it… so this is playing catch up. When rBuilder Online went live, I created an appliance Web/DB distro, lamp.rpath.org. It is a Linux, Apache,{MySQL,PostgreSQL},{Perl,PHP,Python} appliance. Just the essentials, and with the cool “autoResolve” feature in conary groups I was able to build the ISOs for version 0.1 (we are at 0.3 now) in just 20 minutes.

I have since done a little tweaking and added a few useful tools. Also rebuilt PostgreSQL with some optimizations that makes our database at work lightening fast.

Spence’s Farm

Took the kids to Spence’s Farm today, what a nice day for it. Spence’s farm is a community supported educational farm in Chapel Hill. Ashlyn particularly loves seeing the horses, but really loves all the animals! If you have kids, I highly recommend a visit.