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Comment on Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system by | MarcJStuff

| MarcJStuff — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:23:58 +0000

[...] Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system [...]

Comment on creative wiring by GR

GR — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:28:51 +0000

In the part of Europe you come from, the power goes out half of the time (As they say : A. is de stad aan de stroom, G. is de stad zonder stroom). Where I’m from (a bit further to the east), we do have super-reliable poles though !!!

Comment on nagios, mdadm and snmp by Serge van Ginderachter

Serge van Ginderachter — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:11:09 +0000

I adapted a similar (maybe it was based on the same actually) script to use under Zabbix. I however discovered that certain default mdadm installs tend to do a full check on the array on a weekly basis, which triggers a false positive.

if [ "$status" = 0 ] && \
[ $(cat /sys/block/${md}/md/degraded) = 1 ] && \
$( echo $mdadmoutput | grep -e State.*resyncing -e State.*recovering >/dev/null )

then your device isn’t really degraded, but just doing a full check.

full script see http://support.ginsys.be/wsvn/scripts/zabbix/mdcheck.sh

Comment on how Brussels airport is making itself superfluous by Brussels airport finally comes to its senses | Off you go... into the purple yonder!

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:13:57 +0000

[...] security nonsense at Brussels airport seems to be finally finished. As of Monday September 4th, Brussels’ hand [...]

Comment on more OpenSPARC by Simply RISC | Off you go... into the purple yonder!

Simply RISC | Off you go... into the purple yonder! — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:11:21 +0000

[...] wrote a while back about Sun’s decision to GPL the design for its Niagara T1 [...]

Comment on Facebook: please hire programmers that speak languages other than just English (part 2) by facebook: stop the language nonsense (part 3) | Off you go... into the purple yonder!

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:57:06 +0000

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Comment on acts_as_paranoid and acts_as_versioned by All About Ruby

All About Ruby — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:02:06 +0000

Acts_as_versioned tutorial…

Environment: Rails 2.3.2, Windows Vista, SQLite3 development on a local box You might want to create a wiki-like functionality on your web site that is able to save all changes to your objects and adds an ability to retrieve them. So, for example you h…

Comment on bugs, bugs, bugs: upgrading to jaunty jackalope by helpdeskdan

helpdeskdan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:11:07 +0000

I have the exact same audio card! Worked great in hardy!

I tried everything, modifying the puleaudio config for the correct card, installing the latest alsa – nothing worked!

Finally, I followed the instructions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound

That finally worked. What people say about oss seems true, the sound is very good.

Downside: Had to set many apps to use oss, and plain give up on others. See this page:
http://www.opensound.com/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Applications_for_OSSv4

Upside:
Only thing that worked!

Let me know if you get it working in alsa.

Comment on df and zettabytes by ward

ward — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:52:47 +0000

Yeah, fixing this is obviously on my todo list. But like I said, this is just a dom0 filesystem on one system in a cluster, and the domUs are in lvm slices. The domUs are important; the dom0 as such is not very important.

Comment on df and zettabytes by wo.uter.be/

wo.uter.be/ — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:30:11 +0000

This kind of thing usually points to corruption.

If I were you, I’d take the filesystem offline immediately, and run ‘fsck -f’. If that finds nothing, no worries — but better safe than sorry.

It’s quite unlikely that this is related to sparse files. Really.