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Arduino Resources for the n00b

Lately I’ve been entertaining myself by building a rebreather loop controller using the Arduino micro controller. This little open source board is really nice to work with for a number of reasons. Unlike many of the alternatives which employ proprietary programming languages, the Arduino simply uses “C”. It also has an IDE that runs the [...]

  • Data and Technology

    Posted on January 9th, 2012

    Written by Cliff

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    How to Replace a Failed Drive in a ZFS Pool

    So you have a failed disk in a ZFS pool and you want to fix it? Routine disk failures are really a non-event with ZFS because the volume management makes replacing them so dang easy. In many cases, unlike hardware RAID or older volume management solutions, the replacement disk doesn’t even need to be exactly [...]

  • Data and Technology

    Posted on August 20th, 2010

    Written by Cliff

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    How to Enable SSL for CSWapache2

    If you’re running the OpenCSW Apache package, it installs a Service Manifest into the SMF, so you’ll have to edit this if you want to run Apache SSL… Here’s how:

  • Et cetera

    Posted on August 5th, 2010

    Written by Cliff

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    Wes Anderson Parodies

    Courtney points out that urlesque has a post entitled “7 Great Wes Anderson Parodies“. I found Wes’ work through Rushmore and he immediately became my favorite film director of all time! Having joined the creative ranks of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and Mike Nichols, imagining what movies like Spiderman or The Lord of the Rings [...]

  • Data and Technology

    Posted on January 26th, 2010

    Written by Cliff

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    ZoneType.sh Version 2.0

    We just started supporting Solaris 10 in our VMware cluster so I had to update my zone type script to detect if the OS is running there. I’m not sure how I feel about depending on the output of ptrdiag since the interface is labeled “unstable”, but it works for now, and I really don’t [...]

  • Data and Technology

    Posted on December 22nd, 2009

    Written by Cliff

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    WP Error: The data could not be converted to UTF-8

    If you’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.9 and you are now getting UTF 8 conversion errors on your dashboard, you’ll need to take a look at WordPress Trac Ticket #11219. RSS Error: The data could not be converted to UTF-8 The bottom line is that you’ll need to enable either iconv or mbstring in your [...]

  • Data and Technology

    Posted on November 2nd, 2009

    Written by Cliff

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    UNIX – Find Files that Changed Within Time Window

    Every so often us lowly UNIX admins find ourselves needing to search a file system for files that have been created or changed within a certain time window. In other words, those files that are newer than time “X”, but not newer than time “Y”. There are a number of ways to accomplish this, but [...]

  • Et cetera, Highlights

    Posted on May 1st, 2009

    Written by Cliff

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    The Banana Slug is not a Mythical Creature

    OK, so I never actually believed that they were a mythical creature, but it took me so long to actually find one after moving to Santa Cruz that I had great fun telling those who didn’t know better that they were figment of the collective local imagination. Courtney, who had seen them before, always sighed, [...]

  • Adventures, Highlights
    Darkness Beckons

    All next week I'll be taking a cave diving class ...

  • Data and Technology
    How to Replace a Failed Drive in a ZFS Pool

    So you have a failed disk in a ZFS pool ...

  • Et cetera
    Wes Anderson Parodies

    Courtney points out that urlesque has a post entitled "7 ...

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