Category Archives: Home Life

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

They expected it to take four hours to fix as they had identified the blockage issue was over 1.5 meters under the grass. But they saved time by bringing a digger. Had it all fixed in around four hours. Which … Continue reading →

Was going to go to Carterton to make sure I can find the park the ballons launch from on Friday. But google maps showed me it’s off the main road so didn’t bother; besides going through featherston too often might … Continue reading →

I have absolutely no real use for a 3G portable wireless network router. So I went out and got one. A vodaphone pre-pay wifi router, just a smallish one that only allows five connections, even though I only need one … Continue reading →

* LUKS encrypted the external portable disk I carry around in the laptop bag * Updated my laptop to all the latest patches (linux and win7 partitions) * Updated my kickstart and VM servers to the latest patches * Updated … Continue reading →