Elliot Peele

Raleigh Wars – Assassin’s Ball

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:36:20 GMT

Originally published at Elliot's Blog. You can comment here or there.

Had a lot of fun last night at the Raleigh Wars Assassin’s Ball. Posted photos from last night’s Assassin’s Ball.

Winning trophy

My prize for 3rd most kills

Wordpress Appliance updated to 2.8

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:38:48 GMT

Originally published at Elliot's Blog. You can comment here or there.

I have updated the Wordpress Appliance to version 2.8 of Wordpress. You can read the release announcement here. Everyone should be able to update via the rPath Platform Agent or by running the following command:

conary migrate group-dist –interactive

Photo Management

Mon, 25 May 2009 03:42:39 GMT

Originally published at Elliot's Blog. You can comment here or there.

I have been toying for awhile with what I want out of the photo management software that I use to process, organize, and publish my photos. My requirements are as follows:

Good support for tagging or some similar sorting method.
Storing files on disk by date. Preferably $YEAR/$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY. This is not a hard requirement, just prefered.
Good support for Nikon raw files.
Usable editing interface. This could be another application, but needs to integrate with the management app.
Handle exporting to both flickr and gallery2.

I have asked around amongst people I know that have Nikon cameras and have found solutions to this problem that work for them. The each recommended different software:

Apple Aperture 2 - This is Apple’s proprietary management and editing software. At first glance it looks to have all of the features that I require, along with several plugins that implement more features. I need to do more research and testing to figure out what I think.
Adobe LightRoom 2 - Adobe’s photo management software, includes some features of PhotoShop. Looks like this probably includes all of the features I need. I still need to take a better look at it.
Nikon CaptureNX 2 - This is of course targeted at Nikon owners and requires a separate application (ViewNX) for organization and export. My main problem is that ViewNX doesn’t seem to have all of the features that I want. Although from looking around it looks like some people use LightRoom to do there organization and export while using CaptureNX for editing, which isn’t out of the question, but kinda pricey.

Once I have evaluated all three I will post my results.

rPath Projects now on BitBucket.org

Tue, 12 May 2009 23:43:04 GMT

Originally published at Elliot's Blog. You can comment here or there.

rPath’s open source projects are now available on BitBucket.org under the rpathsync user. This should bring more visibility into our open source software and make it easier for anyone looking to contribute.

I would like to eventually do the same thing for GitHub now that the hg-git plugin is available.

The following projects are now available on BitBucket:

As per usual our sources will continue to be posted to http://hg.rpath.com and these sites will be kept in sync.

Naming a Distro Importer/Maintainer Thingy

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:53:50 GMT

Originally published at Elliot's Blog. You can comment here or there.

Over the past several months I have been working on importing SLES, CentOS, and Ubuntu into Conary repositories so that they can be made available in rBuilder. You can try out CentOS and Ubuntu on rBuilder Online.

One of my goals in doing the import was to have an automated way of maintaining and adding to these platforms in the future. From this “sleestack” was born, a collection of scripts and configs for importing SLES. Over the months it grew into a few thousand lines of python that is capable of coordinating updates for SLES, Centos, and Ubuntu.

Now that rPath has decided to open source “sleestack” I need a better name that actually reflects its current purpose. As it turns out, I suck at naming things. I have been hounding people for ideas over the past week, but no one has come up with anything that is quite right. I am looking for something witty, yet descriptive. The current suggestions are:

distroteque
CustomsAgent
rConstruct
rImport
coversion

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Upgrading to Firefox 3 Beta 5 in Foresight Linux 2

Wed, 07 May 2008 18:14:33 GMT

Originally published at Elliot's Blog. You can comment here or there.

As some people may have noticed Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been pushed to Foresight Linux 2 QA and will soon be default in Foresight Linux 2.

The first thing that I noticed when I updated was that none of my extensions worked. After a few minutes of googling, I found that there are a couple ways to work around this. Some projects have development builds of their extensions that work with beta 5 and some don’t. For those that don’t you can try disabling extension compatibility checks.

Note that both of these options are potentially dangerous and may cause firefox to become unstable.

I disabled compatibility checks and downloaded the developer release of Tab Mix Plus, an extension that I can not live without. All seems to be working so far.

Disabling compatibility checks:

go to “about:config” in your address bar
right click to get to New -> Boolean
set extensions.checkCompatibility for the key
and false for the value

Developer versions that you might be interested in:

Thanks to the following two blog posts that were great resources.

Flourish

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:23:08 GMT

Originally published at Elliot's Blog. You can comment here or there.

