I’ve been using the speed camera database at Pocket GPS World with my satnav system for a while now. With the necessary tools installed on my PC it would automatically pull the latest data and install it on my PDA. Fantastic system, and no hassle at all to keep updated. When doing an update today I thought to check the …
After yesterdays saga I was looking forward to an easier day today, but I didn’t get it. At the end of my last post I was trying to disable the primary controller in the array. It took a while, but it didn’t help. However, after some more discussion with Paul at Sun we noticed a lot of errors for the …
We have a fairly long standing hatred of the Sun T3 storage arrays, and last night they once again proved why we feel that way. At around 7pm last night I noticed a lot of SCSI errors on myrtle (our staff and research Solaris server) which I quickly tracked down to a problem with one of the attached T3 arrays. I was …
Yesterday my car went in for it’s first yearly service at Invicta Motors in Canterbury. All in all not a bad experience; they gave me a discount for being a valued customer, cleaned the car for me (inside and out!), and had it waiting by the door when I got there. They even fixed the mudflap clip I managed to …
A few days ago my car insurance renewal quote came through from Ford Insure. I’d already done some online quotes to get an idea what I would be expecting to pay, so I was quite surprised to see the Ford quote come in at 50% more then the majority of the other quotes. Even when I queried this with them …
It seems I’ve never got enough time these days. I’m a FreeBSD ports committer, but recently I’ve hardly done anything. All I’ve managed to do is keep my own ports updated. It’s quite frustrating because I want to be more involved. Then there’s the other projects like libstatgrab, they don’t even get a look in. I blame the “day job”; …
On Thursday I arrived back from Cornwall after a fairly lengthy drive, and to get back in to the swing of things I dived right in to the deep end at work. This weekend there was a complete power shutdown on the campus for some “essential electrical work”. This required us to shut down all our machines, wait a few …
I finally decided to put an end to comment spam – I’ve installed a captcha. Whilst I was away on holiday I received around 3-5 spams a day, so rather than just deleting them I figured I needed to prevent them. The wordpress docs are a really useful resource. I decided to go with SecureImage since it looked fairly good, …
In an attempt to allow my mind to rest from work-related matters I’m heading off to Cornwall for a couple of weeks. I’ll be back for the Easter weekend when I’ll be shutting down all our systems at work for a campus-wide power shutdown.
Not that long ago I questioned how long it would be until I got comment spam on this blog. It didn’t take long for that to be answered; over the past day or two I’ve had 3 of them. Admittedly that’s not too many, but given this blog has only been running for two weeks that’s a pretty depressing start. …