Al's Ramblings

Running ComfyUI on Debian 13

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Getting ComfyUI running on Debian 13 with Python 3.13 and an older NVIDIA driver.

Subtlety of gearing

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

For some time now I have been running an 11-36T rear cassette on my road bike. That’s right 36T, not that common. Specific if you are interested it’s this Zitto cassete

Reason being I was after a little additional help on the hills. I’m a big bloke as a Doctor once told me I’m not built for running marathons. I’m more the front row of you local Rugby team

Installing Jekyll on CentOS 7

Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Having recently move to Jekyll as my blogging platform, I thought I would take a quick look at how easy it is to get going on Linux.

Installation on CentOS 7 is very straight forward. First add the EPEL repository for CentOS 7 as this is where you will find the nodejs rpm

sudo yum install http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/7/x86_64/epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm

Install the required packages, note npm is not required but handy to have around.

sudo yum install nodejs npm ruby ruby-devel rubygems git
gem install jekyll

Start using Jekyll.

Installing HHVM 3.2.0 on CentOS 6.5

Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

HHVM is a virtual machine for Hack and PHP it uses JIT to improve performance. Installation on a less than bleeding edge OS can prove a little challenging. What follows is what I did to get it up and going quickly for our developers in our CentOS 6.5 environment. It may work for you too.

Packages were sourced from two repo’s http://yum.gleez.com/ and http://remi.conetix.com.au/

Things boiled down to these 11 packages that were signed and added to our local yum repo:

Oracle Linux 7 released

Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Oracle Linux 7 was released this last week 2nd of RHEL directives to make a GA release, CentOS being the first and Scientific Linux still to come, currently in alpha.

No real surprises here, now comes with the UEK, 3.8.13-35.3.1.el7uek.x86_64, kernel as default. If you what to test it out and take it for a spin it’s pretty easy to using the my lunchbox set of packer templates files which have been updated to support OEL 7.0.

Life in the old blog

Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

So the old blog got a face lift, and when you do that the thing everyone does is to write a blog aticle about it. Well me too but it will be pretty short and not very detailed as there are loads of places that can cover thats better than me.

First stop was to move to my own domain name, get over to hover for that and setup www.resilvered.com to point to resilvered.blogger.com and have it server my new custom domain. Note I didn’t go for a .au domain becuase of price and the requirement of an ABN.

Podcasts I'm listening too

Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Running Ansible on Windows

Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Some times you just have to make do with what you have. So I considered this morning why is it as IT professional we are often told what tool we need to use to do our job. I mean does a carpenter get told what type of saw he need to use?

My tool of the trade is a Mac, not because I’m an Apple fan boy ,far from it, but as a functional computer it really does just work. Has access to the tools I need due to it’s Unix heritage, and provides and usable graphical interface for the less technical in the family.

Solaris Vagrant Packer and the base box

Sun, 16 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

If you haven’t used Vagrant then go check it out. It’s certainly come a long way since the early days and expanded beyond just VirtualBox. Targeted early at developers its certainly a tool that has different uses to different folk, as a system admin I find it handy to test and build SOE’s, deployment scripts and an assortment of sandbox stuff.

There are countless base box’s available on line if your are not inclined/interested in building your own. There is however not a lot of Solaris base boxes about , mostly I’d guess due to distribution restrictions, or lack of demand. I’ve experimented with veewee and bento but packer the new kid on the block seems to fit the bill. Since there is no shortage of info on building Linux base boxes I decided if I was going to kick the tires on packer then I’d make it useful and build a Solaris 11 base box.

Puppet 3 and Solaris 11 IPS

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

A recent post Solaris Packages for Puppet 3.0.0-rc7, Facter 1.6.0 and Hiera 1.0.0 on a puppet mailing list caught my eye.

While gems has a nifty little package management system of it’s own, it is possible be that your machines do not have direct access to the interent so having a local IPS repo is handy. I’ll demonstrate how to add these packages to you own repository. This assumes you have already setup your own local repo.

OEL Handsfree install for Oracle VM Manager part 2

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

So part one finished up with a Virtualbox VM , two blank disk and the OEL CD image in the virtual CD drive.

Fair warning I have taken some liberty with technical preciseness of handsfree, but it’s pretty close. If some knows how I can second commands to the guest from the host command line let me know, virt-install maybe.

