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A friend is looking for a job. She specializes in testing of software systems for compliance with Pharma GCP standards. Please share this post.

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

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

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

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.

Data center management is pretty big. I suspect most big centers have roll-your-own solutions. Here are the open source solutions I looked at: RackTables RackMonkey OneCMDB GLPI Just FYI.

Have you used any software for tracking data center assets? This computer powered by this UPS which is covered by this service contract? Some background: I asked a similar question on the FreeBSD ISP mailing list. Check that out.

These are my notes on attempting to setup OneCMBD. Some of these items would be added directly to their wiki, if I they give me access. At http://www.onecmdb.org/wiki/index.php/Get_Started_V2.0#On_Linux_platforms_2: bin/onemdb.sh start should be bin/onecmdb.sh start (missing a ‘c’) Same for the stop command. Same error occurs in the README. bin/onecmdb.sh contains #!/bin/bash. Why bash? Why not /bin/sh? ELF binary type “0” not known – you need to load linux compatibility: kldload linux. This needs

Are any of you running OneCMDB? If not, are you running some other Configuration Management Database?

I wanted to buy a netbook tonight. I failed. The website claimed the item was in stock. Off I went. “Sorry, we don’t carry that item at this store.” I’m sorry Best Buy, but I’m not driving to another store until you give me accurate information.