Ad Terras Per Aspera

As I mentioned earlier, a group called the Protomen made a rock opera about Megaman… and it’s finally available on CD!

I was having a discussion in #ubuntu-devel about bootchart and in how well in detail it measures the boot up process, so I suggested that it should be added to LiveCDs as to measure a ‘stock’ setup more easier. The IO records wouldn’t be valid against anything but other LiveCDs, but doing this could make testing random machine’s performance a lot easier.

Jeff Schroeder wants this to be an option on the boot menu, and thinks that it should “have a little wizard to email the bootchart back to ubuntu.org” and Brandon Hale wants Oliver Grawert to add the ability to use bootcharts to hwdb.

206… well, on my machine at least. And the funny part is, thats slow; must be the apache2, mysql, openssh, and distcc adding ten seconds (from Dapper’s default 35) to it.

I could switch from openssh to dropbear, but dropbear doesn’t support fuse’s sshfs correctly (to my much dismay, seeing as I can’t openssh to my openwrt and use a real vi locally on my workstation because of that…), and seeing as I run a local copy of gallery2, I can’t drop apache2 or mysql. Oh well.