all this to mean....

saundo@domain:/source/chromiumos$ gclient sync
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/source/chromium/home/chrome-svn/depot_tools/gclient.py", line 1183, in
result = Main(sys.argv)
File "/source/chromium/home/chrome-svn/depot_tools/gclient.py", line 1178, in Main
return DispatchCommand(command, options, args)
File "/source/chromium/home/chrome-svn/depot_tools/gclient.py", line 1103, in DispatchCommand
return command_map[command](options, args)
File "/source/chromium/home/chrome-svn/depot_tools/gclient.py", line 1020, in DoUpdate
return client.RunOnDeps('update', args)
File "/source/chromium/home/chrome-svn/depot_tools/gclient.py", line 675, in RunOnDeps
scm.RunCommand(command, self._options, args, file_list)
File "/source/chromium/home/chrome-svn/depot_tools/gclient_scm.py", line 79, in RunCommand
return getattr(self, command)(options, args, file_list)
File "/source/chromium/home/chrome-svn/depot_tools/gclient_scm.py", line 131, in update
cwd=self._root_dir, redirect_stdout=False)
File "/source/chromium/home/chrome-svn/depot_tools/gclient_scm.py", line 197, in _Run
sp = subprocess.Popen(cmd, cwd=cwd, stdout=stdout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 595, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1092, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory


you don't have git installed.

random notes

As I work my way to build Chromium:

fdisk -l

partition /dev/sdb

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1

WIN.

Restaurant Review: Dickey's Barbecue Pit

Brett and I continued the Friday lunch tradition of BBQ, and the opening of a new BBQ restaurant within reasonable driving distance intrigues us no end.

Dickey's Barbecue Pit opened in Overland Park at 7284 W. 121st St a week or so ago. After entering, we were in a line to order that was Oklahoma Joe's-esque, just not as long. Big menu seems like decent prices, but remained to be seen.

I ordered the Rib Plate, which came with 5 beef ribs, 3 slices of pickle, 2 slices of onion and a roll. Added to that was a large iced tea and a side of jalapeno beans. Ended up at about $10 all up.

Brett ordered the Two Meat Plate, with pulled pork and sliced brisket, also with iced tea and the jalapeno beans.

The ribs were good. Smoky, a little spicy from the rub, and tender. They were decent sized, I got the short end of the slab and was rewarded with an extra rib. The beans were red beans with some kind of jalapeno addition, but I just couldn't taste it. The sauces were allegedly original, sweet and spicy, but in the end I couldn't really tell one from the other.

Brett's pulled pork was good, but he wasn't at all impressed with the brisket. It was very dry, which may or may not be a hallmark of Texas beef bbq.

Nice touch was the big dill pickle jar (free) and the soft serve ice cream (also free) available. All in all, I probably won't go back. The portion sizes were good and the ribs were good also, but in the end, I'm pretty sure I would go to either Jack Stack, OK Joes or Broebecks in preference to here.

I agree with Cheney?

In this story, Dick Cheney says the following:

"The people involved deserve our gratitude," Cheney said in the statement. "They do not deserve to be the targets of political investigations or prosecutions."

I agree with the former VP: the people asked to do these things under the auspices of (admittedly tenuous) legal frameworks should not be targeted. Which is what the President said.

What I do not disagree with him about is the idea that somehow what the CIA operatives (and the contractors that were also used) weren' t used as political pawns by the former administration in the first place.

Outsourcing and proxying of acts is not a defence against breaking the law. The sooner we get to the bottom of whether what was done in Our Collective Names was legal or not, the sooner this can be put to bed.

There must be a masochism gene

Patching Windows XP on a VirtualPC install. It's so slow as to make proton decay look fast.

gOS FTW

I like it. A lot. Very quick, very simple, VirtualBox image available.

I hate technology

I've spent a good 40 minutes trying to get a partnership set up between my Windows Mobile smartphone and PowerBook || Windows XP host. This is so that I can transfer files between them.

I'm giving up for now, and resorting to the low-tech version: media adapter for the SD card.

Why does technology suck so badly?

On random updates

Exercise: failed completely. Was interested in riding Fri/Sat/Sun, but after the debacle of SWMBOs therapy on Friday morning, no dice. Will get out on the bikes this afternoon, and then tomorrow morning as well.

Technology: bad SATA drive. SMART finally told me that it was dead after a couple of hours messing with it. Have yet to investigate a replacement.

House: backyard is coming along. Chasing the Little Man around is a good time to pick crabgrass out of the lawn by hand. It's a little OCD, but it's worth it. Might not even move the back yard this week; summer approacheth and the growth rate is way down.

