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Lots of packet loss

This is not nice: [dan@bast:~] $ netstat -nr | tat -nr | grep default default 98.114.243.1 UGS 27 301523519 fxp0 default 2001:470:1f06:b80::1 UGS gif0 [dan@bast:~] $ ping -c 10 google.com PING google.com (74.125.228.36): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=11.680 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=12.689 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=2 ttl=253 time=11.089 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=4 ttl=253 time=12.337 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=5 […]

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ZFS – how much space do I have?

According to this, I have 5.41T available. $ zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT storage 12.7T 7.28T 5.41T 57% ONLINE – According to this, I have 3.7T available: $ df -h | grep stora storage 3.7T 1.7G 3.7T 0% /storage storage/Retored 3.7T 39K 3.7T 0% /storage/Retored storage/bacula 8.0T 4.3T 3.7T 54% /storage/bacula storage/pgsql 3.7T 5.5G 3.7T 0% /storage/pgsql Which is correct?

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ZFS & gmirror & drive renumbering

I am impressed…. my gmirror array continued to work even after the drives were renamed from da20 and da24 to ada0 and ada1. This happened when I tried out the ahci(4) for my SATA drives. It’s the type of thing I’m striving for soon in my ZFS array. All this started when I wanted to find out about making my ZFS array more resilient. See http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=663685+0+current/freebsd-stable (which is the top level post of

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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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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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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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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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