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  • Adventures

    Posted on January 23rd, 2008

    Written by cliff

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    apecs 3, deco, diluent, diving, isc, loop, loop controller, meg, megalodon, rebreather, rule of thirds, scuba, tech diving, VR3

    Who Cares if the Rebreather Has Integrated Deco

    For some time now, Innerspace Systems has been working on a Megalodon head called APECS 3 that supports integrated decompression. As with any major software / hardware engineering project, there have been some delays, which has Meg owners clambering for information about when it will come out. It’s amazing how so many of these rebreather [...]

  • Data and Technology

    Posted on January 22nd, 2008

    Written by cliff

    Tags

    broken, packages, python, red hat, REHL3, RHEL4, rpm, rpm -e --nodeps, up2date, update, upgrade

    RHEL3 Upgrade to RHEL4 Breaks up2date

    Last week I had to upgrade one of our old RHEL3 servers in order to get it to address disks larger than 2TB. I did the upgrade from CD, and it went fairly smoothly, except up2date would not run after the box came back up.
    It gave me the following error:
    [root@x up2date]# Traceback (most recent call [...]

  • Data and Technology

    Posted on January 11th, 2008

    Written by cliff

    Tags

    data, disk, ext3, filesystem, gnu, IT, linux, mkfs, parted, partition, red hat, rhel, servers, storage, technology

    How to Make Gnarly Big Linux Filesystems

    At least in RHEL 4, the fdisk command does not support the creation of filesystems larger than 2TB. In order to get around it, you have to use the parted command. I found the basic info here, but this is the long and short of how to cut off a big ol’ slice of disk [...]

  • Et cetera

    Posted on January 9th, 2008

    Written by cliff

    Tags

    aerospace, bell, fuel, Gallegos, hydrogen peroxide, invention, jet pack, Juan, Juan Manuel, Juan Manuel Lozano, Juan Manuel Lozano Gallegos, mexico, rocket, rocket belt

    I Can Finally Have My Rocket Belt!

    I Can Finally Have My Rocket Belt!

    Juan Manuel is my new hero, plain and simple! Since the Bell RocketBelt of the early 1960’s, the world has been disappointingly devoid of this amazing invention, but no longer. Juan Manuel, a self-taught engineer from Mexico has been working diligently for nearly 30 years to develop a working rocket belt and now he has.
    Supposedly [...]

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