So this is straight forward and I have covered some of these techniques in other posts like Kickstart for Solaris Admins or my even older Grub menu reinstall. Startup the VB guest it should boot off your attached CD/DVD image. and the welcome screen press TAB key

VirtualBox command line and Oracle VM Manager 3.1.1 part 1

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Rather than wait until I have the whole thing polished I thought I’d do a multipart entry on building Oracle VM Manager VM and installing the software. Now the previous version 3.0.3 had a VirtualBox template available. The current version 3.1.1 doesn’t, at least not that I can find, so this is a kinda of roll your own template.

Tools used for this job: Virtual Box 4.1.8 Oracle VM Manager ISO 3.1.1 OEL R6U1 ISO

How to create Mulitple Solaris Repositories

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Solaris 11 repo setup but you want to have your own repo serving up own home grown packages, separate from your main Solaris 11 image repository. Actually I’d like an extra two repo’s I want a dev repo that to test my packaging abilities and a “release” one when I’m ready to publish. Mostly becuase there doesn’t seem to be a straight forward way to remove packages from a repo and my packaging skills are work in progress.

installing-ruby-1

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Installing Ruby 1.9.3 and libyaml on Solaris 11Recent blog entries would indicate I’ve upgrade to Solaris 11 proper or Solaris 11/11 as it goes by. The upgrade was mostly driven by the fact I need to compile some software and figured I may as well have the most recent version rather than on the express edition. I’m looking into Vagrant at the moment as it might fit in with some of the automation bits I’m playing with. I’m not getting into Vagrant here just yet as there are a couple of steps I need to do to first to prep my Solaris 11 environment.For the “First cloud OS” Solaris 11 is distinctly lacking some items that you could almost say are essentials in todays cloud, Ruby. And I here the cries from the Oracle faithful we ship Ruby, Hmm Version 1.8 nearly 5 years old and only months away from EOL. I did attempt to install Vagrant with version 1.8 and gem just failed to meet the prerequisites by 0.0.1 if I recall. None the less I had committed to building a more recent version of Ruby that I’ll need for some other stuff in progress.So what do you need to build ruby 1.9.3-p125 on Solaris 11,a compiler obviously and I’m using the gcc 4.5.2 include in the Solaris 11 repo, and libyaml, otherwise we end by with this annoying message.

Solaris 11 Express upgrade to Solaris 11/11

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Solaris 11/11 has been out for some time I’ve been slow to move. Mostly the Solaris 11 express I run know works well and fits my needs so I have not need to upgrade. However I’m working on some side project and some software is going to need complied, that and I figured I need to keep my hand in so best move up to the current release.

So should be pretty straight forward:

Linux kickstart for Solaris Admin's

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Linux kickstart for Solaris Admin’sSo sometimes Solaris Admins need to turn their hand at another OS for various reasons, especial in this day and age of mass production of virtual environments. Solaris Admins will be well versed with jumpstart a tried and truly tested system of automated builds for over a decade now. While recently this system has been thrown out with the bath water for AI in Solaris 11 and while the jury is still out on that one that’s a conversation for another time.

How to use NFS client on Windows 7

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

How to Shrink zfs root pool.

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This exercise for me is to replace my current single disk rpool, the second disk was removed for another project, on to two slightly smaller disks. Doing so restores my root mirror but as the disks are slightly smaller some work is required.

For reference my current root pool name is rpool, the current disk in this pool is c5t1d0, the first replacement disk is install at c5t0d0 and is empty.

We need a revolution?

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Just a short time back I had what amounts to a mini revilation or small epiphany, take your pick. Actually it was a realization what I had known for some time just never admitted to myself. Since when did we need so many non IT people running the IT infrastructure.

Two things happened. I spent a numbing 8 hour day in a training course for Configuration management, not the funky new Devops definatation of configuration management but the boar you to tears ITIL version, seriously do you really need 6 different slides and 15 minutes to explain release management as “do steps 1 through 7 in serial sequence completing 7 before starting on step 1 again for the next release”. I get it that this is a generic course not aimed at the twenty year veterans , but a two year old could understand this.

Solaris 11 Zones

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

First Video as part of a presentation MSOSUG in April 2011 showing how to create a Solaris 11 zone

Solaris 10 Container in Solaris 11

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Second Video as part of a presentation MSOSUG in April 2011 showing how to create a Solaris 10 branded container in Solaris 11

Solaris 11 Express SRU4 and VirtualBox 4 bad combo

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

So I’ve been tracking the Solaris 11 Express Support repo updates for a while. I had issue today where I couldn’t make a network connection to my virtual box guests. They would ping but no ssh and no http connection. The later being important as my VB guest is running a local mirror repo. while I could connect to the guest from other machines on the network I could connect to them from the the machine hosting the guests.

