A carnival of technology

I’m the x86 guy for Peachtree Linux, as well as being the token Unicode dork.

From Wikipedia:

Peachtree Linux is a Linux distribution popular in the Southeastern United States and in certain Scandinavian countries. It is the third oldest distribution in existence and is frequently termed “Georgia Gentoo”.

I maintain a handful of XML schema files, each of which you are are free to use and modify. Further documentation is provided in the files themselves.

• address.xsd is a very simple description of a mailing address. It’s not meant to provide fancy indicies across multiple address types, but rather it’s meant to be easy to reuse.
• bcml.xsd is built using the XHTML 1.1 modules as an attempt to define a subset of HTML safe to allow in user-submitted comments. BCML is used by Nanocomment, which also includes local copies of all the XHTML modules in order to avoid the need for dozens of HTTP requests during schema validation.
• transit.xsd is a XML vocabulary for describing a mass transit system. It is currently used by the MARTA map

This set of patches is a part of Peachtree Linux and no longer maintained as a separate project. See the Peachtree Linux site for more information on obtaining the patch source.

A patch to PostgreSQL 7.4 that allows for a seperate directory for configuration files, instead of keeping everything in the same place as the database like a dumbass. postmaster and pg_ctl now take a -C option to specify a config file directory, and, if not set, look in $PGCONF. postgres, the single user daemon, also looks in $PGCONF, but there is already some undocumented option that uses -C. All three default to /etc/postgresql. Also, the install puts the example files in docdir, instead of datadir, and initdb no longer tries to copy them anywhere. The tarball contains the patch, as well as some updated man pages. The current version of the patch is against 7.4; a handful of older versions are available in postgres-patches

I stopped updating the script on this site after moving it into Peachtree Linux, and I forgot about it entirely after pysol was removed from the distribution. According to the pysol site, 4.82 may be the last pysol version released under the GPL, so it’s likely that this script is the last that will be needed.

I have two primary uses for python: horrible file management scripts, and playing PySol. Pysol is distributed as a sort-of binary package of byte-compiled globs of code, as well as a separate source package which seems to have nothing at all to do with the binary files. The binary files are also sort-of dependent on the version of python being used, so, not wanting wanting to be dependent on Mr. Oberhumer for python upgrades, I set out to unlock the mysteries of how the hell you compile the thing. Yeah, so it’s a bit of a mess. This shell script should help a bit in taking the many source files and creating a single binary, if you have some desire to roll your own pysol. This should work for pysol-4.82.

It appears that some time in 2004, Mr. Oberhumer chose to cease development on pysol and removed all non-source tarballs, which includes the data files necessary to play the game. I’ve set up a mirror of the most recent files I could find for those still interested in pysol.

I no longer use ezmlm or qmail, so this patch will not be updated.

A patch to ezmlm-idx 0.53 that allows for shell substitions to be made in the generated headers. In the headeradd config file, the format for dynamic content in the headers is of the form <#LETTER#>. This patch adds a tag of the form <#p:COMMAND#>, where the tag is replaced by the first line of output from running COMMAND through /bin/sh.

It appears that this is no longer a problem. I wasn’t paying enough attention to notice when this bug was fixed, but tar-1.15.1 works for me.

A patch to GNU tar 1.13.25 that fixes the problem of it being unable to understand filename command-line arguments that contain backslashes. This has not been accepted by the tar people, since they’d prefer to ignore the issue. Distributed under the terms of the GPL out of necessity.