fucking the white bunny rabbit

Yesterday I tried to upgrade from fedora 8 to fedora 9 using anaconda and DVD…As usually something went wrong: anaconda crashed during installation..fortunatly during post-install process…

Right now I have a mixed system:

[root@sboing ~]# yum list installed | grep fc8 | wc -l
254
[root@sboing ~]#


…and I try to use a bash powered script to clean and fix it:

[root@sboing ~]# for x in `yum list installed | grep fc8 | awk '{print $1}' `; do yum remove "${x%.*}*fc8" ; echo "yum remove " ${x%.*}*fc8; done

and after


[root@sboing ~]# yum list installed | grep fc8 | wc -l
26
[root@sboing ~]#


Now all seems working, except for the Nvidia video card :-/ I’m waiting next nvidia closed drivers….
Update 29/05/2008@13:26 Today official NVidia driver are on livna fedora repository… \o/

Today, after a day needed to make running my development infrastructure (Posgresql + TurboGears) I’ve finally done my first commit on fedora-elections project (fedora-infrastructure group).

fedora-elections is a simple and very useful web application based on TurboGears + SQLAlchemy which implement a voting system. It will be integrated with FAS2 and will be used to make decisions (new fedora name, etc. ).

Thanks to Nigel Jones to help and teach me

Probably you have already read the great Francesco Crippa report’s. I want to try to write my report in a different mode, to give you another vision about yesterday day.

As Francesco said: it was great! I completely agree with him, it was a great party, with more people than other events we organized time ago. About 40 people, in our city 40 people to a Linux event are a lot.

Poweron

My morning start with some tests on kobold for usb live creation station…

… and preparing GNOME foots to use it as track for people who come to event because the location was a bit hidden from the street…

After that, me and Lucia went to supermarket and bought some snacks and drinks (especially beer, of course ) and we stored it in a secure place:

This good snack is cooked by Lucia, who, with other people, bring something homemade, to party (cakes in particulars, but also short snacks):

12 hour after, we prepare ourself to come to Lodi: here you can see Daniele and Gianluca in the elevator during transport to event location:

yum install fedora9releaseparty.noarch

It’s time to prepare event. All things (bottles, dishes, food, cakes) need to be placed. Room need to be fedorize with posters.

service fedora9releasepartyd start

Me, Francesco e Gianluca start event with a talk about Fedora 9 releases notes and fedora SIG. My photos from here are not so good, so I steal a couple of Francesco’s one

After talk, I take place on Fedora 9 usb creation station:

I love beer…

service fedora9releasepartyd stop

Now it’s time to start to clean the place…This is Stefano…our frend, fedora user from 2 week and LOLUG active member

2:05 AM …

Shutdown

It’s time time to return home, after cleaning location event and terminate event day shutdown

I’m satisfied of this event. A special thanks to Lucia, Francesco, Gianluca, Daniele, Raffaele, Marco and other LOLUG people who help me in event organization. I reach home at 3:10 AM and today at 8 AM I was ready to go to work.

Now I want to sleep

Party + Linux + Fedora = Beer + food + Social

I’m proud to announce first Italian Fedora 9 Release Party scheduled for 13 May 2008. We will be in Lodi (south of Milan) in Via P.Gorini 19.

We will provide food and drinks and fedora USB creation stations (powered by kobold), unfortunately we don’t have time to print CDs/DVDs, so we will bet on USB creation stations technology.

Don’t hesitate to come! Remember also to bring with yourself an USB key with at least 1Gb of free space (if you have data, kobold preserve it, but is better to backup it before )

More information (in Italian language) here. Thanks also to other LOLUG members to support us.

I hope we will meet there

Oggi la qualità dei talk è aumentata di molto. Devo ammettere che Google ha dimostrato un’ottima qualità e cura nella gestione dei talks: Brian Fitzpatrick ha tenuto un talk su come l’utente spesso non viene considerato durante lo sviluppo software, Alex Matelli ha parlato di Google Apps Engine. A differenza di Skype, che ha effettuato un investimento puramente monetario (senza curare molto la qualità dei talk), devo ammettere che da Google c’è veramente da imparare.

Il mio talk è filato via liscio, peccato che fosse in un orario un po’ sfigato (domenica pomeriggio dopo il coffee break) che ha contribuito in negativo ad una bassa affluenza. Per inciso, ho parlato di Func – Fedora Unified Network Controller (sul quale pubblicherò a breve un articolo), che è un sistema di API python, che permette il controllo agile di host su reti di larga scala.

Evito di commentare la giornata di ieri con RMS, che ha parlato di GNU/Linux, tanto prendete un video degli anni 90…ambientatelo a palazzo vecchio a firenze…e avete la conferenza di ieri

Stamattina c’è stato il workshop su django, inizialmente è partito bene, decadendo un po’ con la scrittura a mano della vista (cosa che con grails viene generata in modo automatico). La percezione cmq che da django, è che è molto difficile da mantenere…considerando che i vari branch nascono e muoino velocemente.

Ora sto seguendo il talk su Skype4Py, sinceramente una volta uscito di qui non correrò a provarloST, se devo essere sincero, considerando che lo speaker ci sta mettendo di tutto per farmi addormentare.

Ho finito le slide da circa 10 minuti…manca solo la grafica…