Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Author: <span>Paul Frields</span>

Looking for information on training opportunities? You should visit Red Hat’s training area for more information. I took my RHCE fast-track course (RH300) through Red Hat HQ in Durham, NC, and it was a fantastic course. They offer a more reasonable three-week curriculum (RH033, RH133, RH253) that will help anyone …

I’ll have a new spec file for the mpich package up shortly. I’ve fixed a few problems with release 2. If you have an inkling on how to reference a variable area like /etc, please let me know. It seems that there are slight differences in how these share areas …

Would someone please tell that blowhard idiot Jan Herman over at MSNBC to go find himself a real job? It seems like every other day brings a new retraction as he scrambles to recover from his failure to do any research — even given that he is supposed to be …

This seems rather trivial compared to the last post, but life has to return to normal at some point. Today we finally got our MIA Sopranos S3 Disc 1 from Netflix. So tonight we’re a famiglia again! On Sunday night Eleya and I watched Blade II which I just bought …

Erney C Finch III March 14, 1946 – September 11, 2002 Mixed news today, the first piece being that my wife’s father died yesterday of a heart attack at 56. I expect the next few days will be full of phone calls and tears. In other, better news, my mother …

Made a couple of changes to that spec file, to clean it up and properly link libmpi.so. Try another build with this if you had problems with the last one. (The previous link is fixed too.)

Here it is — a .spec file to build an RPM from the current mpich 1.2.4 distribution, which you can pick up at the official home page, or you can just go directly to grabbing the tarball if you already know what you’re doing. I’ve tried this spec file only …

I’ve been spending way too much time on this, but by later this evening I should have a .spec file for an mpich-1.2.4 RPM available here, which I will also make available to the official maintainers. It’s compiling right now, hopefully with no errors this time…. ?

We saw Croupier last night, which was surprisingly good. It’s very sly and low-key on the plot points, so if you are a big guns and explosions fan, don’t bother. If you like character-driven pieces with some clever twists, you’ll probably enjoy it. Don’t expect a pat ending. It’s definitely …

Argghh! Define “bourgeois tragedy”: Sopranos Season 3, Disc 2 ships from Netflix before you’ve been able to get Disc 1.