I was in the home stretch of remotely installing Debian to my dedicated server when the NOC rebooted it because the monitoring system showed it as down. Oops.
In theory this should have been recoverable by telling lilo to boot again from the Debian image instead of the default, but now it’s doing the LI and […]
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Reset
16Oct04X
06Oct03Building up my PC at work last week, I noticed that Cygwin/XFree86 added “multi-window” and integrated clipboard support back in January (obviously I hadn’t updated Cygwin in a while). What that means is each X window gets treated like any other window, complete with Luna styling on XP. The show up on the Taskbar like […]
theKompany.rom Goes 1.0
29Jul03theKompany’s Zaurus ROM has reached 1.0. Announcement, download, tkc.rom home (not yet updated).
The Best Laid Plans
25Jul03My plan for last weekend, to re-pave my Zaurus and test drive some alternative ROMs, didn’t quite work out. Instead I started the prep work for re-paving my Debian/Linux box (bovine) because I have violated one of the principal tenets of Systems Administration.
Never experiment on a system you are not prepared to rebuild.
Speaking of Outages…
25Jul03About once a week, when my broadband connection goes down I have to log on to my Debian/Linux box and reset the interface (ifdown eth1 ; ifup eth1). Sometimes ifdown reports that the interface was not configured, sometimes it does not.
I’d like to find a way to automate that process. Preferably in a semi-intelligent manner: […]
WTF? Microsoft licenses SCO IP
19May03CNET is reporting that:
Microsoft is acquiring the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a move that could impact the battle between Windows and Linux in the market for computer operating systems.[snip]Late Sunday, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith said acquiring the license from SCO “is representative of Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to respecting intellectual property and […]
New Yopy models next month
15Feb03G.MATE is taking pre-orders on the Yopy YP3500 and YP3700, with a ship date of March 11th. Improvements over the original YP3000 include: double the RAM and ROM (128/32), front-lit displays, higher capacity batteries, and an improved keyboard design with a dedicated row of numeric keys. The YP3700 adds a CF II socket.
State of the Email Migration
07Feb03I’ve been using Fetchmail for a week now. A few days ago I consolodated my 10 POP accounts to a single multidrop mailbox and converted all of my Outlook Rules to procmail. The migration hasn’t been painless, but neither has it been as painful as I feared.
Outlook 2002 has proven to be less-than-reliable in handling […]
