Bugzilla removed. Spammers got into it and all of this software is deprecated anyway. If you find a bug (ha!) and you really care about it, email me.

I no longer plan to develop DMR or Parasite. There is much better blogware out there and the world is a different place than it was when I started writing DMR. I barely use it myself these days. I see that someone else is trying to make a business of a crippled version of it. Good luck! :)

If anyone wants the working-but-very-difficult-to-install source for the latest version, email me and I'll give it to you. The only real improvement is the RSS/Atom reader is much much much better.

So, this means that this site will probably get an overhaul as soon as real life and procrastination allow. I need to find a CMS that allows for blogs as well as static content.

This post is mostly a reminder to myself. If you ever dd a whole disk to a file and you need to loopback mount an individual partition from that file, here's how:

• sfdisk -l -uS myimg.img

  • Disk myimg.img: cannot get geometry
    
    Disk myimg.img: 0 cylinders, 0 heads, 0 sectors/track
    Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
      for C/H/S=*/64/63 (instead of 0/0/0).
    For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
    Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0
    
       Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id  System
    myimg.img1   *        63   3515903    3515841  83  Linux
    myimg.img2       3515904   4124735     608832  82  Linux swap / Solaris
    myimg.img3             0         -          0   0  Empty
    myimg.img4             0         -          0   0  Empty
    

• Since "End" is the end point, not a count point, subtract the Start from the end:
  echo 3515903 - 63 | bc
  • 3515840
• create a file with just the partition you want:
  dd if=myimg.img of=part1.img bs=512 skip=63 count=3515840
• mount -o loop /path/to/part1.img /mnt

Good news and bad news.

The good news is that I've (finally) discovered and fallen in love with del.icio.us. Which means that all of the code I wrote for the DMR8 bookmark manager is being replaced with a clone (that will support using del.icio.us as a mirror) of that interface with some additional functionality. The bad news is that this will take time to write.

The good news is that I've decided that my database schema was stupid and I'm moving to a better one. The bad news is that this takes time.

The bad news is that I'm 0% further along on the user administration stuff that I complained about previously (and thus no closer to actually releasing any of this code. The further bad news is that I've raised my own bar for what DMR8 is going to do, which means additional development time. The final bad news is that I've still not had any offers to help.