The Linux Gang

William Pitcock: Yay! Ubuntu patches my code horribly wrong!

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Ubuntu’s audio team has patched my code using a “new approach” to make audacious use Pulse by default! Great right
Well, not really, because the way they do it is wrong and won’t work and is prone to breakage…

William Pitcock: redhat initrd considered harmful.

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Tried to switch a CentOS domU from the Debian kernel to pyGrub CentOS kernel today. Here’s what I discovered:

the redhat initrd sucks
unsurprisingly, the debian initrd will not work with a redhat kernel
modifying…

William Pitcock: Some musing on XMMS Audacious lulz

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Recently, we’ve been getting a lot of the following on our IRC channel:
<intangir> well xmms could do it
<intangir> and now xmms is no longer being updated
<intangir> its just been taking out of new…

William Pitcock: How NOT to switch from x86 to amd64 Debian

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The following script, or any script like it will not work. Do not waste your time and end up hosing your box like I did today:
#!/bin/bash

echo "==> installing cdebootstrap"
apt-get install…