Paolo Redaelli personal blog
Paolo Redaelli

Lately I’ve launched a big dist-upgrade on my aging machine at work, discovering that our seldom used StatusNet stopped working.

Today I’ve been trying to upgrade it from StatusNet 1.1.0 to its current version, i.e. Gnu Social 1.2.x

You got it. I’ve been trying. Debugging scripting languages can be quite an headache.

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Audit finished. It’s time to celebrate a little (with a gift given to my wife who don’t like wine, no one is perfect)…

Paolo Redaelli

Testing time: git clone --single-branch -b bell Tybor@git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/liberty-eiffel.git bell

For real, this time.

Driving me crazy

This little Inforce IFC 6410 is a really good ARM system but there’s a little glitch that is driving  me crazy: I just can’t make it see the Micro SD plugged in. I cannot even make the device appear under /dev or in the dmesg log. Any help welcome, of course.

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Today I have realised that I never published all the programs I have been writing during my career in the building industry.
I always have been thinking that they weren’t worth to be published as I would have labelled them as “little hacks”.
Until today.
Today I realised that they actually show some of my programming skills,  mainly used to deal with the little frictions between legacy and newer softwares.
For today I will publish them, partly here, partly on github. After all so many people have been using github repositories as a coding portfolio.
I may discover that those that I rate as skills are staple,  day-by-day skills that every system administration worth of the name shall have or that those are  not actually skills. I will take the risk of being joked on the net as the civil engineer who liked to behave as an IT professional but he’s actually a low tech guy.
Actually during all those years – you won’t believe it – for this company I’ve been coding in:

  • Commodore 64 BASIC
  • Amigabasic
  • AREXX
  • Python
  • some bash, also using ask and sed
  • a little C

So,  let this “Paolo the wannabe” series being…