The Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey was the most ambitious and complicated model I have ever undertaken. The model has 3,861 pieces and is over 6 feet in length. I wanted to do something to celebrate both the best movie ever and the history LEGO has with outer space. Instructions I found...
Earlier this week I did a portsupgrade(8) on my FreeBSD puppetmaster. After the upgrade was completed, puppet stopped working and was displaying these errors: err: /File: Failed to generate additional resources using ‘eval_generate’: No format match the given format name or mime-type (text/html) err:...
The DualHead2Go is a graphics expansion box from Matrox. What does it do? It allows someone to have dual (or triple) monitors attached to a laptop. It does this by mapping the monitors to look like one large monitor to the laptop. When running...
Using puppet, you can trigger a command after a file is updated. This works really well where I want to update the sendmail.mc file, run make sendmail.cf and then...
I continued to research what sets I had growing up as a kid. The LL924 labeled blue 1 x 4 brick was the piece that was unique to the...
This past weekend, I wound up rebuilding the ZFS filesystem on my FreeBSD box. I went from a 2+1 RaidZ (5) system to a 4+1 and in the process...