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I guess I missed mentioning this here before.

I'm going to the MySQL Users Conference 2008, and staying in Silicon Valley a few days either side. Gone April 11th till the 18th.

I'll be at the phpMyAdmin booth on the two expo days of the conference.

This is more a reminder for myself, how I laid out the seeds for herbs and spices in the small corner of garden that I planted them in this year.

⇓ North	Marjoram	Lots of Coriander	Oregano
	Tarragon		Thyme

The original meme was using iTunes, but I use Audacious, so I compiled the data from there and my last.fm account. For all song titles, I use the format of Album/Artist/Song. Excluding album if it's just in a folder of mixed stuff.

How Many Songs Total: 23431 on my drives right now, a couple thousand more not handy.
How Many Hours Or Days Of Music: more than 1595 hours.
Most Recently Played: Vorsprung Dyk Technik (Remixes 92-98) (4x12)/Dina Carroll/Run To You (BT And PVDs Inner Sanctuary Remix)
Most Played: Goo Goo Dolls/Iris
Most Recently Added: Lots of albums by Plaid

Sort By Song Title
(only 20263/23431 had actual title data)
First Song: Final Fantasy V/Nobuo Uematsu/01 Ahead On Our Way
Last Song: 劉德華 (Andy Lau Tak Wah)/美麗的一天/黑蝙蝠中隊 (it's chinese pop music)

Sort By Time
Shortest Song: 1 second. Earthworm Jim soundtrack/Mark Miller/"Groovy!" sound effect.
Longest Song: 7h53m04s. Vorsprung Dyk Technik (Remixes 92-98) (3xCD)/Various Artists/Vorsprung Dyk Technik CD1.

Sort By Album [artist/album format]
(18747/23431 with data)
First Album: Alanis Morissette/022602 Live On Later
Last Album: 梁詠琪 (Gigi Leung Wing Kei)/魔幻季節 (Hong Kong pop music)

First song that comes up on Shuffle: "What Goes Up!: The Best Of Blood, Sweat & Tears"/Blood, Sweat & Tears/Sometimes In Winter

Search the following and state how many songs come up:
Death: 71
Life: 243
Love: 500
Hate: 7
You: 623
Sex: 6

A few days ago, nicoj posted about using Gitosis on Gentoo, and as the developer that put the package into the tree. However, I don't think he realized at the time, that the Gitosis I packaged up, does differ from the original upstream version.

Why is is different? It is different because I decided to use Gitosis to power the new Gentoo Overlays, and found some limitations with Gitosis, so ended up hacking the codebase heavily to make it do what I wanted. It seems my original Christmas email to the upstream author went AWOL, so I wrote him another in the meantime. I hope that he will be able to merge the changed sanely, and make life easier for evertbody.

So what's different? A lot. Here's a partial list of the big stuff that is actually visible to most folk

• Relative git+ssh:// URLs! The original Gitosis required that you use : between the hostname and the repository for a relative URL, and assumed that you were using an absolute URL otherwise. This made URLs look a bit ugly, and also broke some classical URL parsers that expected a port number after the colon, then a path after the slash. So now Gitosis supports git+ssh://HOST/REPO style URLs, where the REPO is looked up directly in the Gitosis config to see if it is a valid relative URL.
• gitosis-init, you can use the default STDIN input of your key, or you can use actual command-line arguments: gitosis-init --adminkey=FILE --adminname=STRING. The latter argument is for when then username portion of your SSH key does not contain anything useful to you, and you wish for gitosis to place it in a more suitably named file in the keydir/ set of SSH keys.
• Handle SSH keys intelligently, validate the algorithm, supporting both SSH1 and SSH2 keys, extract the username (the field is actually a comment per the RFC) safely if possible, and handle the options correctly. Amongst the options, the from field of the key is now preserved, so that if you had a key (without a passphrase for example) that was limited to login from a certain location only, it does not become less secure.
• Allow setting of the initial directory permissions, globally and per-repository. Gitosis used chmod 0750 on directories it created before, which caused problems if you were running git-daemon as nobody:nobody. For the Gentoo overlays, the default repos now use 0755. If you set this globally, you should ensure that your gitosis-admin repo gets dirmode=0750, so that it does not get shared out by gitweb or git-daemon.

There are also two pending TODO items that I have for the Gentoo Gitosis-powered Overlays

• Gitweb has broken owner strings when UTF8 is involved
• The permissions handling needs an overhaul, adding a repo presently requires adding two config sections, each with 3 lines long. I'd like to refactor and make the [repo ...] section get a single line extra for the common case, which would totally do away with the [group ...] section per repo. Groups would remain JUST for defining groups, and the [repo ...] sections would get the lists of members and groups directly.

On a total lark, something like Gitosis for managing SVN users would be great too.

2008/08/03: Comments have now been disabled due to the amount of spam comments on this post. Email me if you have something useful to say.