Finally got around to posting a few pictures from Flourish.

http://photos.bentlogic.net/v/Flourish+08/

It was really nice to have the chance to talk to people about Foresight and finally meet a few more people face to face. There was a lot of interest in the KPC from many of the attendees and in Foresight overall.

City Market in the Rain/Raleigh

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:06:16 GMT

City Market in the Rain/Raleigh, originally uploaded by elliotpeele.

From atop a parking deck overlooking City Market on Sunday in the rain.

Spring at Crabtree

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:43:48 GMT

Spring at Crabtree, originally uploaded by elliotpeele.

New Photos

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:28:19 GMT

Tornoto/Eatable Flowers, originally uploaded by elliotpeele.

I finally got around to publishing some more photos from heinous's wedding.

Christmas Balls

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:53:12 GMT

Christmas Balls, originally uploaded by elliotpeele.

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:24:26 GMT

Just in case people haven't seen this:

Red Hat Ad #1
Red Hat Ad #2

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:48:31 GMT

I went to the Ohio Linux Fest to represent rPath. Had fun talking to people about what we do and the products that we offer. Also took a few pictures: http://photos.bentlogic.net/v/elliot/Ohio_Linux_Fest_06/. My favorite being of spot at the Red Hat booth.

Looking for Doctor and Dentist around Raleigh

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:18:23 GMT

I’m looking for a Doctor and Dentist around the Raleigh/Cary area and would appreciate any positive or negative recommendations that anyone can offer.

Maui

Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:54:22 GMT

I’m currently sitting by the beach, drinking a martini, reading OLS abstracts.

For those that might wonder why I’m in Maui, I’m on vacation. My mom has a medical conference at the Hyatt Regency (where we are staying) and I decided to come along.

View from my room:

Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:48:14 GMT

who knew...

Sat, 23 Apr 2005 05:21:13 GMT

You scored as Artistic. Congratulations, you scored Artistic. You’re looking for the unique movie in the bunch. You’ve probably watched a lot of movies that nobody has ever heard of, and good for you. You also know good filmmaking when you see it. You just get it, no questions asked. Check out: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Garden State, Lost in Translation.

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Artistic

75%

Mindfuck

70%

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

65%

Drama/Suspense

50%

Mindless Action Flick

35%

Sadistic Humour

35%

Romantic Comedy

10%

Movie Recommendation.
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Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:52:24 GMT

If I were God over LiveJournal... by shinikami
Username
Jesus would be	bethsdreams
The four archangels would be	mricon
and	base10
and	heinous
and	jeni
The Blessed Virgin would be	badger
Satan would be	saspenguin
The antichrist would be	frijole
And YOU would be	In Hell

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dead puppies

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:45:01 GMT

So I was wearing this shirt when I went to class. Well, I walked into my history class and everyone looked at me like I had just killed their puppy.. I don’t get it, no one in the rest of my classes had any problems or any of my professors or the guy I work for.

What, people don’t understand that its four in binary (aka, A good excuse to walk around with a middle finger on your shirt).

Free Mac Mini's for all

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:51:09 GMT

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A Kitty

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:13:14 GMT

Look a kitty:

More Pictures.

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 01:47:26 GMT

If LJ Was a High School by Karen_Walker
Username
Principal	kimmie
Lunch Lady	strandist
Head Cheerleader	mricon
Quarterback	mswilson
Prom Queen	saspenguin
Gang Member	demerzel
Band Geek	flavor
Theatre Geek	jeni
Chess Club Captain	johnnybluecrush
Loner Goth Kid	slack
Class Clown	voxie

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interesting...

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:22:02 GMT

this is very interesting.

Thu, 13 May 2004 03:33:00 GMT

Which Family Guy character are you?

Sat, 08 May 2004 05:39:43 GMT

So I decided to go see Van Helsing tonight with a few people for lack of anything better to do. I went into this with an open mind and ready to suspend all disbelief. That didn't help to much since the movie was just really bad. (Note to self: always check rottentomatoes before going to see a movie, they are normally right). Some of the CG was alright, but then there was the CG that was horrible. Throughout the entire movie I was waiting for them to mention yellow spandex or have claws pot out of Hugh Jackman's hands without any luck.

If for some reason you were going to go see this movie, I would strongly recommend against it.

On another note I took my last exam of the semester this morning so now its on to working all summer to get everything I want to get done done, which will never happen. There's a slim chance of getting a good bit of it done since I'll have two people working for me this summer.

Now its off to bed to read since I got up at 6:30am.