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Category Archives: Computing
2 years of the iMac
After 2 years of using the iMac, what do I think of it? Hardware After 2 years I’m really quite happy with the Mac. Hardware-wise, the Mac itself has been fine. The only negatives are that there is a speck … Continue reading
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Installing OpenNMS on FreeBSD
OpenNMS a network monitoring system,and is in some ways a competitor to Nagios. Having been a Nagios user for a while now, I was intrigued to see the alternatives were like. I last tried installing OpenNMS many years ago, and … Continue reading
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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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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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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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6 months of the iMac
It’s now 6 months since I got my iMac. So what do I think of it? The most important fact is that nothing major has gone wrong (yet, as if that’s not tempting fate). I still occassionally get my ” … Continue reading
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Leopard Impressions
Once I'd got my iMac I unboxed it and set it up. If you've ever unboxed an Apple product before, you'll know that the box is a neat, clean design, and the product itself comes covered in plastic. Setup took about … Continue reading
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iMac and Leopard
Once upon a time, earlier this year, my PC broke. At the time I commented that I'd like an Apple iMac. After months without a usable PC of my own, I decided I could justify a purchase. The problem with … Continue reading
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