Ever since I started at Devlin, I’ve had one nagging problem with the network gear: the VLANs from the Cisco equipment (a triad of Catalyst 3550-24 switches) won’t propagate to the other gear we have (an HP ProCurve 2424M and a Linksys SRW2024). I read all I could about VLANs and tagging, but no matter [...]
Looks like someone has started putting together some informal documentation for NetworkManager.
In a completely unrelated note, the upgrading of my Fedora Core 5 Thinkpad T42 to kernel 2.6.17-1.2139 has broken wireless (again). Any attempt to use NetworkManager with it causes ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. to be seen in the dmesg. However, if I [...]
Recently we bought a low-end IBM xSeries 306m server to handle generic IT utility tasks, such as hosting an installation of Request Tracker, Cacti and, in the near future, Nagios. The server came with a pair of 160GB SATA disks attached to a ServeRAID-8e HostRAID controller. I quickly discovered that HostRAID is an awful hack; [...]
My 10-year high school reunion is happening over the August long weekend this year, and the event got me thinking about some of the technology we used during those years.
Every Ontario elementary school and high school student of a certain vintage will remember the ubiquitous Unisys ICON terminals, a topic that I will actually leave [...]
So my trusty 6 year-old desktop, jupiter, died after a power outage a couple of weeks ago. I suspect the motherboard got fried, because trying to power on the system did nothing, although a monitor plugged into the back of the PSU could still power up.
I’d been thinking of getting a new computer for some [...]
There’s a great article in this month’s ACM Queue entitled The Rise and Fall of CORBA. Since it’s authored by Michi Henning, who worked on CORBA as part of the OMG’s architecture board, and subsequently became an ORB implementer, consultant, and author of a book on CORBA Programming with C++, I had to take notice. [...]
I don’t work there anymore, but I still feel some affinity for the site, particularly since many of my friends are still on staff. So I must congratulate my long-time colleague David Raso (we’ve worked together both at cbc.ca and at VerticalScope) for making CBC.ca completely XHTML 1.0 Compliant! For those of you who know [...]
I’ve been playing around with Splunk recently, which I bill as “Google for your system logs.” It’s much more than just a simple search engine, but that’s the simplest way to describe what it does; it aggregates log data from multiple sources and allows you to search, correlate data in time, and also post (anonymized) [...]
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