Solaris 11 Express VNC

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Okay , not entirely sure why yet but I though I’d like to get VNC server configured on my Solaris machines, perhaps it’s with the arrival of the AppleTV 2 in the house freeing up the trusty mac mini workhorse to go back to desktop duties after the last 3+ year as a Plex app media player, anyway on to the task at hand.

A snooping one line

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

One of the most useful one liners thought I’d put it up here for my own easy access

reinstall menu option grub

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

So I have a couple of machine’s I’m reinstalling on a regular basis as part of some on going work. Unfortunately PXE booting is not an option for them so it been a process of attaching a virtual CDROM image and then typing in a bunch of kickstart parameters at the boot menu. Well had enough, time to be a better way. I’m aware of the “remote control” for anaconda so it was time to make it work for me.

BootCamp Session 22

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

View Bootcamp Session 22 in a larger map

Total Distance: 8.15 km (5.1 mi)

Total Time: 1:24:24

Moving Time: 55:52

Average Speed: 5.80 km/h (3.6 mi/h)

Average Moving Speed: 8.75 km/h (5.4 mi/h)

Max Speed: 68.74 km/h (42.7 mi/h)

Min Elevation: 24 m (79 ft)

Max Elevation: 88 m (289 ft)

Elevation Gain: 99 m (323 ft)

Max Grade: 2 %

Min Grade: -6 %

Recorded: Sat Dec 04 07:12:12 AEDT 2010

Upgrade OpenSolaris to Solaris 11 Express

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

How to upgrade your Opensolaris dev build 134 to Solaris 11 Express build 151a

The fat lady is warming up

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

While the holiday has been over for almost a week already for me after 6 long days at LISA 10 Conference, today we head home.

DAY 6 Lisa 2010 Dtrace tut

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Jim Mauro’s Dtrace tut

DAY 5 Lisa 2010 Vmware performance notes

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

RMC ESX Performance and Tuning

DAY 4 LISA 2010

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Over the Edge System Admin

DAY 3 LISA 2010 Linux tut

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Managing Linux in production environments.

DAY 2 LISA 2010 ZFS tut

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Day two the rain has stopped a little bit of Californian sunshine.

Day 1 LISA 2010

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Wet day in San Jose, not to matter will be inside all day. Doing the S1 VMware vSphere training session, a good introduction and much needed clarification on on some of the names of products that keep changing, apparently it’s also confusing inside VMware so no wonder we can’t understand it.

Friday exercise

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Friday night here and my fellow boot campers will have already completed their Saturday morning 1:30 hour session, my session not as long;

Friday to Saturday

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A day with less driving good for me.

Dy's Day Off

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A quick run down on events for today, more to follow, maybe.

Napa and more

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Today we drove the Napa valley, it’s autumn , or fall as they say here and the colours at this time of the year are vibrant. First leg of the drive was from Santa Rosa to Calistoga and the first stop of the day was at the Petrified forest fallen and covered by ash by the eruption of Mount St Helens many years ago there are some well pressured trees now of stone, an enjoyable first stop. Next stop Calistoga an next little town with what seemed like a large proportion of quality restaurants. Just south of there Sterling Vineyard, now this vineyard looks very very nice but $25 per person for a ride in their “air tram”, cable car to the rest of us, up a small hill to the cellar doors for a tasting … well no thanks we will pass thats a bit steep. A drive on the the town of St Helena and surrounding view is great, a nice town with foodie and homeware stores, some olive oil and balsamic tasting. Further down the valley we stopped at Beaulieu Vineyard at Rutherford for a tasting purchased the Chardonnay and the Beauzeaux red blend. On Robert Mondavi winery toward Oakville, a very picture postcard winery, some more tasting and purchased a Fume Blanc , now consumed for diner. and a Pinot Noir. On to Yountville and Vintage 1870 no wine for us here but a great little art gallery Blue Heron with some fantastic photos. Final stop for the day was Oxbow Market in Napa itself before we headed back to home base in Santa Rosa via Sonoma and the Sonoma Valley wineries. A great day out. Update Winery visits in order for the daySterling Vineyard - entrance fee too priceyBeaulieu Vineyard - $15 tasting fee for 4, Chardonnay and the BeauzeauxRobert Mondavi - $20 tasting fee for 4, Fume Blanc and Pinot NoirVintage 1970 - Art gallery An interesting observation a tasting fee, whats that about, and a tasting fee thats not waived when you make a purchase. We have had the privilege of having been able to taste wines as some of the best regions in the world including Bordeaux, Burgundy, Pyrenees, Margret River, Barossa Valley and Coonawarra. We didn’t taste anything that warranted a tasting fee , sorry Napa Valley thats just poor form.

