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Distracted: writing a pure Go PostgreSQL client library

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

I’ve been distracted: I’ve been writing a pure Go PostgreSQL client library instead of working on this port. The library is going well; the port has made no progress, which is about what you’d expect!

I have, however, got some new hardware for better virtualisation, so when I do get back to the port (in a week or two, fingers crossed) things should go faster.

Oh — having my codereview.appspot.com account blow up when I enabled Gmail on my Google Account has left my open CLs in limbo, and I don’t dare open a new one. That’s part of why I’m concentrating on the library.

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Virtualisation wars, part II

Monday, April 5th, 2010

OK, VirtualBox blew up again. So I blew it away.

All I want is something that can run Linux (64 and 32 bit), FreeBSD (64 and 32 bit) to check that I am not breaking anything, and NetBSD (64 and 32 bit) for the actual port. OS X I can run natitvey.

I can run one 32 bit OS otherwise on hardware I already own, and it doesn’t have enough memory to support virtualisation of an additional OS.

1. Paralells – insane cackling. 4.x didn’t work, 5.x is less stable and still doesn’t work, forget it
2. VirtualBox — works, but prone to introducing network errors and every so often decides that it will only boot FreeBSD in 32 bit mode, which works “badly” for 64 bit kernel
3. VMware doesn’t support NetBSD, my target platform.

Bugger. Bugger. Bugger.

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