Oh, yay. They’re going to give me a free copy of my credit report because they really appreciate my business. Okay, sounds good… and then here comes the pitch. Along with that, to show just how much I am appreciated as a customer, I’m being given the opportunity, if I accept the credit report, to [...]
I very much enjoyed Silent Hunter II, so I was very pleased when Silent Hunter III was recently released. I walked through installation, but was disappointed to find I was required to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 (I’m still happy with 5) and Windows Media Player 9 for the documentation and ingame videos, respectively. I [...]
If you have ever been interested in hacking your TiVo, dealdatabase.com has an excellent forum that covers all kinds of hacks, in detail. Hack on!
It took my box a while, but it seems I finally hit a routing cache issue in 2.6.9. It seems the cache overflows. Someone on LARTC tracked it down and posted a notice with his findings in December. A post that sounds similar recently appeared on LKML, too. dmesg: dst cache overflow printk: 202 messages [...]
After much time, I have finally completed my guide to using Dirvish for snapshot backups. The guide covers what a snapshot is and how it’s created, then walks through obtaining, configuring, and using Dirvish features for creating snapshot backups nightly. In the future I may add rsh and rsyncd as transports. rsh is nice for [...]
If your key just expired on you, fear not. Gentoo apparently has a free pass. Fetch the key and burn away. Oh, that’s just great. I still had a few processes running around that cdrecord-proDVD leaves when it alarms to death if you have an expired key. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer [...]
I have looked at gnucash a few times over the years. I first evaluated it when I switched to Linux on my desktop back in 1999, but it wasn’t ready. Flipping through the excellent on-line documentation it ships with, it seems like it might finally be ready. I’m going to hit it with all my [...]
It’s nearly time to publish my first major revision to my Dirvish snapshot backup guide, which includes a section on using some of the more advanced features. Only a few additional sections and the guide should be complete.
I finally parted with my GeForce4 440 MX SE, 420 MX PCI, and Sapphire 9600 SE. The latter was fanless and quite nice. It sold for 66% of what I paid for it a year later. I also parted with a 3Ware Escalade 7410, my AMI MegaRAID, an older Adaptec UW, and a SCA hotswap [...]
The box hung again last night. No messages anywhere. Last time it happened after some kind of cfq scheduler error. I thought it was a good time to compile 2.6.11 with Con Kolivas’ 2.6.11-ck2 patchset. CITI’s 2.6.11 patches for NFSv4 applied cleanly on top, which includes all Trond Myklebust’s NFS fixes and CITI’s NFSv4 implementation. [...]