Bootcamp on holiday

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Got time for another run tonight 6Kms 40 minutes. My tracker didn’t work so no map.

Santa Rosa day

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

First day since we arrived that we haven’t driven anywhere. Had a sleep in before we took a walk around Santa Rosa , spent a few hours wondering about made a couple of purchases and generally had a relaxing day. Took a scenic drive to Wholefoods supermarket to pick up some items to cook for diner. Managed to squeeze in a quick run to keep up with my bootcamp training while I am away and planed out the day for tomorrow.

Bootcamp on Holiday

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

So I while I’m on holiday I know my fellow boot campers are sweating it out on the rowing machines, or the bicycle, or ski erg or whatever has been dreamed up.

Monterey to Santa Rosa

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Morning in Monterey and we hired some bikes and did some did the cruising up and and down the foreshore another pleasant day in California, we are certainly getting the good run with the sunshine.

View Bike Ride Monterey Foreshore in a larger map

Round the bay to Santa Cruz then we stuck to the coast and the highway one route via Half Moon Bay up to San Francisco, first time either for us traveling across the bridge so we took some tacky video footage have to upload it somewhere. In the rush of the moment I missed the turn off at the end of the bridge for the visitor lookout, so we’ll have to do that another time. We arrived at Dy’s early evening as usual she is a fantastic host, it will be great to be spending more than one night in the one location.

San Simeon to Monterey

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A great day and an early morning start we hit the 9am tour at Hearst Castle. The amount of money William Randolph Hearst must of had to get this place built is staggering. Even in this day and age getting the equipment and materials up the hill alone would be an achievement. Pay it a visit worth the time, I’d go back again. Left San Simeon just after midday and made our way up highway one toward Monterey. Definitely not the fast track but definitely the scenic one, a great drive with great views. We stopped in at Carmel to say hi Clint before talking the 17 mile drive via Pebble Beach round the coast till we finally ended up at our destination on Cannery Row.

Pacific Coast

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Day two and we drove up from and we did a bit of the tourist things in Santa Barbara visited the Santa Barbara Old Mission. With some storm cloud brewing in the background we took a stroll only the beachfront and wondered out on Stearns Warf .

Arrived

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

After a flight where the main cabin lights wouldn’t work, the lady in front of me required oxygen, and the young boy two rows behind us making use of the sick bag, we arrived in LA this morning. Close to being the last people to pick up our baggage, mostly due to the fact we had just got a queue at Immigration that moved at 1/2 the pace of the others, added to the 2 hour delay in leaving meant for a somewhat later drive from LA to Santa Barbara than expected.

Delayed

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Delayed departure so time for a final test run before we leave

Bootcamp update

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Sessions 4 & 5 this week and my last session before we head off for two weeks in the USA. A two week absence in the middle of this camp was every reason I needed not to to it, but rather than put it off I choose to do it and work around it. I had good solid workout at both sessions but I need to work on pushing myself more. Weight in this morning at 103.45Kg thats 2KG down on my start weight, so a positive move.

Holiday Spring 2010

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

So we are off the USA do tomorrow. Actually pretty exciting for me as I have 6 days at the LISA Conference in San Jose , something I have always wanted to attended by for some reason never have.

How to configure iLOM ssh key for SUN T-series

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Note if you do not have at least Version 3.0.6.1.e r49743 firmware then you will run into this bug
6823488 Cannot add an SSH key for automatic password authentication.

> ssh root@ilom
Password:
Waiting for daemons to initialize...

Daemons ready

Sun(TM) Integrated Lights Out Manager

Version 3.0.6.1.e r49743

Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.

-> cd /SP/users/admin/ssh/keys/1
/SP/users/admin/ssh/keys/1

-> set load_uri=http://192.168.0.1/sshkey.pub
Load successful.

