Most of my tech diving buddies are now diving rebreathers, and I’ve been tempted by them for a couple of years now. You can make some serious dives with a lot less bulk and weight, the systems blend gas based on your partial pressure of oxygen, giving you an optimum blend at all depths. They [...]
If you have a Solaris box with multiple names, you might have trouble mounting CD’s if the primary name is different from the one you gave the machine at install time. This is because of the CRAZY way Solaris goes about auto-mounting its optical media.
Here is a 10,000 foot view of how Solaris automounts a [...]
My Father watches Fox News, so I’m pretty clear on the miserable slant to their reporting. I have to say, however, that I was a bit surprised to find that despite his hours in front of the Republican Propaganda channel, he had never heard anything about Hugo Chavez offering to donate oil to America’s [...]
Bill O’Reilly has been on going on like a blithering idiot for what seems like months about his imagined War On Christmas. Bill O’Reilly is, of course, insane. However, the ludicrous dribblings from his badly damaged brain have inspired some to create hugely entertaining content and blog fodder like this video.
I mentioned this video in [...]
If you ever shift around any bootable drives within a Sun Solaris box, you may find that either the device names (cxtxd0sx) do not follow the disk position within the server, or, the system just fails to boot because it can’t mount the other disk slices.
Let’s assume you are booting off of target 8 (c1t8d0s0), [...]
This is a little “Cops” knockoff With a drunk driving Santa. The cops decide to pull him over because of his wreckless driving and find find the trunk of his sleigh filled “snow from the north pole”. Humm… Sketchy!
The video is really pretty funny, but I have to wonder what this year’s “Village Idiot Award” [...]
Sure, everyone loves mistletoe because it gives us an excuse to plant a big one the object of our affection, but what most people don’t is know that this magical botanical can be used for nefarious purposes as well…
Tyramine is a poisonous alkaloid found in the berries of the holiday plant mistletoe, and while [...]
The Qlogic QLA2340 HBA is a 64-bit, 133MHz PCI-X to 2 Gb Fibre Channel adapter. It’s a cool card, but it doesn’t work with the standard SUNWqlc and SUNWqlcx drivers. You have to remove these driver packages and install the one directly from QLogic in order to get it working.
# pkgrm SUNWqlc
# pkgrm SUNWqlcx
Now, download [...]
Because many of the dive sites I love require travel, and because a full-blowen technical diving expedition for open circuit diving requires a sometimes prohibitively large volume of helium and pure oxygen, I made the decision some time ago to get into rebreather diving.
Many of the people I dive with have been using them [...]
Windows media files suck. The fact that you have historically not been able to easily convert WMV files to QuickTime sucks even more. I can’t count the times I’ve been banging my head against the wall wishing I could turn a WMV file into something more reasonable.
It will set you back $50.00 , but I [...]
