50 years ago my late father spent most of 1962 and 1963 in Paris as part of his obligation to the United Stated government (drafted into the army). I spent about a week scanning in almost 500 slides from his time in France, which are part of a larger collection of over 1,500 images. Here…
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Mini photo shoot
Jim asked me to take some photos of a corner of his Lego layout before he needed to dismantle it (to make room for a new modular building). Since he had to shift a few existing buildings for the photos he wanted, I used the…
2001: Discovery One
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…
mongrel based puppetmaster and strange error messages
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[/var/puppet/lib]: Failed to generate additional…
DualHead2Go
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…
Puppet’s Exec type is lying
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 restart…