So-named by my Carolinian buddy Wade, it seems as fitting a title as any. Captain Canada is now an Islander, which comes as news to virtually nobody reading this, I'm sure. I'm equally sure the 'oilogosphere' is full of tributes, gnashing of teefs, wailing, breast-beating, clothes-rending... well, I'm sure you get the point. Nevertheless, I shall attempt a short essay myself, cut for your reading pleasure.
And I think I may have finally fixed the "posts are +5 hours" issue - I'd told MT that I'm in Eastern (UTC-5), but I think it was getting crossed up with the server's time - the system clock is UTC.
I guess I'll find out when I see when the LJ feed picks this up.
Some of you all may have noticed the webserver bouncing a few times today - I was changing out hardware, and threw in upgrades for Apache and Postgres while I was at it.
FreeBSD 6.x + courier-imap + fam = hatred. I frobbed a few things semi-randomly trying to get it to work, but here's a rough recipe if you want fam to consume 6-10% of your CPU time:
You probably need rpcbind_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf file. You definitely need
sgi_fam/1-2 stream rpc/tcp wait root /usr/local/bin/fam fam
in your /etc/inetd.conf, and you'll also need to tell rc.conf to run inetd. You'll need "sgi_fam 391002 # file alteration monitor" in your /etc/rpc file - this was already there on my 6.2 installation. One of the knobs I frobbed was to allow the machine to run mountd (mountd_enable="YES" in rc.conf). Otherwise, you get messages like this:
Feb 12 18:40:12 hostname imapd-ssl: Error: Input/output error
Feb 12 18:40:12 hostname imapd-ssl: Check for proper operation and
configuration
Feb 12 18:40:12 hostname imapd-ssl: of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd).
Feb 12 18:40:15 hostname imapd-ssl: malloc: Input/output error
Feb 12 18:40:15 hostname imapd-ssl: Failed to create cache file: maildirwatch
(userid)
Anyway, mail was up and working again pretty quickly, and I had the webserver stuff mostly sorted out a couple of hours ago, the rest has been making MT work again, which mostly involved waiting for things to compile. I had been thinking about just installing every package that had been installed on the old server, but I wanted to clean them up a bit. So much for that - installing p5-XML-Atom installed 22 other ports, and I won't even talk about ImageMagick. I still have some more work to do - I had some test stuff going that's still busted, but that's for another day.
Oh, and I found the easiest way to move my postgres DB for MT was:
Back up MT database:
pg_dump -C -f mtbackup -F c dbname
Restore:
createuser useridformovabletype
(give it db creation privs)
createdb empty
pg_restore -C -d empty -F c mtbackup
DISA checklists. They've got tons of them - I'm not sure how good they are, but it's always impressive to have things from a .mil TLD, eh?
Hopefully y'all know that Google tracks searches, and if you're logged in, they save your search history.
Whether this is Evil or not, I leave as an exercise to the reader, but if you happen to think it is (I log out if I ever have to log in, usually because I left a comment in a hockey blog on blogger or something)... here is a solution.
I got an email from edmontonoilers.com just now, which is comical by itself:
"Dear BEGIN@@~@@firstname@@~@@END:
OILERS SEND PATRICK THORESEN TO WILKES-BARRE/SCRANTON"
Looks almost like a spammer who can't work his software.
In Montreal, Sergei Samsonov has requested a trade and has been placed on waivers. Patrick Thoresen's got a ticket back to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton so he can become a non-flying avian again. Coincidence, or could Lowe be looking at another waiver gamble? Sammy done good (especially in the playoffs) his first go-round in the Land Of The OilDrop, but his position of "soft-handed soft-bodied PP winger" has already been taken by Joffrey Lupul, and Petr Sykora's gobbled up a fair bit of forward PP time too.
I wouldn't mind seeing Sammy as an Oiler again, provided he didn't take any time away from Hemsky on the PP, but if it happens, hopefully that's not the only move Lowe makes before the deadline. The PP could use some help - when couldn't it? - but I don't believe fixing the powerplay will fix what is wrong with the Oilers.
I was finally able to catch an Oilers game - yesterday afternoon's matinee against the Avalanche. Overall, not a terrible game by the Oil. They choked a bit in the second, but were able to weather the storm, and a couple of bounces after some hard work went their way for a change and they took a two goal lead. Sakic's heroics - man I love Sakic, but why does he always have to kill the Oilers? - almost got Colorado the point after all, but they were able to hold off the 6 man attack in the end. I think the game was closer to what the 3-2 score said rather than the 39-28 shots total - Roli had to make a few good saves, but it's not like Budaj was stinking it up at the other end. (Still, a few bounces less and the Oilers are in the same spot they've been a lot this season: B+ for effort, F for results.)
What was good to see, and the real reason I clicked "New Post" was the play of Lupul and Smid. Both of them were taking the body - it would appear that Wolfman isn't sulking after his public dressing down by MacTavish last week, at least. Neither will ever be confused for Torres or Pronger on the ice, but Lupul squeezed some guys off pretty well on the boards, and wasn't shy in the corner. Smid too, and after the commentators were talking about how Colorado only had one fight this year (what?) he even got Rycroft to drop the gloves after the Colorado player ran into Roloson. Stortini was angry too, although no ice time starting about halfway through the game makes me wonder if MacT wished he'd laid off a bit at the end of the first period. Then again, his big-body buddy Winchester didn't see any ice either - neither were particularly effective in what little time they did have, so maybe it was just MacTavish shortening the bench in a tightly-contested game.
I was reading somewhere somebody (one of the half-dozen or so Oilers weblogs that I read) made the comment that they wished Hemsky wouldn't shoot in some circumstance or another. No man, what are you saying? Do not wish young Ales would not shoot in any particular circumstances, not when he's finally realizing that the net is there for something other than to put between him and a defender on one of his trips around the offensive zone. Besides, the difference between a screened seeing-eye shot like the one we saw yesterday and between one that bounces off somebody's shinpad and makes Hemsky look foolish is about a quarter of an inch each time multiplied by three or four people + the goalie.
Anyway, it was a fun game to watch. I didn't think there were too many bad calls (maybe one or two missed and a weak one), Roloson was pretty good after his short break, Edmonton's blueline was good enough, and hey - the good guys won. What else can a guy ask for? (Beer, in answer to my own rhetorical question, but broke + kids over "working" on a school project meant I was regrettably sober as the proverbial judge.)
