Archives for: February 2009

Book: The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems

February 22nd, 2009
- by Tennyson (Alfred, Lord Tennyson), Dover, Thrift Editions, 1992, ISBN 0-486-27282-6 Following references again, I found this little Tennyson volume in Waterstones a few years ago. It is Agatha Christie who quotes Tennyson in "The Mirror Crack'd f… more »

Yum error on Redhat Enterprise 5 (rhel5)

February 16th, 2009
[root@whatever ~]# yum list yum-rhn-plugin Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 28, in ? import yummain File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 29, in ? from yum import _ ImportError: cannot import name _… more »

Xorg on openSuSE on certain ES1000 ATI card on HP server

February 11th, 2009
I ought to blog about this, too, but I don't have all the details anymore. I was asked to fix X on an HP server running OpenSuSE. It has an ATI ES1000 card of some sort. I should have the output of lspci for you but I don't, I was in a hurry, it's not m… more »

Book: God is not Great

February 11th, 2009
- by Christopher Hitchens It was fascinating reading this book alongside with Dante... Point by point, he argues thoroughly why religion is harmful. That is causes wars, blocks scientific progress, blocks the use of health science already done, mu… more »

FOSDEM 2009

February 9th, 2009
Arrived Friday, met pusling on the plane but separated at Gare du Nord. Went on to Gare Centrale and dropped right into a chocolate shop and forgot which direction I came from :) Walked to b&b. They have room for one guest ... which is 4 rooms in… more »