Last night I had my first battery failure. My little old APC Backups Pro 280 started complaining that I should replace the battery. Yes, I’d left the thing unplugged for a year (since BSDCan 2005). Plus the unit was about 5 or 6 years old. So it’s no wonder that the battery died. Luckily, there is a good place to find replacements, right here in Ottawa. I went to Total Battery, at their […]
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I’m in the midst of the first days of BSDCan, so why I am writing about Bacula? Because I found this description of what someone new to Bacula thinks about it. FWIW, they are changing from Amanda to Bacula. :) cheers
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BSDCan is next week! I spent some of yesterday organizing some air plane tickets and getting together the gear for the registration desk and wireless network. Registrations are flowing in now. There is a sub-group of attendees that leave it until the last minute. At one point, I received 7 registrations in under 6 hours. If that rate continued for the whole time registration was open, we would need a much bigger venue!
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Spam is so annoying. It takes up so much of my time. I don’t want spammers posting here. Neither do you. This morning I found 60 posts waiting to be moderated. I’ve had enough of this crap. I have better things to do with my time. Moderating spam is not on the short list. Today I searched for “you must enter a code” solutions. I found Bot Check. I found a reference to
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