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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.

Sorry. I just noticed that comments were closed on 44 posts. I’ve just fixed that. Comment away!

Josh has always been a foodie. He has recently left Sun. I have it on good authority that he will be moving to Finland to work with Monty Widenius. Monty is opening a new restaurant and Josh will be helping out in various capacities. Rumor has it he will not be washing dishes or clearing tables, expect when the need arises. More details later.

After quite some time with little on the outside but lots of busy action on the inside, the BSD Certification Group‘s BSD Associate (BSDA) certification is now available! The BSD Associate certification marks the entry level for professional, community-based BSD certification, and work will continue to offer a certification for BSD Professionals (BSDP) next.

At the new job, I have a new desktop. It came with XP pro installed on it. To quote a coworker, I need the following: an email client an ssh client a web browser an office suite a CVS client In short, I an allowed to use whatever OS I’m comfortable with and can support. My choice: PC-BSD Why? It is based on FreeBSD, an OS I’ve been using for nearly 10 years.