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At work I’ve got a situation where I want to store a load of files in a central location, and then scatter links accross the rest of the file system (for reasons best not explained here).  The file system will be picked up and moved at some point, and indeed everybody accesses this file system through different addresses, so a relative link is exactly what I wanted. 
Under UNIX, I’d do something like this: Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, it would appear I’m becoming a little more Web 2.0 compliant…I now use RSS and Google Reader.  For years I couldn’t understand why you would want RSS, I had bookmarks and could click on them and look at the site myself, but there’s something about having everything in one place which is very nice. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve finally managed to get my blog to update twitter for me

Now you can follow me on twitter, clicky

How cool is that!?

After a long and hectic weekend, Monday arrived.  This Monday is special, because it is my last day working at Sun Microsystems

I woke up early and left the house at 7:30, walked to Tesco and bought some Krispy Kreme donuts   I waited for the bus, hopping on at Blackwater station, I met Ali at Camberley as he jumped on the bus.

I had packed my badge away over the weekend by accident, so I had to go to reception and pick up a general badge.  The detour didn’t bother me too much, it meant I could go to goods-in and give them a box of chocolates, thanking them for handling personal mail over the course of the year. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m on earlies this week!

Monday I came in after only having two hours of sleep and being scared by a milk float which came down the road at 3:20am! I picked up a load of tickets and started work on the most urgent ones, namely a ticket to insert some cards into a v480, reattaching some storage to the network, and battling with the 25K to net boot. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, I’m setting into my new hosting well, I’ve been playing with the Wordpress plugins over the last few days and I’m pretty happy with the results.

I’ve installed Akismet, the SPAM filter for posts, stats, ’share this’ tiles (at the bottom of the post) and I’ve hooked it up to twitter! Who’d have thought it!? Follow me now for updates on when I post! Also, browse here on your iPhone or other mobile device, and get my blog served to you in a freindly, mobile format!

I’m still fiddling, if I break stuff, I’m sorry, just giggle to yourself when things go wrong

Summarising events this week:

Monday I got back into work and spent some more time on the KVM that wasn’t playing ball, it still isn’t now

Tuesday I had an 880 in the 02 lab which needed a new board, so that was replaced in the afternoon.

Wednesday I hooked a T1000 and an x4240 together.

Thursday I was looking at the 25k downstairs, trying to get a domain to work.

Friday I had a play with a machine and some ZFS stuff, I’m trying to figure out how I can upgrade my mirror to have two 1TB hard drives in as apposed to the two 500GB drives I have at the moment (I’m down to 100GB space left!)  I also looked at adding some storage to a machine in the lab.

Well, we’ve been waiting, what, about two years for this now.  Today, Apple released Java 6 as part of it’s Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4.

The support docs (found here) say that in this 158MB update we get:

• Java SE 6 (x64 only)
• J2SE 5.0 (PPC & x64)
• J2SE 1.4.2(PPC & x64)
• 64-bit Java for Intel Macs only

Upgrade today as I’m sure many developers will be wanting to update their code as part of a long awaited refactoring!

Well, the weekend didn’t go well…The console server didn’t get upgraded as a package caused errors in the new BE…That was most of Saturday wasted…

Monday morning was spent turning everything back on after the weekend, it was a shame as I was hoping for the lab to be silent, but the AC was already on…

Tuesday and Wednesday was spent ironing out issues to do with the lab power cycle.

Thursday I looked at a borked KVM more, it doesn’t seem to be broadcasting anything on IPv4 or IPv6…I also fixed an intrusion switch that someone had broken…

Friday I went home early to catch the train back to Melksham for my sisters birthday.

Monday begins after a sleepless night, it’s so bloody warm here…I spent the morning looking at our console server, remember I was going to upgrade it? After all the preliminary work I was really afraid to touch the real thing for fear of breaking it…Well I fixed a couple of problems with it and went ahead, re-labeling disks and creating volumes and mirrors using SVM. In the afternoon I looked at it a bit more and kicked off the copying of the boot environment (BE).

Tuesday I got in a looked at the console server, my ssh session had dropped…The new BE is currently in a bad state, so I can’t delete it, or overwrite it…I’ll need to see what I can do about that…
We also moved a load of stuff out of the overflow lab, and into the bin/cupboard/main lab…It was all because we were moving the SL700 to the end of the lab. I spent the afternoon cursing the warm weather and cleaning up the mess I made on the console server…

Wednesday was slow moving, warm are irritable.

Thursday I inserted a SCSI card into an ultra 20 among other bits and bobs.

Friday was spent turning off all the machines in the lab as electrical work was taking place over the weekend. Seeing as the work was going on, the weekend was an opportune time to work on the console server without interrupting anyone.