How to configure ssh public key for XSCF

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

XSCF> showssh -c pubkey -u admin XSCF> setssh -c addpubkey -u admin Please input a public key: ssh-rsaAAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAn5DZLAtDtan37waaAPkhU9b40q0CP5HCtqULaI+V0YU/iDpxeu0/RmFRgYSXdbniAr9wBAWn+vOUmwmyZJoIwgqCN88VJoa+U9g34B2WSMsBqIYleMsvQiBStnnkZgNY/OmDrmq1VU10H8QMw0kCmIQ3Nss7CmR0/E/9tJ6+b6E=

looks like you need a Control D here

XSCF> showssh -c pubkey -u unixadmin Public key: 1 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAn5DZLAtDtan37waaAPkhU9b40q0CP5HCtqULaI+V0YU/iDpxeu0/RmFRgYSXdbniAr9wBAWn+vOUmwmyZJoIwgqCN88VJoa+U9g34B2WSMsBqIYleMsvQiBStnnkZgNY/OmDrmq1VU10H8QMw0kCmIQ3Nss7CmR0/E/9tJ6+b6E=

25 Oct Food diary

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Some perhaps useful information to go with what is essentially navel gazing on my part here is a hand Kilojoule and Nutrient Calculator, and some tips for weight loss.

26 Oct Food Diary

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Again trying to add some value here to these post, Lunch today was Tuna Pasta Salad I added some pine nuts and as I had some to hand used rocket instead of parsley.

Boot camp Session 4

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

First full outdoor session and first 1.5 hour session. Sunday morning and yes I’m sore, although to be honest if you asked me yesterday I thought I would have been worse, but there is always tomorrow :-)

21/10 Food Diary

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

pre Workout

Boot camp Session 2 & 3

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Session 2 of boot camp saw some more testing, this time on the rowing machine. The stats read

MSOSUG October Meeting

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

So this months MSOSUG meeting had it’s second run at the new venue a pretty good turn out which seems to be consistent. Given the way Oracle has handled the whole OpenSolaris deal I’m a little surprised to be honest.

19/10 Boot camp food diary

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Breakfast

Food Diary 18/10

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Boot camp food diaryBreakfast

Boot camp Day 1

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Ergfit boot camp started today. It’s not the first boot camp I have done so I kinda know what I’ve signed up for , I think, different crew so it will know doubt have different challenges.

publisher.prefix is required

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

pkg.depotd: repository configuration error: publisher.prefix is required

Tick with no Toc

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve had an ongoing long running battle at a place of employment trying to get the folks that look after the user accounts to understand the difference between non login accounts, lock accounts, and accounts with expired passwords specifically the impact that has on Solaris Cron. Well notch one up to the good guys I think I had a win today, and it reminded me of this post from Glenn Brunette

Transmission resumed

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Ok a transmission revisit. Everything has been going along mostly ok with my previous transmission setup. It does however have the annoying habit of just no longer accepting request at random intervals, which franky is a pain especial since flexget has worked out so well. It’s still running on OpenSolaris as I have not moved to Nexenta. So I rebuilt the packages and updated to version 2.10. I have put together some IPS packages for transmission 2.10 and libevent 1.4.13. If there is any interest I can open up my IPS server or drop them somewhere more accessible. They Should run on Open Indiana also.

Blogger driod test

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Intent is to publish updates of the next trip on here to keep every one up to date on what is happening so I need to test some software.Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.3

quick-sidestep-as-i-needed-to-get-some

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A quick sidestep as I needed to get some files up to share with my sister in-law so I thought I’d enable dropbox on this new desktop. Documented here as there seems to be some disparate inaccurate bits of info

Moving an iscsi zvol to a new pool

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Been working on fixing my 4K sector disk write performance issue, will post something on that later. So I have create a new zpool and after zfs send | zfs receive on the various zfs volumes and filesystem I was left to figure out how to move my iscsi guid’s as follows

Oracle Solaris download from OTN with wget

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Solaris 10 Update 9 recently announced and I believe this is the first release under the new stewardship. For the first time last month I received an email from my ISP saying I was getting close to my peak download limit, so I am making concerted effort to download in my off-peak time.

In bed with the devil

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Inspired by the recent events of some ex NP MP’s siding with the ALP, I too have been inspired to move from my Opensolaris (RIP) desktop to Ubuntu.

