Hello Moto!
Check out what I got to play with this morning. These little guys are made by Aldebaran Robotics out of France. And since they understand Python, it’s another reason why Python rocks.
Riding in the Mountains
This is one of my favorite rides outside of Bozeman. Basically 15 miles of road like this, that gradually climbs 1700′. YES!
Ironing out the Kinks: Dropbox and Linux
I noticed one day that my Dropbox folder was syncing on my MacBook, but not on my Linux box. A little digging and I figured out that the Dropbox daemon doesn’t like to be started before you are assigned an IP address on the network.
So the one-off solution is to simply restart Dropbox. This is pretty worthless though as syncing is no longer automatic, negating the whole point of having Dropbox.
So the better solution is to simply ensure that Dropbox is started after your network daemon. In my case, this just meant removing the “@” preface in my daemon array in my rc.conf.
Before:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @network @dbus @crond @alsa @mpd @sensors)
After:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network @dbus @crond @alsa @mpd @sensors)
But, this still isn’t great because now your boot hangs, while DHCP assigns you an IP address. The solution is to use a static IP address. Since this is my desktop computer, I’m always connecting to the same network so this is easy.
If you’re on a laptop, I’d stick with just un-backgrounding your network daemon. Plus, you are probably using networkmanager for Wifi, so the configuration is going to differ. There should be a way to add something like
sleep 10s &&
to the autostart.sh script calling the Dropbox daemon, but I can’t find it in Gnome 3. In Openbox it should be in
~/.config/openbox/
This would be the best way to go about it on a Laptop.
So I reserved a couple IP addresses on my router and to my rc.conf file I added this to the networking portion:
interface=eth0
address=192.168.0.101
netmask=255.255.255.0
gateway=192.168.0.1
I now can put the network daemon back into the background on boot (though this doesn’t speed things up much with a static IP). And voila, fast boot and Dropbox is working from the get go.
Hopefully, this will save you 5 minutes of tinkering. Note: The configuration is specific to Arch Linux (or distros with BSD style init scripts).
A Little Scenery from this Morning’s Ride
It was supposed to be a quick one, but made a game time decision to extend this one out for a few extra miles. I mean with weather like this how couldn’t you…
Trailer Season
It’s not ski season, but this might be just enough to tide you over until the fall.
I’m bummed that Dendrite won’t be releasing another film this year, since Out of the Shadows was by far my favorite of 2010. But, it sounds like the sponsorship dollars just aren’t there. Too bad…
TGR: One for the road
MSP: Attack of La Nina
Level 1: After Dark