http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/ en-us 2010-01-11T15:18:48-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/212547.html Runaway processes can be a problem in LTSP systems. I've found in particular that Adobe's Acrobat Reader, Firefox, and flash can easily get out of control and suck up 100% of a processor. The cpulimit command (available in Ubuntu and... Software cayfo001 2010-01-11T15:18:48-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/139330.html Thursday It doesn't seem like we accomplished much on Thursday. A couple of us got a media center driver to take us downtown to do a little shopping and change some money. I finally got batteries that work in my... Nigeria cayfo001 2008-08-23T11:56:10-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/139089.html Saturday The morning started out slow. I met Mike at the restaurant at about 8:30 where we had eggs and chips and coffee (Nescafe) for breakfast. We hadn't seen anyone else so weren't sure what the plan was when Father... Nigeria cayfo001 2008-08-20T13:44:06-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/138626.html Back in Kaduna we found that another member of the WCE team, Nicholas from Zimbabwe, had arrived after having his flight delayed. The team had set up the eGranary server and gotten it working after solving some hardware issues due... Nigeria cayfo001 2008-08-15T10:29:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/138625.html Wednesday morning found Mike feeling under the weather perhaps due to something he had eaten in Kaduna or perhaps just getting used to the change in diet. Yilwe and I spent the morning touring different schools run by the Catholic... Nigeria cayfo001 2008-08-15T10:26:49-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/138624.html Monday morning we were taken on a tour of Abuja. We saw the National Mosque, the National Communicant Center (an ecumenical cathedral) and the Abuja zoo. We were able to see the National Assembly building from a distance, but unfortunately... Nigeria cayfo001 2008-08-15T10:24:23-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/138623.html Rolling up several days... Wednesday, after successfully getting Internet access and looking around the former Boulder Hill compound, we went back to the guest house then caught a taxi to Hill Station to eat at the Chinese/Lebanese restaurant, Elysar. We... Nigeria cayfo001 2008-08-15T10:20:26-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/137791.html Emily and I attended the opening chapel for the semester today. Chapel proceeded much as it would have years ago. Parents and many teachers sat in the back and on the bleachers, high school students sat toward the back of... Nigeria cayfo001 2008-08-06T09:29:03-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/137789.html After checking in to the Cedar Tree we had some lunch then made our way on foot to Hillcrest School, my alma mater. As we left the guest house the gardener warned us that it was about to rain, but... Nigeria cayfo001 2008-08-06T09:27:11-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/137788.html Monday morning we had eggs, bread and tea (and Nescafe) at the guest house for breakfast. The weather was beautiful -- probably low seventies, but quite humid and overcast. Christopher picked us up and we headed out pretty early. Our... Nigeria cayfo001 2008-08-06T09:23:50-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/137786.html Emily and I flew from Minneapolis to Chicago then changed planes to a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt. While at the airport we met up with Joe Kennedy who will be the advance member of the WCE team in Kaduna. We... Nigeria cayfo001 2008-08-06T09:21:31-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/134067.html I've written a mod_perl2 module: UMN::CAH::Client::MP2 to work with UMN::CAH::Client::Store to provide a client implementation of the University of Minnesota Central Authentication Hub. Currently ::MP2 is on version 0.0.3 and ::Store is on version 0.0.5. Both of these should still... Software cayfo001 2008-07-03T23:19:46-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/131976.html I've started working on a set of new perl modules to replace UMNCookieAuth. I've broken the backend and cacheing section of the module away from the mod_perl section, so the backend should be usable from any perl application and does... Software cayfo001 2008-06-20T16:43:22-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/130743.html Emily and I spent an hour or so waiting in line to get into the Xcel center last night to see Barack Obama speak. Unfortunately we didn't get in. We heard there had been 40 - 50,000 people waiting and... Politics cayfo001 2008-06-04T13:30:09-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cayfo001/blogorama/086251.html I finally made it to the site of the 35W bridge collapse. The police had a very wide area sealed off until this past weekend so there was really nowhere to get a good look at it. This weekend they... Misc cayfo001 2007-09-03T22:24:24-06:00