BSDCan is next week! I spent some of yesterday organizing some air plane tickets and getting together the gear for the registration desk and wireless network. Registrations are flowing in now. There is a sub-group of attendees that leave it until the last minute. At one point, I received 7 registrations in under 6 hours. If that rate continued for the whole time registration was open, we would need a much bigger venue! […]
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Spam is so annoying. It takes up so much of my time. I don’t want spammers posting here. Neither do you. This morning I found 60 posts waiting to be moderated. I’ve had enough of this crap. I have better things to do with my time. Moderating spam is not on the short list. Today I searched for “you must enter a code” solutions. I found Bot Check. I found a reference to
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Many mp3 players recharge through a USB connection. What do you do if you go on holiday without your computer?
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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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