Author name: Dan Langille

I've been playing with computers since I read an Elementary Electronics magazine way back in the 1970s. I started contributing to open source projects in 1998. After that, I gradually moved from being a software developer to being a systems administrator.

Bacula – restoring to Windows

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Today, as I was writing up an invoice, I accidentally saved it over another. No worries!  Bacula to the rescue.  I managed to get the original files back from tape. One hint: include your pathnames in “quotes” so they are correctly parsed.  Like this: $ dir ———- 0 root wheel 0 1969-12-31 19:00:00 c:/ $ cd “c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My Documents/Technologies” cwd is: c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My Documents/Technologies/ $ dir -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 63655 2006-10-05 14:32:49 c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My […]

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How much shipping cost is fair?

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I recently purchased four DLT drives; three from one seller, and one from another. The three drives cost me $30.25 to ship from Edmonton to Ottawa via Canada Post. The other drive cost me $48 in shipping. I knew that was on the high side when I bid for the item on ebay. I don’t think I got value for money as these images can demonstrate: I have emailed the seller. Hopefully we

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Burst and Google make a good team

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Just about everyone has been putting ads on their websites. I’ve been with BurstMedia since early 1999. They are very reliable. Their cheques have always arrived on time and I have never had reason to question their results. Then Google AdSense arrived. I started using AdSense in April 2006. I was still using Burst, but added AdSense as a personal campaign. That is, if Burst could not fill a particular ad slot, AdSense

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APC battery replacement

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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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BSDCan starts next week!

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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 very annoying

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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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