Month: June 2017
Strange mSATA SSD behaviour on Dell Latitude E7240
One of our Dell Latitude E7240 exhibited strange mSATA SSD behaviour. Disk requests didn’t complete on time. This computer ran the A13 firmware. The case was eventually solved by upgrading to the A21 firmware executed from an USB stick as the mSATA SSD was unreliable at this point. Apparently, the A18 firmware corrected some mSATA […]
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After a couple of crude attempts at making my own versions of namei(1) this spring, namei.c and namei.go, I decided to take a look at the original. My goals were to see if I had made any mistakes, and if possible, have the original properly working on FreeBSD.
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AMANDA 3.3.9 as of r441897
misc/amanda-{client,server} as of r441897 fails to create the directory /usr/local/etc/amanda and an empty file named /usr/local/etc/amanda/security.conf. The client will fail during client checks and backup runs claiming: failed: planner: [Can’t get realpath of the security file ‘/usr/local/etc/amanda/security.conf’: No such file or directory] Here’s the remedy in the short run: There is one additional issue, pkg-plist […]
Read More → AMANDA 3.3.9 as of r441897Debating with a compiler
I’m always delighted by the light touch and stillness of early programming languages. Not much text; a lot gets done. Old programs read like quiet conversations between a well-spoken researcher and a well-studied mechanical colleague, not as a debate with a compiler. Who’d have guessed sophistication bought such noise? – Dick Gabriel Ref.: OSCON 2010: […]
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