I have just finished the first pass of processing BSDCan Registrations. If you are registered, you should have your confirmation now. If you do not, then something has gone wrong. Most likely candidates are: You did not pay You paid, but for some reason I cannot connect your payment with your registration Someone else paid for you, and I cannot connect that payment with your registration If you have not seen a BSDCan […]
Processing registrations Read More »
Since my last post, I have moved from Cora’s to Starbucks. This Starbucks, on Conventry Road, near Canadian Tire, is much nicer than St Laurent. Lately, I have: Reviewed a second set of proofs for the BSDCan t-shirt and the first set of proofs for the PGCon t-shirt. spoken with U of O residence regarding 24 rooms for PGCan each of which has only 1 person in it Emailed the PGCon mailing list
It is Tuesday morning. One week before the gathering of the early birds for BSDCan 2008. It is 10:30 AM and I’m sitting in Cora’s at St Laurent and Belfast. They have wireless here. And believe me, it smells much better than the Starbucks at St Laurent and Smyth. Saturday night and Sunday night it smelled like wet dog, but worse. On Saturday night I thought it was just me. But the same
Tuesday – one week before BSDCan Read More »
I was not feeling good in the morning. I have no idea why, but I had one lousy headache. I felt nauseous and crappy. I stayed in bed and dozed for an hour or two. By 9:30, I got up and had a bit to eat. Still felt bad. I heard from my dad that the did not finish until 2:30AM after four overtime periods. Wow, I’m glad I didn’t stay up for
Gathering supplies Read More »
It was 5:30 AM when I awoke. No alarm necessary. I just woke up. It was daylight out. I didn’t go back to sleep. So I decided it was time to go. To my surprise, 5 of my neighbours were assembled in a grassy median area just outside my house. On a Sunday morning. I suspect it is a regular meeting. Most of them are dog owners. I had breakfast, put the bike
Driving up to Canada Read More »
For several years now, people have been asking me how to run conferences. I keep telling them I don’t know anything about running conferences, but I know what I like to have at conferences I attend, so I just make sure those things are at my conferences. Yes, that’s a rather flippant remark, but much of it is true. To help out the flurry of conferences which seems to have sprouted lately, I
Three weeks in the life of conference organizer. Read More »
Yes, my laptop arrived safe and sound. Well, mostly safe. It was actually delivered to another address on campus, but it eventually arrived at Afilias. Tonight, as I wait for the phone to ring, I decide to play with the fan and see if I could shut it off. I can: # sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan=0 dev.acpi_ibm.0.fan: 1 -> 0 Checking the temp was easy and pretty soon things jumped from about 48C to just
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: Intel®
The laptop is coming! The laptop is coming! Read More »
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.
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
cfengine – practical examples Read More »