BSDCan Travel Tips
Someone wrote something about BSDCan. And it wasn’t me! I recommend reading Travel Tips for BSDCan 2006.
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Bacula – notes on upgrading to 1.38.5
Today I ran a test upgrade of my Bacula installation. I went from 1.36.3 to 1.38.5. After running the database upgrade script, which creates new columns and a few new tables, I noticed that I needed to set some permissions. grant all on device to group bacula; grant all on device_deviceid_seq to group bacula; grant all on mediatype to group bacula; grant all on mediatype_mediatypeid_seq to group bacula; grant all on status to
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Hello from DC!
Gidday! Here I am, in Washington DC, waiting for ShmooCon to start. So far, I’ve managed to see: Pentagon Washington Monument Lincoln Memorial State Department Kennedy Center the Capital Watergate It’s late. I should sleep. Nite.
The tests went well!
The test we ran using the patch mentioned below went well. Here’s hoping that it goes into the tree.
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Changes to the FreeBSD SCSI drive to make it more like Solaris/Linux
I’ve been given a patch to test. It changes the SCSI driver so that it will be slightly more like Linux and Solaris. I’m just documenting the patch process here so we can see what I’m doing, in case something goes wrong. This patch will allow us to open the tape drive, even if there is no tape, and keep querying until a tape arrives. [root@dfc:/usr/src/sys/cam/scsi] # perl -pi -e “s:^M::g” ~dan/scsi_sa.c.diffs [root@dfc:/usr/src/sys/cam/scsi]
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A ShmooCon I will go
I’m heading out to ShmooCon 2006. I’m arriving in Washington DC on Wednesday the 11th, and departing on Sunday the 12th. I’m arriving early in case the weather closes in. Washington doesn’t cope with snow well. What they call a blizzard would shutdown the city for two days. In Ottawa, the same thing doesn’t affect your commute to work. For those that don’t know it, and I’m sorry to say I didn’t until
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What RAID-1 solution should you use?
Ever wondered if software RAID is faster/slower than hardware RAID? I’m going to find out. It’s not complete, and I just thought of an extension, but What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? is a work in progress. The extention I mention is to compare i386 against amd64. I may do that if I have time.
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New Bacula projects announced
The Bacula users and developers recently voted on 25 new projects to rank them in order of preference. The top five projects were: Implement data encryption (as opposed to comm encryption) Implement Migration that moves Jobs from one Pool to another. Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files from Incremental/Differential backups Implement a Bacula GUI/management tool using Python Implement Base jobs You can see the list of projects and you can see how people voted.
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BSD Certification Group fund raising
The BSD Certification Group Inc. has announced the launch of their first fund raising drive to assist in the startup costs for the upcoming BSDA exam. Take a moment of your time to Donate $10 to support BSD. While you’re at it, consider chipping in another $10 to your favourite BSD project’s donation page.
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Harmony 880 Remote – battery problems
I recently bought a Harmony 880 remote control. Harmony is a Canadian company recently bought by Logitech. I bought my remote from Dell for about CAD$190 delivered. It’s a great unit. There is one problem I had: battery charging. As long as the remote remained on the charging cradle, it would work. As soon as the remote was removed from the cradle, it stopped working. The problem was battery charging. The battery does
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