Yet again this past weekend, we have the Ferrari effect in action. Felipe Massa passes another driver whilst completely off the track. Do we see a stewards enquiry, drive through penalty, 25 second penalty, not likely, lest we upset the Ferrari International Association. Shame on you Formula 1.
The FIA strikes again, with Hamilton’s demotion for being the best racing driver we have seen for years, but not having the good sense to drive for the FIA’s favourite team. If this sort of crap continues Formula 1 is doomed.
Those morons over at Apple Computer(tm) must be smoking too much of the gange if they think the logo on the left could possibly be mistaken for theirs, either the original multi-coloured edition, or the later version. For a start theirs has a bite taken out of it, is solid, and does not have the …
I now have upgraded my Ferrari 4000 to Hardy Heron, and whilst the early alphas were a bit of a disaster (no wireless :(), this past weekends updates have proved most fruitful. Wireless now just works :), my bluetooth mouse works with just some pref settings in the bluetooth preferences panel, and the ATI driver …
After installing Debian 4.0 aka Etch, I configured Samba to point at my domain controller for authentication, and restarted it. Then I head over to my Windows XP box and attempted to access the shares, nada 🙁 So I googled, and googled, and eventually came across a post indicating that winbind was preventing Samba from …
Newer Linux distros mount your volumes by UUID rather than using the device node, but what happens when you replace a disk, and you get the dreaded “Cannot find target volume” message. Then you need to update your /etc/fstab with the new volume id. To get this info use the vol_Id command. eg. vol_id /dev/sdc1 …
I recently installed Ubuntu 6.10 as a server box for a friend. I installed Zimbra as the mail system, very nice, easy install, and admin ui. Unfortunately I was perplexed by a number of issues. 1. Cron jobs were not being run2. When I ran anacron manually it didn’t mail any output. Well the solution …
If you’re an old hack like me you may well look back with fond memories of the Borland Turbo line of tools. For me it was Turbo Pascal, then Turbo C, and later Turbo C++ that were my development environments of choice for many years. Well they are at it again, and now you can …
After much deliberation I finally decided to purchase an external hard drive to provide for a complete backup solution for my server. I finally decided on the Western Digital 500GB MyBook Essential. I duly brought it home and connected it to my Linux server (Mandriva 2006.0), but after initially recognising the drive it basically produced …
A recent post on the ILUG got me thinking again about the 64 -vs- 32 bit editions of Linux, and so I’m gonna do some more testing. My last test revealed that on a 64bit AMD box, code compiled with GCC actually suffered a performance degradation when using 32bit integers in 64bit mode. I’ve got …