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Author Archives: hmallett
Talk about responsive…
I’ve been using Nagios for a while to monitor several servers. When I set it up, one of the things I left until later was monitoring PostgreSQL databases, as it requires a plugin, and I wasn’t sure which plugins to … Continue reading
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FreeBSD 7.2 dmesg on the Dell PowerEdge R300
While looking at the stats for this site, I noticed that plenty of people seems to be searching for information on running FreeBSD on the Dell PowerEdge R300. All I can tell you is that since FreeBSD 7.1 it works … Continue reading
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The Whitchurch Branch
The Whitchurch Branch of the Ellesmere Canal ran close to Whitchurch town centre. Today only a short section remains, used mainly for moorings. The overlay below was based on information gained from the 1902 Ordnance Survey map. Because there are … Continue reading
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The Prees Branch
The Prees Branch on the Llangollen Canal is today a short branch that leads to Whixhall Marina. It was originally longer, reaching Quina Brook, though like many canal schemes it didn’t reach its original goal of Prees. The bridge names … Continue reading
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The Woodhouse diversion
The Montgomery Canal has a long straight section, just south of the Perry aqueduct. It then heads towards Rednal Basin. It wasn’t always this way though. When the canal was originally under construction one of the members of the original … Continue reading
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No-one mentions the Weston Arm…
The Weston Arm of the Montgomery Canal ran from Welsh Frankton to Weston Lullingfields, and was built as part of the Ellesmere Canal. It was originally going to be the main line, taking traffic from the River Mersey at (what … Continue reading
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My First UAC Encounter
I’ve been lucky enough to stay away from Windows Vista, having moved to the Mac at home. I’ve had several chances to play with Windows Vista, but I still prefer the look and feel of Windows XP. A friend who … Continue reading
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Installing FreeBSD 7.0 on the Dell PowerEdge R300
The Dell PowerEdge R300has a Broadcom 5722 network card, which isn’t supported by the latest release of FreeBSD (7.0). Patches for the Broadcom 5722 are in the development versions of FreeBSD, but in order to get the development versions, it’s … Continue reading
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What makes banana chips healthy?
Seen on BBC Breakfast this morning in an interview about the government’s 5-a-day campaign: Q: “What’s in banana chips that makes them healthy?”A: “Banana”
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A replicated filesystem proposal for FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a favourite operating system of mine. I’ve been using it for several years, starting with 5.0. One of the things that was new with 5.0 was GEOM – a disk infrastructure which is more flexible than the previous … Continue reading
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