Plan for today is post-riding in Kearney to replace the plastic faux brick edging around the house w/the black plastic edging wot landscapers use. That'll be a long-standing honey-do that disappears.

Bikes: the Trek is ready for riding, and the hybrids are proving a wise investment. I'm looking forward to when the Little Man and I can head out for a ride together, rather than him looking at me peddling while he chillaxes in the trailer.

Work: Some moderately interesting stuff going on, but it's really just passing the time. I'm feeling very wasted right now, bordering on irrelevant. The thing is, I'll have 50 conversations in a day that use my talents and knowledge, but it's all rear-view mirror facing. Nothing is new, nothing is interesting.

Politics: It remains to be seen whether the President I voted for can make the changes I want. While I count myself as a small-l liberal, in reality it is far more complicated than that. It is with a little schadenfreude that I watch the floundering of the GOP right now, but remain fully aware that regardless of what happens, the conservative yang to the liberal ying will reassert itself. It does make me wonder if there's room in US politics for a third party. It's about time there was a Green Party, in a completely non-granola way. If a party could be formed that strikes the balance between the need for Green and the need for capitalism, that would win votes simply because it would be a palatable alternative.

On holding yourself accountable

After a long discussion with myself about matters that I shouldn't be concerned with, I have come to the conclusion that I have failed in holding myself accountable. It wasn't SWMBO's surgery that stopped me exercising, it was the fact that I allowed the excuse of being tired to trump the need to exercise.

It stops today.

Everyd ay this week, I will do something cardio.

On sighing

"Huckabee told the audience he was disturbed to hear President Barack Obama say during his speech in Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday that one nation shouldn't be exalted over another.
"The notion that we are just one of many among equals is nonsense," Huckabee said. The United States is a "blessed" nation, he said, calling American revolutionaries' defeat of the British empire "a miracle from God's hand.""

http://hamptonroads.com/2009/06/huckabee-gingrich-urge-political-engagement-va-beach

Gov Huckabee, Sir, I am not a religious man. I do know that the Kingdom of God surpasses all earthly nations, and the facts of the matter of revolution (taxation, freedom from unwarranted search/seizure) are merely inconvenient?

Such intellectual bankruptcy is exactly what the Republican Party does not need right now. Governor Huckabee, exit stage right.

On a list of things to do

I need to stop by Microcenter for a SATA power cable, and maybe a power brick for a USB external laptop drive.

The first item will let me get the 1TB drive in the ESXi server up and running. Plan is to:

• move the Ubuntu desktop image from the 250GB drive to the 1TB
• Move the VIMA appliance image from the 250GB drive to the 1TB
• Install OpenFiler using virtual disks on both of those drives, and then create a backup volume that is rsynced to and then can be streamed to tape/DVD from there.
• Create iSCSI volumes that can be mounted by each of the systems that support it (PowerBooks and the Ultra5) and use that for filesystem space.

On torture debating

The most disappointing part of the current news cycle treatment of the "debate on torture" is that we're losing sight of the true debate that needs to happen.

Is the United States a country that prosecutes torture?

Regardless of what any Congressperson or Senator knew or knows, it is clearly a matter for the DoJ to decide whether any of the laws of the United States were broken, and prosecute if warranted.

It is disappointing that the focus has been lost behind the smokescreen of Congressional oversight.

On a Saturday

Spent the morning with the Little Man. A little rocky as he was a little grumpy, might have been his long sleep overnight. Other than that, good morning. 

Working:
Budget is notionally approved, now I get to go into data spin hell for a week.

Reading:
Nothing worthwhile.

Listening:

"Hollowmen". "Smell the paper". Awesome.

Thinking:

Trying not to, it hurts now.

On an early morning Saturday

I woke up this morning with a pain in my ribcage that turned out to be the way I was sleeping. See, I can't sleep on my left side at all, and when I do, I end up bent in ways that appear pretzel like.  Anyhow, 4:30am and I'm wide awake. Thankfully, there's the Internet to amuse me!

Working:
Variable time at work. Still waiting on 2009 budget to be approved. Thankfully, there's the Internet!

Reading:
"Sprays" by HG Nelson, a Christmas present from my Dad. Most excellent. 

Listening:
"Little Fluffy Clouds" by The Orb. I'm rediscovering ambient as preparation for getting back into the swing of exercise.

Discovered that "This Sporting Life" is available on the TripleJ website.

Thinking:

It's too early.