Now THAT, my friend, is a shared moment.

Just came back for OSCON. Now that is a good conference ! Many interesting sessions, good crowd, great conversations, insane amount of beer, books, chats, … Good chats with some cool cats from M$, couple of Paco’s friends (PJ and Kevin), some OSS legends and so on and so forth.

Banky Edwards: Who should I sign it to?
Little Kid: I don’t want you to sign it. I want the guy who draws Bluntman and Chronic to sign it.

This week was great for Mono as IronPython was announced (Python for Mono/.NET) and Edd and Niel’s Mono book: Mono: a developer notebook’ released. I got a chance to read it cover to cover in the plane and I really like it. It’s very complete and even covers things like autotools, gconf#, ikvm, monobas. Also, the new Notebook format is great, I just miss the animals on the cover (So many primates to choose from for a Mono book).

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The tourists were dismissed for 416 on the third day – 152 runs behind England despite an unbeaten 128 by Chanderpaul.
And at stumps England had advanced to 71-0, 223 runs ahead with two days left to play in the first Test.
Flintoff bowled an inspired spell after tea to claim 3-25 while Ashley Giles took 4-129 in the innings.

Flintoff, who only came into the attack towards the end of the West Indies innings because of an ankle problem, bowled Dwayne Bravo for a 70-ball 45.
The Lancashire all-rounder then dislodged Tino Best’s off-stump for a first-ball duck.

Pedro Collins managed to fend off the next ball to deny Flintoff a hat-trick, but the Windies paceman was blowed by a Flintoff inswinger in his next over.
Spinner Giles also played a huge role for England, taking four wickets, including last-man Fidel Edwards for five.

West Indies started the day on 208-4 and still 160 runs short of the follow-on.
But Chanderpaul and debutant Bravo scored at a reasonable pace, notching up a 125-run partnership – a record fifth-wicket stand by West Indies at Lord’s.

And so on and so forth. It shows you how little we know.

I don’t know what wickets, spell, off-stump, first-ball duck, hat trick, inswinger, next over, last man, follow-on, bowling or notching are (Nor do I want to, Edd). I am not sure this BBC news article was written in english to tell you the truth. But I found it refreshing and soothing like a baby babble as I read it on my phone while waiting at the convenience store.

It turns out that one can have one too many shrimp

Today, Gollum/Godzilla died. I don’t know why. Shows you how little I know.

I am off to OSCON tomorrow and Linux Word Expo the week after

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They’re only monkey-boys. We can crush them here on earth, Lord Whorfin

So I recently installed a SUSE distro on my IBM laptop (eat your own fish pellets kind of mentality; and BTW, it works wonderfully) and ran into the same problems installing mod_mono as someone else did.

Namely, after ‘configure’ and ‘make’, ‘make install’ reports the following error (On SUSE 9.1, let’s say, with Apache 2 installed the SUSE way):

...
chmod 755 /usr/lib/apache2/libmod_mono.so
apxs:Error: Config file /etc/apache2/httpd2-prefork.conf not found.
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
...

It turns out that Yast removes that file and apxs (apxs2 on SUSE with Apache2) can’t find it and can’t do without it.

Since this is likely to become an FAQ and it keeps appearing here and there, let there be known you can fix it by running:

echo "nLoadModule foo foo.so" > /etc/apache2/httpd2-prefork.conf

and then ‘make install’ for mod_mono.

Evil. Pure and simple from the eighth dimension.

So yesterday was Bastille day, which is when France (my country) celebrates the day that brought the Republic (and incidently beheading, a murderous rampage by Robespierre and his cohorts, one more king – Louis XVIII, one that never ruled – Louis XVII, two emperors – Napoleon and Napoleon III and eventually a stable republic of a sovereign state that decided to not be part of the ever diminishing Coalition of the Willing).

I celebrated by playing Poker (I won for the first time), wearing my ‘XV de France’ jersey (Rugby) and generally being my happy self all day. Let there be known I didn’t use my guillotine yesterday though I had many opportunities to

It’s not my goddamn planet. Understand, monkey boy?

A new addition to the fish tanks at Chateau Dasque, Little Godzilla, a yellow and dark red Wart-skin Angler (Frogfish) that can’t swim (no swim bladder) but walks around with hand like fins and jet-propulses itself by blowing water really hard through the gills on his arms. It eats all the shrimps, fishes and sneaky little hobbitses I throw at him (twice a week). I should have called him Gollum. That’s it, he has a new name, Gollum.

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