http://www.barryodonovan.com The thoughts, ramblings and rants of Barry O'Donovan Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:30:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nick introduced me to Soekris a few weeks ago and some neat little boxes they make. For a current project, the net4801 fit the bill perfectly, especially with the add in vpn1411 which off loads the intensive computational operations for encryption and compression. I plan some future posts looking at the ... http://www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2009/12/08/freebsd-on-soekris-net4801 Every time I debootstrap a new Debian server for a XenU domain, I get lots of verbose output from Perl scripts: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. ... http://www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2009/09/24/perl-locales Let be be clear from the outset: I am not a Fianna Fail supporter. That said, the European elections are about bigger things than giving Fianna Fail a kick in shins. If that's your motivation in voting, then use the local elections. The European elections are about electing MEPs to represent ... http://www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2009/05/25/vote-for-eoin-ryan I updated my laptop from Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (just released) yesterday. I do 90% of my work on my desktop which needs to just work and, as such, it's running Kubuntu 7.10. My laptop, however, I play around with. Most people's first impression of 8.10 will be based on ... http://www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2008/10/31/kubuntu-mobile UPDATE: April 29th 2008 Anders Baekgaard of Dicea ApS (current chan_ss7 maintainers) recommends the following alternative patch. Please note that mtp3d.c will also need to be patched in the same way: --- chan_ss7.c~ 2008-04-03 09:23:56.000000000 +0200 +++ chan_ss7.c 2008-04-29 08:29:20.000000000 +0200 @@ -249,11 +249,12 @@ static void dump_pcap(FILE *f, struct mtp_event *event) { + ... http://www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2008/04/28/chan_ss7-pcap-files-and-64bit-machines Amazon's Web Services have just launched a health dashboard which should prove very useful and can be found at http://status.aws.amazon.com. They've also announced paid support services. An eagerly awaited feature for me is persistent EC2 storage which they are trialling right now and hopefully I'll get into the beta program. Fingers crossed! http://www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2008/04/17/amazon-aws-keeps-getting-better Following up from a discussion on how the series finale disappointed a few people over on Donncha's blog, Holy Shmoly!, I thought I might point out that a straight-to-DVD movie which actually ends the two-year story arc has just been released. You can buy a copy (at a great price ... http://www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2008/03/14/stargate-sg1-finishing-the-story The last thing I want to do is point and laugh at anyone else's problems - God knows we've all been in the trenches - but this is just too funny a pun and deserves a link: http://talideon.com/weblog/2008/02/cooling-problems.cfm http://www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2008/02/07/bad-fuse Following a recent post to ILUG asking about setting Linux up on a Dell Vostro 200, I followed up with my notes from the time I had to do it a few months back. This is just a copy of my notes rather than a how-to but any competent Linux user ... http://www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2008/02/07/linux-dell-vostro-200 Yesterday disaster struck - during a CentOS/RedHat installation, the installer asked (not verbatim): "Cannot read partition information for /dev/sda. The drive must be initialized before continuing.". Now on this particular server, sda and sdb were/are a RAID1 (containing the OS) and a RAID5 partition respectively and sdc was/is a 4TB RAID5 ... http://www.barryodonovan.com/index.php/2007/12/08/lvm-recovery