I’m back from Dominican Republic. This was a family holiday, planned well before I became unemployed. So don’t let the previous post cause any confusion. I’m still looking for work. After we arrived home, I was pleased to find a package waiting for me from Michael Pan of Berkeley, California. Micheal sent me 10 almost-new DLT tapes! Today, I loaded those tapes into my tape library and ran my usual tape testing routines. […]
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I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer. Please read my resume and contact me if you have any leads. Thank you.
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Someone wrote something about BSDCan. And it wasn’t me! I recommend reading Travel Tips for BSDCan 2006.
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Today I ran a test upgrade of my Bacula installation. I went from 1.36.3 to 1.38.5. After running the database upgrade script, which creates new columns and a few new tables, I noticed that I needed to set some permissions. grant all on device to group bacula; grant all on device_deviceid_seq to group bacula; grant all on mediatype to group bacula; grant all on mediatype_mediatypeid_seq to group bacula; grant all on status to
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Gidday! Here I am, in Washington DC, waiting for ShmooCon to start. So far, I’ve managed to see: Pentagon Washington Monument Lincoln Memorial State Department Kennedy Center the Capital Watergate It’s late. I should sleep. Nite.
The test we ran using the patch mentioned below went well. Here’s hoping that it goes into the tree.
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I’ve been given a patch to test. It changes the SCSI driver so that it will be slightly more like Linux and Solaris. I’m just documenting the patch process here so we can see what I’m doing, in case something goes wrong. This patch will allow us to open the tape drive, even if there is no tape, and keep querying until a tape arrives. [root@dfc:/usr/src/sys/cam/scsi] # perl -pi -e “s:^M::g” ~dan/scsi_sa.c.diffs [root@dfc:/usr/src/sys/cam/scsi]
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I’m heading out to ShmooCon 2006. I’m arriving in Washington DC on Wednesday the 11th, and departing on Sunday the 12th. I’m arriving early in case the weather closes in. Washington doesn’t cope with snow well. What they call a blizzard would shutdown the city for two days. In Ottawa, the same thing doesn’t affect your commute to work. For those that don’t know it, and I’m sorry to say I didn’t until
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Ever wondered if software RAID is faster/slower than hardware RAID? I’m going to find out. It’s not complete, and I just thought of an extension, but What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? is a work in progress. The extention I mention is to compare i386 against amd64. I may do that if I have time.
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The Bacula users and developers recently voted on 25 new projects to rank them in order of preference. The top five projects were: Implement data encryption (as opposed to comm encryption) Implement Migration that moves Jobs from one Pool to another. Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files from Incremental/Differential backups Implement a Bacula GUI/management tool using Python Implement Base jobs You can see the list of projects and you can see how people voted.
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