For the first time since I put it on in May 2001, I am without the custom bracelet Bronwyn made for me just before I left New Zealand. It is not lost, merely left behind. I’ll retrieve it next weekend, and it’s been put aside for me. But for the next 6 […]

I run Bacula. I have coded for Bacula. Now I’m writing about Bacula again.
Bacula is by far and away the best open source program for managing network-based backups. In this article, I will show you how I migrated a bunch of jobs from a disk Volume to a tape Volume. However, […]

I’m sick of dealing with dynamic IP issues. My broadband connection at home has a dynamic IP address. I can always find out what my home IP address is. I’m using dns/noip to manage a hostname which points to home. I can always ssh home via the hostname.
The problems arise when […]

When my IP address at home changes, what do I need to do?
I have servers out there on the Internet, which need to know the new IP address.
I need to ssh to each of them and update:

/etc/pf.conf - the IP address of my home gateway
/etc/hosts
/usr/local/etc/nrpe.conf
restart stunnel

It’s kind of annoying.
I think much of it could be […]

The US postal system seems pretty good to me. I mailed some bike parts back to Chris King in Portland, from Philadelphia.
I mailed the package at about 5pm on Tuesday night. The package was delivered about 1pm the next day. Cost: $5.45, including delivery confirmation.
Nice. Very nice.
Chris King had already sent […]

I’m about to listen to Bruce Schneier talk at LISA 2008.

When things died down, and people headed back to the events, I had time to take this photo.

The SVN commits are now available for viewing. At present, only the FreeBSD src tree is working through SVN. Therefore, the easiest way for you to see those commits is through the FreshSource interface. That link takes you to the SVN version.
You will notice that the src commits are duplicated. This […]