House photos today, as every Saturday.
The weather could have been better: bright sunshine invariably affects the images, requiring
multiple exposures of the same view, one with the sun obscured, and masking:
But I've been doing this for decades (well, for over 15 years; this is the 629th day for
Stones Road), and I've worked out a flow that is relatively painless. Sometimes, though,
things go wrong, surprisingly often with the view from the front of the house. Today I got:
What went wrong there? Yes, I can adjust the exposure, though it was fine on the original
images, but try as I might, I couldn't get Hugin to align the images correctly. What is it about this image that so
frequently gives trouble.
From there on, things only got worse. Somehow the old images kept getting in the way, and
after an hour trying to sort things out, put it off until tomorrow.
Saw an email thread about port conflicts today. Nothing unusual, except for the names:
It seems that Postfix wants lmdb v1.n, while Samba wants lmdb v0.9.
Huh? I thought that Samba used tdb, the Tridge database. lmdb
sounds like another acquaintance, Larry McVoy. But no, that proves to be an incorrect
guess. Larry has nothing to do with lmdb. And the current expansion of tdb
is “trivial database”, though I'm sure I heard it as “Tridge database”.
So the whole thing boils down to the issues with dynamic libraries. If they had been linked
into the binaries, this wouldn't have happened. Yes, they could get larger, but we have
space. They would save a lot of pain with this kind of conflict, and they would also run
marginally faster.
After I still don't have reverse lookup for lemis.com. Well, I do, but the
world doesn't. For that I need to get RIPE to set up data structures, and that has been so painful that I have all but
given up.
But it needs to be done, and now Klaus Jäger is pushing me to do something. Today I first
checked the previous correspondence. The last state, 3 June 2023, was:
Ask DENIC to transfer mnt of GL3-RIPE to LEMIS-MNT.
Bring GL3-RIPE up to date.
Transfer admin of LEMIS-MNT to GL3-RIPE.
Add HostVirtual to mnt for GL3-RIPE, if you want.
Remove GL12456-RIPE.
Mark Price agreed. It seems that I managed steps 1 and 2, and maybe 3 (or maybe it went the
other way round). And then, it seems, I didn't follow through, though I didn't even mention
reverse lookup in that list. But I didn't find any of this until after my basic attempts to
just access the database.
And there I made some progress. Log in to RIPE, which worked and presented me with a
window:
And with more aimless searching I arrived here, where it
almost looked as if I could set up reverse DNS. But:
You cannot modify this object here because your SSO account is not associated with any of
the maintainers.
Ha ha, only joking. Try again, and it suggested that LEMIS-MNT (that's one of my
identities) could do it. Two name servers, please. Not a problem: ns1.lemis.com
and ns3.lemis.com. But it didn't like ns1: “no reverse zones”. It did
accept (well, at least not complain about) ns3. And of course both name servers work
correctly, at least as far as I can see:
129.197.109.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer hydra.lemis.com.
You have new mail in /var/mail/grog
=== grog@hydra (/dev/pts/18) ~/Photos/20140824 1540 -> host 192.109.197.129 ns3 Using domain server:
Name: ns3
129.197.109.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer hydra.lemis.com.
So what's it complaining about? I don't know. The twins suggested trying Zonemaster, another book with seven seals. No matter
what I input, it found multiple issues.
That's enough. The stress was giving me stomach-ache, so I stopped while I was ahead. I
established a while back that Mark Price doesn't have much to do with RIPE, while Klaus
Jäger does, so I'll get some feedback from him when my stomach has calmed down.
Yes, it's somewhat fuzzy. But then, I had the wrong lens on, and more to the point, I had
the wrong focus mode. It should have been “birds”, of course, but I had turned subject
detection off, with the result that it focused on the grass in front:
Can't find dimensions for 'Sheep-and-birds-3-detail.jpeg'
I shouldn't make that mistake again. More to the point, though: what are those birds?
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