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Sun xVM

I’d heard a bit about Sun xVM but hadn’t actually had the chance to look at the product. In the last day or two I have a chance to install the product. All I can say is I am very … Continue reading

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Australian TiVO

I’ve been a long time fan of Mythtv and have used it on and off for a number of years, however it was always a big ask to get WAF (wife acceptance factor). Since the launch of the Australian TiVo, … Continue reading

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Darwyn arrives early.

This news is a little late, but I’ve been a bit busy with a number of things happening. Below is a picture of our first son who was born 3 weeks early on 14th Apr 2009 at 2:40am. My wife … Continue reading

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linode VPS upgrade from debian 4.0 to 5.0

Finally took the plunge. Upgraded out linode VPS from debian 4.0 to 5.0 Apart from an inital hiccup, it seems fine. Upgrade complete. Unfortunately I had to shutdown the VPS instance to increase a big of diskspace onto the root, … Continue reading

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Wife’s old car sells within a week

I should of mentioned this last week, but we advertised my wife’s old car on CarSales and it sold in 7 days. Not bad going I thought.

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The countdown continues

Certain readers might not be aware, but my wife and I are expecting our first born in just over 5 weeks time. We’ve managed to get the car seat installed, wash all baby clothes we’d purchased. In addition we have … Continue reading

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Events of the past week

It’s been an interesting week, thought I’d mention what happened. The week ended with me having to setup a CentOS 5.2 system and then install an application called Jira, which I continued to setup and tinker with today. Instructions not … Continue reading

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Solaris iostat guides

Anyone in the world web recently come across any reasonable guides/tech notes on Solaris iostat usage and interpretation. Especially on hosts when Solaris Volume Manager (metastat) is in use on the host. I want to find a resource I can … Continue reading

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RHCE book recommendations

Anyone in the wide world web with RHCE experence care to comment on a good RHCE book? I am hoping to do a RHCE eventualy, but in the meantime I’d like to obtain a book and brush up on things … Continue reading

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OpenSolaris install

OpenSolaris is not bad. I installed it and don’t mind it. Although what I didn’t like was the limited install ability to select what I want to be installed. It’s possible I did it wrong, and you can do a … Continue reading

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