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Jul 23 2006

Fundraising for new hardware

Leave a Comment / FreshPorts, The FreeBSD Diary / By Dan Langille / July 23, 2006

I’m asking for donations to purchase new hardware. Details are in this FreeBSD Diary article. Thank you.

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Jul 9 2006

HDD? Which HDD?

Leave a Comment / Disks, hardware / By Dan Langille / July 9, 2006

I’m trying to figure out what HDD to put in 2U server. The following is just a list of URLs I want to keep around for a while. Raptor versus WD4000YR Storage Review of Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD4000YR Wikipedia RAID Raptor from Newegg Storage Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 WD4000YR Raptor WD Support Customer reviews of WD4000YR

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May 20 2006

APC battery replacement

Leave a Comment / UPS / By Dan Langille / May 20, 2006

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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May 8 2006

Bacula from a newbie’s point of view

Leave a Comment / Bacula, BSDCan, Conferences, Open Source / By Dan Langille / May 8, 2006

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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May 3 2006

BSDCan starts next week!

Leave a Comment / BSDCan, Conferences / By Dan Langille / May 3, 2006

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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May 3 2006

Spam is very annoying

Leave a Comment / Mail / By Dan Langille / May 3, 2006

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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Apr 6 2006

Recharging your USB mp3 player

5 Comments / General / By Dan Langille / April 6, 2006

Many mp3 players recharge through a USB connection. What do you do if you go on holiday without your computer?

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Mar 21 2006

Back from Dominican Republic

3 Comments / General / By Dan Langille / March 21, 2006

I’m back from Dominican Republic. This was a family holiday, planned well before I became unemployed. So don’t let the previous post cause any confusion. I’m still looking for work. After we arrived home, I was pleased to find a package waiting for me from Michael Pan of Berkeley, California. Micheal sent me 10 almost-new DLT tapes! Today, I loaded those tapes into my tape library and ran my usual tape testing routines.

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