Author Archives: mark
My birthday, actually purchased something
As a general rule in past years my birthday has just been another boring day. My only purpose in the last few years has been stuffing money away into a account for someone I care about that doesn’t want anything … Continue reading
Installing the DevStack release of OpenStack on F21
Losely based upon the single machine setup page at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/guides/single-machine.html. This is the additional steps you really should do if you want to use it. It assumes you already have a host system configured for running VMs, with a bridged … Continue reading
Wings Over Wiarapa 2015
Bad weather in WN, metservice website said sunny in Masterton so decided to go to Castlepoint for a swim. Never got there, in Mastertom there was a sign pointing to the airshow, heck it only happens once every two years … Continue reading
Fedora 21 – My upgrade notes and issues
Backups were a pain, clonezille kept reporting bitsum errors backing up the home filesystem of my Dev server, filesystem checks found no errors. So downloaded the latest release of clonezilla and burnt it to a DVD. It failed to boot … Continue reading
mvs3.8j and using smp4 to locate where a OS module is used
In trying to make modifications to some of the supplied operating code I was finding it quite frustrating going through the source code trying to guess which FMID I needed to apply module changes to. In many cases I was … Continue reading
Fletcher is learning how to use a computer
Actually, as he sleeps on my lap when I’m working he has always managed during the odd yawn/stretch episode to manipulate the keyboard. Most of the time he intuitively manages to use the keyboard before I can save the work … Continue reading
Created an OpenStack image for mvs3.8j
Of interest to mvs3.8j hobbiests, probably not unless they want to run it on an OpenStack cloud; which they would probably need to be running at home as rackspace does not allow custom images installed. Ok, to be truthful it … Continue reading
An update on the previous post
My intent is to create new console display commands. As MVS3.8J predates the ability to define new commands in the mpflist (actually it predates the mpflist the only option is to modify the appropriate source files for the operating system. … Continue reading
Oops, and where is the damb console command code
In the MVS3.8J section; if you don’t play with that move along. The Oops was the number macro library I posted on the website in the mvs38j section yesterday was buggy; the main issue was there was a character 2 … Continue reading
Another router died.
Well you may have noticed the website was down for a few days. Another router died. As the cisco branded router had decided to become a brick I grabbed a cheap DLINK DSL-2750B; the first I could get my hands … Continue reading