Category Archives: Phil

Phil 7.14.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • More whitepaper.
    • Finished Usage Model
    • Writing Current Work
  • Fire drill for PPM
    • Deployed new system
    • Deployed new documentation
    • Wrote up some justifications
    • Set up an account for Tangela and invited her over for some detailed walkthrough.

Phil 7.13.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

  • Finishing up (hopefully) SF-86
  • Poked around Dong’s flash player problem. Set him up with an account on my Ubuntu server, so he can try that OS as well.
  • Back to Web IDE writeup
    • Finished abstract
    • Finished Concept
    • Finished Components
    • About halfway through Usage Model
  • Wrote up a status report for Bill D.
  • Jeff bailed on the SPF, so I sent out an email asking if Bill or Denise knew who could fill it out.
  • Brought Brian up to date on the whole agonizing process.
  • Tanji would like to try out the new version with documentation tomorrow.

Phil 7.7.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Remembered my SF-86 stuff, so more paperwork today
  • And when I’m done with that, work on the web IDE paper
  • OK, I brought in the wrong (well, incomplete) forms. Working on the paper instead.
  • According to Vernon, The firewall request I had submitted was never going to get processed because it was associated with the wrong type of ticket. He created a new ticket, which I have now associated the request with. This is the most fun ever!

Phil 7.6.11

8:00 – 4:00

  • It looks like the webIDE concept is going to require a server that supports VMs in hardware. At this point, it’s no longer something that I can do on my own, so I’m going to write a whitepaper for FGM specifying what’s needed and punt.
  • Prepping the hand for a demo. Have forgotten how to calibrate the sensors, which have drifted. Oh. No power supply == no sensors. That’s whatr those two wires were for…
  • Well this is cool: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/control-the-desktop-with-your-mobile-device/
  • Also good: http://www.paultrani.com/blog/index.php/category/flashactionscript/
  • In the ongoing saga of our problem child server, Vernon sent out an email that he had addressed all concerns. I responded that port 443 was still closed and attached screenshots of everything working fine inside the firewall and blocked outside. Gee, I wonder if there will be any progress tomorrow?
  • Made some progress on my SF86, but forgot to bring in my old form.

Phil 7.5.11

7:30 – 3:30VISIBILITY

  • OK, where was I? Let’s see – the server is still up and the compiler is still working. The choice is either to a) see how it runs on the actual Internet or b) start working on virtualization.
  • Looking at virtualization first.
    • Ubuntu has a script-driven system called vm-builder, but it’s at version 0.12. Here is some documentation.
    • IBM paper describing the process. It’s for Red Hat, but a good start
    • Hmmm. You need hardware support for VMs. If you run “grep -E ‘vmx|svm’ /proc/cpuinfo” and get a non-null result, you’ve got it. My server does not. fgmedev does, but it’s a vm already, so what does that mean?
  • Gave Jeff all the information I think he needs to get the paperwerk approved for his server. I gave him a followup call to verify that the information was what he needed and he seemed to think so. That being said, he was going to give the info to someone else to enter, so thay may have questions later as they get into the details
  • Started on my SF86 update

Phil 6.23.11

7:30 – 5:00 VISIBILITY

  • I’ve reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 after all of yesterday’s (failed) efforts. Trying FreeNX, following the directions here.
    • Installed openSSH
    • apt-get install freenx took *forever*. I think it installs gnome…
    • Might need this later – we’ll see.
    • KDE didn’t work, but GNOME did! Looks nice, and the server required no addition of the desktop outside of the basic install. However, it seems to have limited functionality. For example, I can’t launch a terminal window and the ‘Accessories’ menu is not there.
    • Going to try installing the standard ubuntu desktop (i.e. apt-get install ubuntu_desktop. Well, another long install, but things work quite nicely now.
    • Installed Eclipse (New version – Indigo!). Needs Java
    • Installed Java
  • Worked on the server some more. Sent Jeff an email with a link to a page that show how to set up the interface.
  • Talked to Vernon about my login problems. He thinks that it’s the result of a reorg they are going through. Still no luck with my SSL port.Testing the new PPM. It appears to still be missing the capability of setting it so that a user with a particular role is only able to see projects that they are associated with (as a Program Manager, Financial Analyst or POC(?). Added as bug 6097.

Phil 6.22.11

8:00 – 7:00 VISIBILITY

Phil 6.20.11

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

Phil 6.17.11

7:30 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Working on getting VNC or something similar runing on my Linux box
  • Installed VNC server according to the directions here: http://www.havetheknowhow.com/Configure-the-server/Install-VNC.html
  • Have the vnc server and client running, but can’t control the desktop. Could be because I’m logged into the server. Going to install updates, restart, and try without being logged in.
  • Got VNC running without a click of ‘OK’ on the server, but I still have to be logged in.
  • Brian has to fill out a (SPF?) form to get Jeff’s server onto both networks. Looks like we need some additional approval, too.

Phil 6.16.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • FB 4.5 appears to be happy and integrated. Back to the cloud IDE
  • looking at the jEdit plug-in architecture, which has a nice example (http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/plugin-implement.html).
    • Oh, drat. jEdit can’t work with Web Start: http://www.jedit.org/FAQ/installation.html#id446561. This is due to the plugin architecture (i.e dynamic loading).
    • Eclipse appears to work with Web Start. On the other hand, downloading the Eclipse environment and using remote file access could be a lot less effort, and download time. My concern is that eclipse comes with java compilers, which take up room and slow the download.
    • According to this FAQ (http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/TM_and_RSE_FAQ), the best option is to install Eclipse on the server and remote desktop in with a VNC such as NX Server.
    • Set up an Ubuntu box in my office to play with.
  • Nothing going on with our probnlem server, except that more people are noticing that they can’t get their VMs set up either… Bill. D. did give us a nice shout out though 🙂

Phil 6.15.11

8:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

  • Testing flexMojosStandin – not working yet
    • Copied over the <libraryPath> children from the working version in CVS. No change
    • Changed <actionScriptProperties version=”3″> to <actionScriptProperties version=”3″>. No change
    • Changed <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”3″> to <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”0″>. Compiles now!
  • Not that I have a solution, looking for the minimum change that converts a flexmojos-generated file to a working one.
    • Changed <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”3″> to <libraryPath defaultLinkType=”0″>.
  • Added all the changes back into MavenAssist and added a checkbox to enable disable the flexMojos bypass.
  • No progress on our problem server today – now we have different groups saying that it’s someone else’s job to open the port