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Pics from this year’s Barkus parade are up. Barkus is a parade just for dogs benefitting the Louisiana SPCA. There are 1500 dogs in the parade. It is enormous and great fun. We had beautiful weather and enjoyed dressing up as Elvis and his Memphis Mafia to complent the parade’s “TailHouse Rock” theme.

Well, if for no other reason, everyone else is blogging (I really hate that term, actually). Actually I really needed a home for some documentation notes for myself. I’ve always kept little README files around noting changes I’ve made and things I discovered but it’s really better to have them in one place like this. […]

“I find your lack of clue disturbing” (Think Darth Vader in the first Star Wars)

I’ve recently done several remote upgrades of FreeBSD and wanted to note the procedure since it differs a bit from the handbook procedure for doing so. Still, you must review and understand the details of the procedure here I use cvsup to get my copy of the stable source. Used /etc/standard-supfile provided with cvsup to […]

Recently at work I needed a way to quickly recover systems from bare metal to a known-good state. These were, of course, Windows2000 boxes. Now there are several commercial solutions to “ghost” a system, but I didn’t have funds available to do that. Enter knoppix. Knoppix is a bootable CDROM distribution of Linux. It has […]

So you have just one IP address and a bunch of machines behind NAT. You’ve got port redirection working so your interal webserver behind the firewall is serving pages. But now you’ve got a second box that you need to host content on. Perhaps you have need to have a separate webserver running mod_perl and […]

To debug a script try running “sh -v scriptname” To see commands and comments as the script runs or “sh -x scriptname” To see the commands only. Thanks to J. Kent Busbee on the nolug mailing list for this quickie.