Monthly Archives: March 2009

My blog, here in 1969!

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Ben Lavery

As you can see from the image (below), I have the stats for my blog on Thursday, 1st January 1970!  I also have stats for ‘yesterday’ presumably meaning Wednesday, 31st December 1969! Obviously those of you that are more observant, … Continue reading →

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rm -rf tragedy

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Ben Lavery

It happened a couple of weeks ago now.  I plugged in my external hard drive “POCKET” and OpenSolaris mounted it under /media/POCKET.  I was going to copy my films and TV series over to POCKET as I was travelling up … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Thirtyeight

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Monday I was back in the office, Steve was out coming home from a weekend in Aber and James had started a week of touring the UK. I picked up a few tickets and knuckled down to get them done. … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Thirty Seven

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Ben Lavery

This week was brilliant! I was on a training course: Solaris Internals. It was great for two reasons, firstly because I missed the French lab moving over to our lab (although now I wish I had been there), and secondly, … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Thirtysix

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Monday started rather differently to usual. we had our lab staff meeting at 10am so we could include the APAC lab manager on the call, he had some interesting things to tell us about collecting statistics about how the lab … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Thirtyfive

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Well, this week really wasn’t very special. I assigned some new IP’s to a couple of machines. Evaluated quite a few bugs which were all accepted to be fixed. The most exciting things I did included talking to a very … Continue reading →

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Intel Manager 3: Unseen Forces

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Ben Lavery

The Intel Manager game is on it’s third incarnation and brings a very different form of game play. I didn’t play the IMG2, but in the first version you bought more servers and upgraded network cards etc (choices from ‘no-name’ … Continue reading →

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Beleg-Iâ gets an upgrade

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Ben Lavery

It happened a couple of weeks ago now, I’ve upgraded the storage in beleg-iâ.  It now has 4x 500GB disks! I have them in two mirrors, one for the boot disk and one for data.

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DynDNS and my server

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Ben Lavery

I meant to blog this ages ago, and have only just remembered about it! I wanted a way for me to access my server when I wasn’t on the local network.  A friend pointed me to DynDNS, this will give … Continue reading →

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