Weblog: Jun 2006

Another Linux 2.4.x to 2.6.x Debian Upgrade

I had to move a Debian-based server from Linux 2.4.x to 2.6.x.

There was much self-inflicted pain as a result of heavily customizing the kernel config. At one point, I had to use the movie mode of a digicam to catch boot-time messages that scrolled off the screen too fast before a kernel panic.

The last step was something that I'd forgotten from 2005-11-11, which is to apt-get install module-init-tools. I really wish Debian would add that as a dependency of 2.6.x kernel packages built by make-dpkg.

Is Your Apple iPod from a Sweatshop?

Steve Jobs' Think Different campaign celebrated labor leaders like Gandhi, who used strikes as a form of civil protest, and Ceasar Chavez, who organized poor, migrant farm workers. But a British newspaper at the weekend published a rather shocking report about the factories in China that make his company's iPods.

—Leander Kahney, "Judging Apple Sweatshop Charge," Wired.com, 2006-06-13