March 2008 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Mar 18 2008

The laptop is coming! The laptop is coming!

Leave a Comment / Laptops / By Dan Langille / March 18, 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 has been acting tempermental for about two months now. I narrowed my search down to the ThinkPad x61s: Processor: IntelÂ® […]

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Mar 17 2008

Got my license

Leave a Comment / Moving to PA / By Dan Langille / March 17, 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.

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Mar 3 2008

cfengine – practical examples

Leave a Comment / Open Source / By Dan Langille / March 3, 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 the jails. I don’t want to ssh to 10 different systems just to update a script on each one. I

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