http://shortbus.org/bloggin blog is so computer Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:33:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sun is an incredibly frustrating company. A number of the new features introduced in Solaris 10 are very excellent, but I find all the Solaris userland a huge shitpile compared to my familiar GNU tools. Furthermore, the documentation for the aforementioned excellent features is pretty lacking at times, meaning a ... http://shortbus.org/bloggin/2008/10/22/making-a-manifest-for-smf/ Recently I shot myself in the foot pretty bad. We have a ~12TB data array that was set up as a raw LVM2 device- no partition table. There were some issues with one of the cluster members, so I went to rescue boot to attempt to correct it. Redhat's rescue ... http://shortbus.org/bloggin/2008/09/29/dm-mapper-how-to-un-shoot-your-foot/ From man python on OS X 10.5 (and probably before): INTERACTIVE INPUT EDITING AND HISTORY SUBSTITUTION The Python inteterpreter supports editing of the current input line and history substitution, similar to facilities found in the Korn shell and ... http://shortbus.org/bloggin/2008/07/29/apples-dirty-little-python-secret/ I was going to write something here about my successes in integrating Apple wireless products into a pre-existing OpenWRT-based wireless network, but it seems I declared victory a bit too early. I can't get the thing to form a mesh network with my broadcom-based OpenWRT router. According to the Google, ... http://shortbus.org/bloggin/2008/01/21/mission-accomplished-oh-wait/ No way to deny my nerdiness now. http://shortbus.org/bloggin/2007/12/31/what-have-i-done/