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Archive for March, 2008

The laptop is coming! The laptop is coming!

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Odd how grown men, myself included, get giddy about new toys. My IBM ThinkPad T41 is no longer reliable. It has taken to being heat sensitive. I suspect something inside is broken / slightly disconnected and as the heat inside increases, a connection fails. I have tried to fix it, but failed.
It […]

Got my license

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I have my license.
It took about an hour elapsed time. My only problem: I didn’t a have a cheque to pay the $10.25 fee. Fortunately, the grocery store nearby sold money orders.
Next step: car registration.

cfengine - practical examples

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

In a sea of inadequete cfengine examples, one stands out: http://www.sysadmin.hep.ac.uk/wiki/Cfengine.
I’m in the early stages of developing an administration strategy for a jail server I’m setting up. It will run regression tests for Bacula. I’ve already found ezjail, which will help me create the jails. What I needed was tool for administering […]