Donations sought for SATA drives GOAL REACHED Thank to the generousity of many individuals, the goal has been reached. There are a few cheques yet to be recived, but the goal has been surpassed by about US$35. Thank you. What are the donations for? I’m asking for donations to pay for eight SATA drives. These …
Oh what a week I’ve had! Yes, the webserver is back. Not only was this website offline but so were a number of other websites, including FreshPorts and FreshSource. I’m very glad to have it back because I wasn’t looking forward to transferring everything and setting up a new box. I thank those of you …
Amazon, OSW, and my thanks Welcome to a new year. Traditionally, that type of greeting would be reserved for the first article after Dec 31st. Unfortunately, I didn’t write that in that article. I’m not one always to follow tradition. Yet more links to Amazon! It was many months ago that someone wrote to me …
I’m looking for a job This article is simple and personal. I’m out of work. I was laid off on Thursday. And I wasn’t alone. There were about 8 of us let go from the Ottawa office of our California-based company. As a result, we have a small team of good workers ready to take …
Installing and configuring Phorum using cvs This is the first of two articles about importing a third party product into cvs and using for different projects in different ways. The steps I outline below may not be the best way of doing things, but I’m about to find out. The prerequisites for this article are: …
New stuff coming soon There hasn’t been much new on the website lately. Only seven articles in three months. That is pretty low. But have no fear. I’ve been working on many things, most of which I’ve been unable to discuss for security reasons. But I have managed to type up a few notes on …
Pictures of the Ottawa machines Here are a few pics of what I have in the basement….. I’ve had this desk for about 20 years. It’s ex-government surplus. Yes, that’s a rack bought from Ikea. The link provided is to a similar unit but with shallower shelves. I have the deeper version. Look for the …
cvsup bug fix and upgrading to 4.4 The Billionium came and went and few people noticed. But all cvsup mirrors noticed. And so did some cvsup clients. On Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001, the Unix date changed from 999,999,999 to 1,000,000,000. This uncovered a long-standing bug in CVSup. The bug places a heavy load …
Americans are not alone Sept 11 2001 started a little differently for me than most business days. Usually I start by listening to TV, usually the History channel or TLC. But that morning I listened to CBC 95.1 FM. It was about 8:55 and the markets report was on. When they went to a local …
Welcome to the new box Welcome to the newly redesigned FreeBSD Diary[1]. The changes you see before you are courtesy of Bean (thanks). The content remains the same: the largest collection of practical FreeBSD examples available anywhere. Within the recent face lift, you’ll find a few new significant changes: New colocated server Newsfeeds from other …