Ergfit Race 2

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Last weekend saw the running of Race 2 of the Ergfit indoor Regatta. Yours truly tiped in with a PB time of 1:33.7 in the 500m event, .9 second quicker than race one. Aiming for a 1:32 so some work still to be done.

Daemon gear

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Moving right along in the continued migration to transmission, its in and running in deamon mode on the command line, flexget is in and tested. Just need to add flexget to cron and make sure transmission-deamon starts at system bootup. Ok SMF script needed, being an inherently lazy unix guy , I’ll just google that and and yes number one with the bullet I find this over on 4amlunch.net thanks to wonko. A quick mod on the TRANSMISSION_HOME to suit my local setup and and transmission-daemon is running from SMF. flexget cronjob added all should be good to go. I’ll wait an hour let the cron job run it’s course and see what we get.

Changing Torrent

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I’m going to be offloading my torrents to my soon to be new headless file server so changes are needed. I’ve been using vuze since long before it was vuze, and have a nice comfortable setup. I guess my requirements have changed a little, I don’t need fancy features now offered, I won’t have the same luxurious memory setup as I currently have, I’m not found of it’s remote interface and, as they say a change it as good as a holiday. Time to broaden my horizons . So what I need from a BT client runs on OpenSolarisoperates headlessable to read and process rss feedsand operate without constant fiddling So I didn’t look to hard, or broaden too much transmission is available for install as an IPS for OpenSolaris, I have also been able to compile a more recent version if required, it will operate headless, has what appears to be usable web interface if required. It does however weriously lacks and ability to read and parse rss feeds to bring the automation I need. Enter flexget, multipurpose automation tool, I’m not apposed to running to different pieces of software to do the job after all it was a plug in doing the work in vuze, and I am a unix guy.

Egg head

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Ok I’m a total Python newbie. I need to install flexget to use with my new transmission setup, it’s a python based app and comes as an .egg file. Seems the best way to install these is with something call easy_install.

pkg search -l easy_install

Shows easy_install is part of the python setup tools package. So just go ahead and install that.

pfexec pkg install pkg:/library/python-2/setuptools-26

Then use easy_install to install the flexget along with all it’s dependencies.

test-post-from-office

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Test post from the office

Installing OpenSolaris on X2200 from USB drive

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I recently aquired an X2200 with no optical drive, and having had a few questions from people about USB media for OpenSolaris , where my standard answer was to download the USB image, I decided it was time I should eat my own dog food as they say and take this USB stuff out for a test drive.

What you will need: A USB key. I used an el cheap 1GB stick I had lying about.An OpenSolaris USB image I used build 127 from genunix. Of course you can role your own from the iso. Some way of getting the USB image on to the USB stick. For me this would be my existing OpenSolaris desktop machine.A x86 machine capable of booting from a USB device. I my case this was a SUN a dual CPU quad core X2200Assuming you have the USB stick and downloaded the image I won’t bore you with the details on why you can’t just copy the image to the stick. Just know you can’t.

JAFA

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

A recent post of the The Age travel blog sparked more comments than you usually see on such mainstream media. It’s about the JAFA’s Hmm those innocuous hard red shelled sweets/lollies/candies with the chocolate orange center, biscuit cake, or strange alien from some SciFi show I here you say. No not really it’s the Just another Fcking Aussie it’s the catchy little tag apparently now befalling the traveling Australian.

I would consider my self a seasoned traveler having had the experience of traveling extensively throughout South East, Europe and the USA at times thanks to some of my former employers. In more recent days I have just returned from living and working in Europe for a few years. Yes Europe not London not England yes the continent mainland EU.

Kick Off

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Second attempt as to record some thoughts down. Lets kick if off.

Not into big Media then check out Bum Rush The Charts the podcasting and indie media attempt to influence the Music charts. Worth a look plus Black Lab has some pretty good stuff.

Speaking of podcasting… can’t actually recall the last time I listened to mainstream radio..

What's with Australia Post?

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ok on my high horse. What is with Australia POST these days? It took over 3 months since arriving into the new home before mail started to arrive. Even now we still have problems having multiple envelopes being opened as well. Two official complaints lodge with Aust Post.. why two you ask … because customer service lost the first one!! Nothing resolved to my satisfaction to date and never will be since there is not other choice. One last thing, I had to chase up customer service as they never once returned my call.