25 Jun
On Friday Night, my company’s building did power maintenance. BC Hydro needs to test something (I’m not exactly sure what), but our building needs to shut down all the power for it to happen. They do this testing once a year at least, and sometimes twice.
We have lots of old hardware that is slowly being [...]
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16 Jun
There was a discussion on the CentOS mailing list the other day about Oracle Cluster File System 2. I went and checked it out. Well, I read some docs about it anyway.
It’s released under the GPL and it’s not really just for Oracle. It looks to be a share nothing type file system layer. Oracle [...]
Posted in linux, mysql, ocfs2, oracle by: gary.richardson
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16 Jun
My new MacBook Pro has crashed 5 times now. That’s a lot for a brand new laptop in 2007.
It seems to crash when I’m using a VPN connection over WiFi. It seems to be a common problem — there is a big thread about it in the apple form. Most people say they experience the [...]
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14 Jun
It’s about time I put one of these together. I’ve got a few things to post and ideas to publish and this seems like the best place to do it.
I’m starting with blogger cuz it works with my gmail account and I don’t have to think about it. I’ll have to make sure I can [...]
Posted in bluetooth, firstpost, osx by: gary.richardson
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