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SLES 9, old hardware

by | Jul 4, 2005 | Linux, Uncategorized

I rebuilt a NetWare 6.5 server at home this weekend; replacing it with SLES 9.

What should have been an hour or so turned into a fun half-day – the CD-ROM on the server was flaky; SLES 9 CD1 booted; every other CD turned into just unreadable errors.

In the end I installed over ftp from another server – I should have done this much much earlier – I keep a server just for this purpose (AutoYaST, ZENworks Imaging etc).

In the end I was very pleased with another over-the-wire installation; it’s been a few months since I last had to do this; and this time for a ‘real’ server of my own.

Hoax or just sad?

by | Jul 2, 2005 | Uncategorized, Utah

I saw this on The Register this morning. The local interest (Utah woman gets $15k for tattoo on face) angle was interesting – but I thought “no one could be that crazy”.

The local Deseret News ran the story – and it all seems genuine enough.

Hunting around – and it looks like it may be a fake:

“However, the lack of blood or bloody tissue, redness or swelling … makes me still seriously doubt this is real.”

Logo – a new channel on satellite

by | Jul 1, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

A new channel appeared in the last week or so – Logo – and I’m sure there will be complaints from the locals. We quite like it 😉

WELCOME TO LOGO!

For the first time ever, Gay America has a home on television where we can go to see ourselves. On LOGO you will see more than 200 lesbian and gay films, an ongoing documentary series, newscasts tailored for a gay and lesbian audience and quality original shows and specials. Programming that reflects our lives. Programming that tells our stories.

Old, old personal web site

by | Jun 30, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I was talking to a friend about posting to the web – and I mentioned that I’d had a personal website since about 1993. The challenge was to see if it was still hosted.

Google is my friend. I found one of my old websites – and it’s not been touched in over nine years. I’m wgetting it now to host at home. (Unlikely it’s going to go away soon – it’s been static for nine years!)

Way back in the distant past (1990) I had access to the ‘internet’ from a VMS host at university; telnet, VMSmail, lynx – all good stuff.

Just after – around 1991 – I also got a CompuServe account – mainly for access to the Novell technical forums and patches.

When I could afford a ‘better’ workstation (386dx33, 32MB RAM, 40MB HDD, Windows 3.11!) in around 1993 I finally moved to a ‘real’ dialup PPP account using Almac in Scotland. That’s when I first had personal webspace. A whole couple of meg online.

Finally I moved to UUNet/Pipex and used that service for around five years.

Now I host at home with a dedicated line and fixed IP.

It’s incredible how times have changed.

ZLM 7 mirror – zlmmirror – how to

by | Jun 28, 2005 | Linux, Uncategorized, ZENworks

Here are some examples of ZLM 7 ZLMmirror configurations – fresh from cvs.

There are several key changes to mirroring from ZENworks 6.x Linux Management or Red Carpet Enterprise:

– a single configuration file for all mirror services
– configuration file is now an XML document rather than a conf file

Examples will be given for mirroring from RCE/ZLM 6.x (such as update.novell.com), YaST Online Update, Red Hat Network and finally ZLM 7 upstream services.

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Bleak portrait photos

by | Jun 22, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I did an interview for a trade magazine a week or so ago – not an uncommon occurance; this week they are going to press and they called Rod, our PR guy, and asked for a photo to run with the article.

Hmm.

I was at Alan’s place tonight – and he’s a dab hand with the camera – so we did a couple of serious looking photos. Then really made them bleak with PhotoShop.

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