Author Archives: mark
Children running around in bare feet, or myself
Ok, I don’t have any children. But I was one once. And I still run around the house in bare feet. I was reminded yesterday of something any child could have told me however. Namely that if you run around … Continue reading
Went to the Armageddon Expo
Amazing the number of beautifull young women wearing really revealing costumes that are happy to pose for photographs. And of course those in good costumes that are not revealing are happy to pose as well so had to take some … Continue reading
Bacula Windows Client Notes, and a synergy observation
Bacula Windows Client Hmm, apparently the bacula windows client is no longer provided for free. Fortunately the latest versions of the opensource (and free) windows client of sourceforge are still compatible with the latest linux bacula-director. Installing it was a … Continue reading
Well at least I got to say good bye
That was needed, and thats the end of that. The day didn’t get much better. Got the root canal completed which was good. Driving home, they had closed state highway one, somebody had crashed. Eventually the opened it again. Stopped … Continue reading
Blasted power companies, and useless power surge boards
Power cables in WN should be buried; not left to blow in the wind. Power surges on saturday causing all my servers to reboot. And a complete power outage for almost 2hrs on sunday night. The complete power outage caused … Continue reading
Never believe what you read in the newspapers
Yesterday the stuff.co.nz website said there would be up to 140Kph winds today, and tomorrow even a chance of snow overnight on the rimutakas making them possible impassible. Even the metservice site indicated today and tomorrow would be windy. I … Continue reading
Openshift looks more interesting
VM disk image for openshift-origin3 finally downloaded. Converted the supplied vmdk disk image to raw as the doco suggested (40Gb). Then converted it to qcow2 (less than 6Gb now) as I didn’t have 40Gb free on my test VM host … Continue reading
Openshift looks interesting
Looking at PaaS. Passed on CloudFoundry as I do not want to install Ruby which seems to be needed to use that. So I am looking at OpenShift Origin instead. That works better for me as it’s Redhat oriented and … Continue reading
Week in review, at home anyway
Got the Snort IDS running on this webserver. Also wrote a quick nagios plugin script to monitor it for me Also later installed snort onto my main VM host; theoretically alerts reported by my webserver guest instance should not reach … Continue reading
Wellington Food Show 2014
Went to the food show at wellington westpac stadium. Went there on the last day and early to avoid the crowds. No such luck, it was already crowded by the time I got there. Impassible crowds at most of the … Continue reading