Trond's place

Having access to “Azure Dev Tools for Teaching” (formerly known as MS Imagine, MS DreamSpark, and MSDN Academic Alliance) for training and experimentation has its perks, but I miss the ability to show certain desktop icons without activating Windows 10 an…

I’m in the process of figuring out if Bareos can replace AMANDA in my shop.

I’m waiting for my copy of “Cisco Digital Network Architecture: Intent-based Networking for the Enterprise (Networking Technology)” to arrive.

I tried XCP-ng in a lab today.

The discussion on whether FreeBSD should eventually replace C with Rust, produced a link to “Safe Kernel Programming with Rust“, a degree project in computer science and engineering, written by Johannes Lundberg while at KTH in Sweden.

Det er mye rart man skal se blant mottatte eposter.

Nå har svindlerne tatt seg bryet med å oversette pjattet sitt til norsk.

The Clock app on my Sony Xperia Z5 running Android 7.1.1 crashed every time I tried using the stopwatch or the countdown timer.

Be sure to change SATA Operation from RAID to AHCI in the BIOS Settings before running Symantec Ghost from a memory stick.

This is all so cute.

I upgraded base from 12.0-ALPHA9 to 13.0-CURRENT (r339639) on a VM today.

I spent the better part of the weekend upgrading my laptop to 12.0-BETA1.

After upgrading to stable/11, r339418, incorporating the recent commits for cxgbe(4) et al.

r339034 introduced some improvement in stable/11 when ZFS performs scans, e.g. scrubbing.

I used my active HDMI adapter the other day to show the display of my phone to some students.

I ran four tests yesterday using iperf3.

After upgrading to a recent base/stable/11, I noticed ifconfig -m now displays two more bits: TOE4 and TOE6 appear in the capabilities word, but not in the options word.

Today I got error 1603 while installing Autodesk Revit 2019 on a student’s laptop.

I finally got my two Chelsio SM10G-SR SFP+ optical modules.

Boot messages for stable/11: The firmware was in need of an upgrade.

I recently ordered a Chelsio T6225-CR network interface card and a couple of SM25G-SR SFP28 optical modules.

I have a couple of Novell NetWare 6.5 SP8 servers that simply refuse to die.

Update 2018-05-29T19:27+0200 synth 2.05 was released not long ago.

I needed to migrate an UFS filesystem from one disk to another.

I need to remind myself of running the IPP webpage in compatiblity mode in IE11 when installing printers.

NBAR2 on Sup8E can assist in blocking BitTorrent.

Sometimes security is on the border of being ridiculous.

If technologists do not speak up to educate policymakers, bad policy will result, and we will have to live with it.

r331464 added efi_max_resolution.

This is what a kernel panic may look like when facing memory corruption.

It’s winter break, giving me time to bring systems down for their much needed maintenance.

While trying to log in on our Novell servers using Client for OES 2 SP4 IR7a on Windows 10 1709, I was greeted with: A required network service has not started.

I’m experimenting further with ports-mgmt/synth.

r460621 added flavours to editors/emacs.

Those who decide about the software to use won’t be the ones who have to use that software. — Polytropon, 2018-01-22.

The official documentation on Cisco IOS XE for Catalyst 4500E claims this is the syntax for specifying IPv6 RDNSS and DNSSL: Switch(config)# interface Te1/1 Switch(config‑if)# ipv6 nd ra dns server 4::4 Switch(config‑if)# ipv6 nd ra dns search list aaa.cc…

Error 0x800F081F while installing .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 10 might be due to corporate WSUS servers not allowing such updates.

I keep Star Trek Online installed in two separate directories.

I spun up a virtual machine yesterday with the intent of learning how to use ports-mgmt/synth.

I woke up this morning only to be greeted by: As per /usr/ports/UPDATING, the solution is: Take note of the North-American spelling.

perfSONAR 4.0.2 is out.

Upgrading from dns/bind910 to dns/bind911 isn’t particularly difficult.

If you can’t edit formulas with MathType and you receive a cryptic error message: Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges In Norwegian this becomes: Word kan ikke åpne dokumentet.

Update 2017-11-13 r325743 corrected the mistakes.

Markedsavdelinger er kjekke saker.

The channel goes online November 25th, 2008.

I finally throwed in the towel.

I have been playing with perfSONAR 4.0.1 on CentOS 7, using the FullInstall iso image.

One or more of the recent updates for Windows 10 rendered my laptop incapable of communicating with the outside world.

I downloaded a new version of NASA’s Eyes from https://eyes.nasa.gov/.