Posted by David Morton
Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:19:00 GMT
I just found out that Novell discontinued support for the Suse 9.x line of Linux servers, and as such has not provided any update patch for the upcoming Daylight Savings Time change.
As such, several servers that I installed Maia on over the last few years will not update their time correctly. Other than showing an incorrect time in the Maia interface and an incorrect time in the logs, I do not expect any serious problems.
At this point, due to this and the recent deal Novell made with Suse, I am no longer willing to support Novell. I plan to start upgrading systems to Ubuntu wherever possible.
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Posted by Tim Morton
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:02:00 GMT
I came across a church’s “philosophy of music” page when an acquaintance of mine (a former member of that church) handed a printout of this page to my wife. Since we have recently had a rather painful parting of ways with our church of over 20 years, I found this to be of particular interest to me.
I wrote a response to the minister of music (never sent it, but rather posted it here)
(click read more for the whole thing)
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Posted by David Morton
Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:47:00 GMT
A common command I use in system administration is
tail -f *
This views multiple files and reports changes… it lets me watch the logfiles of several programs at once. I’ve been using this for as long as I can remember on Linux, certainly back in 1997 at least.
On bsd systems, including the new OS X, I get this:
tail -f *
tail: -f option only appropriate for a single file
The typical argument is that they are conservative with features, and thus have less bugs. In my opinion though, software that doesn’t do what I expect from almost 10 years of use… is buggy.
It’s also similar to a situation developing in the table saw business. A new “feature” available in table saws can cause the saw to retract suddenly when a finger makes contact with the blade. The table saw industry is fighting, claming possible liability if it doesn’t work as well as it claims.
Hmm, the new feature might save a hand. Is it worth it to include this feature, even if it might not be perfect? I’d prefer to have it myself; and it starts to make saws that don’t include it look dangerous and “buggy”.
Let’s worry about bugs when needed, but please, make my tools work like I expect.
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