Hi all!
I whipped up a quick plugin for gozerbot you can all use if you want, of course I’d like comments and feedback if you feel like something’s wrong or if you just like the plugin :)
The plugin can be found here, together with the md5sum it should match.
Coming up for the 29th, the new release of Ubuntu (9.10), dubbed Karmic Koala.
I’ve been testing this release for quite a while, and I’m quite content of it, though I still think the Jaunty release had more new and improved features
Well, this was just a FYI :)
BIT (my employer) was kind enough to supply me with a block of ipv6, more than I, or 100 generations of my family to come, could possibly ever use. Anyway, if you whois 2001:07b8:0620::/48, you’re looking at my allocation :)
With this, I took the liberty of setting up a tertiary nameserver on cthulhu to help ns1 & ns2 with their jobs, as well as providing AAAA records to the world, so a lot of my services and websites I run are now available through ipv6, this blog not excluded (2001:07b8:0620:0080::6) Also, I made a small modification to the sidebar, it now shows which IP you’re coming from, so if you’re connected through ipv6 (With a native connection, sixxs or teredo, for instance), you’ll notice it right away. Of course, if you still don’t use ipv6 (alongside ipv4), try to be a good person and do so :) I’ll devote a post on how to use ipv6 later, but if you just search around on the internet, you’ll probably find more than enough info about it :)
I’ve been playing with the gozerbot on my irc-server for a while, since I noticed it’s awesome capabilities. (We also use it @ work for the irc-server, for about everything) Since I’m also trying to learn python, the language the bot is written in, I took the opportunity of programming a nice little plugin, while also learning a bit of python on the way there.
As you might know, I’m also an avid Dungeons and Dragons player, so I made a plugin which creates a generic, random character, for whenever you can’t choose what to play. Output from the script on irc looks like this:
<@peterva> !chargen-create <@nigel> Character: <@nigel> Name : Leantas Echs <@nigel> Hair : Long, Light Brown <@nigel> Eyes : Blue <@nigel> Race : Halfling
If you run a gozerbot, or are just interested in the code of the plugin, you can get it over here:
http://projects.oldones.net/gozerbot-plugins/chargen/chargen.py
(md5sum for version 0.1 = 1c1dd92ec8e749934470b0e0c66c344d)
If you like the bot, or you think something’s wrong with it, then contact me on #talk @ cthulhu.oldones.net:6667 or drop me an email at peterva @ oldones . net
While Jaunty Jackalope is still in development, I decided to format my hard-drive at home and do a fresh install of the new beta. This was really the first time when installing a beta-release really was the best choice I could’ve made. Jaunty is amazing! A lot of small bugs are worked out, booting time has drastically decreased and the looks are just great.
At first I tried to ‘update-manager -d’ my old Kubuntu Intrepid install, but I used gnome with Kubuntu there and updating to Ubuntu Jaunty wasn’t the best idea, so that’s why I decided to do a fresh install. The alternate installer didn’t quite work, so I had to use the graphical installer instead. This worked fine, except for the fact that I couldn’t do raid in the setup, but anyway, nothing mdadm couldn’t fix afterwards.
Overall, I’m quite happy with Jaunty Jackalope, even when it’s still in beta.
