Monthly Archives: August 2010

Catholic whining

Some of you out there may have caught the YouTube video by some fundies that call themselves “RealCatholicTV” that was posted last week. I came across it via PZ Myers blog. The video was describing their vision of a catholic dictatorship (their words) which of course included a vision of enforcing all the kinds of oppression that we know from history follow from such dictatorships. They of course realised, by the massive response, that such ideas are not very welcome in a free world that so many people have fought for and died to achieve. As the cowards they are, these fundies, they took down the video. Possibly also due to people reporting it for being overly hateful to for instance gay people, which I myself reported them for. Or maybe also because, I hope, that a large number of Catholics and other Christians reacted to such an outrageous video.

Now they’ve posted a pure whining video as a follow-up to the one taken down. Of course, they are moderating the comment section on YouTube, so don’t even bother commenting there. They seem to only allow cheerleader-comments through the filter. They are after all not too into the whole freedom of speech thing. It’s a bit of a nuisance when you plan to replace the free world with a Catholic theocracy as they’ve toned it down to.

The laughable aspects of this whining video is of course the obvious childish “but so do you” approach. They accuse the free world of being a dictatorship of relativism. Funny that. A democracy tend to reflect the attitude and ideals of the majority of its people. The free world does not want somebody with a superiority-complex (a pope in this case) to decide on behalf of everyone what’s best for them. That was actually a key argument in their original video. The pope knows best, better do what the pope says. The pope speaks to God you see, and the voices tells him what to do. Well, the voices also spoke to Hitler. We do not want such lunatics running our lives.

The video culminates in a smug fire-and-brimstone lecture which is nothing but a pitiful attempt to scare people into submission, not that any sane person would buy into such crap. This sorry excuse for a human being, Michael Voris, is probably looking forward to see us all burn in hell. His divinely inspired love for us spawns of Satan isn’t quite the selling point he think it is, but it is what we’d expect from a faith with its long tradition of corruption, abuse and oppression of other people’s freedom. Not to mention a clergy of less integrity than a school-yard rapist.

Here’s the YouTube-posted drivel in question, enjoy!

Sun Java and Ubuntu 10.04

Sun JavaUbuntu decided to drop Sun Java from the latest release of Ubuntu, Lucid Lynx. However for me to get my internet bank to work, I need this package installed. A bit of googling turned up the solution, and here it is:

Add the Canonical Partner Repository:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"

Then all you need to do is run the commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

And there it is :)

Ubuntu mdadm: “Device or resource busy” error

I have been upgrading my old fileserver today with new hardware and 4 new 2 TB Hitachi disks. I thought I’d set them up in a Raid 5 array. This is a new installation of Ubuntu Server 10.04 running on an Asus Deluxe mainboard with a SIL SATA controller with 6 SATA ports.

Firstly: The array was created with the command:

mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sd[bcde]

This all went well enough, but after a reboot, I got this error when trying to assemble the array:

mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdb: Device or resource busy

Looking about a bit on the net I find this blogpost which is quite helpful: Righteous Hack: Device or resource busy when using mdadm. However it doesn’t quite solve my problem as I already thought of these options and double-checked them. Some further searching revealed this helpful post on ubuntuforums: Raid stops after restart (SOLVED). That did the trick! Turns out that one of the raid-disks (was random on my server) is attempted assembled during startup when mdadm doesn’t know what raid to assemble from the conf file. The solution is running the command:

mdadm --examine --scan --config=mdadm.conf >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

which produce this line in the mdadm.conf file:

ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4 UUID=eb001a5c:9a62bf3b:1b3376be:99c3df95
spares=1

Now the raid comes up as it should after reboot.

As for the RAID setup, I used this guide: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_setup