Author Archives: marty

Trackerd makes Mutt a sad MUA…

I recently upgrade my home machine to Ubuntu Hardy. Lots of teething issues including the rt2500 based wireless card not working with 2.6.24 kernels. However the one thing that caught me by surprise was Mutt stopped seeing new mail in folders other than $MBOX. After checking that I was receiving email fine, my attention turned […]

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As sexy as they are, Macbook Airs are nothin’ but trouble!

Steve Jobs Made Me Miss My Flight – “I’m standing, watching my laptop on the table, listening to security clucking just behind me. “There’s no drive,” one says. “And no ports on the back. It has a couple of lines where the drive should be,” she continues.” Gone, Without a Trace – “As humiliating as […]

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It must be a bad day to be in the hosting business…

Dreamhost – “Due to a typing error on our primary router while trying to block a denial of service attack, DreamHost is currently offline.” Out of band access anyone? Nearly Free Speech – It will probably have changed shortly but right now it reads “Our master MySQL server has blown more drives, and this is […]

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Links of the Day: Mar 09, 2008

More reading on the Youtube hijacking, this analysis from the RIPE project. Photo gallery of a high density Internet Exchange in LA. Commentary on the credit crunch. I’ve always been surprised that it’s the executives who get the million dollar bonuses when times are good and the million dollar kiss off when times are bad. […]

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Links of the Day: Feb 29, 2008

It was posted a few days ago, but this article on incron was interesting. Rather than run a script every so often to check for new files to be processed, this hooks into the kernel and triggers a script when a file handle event occurs. Even my Mum mentioned the “Me-Tube” [sic] incident. Renesys blog […]

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Links of the Day: Feb 21, 2008

Not sure why but I searched for my name in Google. Fairly common name so it wasn’t till about page 7 that this showed up. So I poked around a bit on the SFS site and found some more photos of us. Kuro5hin article barracking for more modularisation and sharing between software projects. Apple stops […]

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Corner cases make me a sad panda

At $work[0] we’ve had issues with a server that has a Nvidia SATA controller. The errors look a little something like: ata2.00: cmd 60/08:78:3f:8f:3b/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 15 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2.00: cmd 61/00:80:66:32:77/01:00:00:00:00/40 tag 16 cdb 0x0 data 131072 out res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting port […]

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Links of the Day: Feb 19, 2008

I’m a Sony Ericcsson fanboi. Despite wanting a “smart phone” the P1 was totally underwhelming, so I upgraded to a k850i. Just in time for them to release the g900. Sigh. “It’s a doggone chart buster – a song audible only to dogs has topped New Zealand record charts, and is looking to go global.” […]

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Internet “news” and those cable cuts.

I’ve followed with interest the cable cuts in the Med and Middle East that have seen rumour layered upon rumour and every armchair commentator lathered in to a frenzy with conspiracy theories. There has been excellent coverage at the Renesys blog (Parts 1, 2, 3, quash Iran rumours, 4, summary) and Data Centre Knowledge has […]

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Links of the Day: Feb 18, 2008

Data Centre Knowledge reports on Speed Cabling and links to another story and the official site. Crimping tools at 20 paces. What will they think of next?!? Stilgherrian links to a story at El Reg on the cable cut rumours. Speaking of the cable cuts, the Beebs has a nice article covering all the basics […]

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