I have kids and hope to have grandkids some day, but I have very concerned if there will be a world for them to grow up in. Right now the trend data shows that the world temperatures will increase by 6 degrees Celsius creating a planet that will be barely inhabitable.
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We have a wonderful old solaris legacy system that runs our payroll, hr, accounting systems. Our primary, unix savvy DBA leaves on vacation and leaves some minimal instructions for the junior, non-unix savvy DBA on how to clean out the print queue when a user submits a very large job by accident (which happens way to often). Yesterday jDBA comes running over and says I cannot ssh into the unix system — sure enough, I try to ssh in and immediately am kicked right off. Soon the helpdesk is swamped with reports of users who cannot access the system any more. I hop onto my trusty console switch and log in, only to get errors where it cannot find the /bin directory. I then start asking jDBA just what the heck he did (can anyone guess…). Continue reading
So a friend of mine calls me to tell me that the hard drive on his Dad's mac had failed and was wondering if there was anyway to recover the data as there were no backups. My answer was 'it depends on the failure mode'. Failure modes of a hard drive are: If the drive…
So a small story: "My wife, a native Japanese, and I are started a Kitchen remodel so this weekend we went looking for new appliances. After about 90 minutes at the first store we realized that in Japan every single gas range is sold with a wok grate while in the US only one mid…
So this morning I got into work to find a that a database machine had crashed. This particular machine is a legacy, old machine (debian 4) that acts as a gateway between multiple systems so it has mounts to lots of other systems. It came back up cleanly, but two mounts did not remount properly…
When I was checking Eventbrite on the Cascadia conference registrations this morning I came across this (see below, click for full-size).
I have been working with Google for 3 weeks trying to get GADS to sync our passwords from OpenLdap to Google Apps. GADS kept saying in all the logs that the password was sync’ed correctly, but no luck. I worked with Google Support and we tried everything (almost) including generating lots of debug logs that said yep the passwords sync’ed ok, but they were not sync’ed. I searched for answers on the web – no luck.
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Well my old laptop finally bit the dust a few weeks ago so my company got me a nice, new shiny Thinkpad T420. This is wonderful except that newest linux distros (e.g. Ubuntu 11.04) is lacking a bit on the hardware support. A few days ago I finally had almost everything working. Multi-monitor support, Nvidia graphics, etc. and all my applications worked fine except for the wireless card (a Realtec RTL8188CE) which kept cutting in and out.
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So a while back I moved to an Epic 4G phone. It is more of a computer that also does phone stuff than a phone that does computer stuff. Since it is a computer, I wanted to see if I could use it like a computer. My eyes are still good enough to read the…
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