Monthly Archives: September 2014

Oops, and where is the damb console command code

Posted on September 29, 2014 by mark

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 →

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Another router died.

Posted on September 19, 2014 by mark

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 →

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Compressing qcow2 images – important tip

Posted on September 11, 2014 by mark

This probably applies to normal ext4 filesystems as well as LVM ones. This post is because I deleted 60Gb of data from a qcow2 disk, and when I did a compress only got the disk image to shrink about 5Gb. … Continue reading →

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DevStack again, Hmmm, keep off real metal

Posted on September 10, 2014 by mark

I wanted to play some more with openstack. My existing environment was an Ubuntu VM running DevStack, so instances started under OpenStack were effectively VMs running inside VMs. When an OpemStack VM started it resoponded OK but it could take … Continue reading →

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Yippee, more comics

Posted on September 10, 2014 by mark

Popped into the second hand book store in Petone today as I saw a Scrooge McDuck comic in a tray near the front. They had 17 Walt Disney (Donald Duck/Scrooge McDuck/Mickey Mouse/Beagle Boys etc) comics that had been sold to … Continue reading →

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