Posted by Ceri Davies Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:30:00 GMT
It is with great pleasure that Stef and I announce the birth of our first child, Max Hermann Davies, who was born on the morning of February 4th, 2007.
And with that, I have other things to do…
Posted by Ceri Davies Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:37:00 GMT
With the help of Dick's instructions, I finally got round to upgrading typo. Things may look weird until I get around to updating my theme for the new framework.
Hmm, looks like viewing articles was broken. Fixed that. All of the caching, theming and general whole point in running typo is broken though. Misery :)
Posted by Ceri Davies Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:40:00 GMT
Quick! There’s less than one day left…
Read more...Posted by Ceri Davies Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:46:00 GMT
Patching Solaris is historically hard work involving cross referencing the installed patches (showrev -p) with the installed release (cat /etc/release) and the latest Recommended patch cluster and patch report at SunSolve.
Since this is such a nightmare, Sun have offered a huge number of methods for patching Solaris systems. Some are no longer properly maintained or don’t support recent releases, some are heavy X based monsters, some have a huge dependency list (33 packages for smpatch in Solaris 10 6/06, and that’s not only the ‘light’ version, but is also incomplete). The one thing they have in common is that they suck.
After a recent experience where smpatch not only rendered a production machine unbootable, but required three reboots to do so and then had failed to even offer all of the available patches, I’ve had enough.
From now on we’ll be using Patch Check Advanced (PCA) from http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/.
Read more...Posted by Ceri Davies Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:50:00 GMT
One hell of a good day for BSD people today.
In FreeBSD, we got journalling support, both at a block and UFS level, courtesy of Pawel Dawidek. Andrew Thompson also added 802.1w support in the bridge code. Also, 6.2-BETA3 was released (ok, that was yesterday).
OpenBSD 4.0 was released, with a great feature set. See the release notes for more details.
Posted by Ceri Davies Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:14:00 GMT
It seems that a number of visitors to this site get here by searching for the term “Win4BSD” followed by “crack” or “license”.
If you are one of those people, the BSD world does not want you.
PS No, I don’t have logs.
Posted by Ceri Davies Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:13:00 GMT
I had most of a day spare today, so I though that I’d try out the FreeBSD 6.2-BETA1 image. Having recently read about the Win4BSD beta from the Win4Lin people , I figured that this would be a good application to try out on the new FreeBSD install.
FreeBSD 6.2 is looking to be great, of course :) I wouldn’t mind seeing the release notes start to get pulled together though, as I can’t remember what’s happened to RELENG_6 in the last six months.
I didn’t have high hopes for Win4BSD in honesty, as the User’s Guide mentioned kqemu and I thought it was just going to be like QEMU, which I’ve used before, but had problems with. However, I liked the way that with Win4BSD the “Documents and Settings” were stored in the FreeBSD filesystem and shared back into the Windows guest, thus allowing them to backed up normally and shared between multiple guests. The same is done with printers.
From a dirt clean installation of FreeBSD 6.2-BETA1, here’s all I did. Note that that clean installation should include the source distributions.
Read more...Posted by Ceri Davies Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:32:00 GMT
That’s the fantastic news from today’s scan. All being well, it will be the last time we see him until he’s born.
We got a good look at all of him, and we’re definitely looking at a boy.
Posted by Ceri Davies Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:57:00 GMT
Regret to inform you of the passing of Howard the goldfish (born 1998), who slipped away peacefully on the worktop this morning.
Howard came to the household after we were asked to look after him “for a week or two”. After over four years of residence, his leaving was felt by some to be long overdue.
If there is another place for him, then he is probably being chased around by Murphy right now. Let’s hope there isn’t!
Posted by Ceri Davies Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:13:00 GMT
Some good news that I can finally let out of the bag:
Our very own Darth Vader. We are calling him Hermann for now, though the sex is currently uncertain.
