Comments for A Blog by Tim Bishop

Comment on Using FreeBSD’s Tinderbox as a package builder by Michael Scheidell

Michael Scheidell — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:29:45 +0000

Brilliant. Thomas Abthorpe set up a semi-public tinderbox for use of several ports committers, and I am in the process of trying to use it to streamline the commercial production of two of our product lines.

Still working out the kinks, but brilliant.

Comment on Maildirarc – a Maildir archiving tool by Tim Bishop

Tim Bishop — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:18:41 +0000

Hi Alf,

Yes, that’s the intended behaviour. To add a message to an mbox file it requires the sender’s email address. That error is saying it can’t find one because the message is oddly formatted so it can’t put it in the mbox file.

If it’s happening a lot there might be something odd going on with Maildirarc. But if it’s just a one-off then it could be a spam message that’s messed up – I had a few of them when I did my test runs.

Tim.

Comment on Automating tarsnap backups by Pig Monkey

Pig Monkey — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:43:42 +0000

Nice shell script!

I found your post this morning when searching for ways to automate Tarsnap. It inspired me to write my own script, which does something sorta-kinda similar, but deletes old archives based on age. And it’s written in Python, because my shell-fu is weak.

https://github.com/pigmonkey/backups/blob/master/tarsnapper.py

Comment on Maildirarc – a Maildir archiving tool by Antonio Ferreira

Antonio Ferreira — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:46:22 +0000

I was trying to use your script to make maildir tombox conversion and I found that when you get the message

Can’t find or parse Return-path, From, Sender or Reply-To headers

it can happen that mails may not be properly copied to the mbox file Have you noticed that?

Thanks!

ALF

Comment on Eduroam on FreeBSD by rmd

rmd — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:00:30 +0000

Hi,
anyway, thanks for dokumenting, works great for me on PC-BSD around german
universities and saved hourse of testing around.

Comment on Statutory Credit Reports by baldmosher

baldmosher — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:42:14 +0000

CallCredit now allows you to order your statutory report online.

Comment on “I’ll build a new server; it’s got to be easier than patching up the old one…” by Ricardo

Ricardo — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:53:46 +0000

Hi Tim Bishop, thanks for answer.

Well, I just see the differencce on benchmarks,especially in random jobs ( HD tune). The only major difference that I see on real life is an crysis installation (may be it’s a mix IO that 3ware claims the best performance in intelligent mode)
With basic read: 02:10m installation time
With Intelligent: 01:56m

Although, on every windows usage, some times the lack latency of intelligent mode is visible

Comment on “I’ll build a new server; it’s got to be easier than patching up the old one…” by Tim Bishop

Tim Bishop — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:33:04 +0000

Hi Ricardo. I have no experience of using it under Windows. Just use whichever works best for you – if you can’t see a difference it probably doesn’t matter which.

Comment on “I’ll build a new server; it’s got to be easier than patching up the old one…” by Ricardo

Ricardo — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:41:11 +0000

Good night at everybody.
I’m using a 3ware 9690SA-8i too with 2x Corsair F120 SSD in Raid 0, running fine but not at the full performance because this controller is not made for SSD’s. Although, it doesn’t run very well with single OCZ vertex turbo, ok don’t matter,I’m not worry about this.
Just for Corsair F120, Tim Bishop what specs you recommend for windows user under 3ware 9690? I’m using BBU + Storsave profile in balanced mode(that makes a big rule on smooth and performance), but I can’t decide for Basic read cache or Intelligent…it’s very difficult to see the difference between both…
Thanks for everything,
Regards from Ricardo, Portugal

Comment on Questions about the Fidelity MoneyBuilder UK Index Fund (MT) by Del

Del — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:47:45 +0000

I just found this via Google when asking the same question you asked in point 1: how do dividends get reinvested? I’m still missing something!

Suppose the dividend for a year is 5%. That 5% is reinvested into the fund. If, as you say, your existing units go up in value, how does that affect the tracker? The value of the FTSE has stayed the same, but now the fund is up by 5%. That would leave a tracking error wouldn’t it? Clearly, this isn’t actually what happens!

I’m still trying to work this out. Any further explanation would be appreciated!