July 11, 2009
by dhoytt
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Did LSD This Morning ( Long Slow Distance)

I did a decent LSD ( Long Slow Distance) run this morning of about 7.5 miles which took a little over an hour (62 minutes approximately)so I still have a ways to get in shape. I had my new “Saucony Grid Propel +” shoes.
Everything seemed ok except the shoes were a little tight but loosened up and were comfortable until the last mile and I felt a bit too much rubbing on the top of my left top foot over my small toe.
The rubbing on my toe could have been due to my sock on that foot was a bit bunched and to the side which I noticed before taking off but it didn’t feel bad at the time.
I did an approximate time since my digital watch had the battery go out after only a few months of replacing it with a new battery. My next battery I will get one from an actual watch store instead of Walmart since my garage door opener battery I got from them also went out after only a few months.
Anyway it was time for me to try to get to the next levels on my run and I was due for an LSD which would help me get there. After doing an LSD my 4 mile run pace usually picks up quite a bit and then my next few LSD’s the pace will pick up as well if I stick to the program!

July 8, 2009
by dhoytt
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Updated Blog Software and Fixed Blog Feeds

I upgraded to Movabletype version 4.261 and then fixed the issue of why the feeds were not coming in on my home page from my other blogs in dhoytt.com.
The reason why the feeds were not showing up was due to me not setting up the “run-periodic-tasks” utility, which I setup to run in cron per the url “http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/administrator/setting-up-run-periodic-taskspl.html”.

January 17, 2009
by dhoytt
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Comments Ability Updated

I updated the way people can leave comments to the way it was previously where anonymous users could leave comments if they verified with their email addresses and I also enabled Typekey authentication.

This is how I originally had planned to have authentication for leaving comments along with registration but in my haste moving to my backup server in November I didn’t allow for these authentication methods.

To summarize the full list of services for leaving comments on my sites besides using your email as an anonymous user are with OpenID, LiveJournal, Vox, & TypeKey login/authentication services.

December 21, 2008
by dhoytt
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Grant Pacers Win California State Champinship!! Now What?

Now that Grant has beaten the number 2 team in the country Poly of Long Beach 25-20 maybe now teams will come up to Sacramento and play.

I have lived in Southern Cali and love it but Grant is one area of Sacramento that always has had athletes that could compete with Southern Cali they just needed to know they can do it.

I hope this forever changes the attitude in Sacramento in more than sports that you can take the lead instead of trying to live up to what other areas do!

Now for De La Salle how about really scheduling Grant now? Can’t duck us with that wanting half of your home gate craziness.

Now De La Salle can’t go around just saying your the best in Northern Cali, you have to prove it!

The other great thing is that two public schools played for the championship that don’t recruit city and region wide.

Once again CONGRATULATIONS 2008 GRANT PACERS FOOTBALL TEAM YOU ARE THE CALIFORNIA STATE CHAMPIONS!!

December 20, 2008
by dhoytt
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Grant Pacers Win California State Champinship!!!!

Grant pacers are California state champions!!!

GET SOME DPH NORTH SAC!!!

Way to represent for Grant alums!!!

December 17, 2008
by dhoytt
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Go Grant Pacers Beat Poly Long Beach In California State Football Bowl

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First Congratulations to the 2008 Grant Pacers
Football Team for being 13-0 and being selected as the Northern
California representative for the California State Bowl in
Division I.

Despite being a Division III attendance school Grant has always played with the
big boys and cannot get anyone from Northern California to schedule non-league
games against them any more and have to schedule out of State competition!

This year they beat the State Champions of Utah
& Idaho!

Grant keeps trying to schedule perennial National Powerhouse De La Salle for a
home game in the Bay area one year and the next year in Sacramento but I hear
De La Salle wants to get their full gate at their stadium and half the gate
when they play Grant’s stadium.

Either to the current 2008
Grant Pacers football team from a Grant high alum no other than me
Snakeice play that smash mouth in your face speed & power
Grant football style and you will be just fine in the state
bowl game against Poly Long Beach!

Plus my younger brother another Pacer alum coached a lot of these kids in youth
football.

I can hear the chant from the stands now with two fingers in the
air forming a “V” for victory: PACERS!…PACERS!……PACERS!……PACERS!……PACERS!……PACERS!…..
PACERS!……PACERS!……PACERS!……PACERS!……PACERS!……PACERS!..

Here are some local articles on this:
http://www.sacbee.com/preps/story/1473822.html?mi_rss=High%20School%20Sports

Where I get my hair cut:
http://www.sacbee.com/preps/story/1476500.html

Bay Area Article:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/17/SPOF14PC7G.DTL

June 28, 2008
by dhoytt
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Pirut Working Fine on Fedora 9 System Also Liking Synaptic Package Manager

Well I have been busy with other
pursuits and have not had the opportunity to do much on my systems
except very late at night. Late nights aren’t always good when you
have other things pending in the early morning.

I’m posting because Autostatic (whoever
you may be) posted a comment
“http://www.dhoytt.com/mainblog/archives/2008/05/packagekit-new-default-manager.html#comments”
to my initial post about “Pirut” being removed on how get the
“Pirut” install bits and install Pirut of course.

Link to Pirut FC9 :
http://ia64.koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/pirut/1.3.30/2.fc9/noarch/pirut-1.3.30-2.fc9.noarch.rpm

Well I installed Pirut from the link
posted and it is working just fine.

