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…
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 the sendmail process. This is exactly what I want, but…
Lego Space Sets
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 Space Cruiser set. I used the same technique to determine the…
Restoring ZFS filesystems on FreeBSD
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 increased the slice of each disk. After much trial and error,…
createrepo on FreeBSD
What is createrepo(8)? createrepo(8) is a python(1) script which reads the RPM metadata and creates XML files that yum(8) can use to determine what a RPM package provides, requires and may conflict with. To find out more details visit the…
487 Space Cruiser
There are two recent events that have rekindled my interest in LEGOs. The first was getting the Emerald Night set. The second was when news.cnet.com published photos from the LEGO Museum in Billund, Denmark. One of the photos they published…