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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 […]

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

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.

I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer with lots of sysadmin experience. My ideal job would require multiple skills and involve development of high availability strategy, some coding, database design, and some sysadmin work, although not necessarily in that order. My resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php Will consider relocation.

I’m considering implementing a multi-platform regression testing box. This would be used to run regression tests on each of the platforms. My first consideration was install each OS on a different partition/HDD, then boot into each OS for each test. Then I considerered something like VMWare, or Xen. The pros/cons I thought of were: