Month: August 2015
Dell PowerEdge R320, JBOD, mfi(4), and gpart(8)
One of the old webservers at work, a Dell PowerEdge R200, crashed a couple of weeks ago. I suspect the six year old motherboard finally gave up.
Read More → Dell PowerEdge R320, JBOD, mfi(4), and gpart(8)Appraiser or Hellraiser? KB2952644
I declined KB2952664 in our WSUS instance. This update phones home and reports whatever you have installed. I see no reason to be spied upon. Not to mention that this update is not a oneshot update, it creates a couple of scheduled tasks that run regularly. This one is related to KB3035583, and both should […]
Read More → Appraiser or Hellraiser? KB2952644Programming — Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd edition
I got my copy of “Programming — Principles and Practice Using C++”, second edition, today. My copy is of the third printing, dated June 2015, so it’s a pretty recent printing. I’m not teaching programming nor C++ at my school, although I used to. My job is simply to be the school’s system administrator, but […]
Read More → Programming — Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd editionFreeBSD/i386, stable/10, OpenSSL from ports, optimized assembly code, Dell PowerEdge 1950, Xeon X5450@3.00GHz, and BIOS 2.5.0
The strange combination of FreeBSD/i386, stable/10, OpenSSL from ports, optimized assembly code, Dell PowerEdge 1950, Intel Xeon X5450@3.00GHz, and BIOS 2.5.0, resulted in core dumps for all applications linked with OpenSSL from ports.
Read More → FreeBSD/i386, stable/10, OpenSSL from ports, optimized assembly code, Dell PowerEdge 1950, Xeon X5450@3.00GHz, and BIOS 2.5.0mosh 1.2.5 with IPv6 on CygWin
Finally, a CygWin package for mosh 1.2.5 is available. Run to your nearest CygWin mirror and update your system. If you’re new to CygWin, I advise you to select mosh, Perl, and OpenSSH, in addition to the base set of packages selected for you.
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