NZ plans!
Pretty sure I will be in New Zealand for Easter. Probably Wellington. Going to rent the bike there, rather than take mine with me. I’ll be asking the boss for the time off tomorrow.
cmake output changes
I noticed a difference in the regression testing output between two systems today. cmake-2.6.4 Stopping the Bacula File daemon Stopping the Bacula Storage daemon Stopping the Bacula Director daemon ===== pretest OK 00:00:39 ===== 1/110 Testing disk:acl-xattr-test Passed 2/110 Testing disk:action-on-purge-test Passed 3/110 Testing disk:accurate-test Passed 4/110 Testing disk:allowcompress-test Passed 5/110 Testing disk:auto-label-test Passed 6/110 Testing disk:backup-bacula-test Passed 7/110 Testing disk:backup-to-null Passed 8/110 Testing disk:base-job-test Passed 9/110 Testing disk:bextract-test Passed 10/110 Testing disk:big-fileset-test
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New Zealand Mountain biking
I lived in New Zealand from 1985-2001. I haven’t been back since. It’s time. The plan: March-April 2010, two weeks. Not nearly enough time for a proper holiday or visit, but we’ll hit the hottest trails. This should be a blast. We plan to do 8-10 rides in that time. We’ll see. I hope to document as much as I can. I just ordered the mountain biking book to help with some of
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Exporting a Google Map
It was 2008 when I first created a Google Map for BSDCan and for PGCon. That year, I create one map, for each conference. In 2009, I needed two different maps because the venues were different. Each conference was at University of Ottawa, but in different buildings. It was then that I first learned, with some effort, how to export and import a Google Map. This process is must like File-Save-As, but not
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Upgrading Pentabarf
Pentabarf is the conference tool used by BSDCan and PGCON. I upgraded it recently and ran into trouble. I think that has been resolved now. Since I last upgraded Pentabarf, it went from using svn to using git. Thus, you need a clean checkout of Pentabarf. I copied away the original source before I did this: git clone git://github.com/nevs/pentabarf.git Then I copied over my existing configuration files: rails/config/*.yml files Then I ran a
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BSDCan/PGCon 2010
From http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about the 2010 BSDCan and PGCon conferences. More information at http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/ and http://www.pgcon.org/2010/. We also talk briefly about FreeBSD 8. File Info: 16Min, 8MB.
Faster backups
Backups come in three flavors: Full – backup everything Differential – backup everything since the last Full backup Incremental – backup everything since the last backup (Full or Incremental) I took the above from What Is Bacula? Most systems use mtime to determine if a file has changed. Thus, any file that has been modified since the last backup will be picked up in the next incremental or differential backup. Full backups are
Short chat with a Nigerian Scammer
I recently had a conversation with a Nigerian scammer. (08:44:47) aalinaamoda: hey (09:00:00) Dan Langille: hey (09:00:06) aalinaamoda: How u doing (09:00:20) Dan Langille: wonderfuly (09:00:25) aalinaamoda: good (09:03:10) Dan Langille: So, what is your goal? Goal as in getting my money? (09:03:30) aalinaamoda: Hmm (09:03:38) aalinaamoda: i am a deaf (09:04:13) Dan Langille: Excellant. My brother taught me sign language. What system do you use? Untrue, and bogus. (09:04:40) aalinaamoda: Your brother
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FiOS stops blocking port 80
It appears that FiOS has stopped blocking port 80. I discovered this last night when I accidentally pasted a URL for http://beta.freebsddiary.org/ into an IRC channel. That website used to be publicly available, until Dec 2007 when I moved to Philadelphia and started with FiOS. Sometime after that, things started work. Looking back in my logs, the change occurred on 16 April 2009.
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What do these web pages have in common?
What do these webpages have in common? http://www.zyzoom.org/vb/showthread.php?t=91729 http://www.utksaweb.org/index.php?db=q_a&actKey=print&no=7028&no_header=1 http://www.turkhackteam.org/tht-yardim-merkezi/benim-pc-kac-gb-ram-a-kadar-olabilir-253473.html http://www.somewhereinblog.net/blog/sciencezone/29012912 http://kelompoktugasptik.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html http://www.bahrainforums.com/printthread.php?t=261097 There are several accurate answers. There is only one correct answer.
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