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 [...]
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 [...]
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:
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
All next week I'll be taking a cave diving class ...
So you have a failed disk in a ZFS pool ...
Courtney points out that urlesque has a post entitled "7 ...