Packagekit’s Flaky
Operation on New Fedora 9 Install

Since my initial post I had also
installed “Pirut” on my backup web server because outside of
“Packagekit’s” lack of features I liked Fedora 9 and there was a
version of a software package that came with Fedora 9 I really
wanted.

On this second install of Fedora 9
Packagekit exhibited behavior I did not see or could reproduce on my
first Fedora 9 install.

On the second Fedora 9 install
Packagekit would show it had updates I would then go click on the
Packagekit icon on my toolbar and it would flash for a second and go
away.

I even ran the Packagekit debugger I
got from “http://packagekit.org/pk-bugs.html”
and looked in my log files every time this happened and I couldn’t
find the reason why Packagekit would flash and go away without
letting me interface with the GUI.

This behavior did not occur on my first
Fedora 9 install and went away after a reboot on my second Fedora 9
install but after the initial usage after a reboot Packagekit would
once again flash on the screen and not let me interact with it’s GUI.

I finally left Packagekit alone to deal
with time sensitive non-computer issues. I was still deciding however
to possibly go back to Fedora 8 or hope someone came up with a nice
update of Packagekit or the Pirut Fedora 9 bits or start using the
Fedora 8 Pirut bits.

Thanks to the post by Autostatic
pointing to the Fedora 9 bits I can patiently await the new
Packagekit when its fully functional

Pirut on
Fedora 9

Pirut
seems to be working fine in Fedora 9 so far. Pirut asks if you want
to install source channels for Fedora 8.92 (beta sources possibly)
but I said no. Pirut works fine after that and of course you can edit
out any sources later in “Software Package Manager”. I have been
unable to get this version of Pirut “Software Package Manager” to
show available software from the repositories though.

Synaptic
Package Manager

While
looking for Pirut/Software Package Manager in the programs section I
found “Synaptic Package Manager”! The “Synaptic Package
Manager” GUI looks just like the Pirut/Software Package Manager I
just installed but also shows the available packages.

Applications
Locations

You
can find Pirut Software Package Manager after the install:

Applications
-> System Tools -> Software Package Manager

You
can find Pirut Software Updater after the install:

Applications
-> System Tools -> Software Updater

You
can find Synaptic Package Manager:

Applications
-> System Tools -> Synaptic Package Manager

Well
looks like I will be using Pirut/Software Updater to update my system
for now and Synaptic Package Manager to install any new packages
while I await Packagekit’s growth. I’ll keep playing and see what I
run into next!

May 15, 2008
by dhoytt
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Packagekit New Default Manager Fedora 9, Pirut Removed

Why was Pirut replaced as the default
front end in Fedora 9 by an unfinished package like PackageKit? I
understand the current move from under the wing of Red Hat and more
into the Fedora community with Fedora releases but if these are the
types of decisions that will be made, oh my!

Does this mean the Fedora community
will start making decisions to new projects just because you have a
bias or dislike of certain portions of an older working project even
if you don’t have a working viable solution?

There is no way that PackageKit should
have been included in its current state as the default software
package handler with Pirut totally removed.

I like a lot of what I see in
PackageKit as far as being able to go to the software projects home
page with a simple click, the GUI looks nice, seeing what files will
be written out or modified and the fact that you can go click inside
of that box and save the list with a copy or paste for whatever
reasons you feel you may need are good features.

I understand it talks to all of the
back end package managers like apt, yum etc.., but the usability is
not there yet. Why place it as the default package manager for Fedora
9, a major OS release?

You have negated any good that
PackageKit does with its release while its in its beginning
development stages. PackageKit is in a position it doesn’t yet
belong and you have put up blatant obstacles to using other front-end
package mangers without uninstalling PackageKit.

The immediate usability issues I have
are:

– I have to tell it to refresh
application lists, this should be default or a more readily
identifiable option. I first went through a few sub-categories
getting a ”Query produced no results” type of error before I
started looking for an option to view software I knew should be
there.

I found no way to select multiple
software packages then say install and walk away. You have to sit
there and click one package →
Hit Install → Watch it
download and install →
select next package and repeat. I really hope I’m missing something
here I do not have the time to install all of the packages I like to
use one at a time after my initial install.

When trying to install “pirut”
from the command line using yum I get the following message:

#yum install pirut

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit

Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another
copy is running as pid 10193.

Another app is currently holding the
yum lock; waiting for it to exit…

Setting up Install Process

Parsing package install arguments

Package
gnome-packagekit-0.1.12-12.20080430.fc9.x86_64 already installed and
latest version

Nothing to do

I found the updated version of
PackageKit but had some environmental/dependency issues installing
the “tar.gz” and the “rpm”. I didn’t want to deal with
updating what someone has decide to be the default package manager
for Fedora 9 when I had other things to do so in installed “Yumex”.

I did however use the install one
package at a time PackageKit to install Yumex. I then started
installing the software I want by clicking on them one at a time in
Yumex and then processing the whole lot of them instead of with
“pirut” selecting all and deselecting a few packages a several
dozen more clicks per session than using Pirut. This is still better
than installing packages one at a time (that’s so MS Windows) with
PackageKit.

Since this is installed on the system
that will be my game server and I’m playing around with it now I’m
seriously thinking about installing one of the other Linux Distros
and then moving to the Distro I choose with my web servers.

Especially disturbing is the fact that
they said that PackageKit would be an alternative and Pirut can work
side by side with PackageKit but they have removed all of the Fedora
9 Pirut files from the repositories and the lower versions of Pirut
conflict with PackageKit!

Well time to finish installing packages
with……”Yumex”!