Lots of fun tonight actually. I got a few bugs done, and still managed to do a few things for myself even. Its downright scary when that happens. One of the things that I got around to fixing was my temperature and LTD graphs for my hard drives. As I added three drives recently I had to go about adding their data to the graph…however in doing so I somehow managed to wipe out all the data I had on the single drive previously….whoops! I could grab the backup from my backup…however its too much of a eh to be bothered with. However you do get to see the results..and subsequently..kill my bandwidth.

As one friend has said I’m a graph whore. I just do really like to be able to see in a easily digestible method, what exactly is going on with my system. Certain things I don’t tend to monitor like storage space, as that doesn’t change radically very often..minus currently with the rapidly increasing usage of the raid 5 array.

Ripping has been progressing better since the last check, I only have three dvd’s I’ll have to rip via alternative methods so far, and I’m close to 35 ripped currently, taking up about 130-140 gig of space. Its also made me realize…that I have a lot more dvd’s then I thought I did. I’m quite surprised that I actually do have as many as I do…its certainly not a one week project, especially when I start getting to ripping tv series and all that.

My little raid 5 is currently running through a bad block exam, which if I recall has been happening since yesterday..the joys of having a large ass volume..you spend many hours waiting to see what gets returned or waiting for it to rebuild and run slowly…

Getting back to Gentoo, good old Seemant seems to be having fun with a discussion about overlays. Personally, I’ll admit I’ve not participated or talked with anyone who’s been working in association with a developer or submitted stuff to sunrise so do take what I say with a grain of salt. In that way I’m somewhat of a bad User Relations member. Its a segment of the community that I just don’t really know well or at all. I do however believe that it has helped get a few of the people who wanted to help out but didn’t have the time, motivation or other factors to get involved in another way. This in my opinion continues to be a good thing..as really the vast majority of us are really just in truth handling a overlay. I’ll get flamed for the fact that a herd isn’t a overlay..but really isn’t it? A overlay is a particular area of packages that a group of people happen to be updating and maintaining. What is a herd if not that as well..just by a different name and people having had to go through testing to make sure that they don’t go ruin everyone’s system because everyone gets these packages. Of course there is concern for further fragmentation that I abhor as we already have that due to the size of the tree. So in essence the overlays idea is just a attempt to come up with a solution to solve the fragmentation, and allow the developers to develop the tools that people want instead of having to deal with fixing xlog or rufus because there’s a issue and we all feel the responsibility to make sure the packages work as well as possible.

I’ll just go and continue to contemplate where we are going as a whole and help to direct it in a positive direction.