Up and running again late in December 2011
Sorry for the nearly two week absence. This web server’s 10 year old hard drive developed too many faults between December 9th and 10th, and the system became rather useless. The wonky hard drive was replaced with a brand new one this week. Nothing important got lost thanks to AMANDA and a fair number of […]
Read More → Up and running again late in December 2011One year of blogging, more or less
It’s been one year since I started this blog. I have accumulated 33 posts, including this one, and a handful of (experimental) pages. It took a while before I felt brave enough to let Google index my blog. As for comments, a few comments have been to the point, whereas the majority of comments has […]
Read More → One year of blogging, more or lessZFS root fs on FreeBSD 9.0
Gone are the old MFS root fs image and the sysinstall utility. To create a useable ZFS root fs from the 9.0-RELEASE DVD we must specify an alternate location for the temporary zpool.cache file and an alternate mountpoint for the ZFS root fs by using a command like: zpool create -o cachefile=/tmp/zpool.cache -m /tmp/zroot zroot […]
Read More → ZFS root fs on FreeBSD 9.0Goodbye, Dad!
RIP Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (1941-2011).
Read More → Goodbye, Dad!Dialog boxes for file handling missing in AutoCAD?
A student came by my office today and wondered if I knew how to bring back the usual dialog boxes for file handling in AutoCAD. A quick search using Google revealed the filedia command. The solution is to execute the filedia command, enter 1 (the digit one) as the requested input, hit the enter key, […]
Read More → Dialog boxes for file handling missing in AutoCAD?Colourful console in FreeBSD
I moved a few months ago. Moving from time to time is probably a Good Thing™. While going through my stuff, I came across a printout of this posting to the freebsd-stable mailling list back in 2007.
Read More → Colourful console in FreeBSDFreeBSD 9.0 as IPv6-only
At work we have native IPv6 connectivity along with IPv4. We’ve had IPv6 for nearly 5 years and IPv4 for the past 17 years. On 2011-08-16, I grabbed an IPv6-only snapshot of FreeBSD/i386 9.0-BETA1 dated 20110727 and started experimenting with internet life using only IPv6. This particular machine is a virtual machine running inside VirtualBox […]
Read More → FreeBSD 9.0 as IPv6-onlyVirtualBox 4.1.x and ZFS raidz{1,2,3}
If you’ve been struggling with booting VirtualBox VMs set up to boot from ZFS raidz{1,2,3} organized disks, then VirtualBox 4.1.x might be the cure you’ve been waiting for. I certainly have been longing for this to happen.
Read More → VirtualBox 4.1.x and ZFS raidz{1,2,3}Oppsett av irssi
irssi er en IRC-klient som foretrekkes av mange brukere, deriblant meg selv. Her finner du noen ord om hvordan jeg setter opp irssi for mitt bruk.
Read More → Oppsett av irssiMake cupcakes, not war
I was catching up on some usenet reading at the end of my summer holiday, and after reading comp.risks 26.48 and this posting in particular, I created the following snippet of a Makefile. # Ref. comp.risks 26.48 # Subject: Fwd: British Spies Replace Terrorists’ Online # Bomb Instructions with Cupcake Recipe # Date: Sun, 12 […]
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