General

There are a few random tasks (in addition to my big list of things to do) that I’d like to tackle over the weekend: Start regression testing Bacula on 7.x – Done Send out a BSDCan letter of invitation – Done Complete that application for security clearance – Hmm, partly done…. just need the vehicle details – Done take the patches from wxs for Bacula and feed them upstream – Done Adjust the […]

Today I arrived home from a 12 day business trip. While I was away my home network lost connectivity. When I arrived home, I started to investigate. dhclient was running. No IP address. Running it found no DHCP servers. The MoCA light was flashing red on the ONT. I called Verizon. We rebooted the OTN (or so I was told we were rebooting it). Then we rebooted my Verizon router, which was odd.

Taken from the original with completed items removed. I have several items I would like to complete in the short term. Writing them down may help me commit to doing them. To Do allow new server to slave DNS move IRC proxy to another server put cover back on BAST get SSL working with EFNET Send out RFP reminders in Jan contact the theatres regarding Star Trek (ask in OCLUG who has seen

For the first time since I put it on in May 2001, I am without the custom bracelet Bronwyn made for me just before I left New Zealand. It is not lost, merely left behind. I’ll retrieve it next weekend, and it’s been put aside for me. But for the next 6 days, it will be strange to not be wearing it. It was made from silver melted down from necklaces I no

The US postal system seems pretty good to me. I mailed some bike parts back to Chris King in Portland, from Philadelphia. I mailed the package at about 5pm on Tuesday night. The package was delivered about 1pm the next day. Cost: $5.45, including delivery confirmation. Nice. Very nice. Chris King had already sent me replacement parts. This was the return of the broken part. That part threads into the hub and is

I have several items I would like to complete in the short term. Writing them down may help me commit to doing them. To Do Upgrade the NYI server to the latest version of PostgreSQL Prepare the BSDCan and PGCon websites for 2009 (partly done) Get MacPorts running on my MacBook Get spamd running on the new server Add a check to Nagios to check that system email arrives each day (e.g. ‘security

There are several new interesting features in the upcoming Bacula release. Including, but not limited to: “Accurate” backups regardless of mtime, mv, rm, etc Copy Jobs Virutal Backup / Synthetic Backup / Consolidation Duplicate Job Control TLS Authentication Ignore Dir Honor No Dump Flag Plugins libdbi framework These features are being added to the development 2.5.x versions to be released as Bacula version 3.0.0. This release is expected to occur near the end

OMG, I didn’t notice this, but my doctor did. The back of my thigh is also bruised up. She figures there is a pint of blood in there.

The area of numbness in the left leg seems to be decreasing. It is now roughly the size of my hand. Bruising continues to spread. The elbow is feeling better.

This is what my left leg looks like today.