March 24, 2007

What makes freeBSD feel old?

This is a list of all the things that make it feel old. I started this while working at a place that ran a lot of FreeBSD machines. I never got around to finishing it because we started implementing linux boxes, but I think the complaints are still valid. The real shame is that I only wrote down 6 out of about 100 different things. Mostly it’s trivial stuff, but trivial stuff should be the easiest to fix- the FreeBSD people had a real fear of painting barns (take that as you will).

March 24, 2007

Useful Utility: route

Route is one of these hate-inspiring, jaw droppingly obtuse programs that you always get the syntax wrong on. The purpose is simple enough- show and/or change the routing table. The most common uses are: route – shows the current entries route add – adds a new entry route del – removes an entry route flush– removes all entries Checking out your Routes The simplest use of route is to simply run route at the command line:

March 24, 2007

How Michigan can Leverage Open Source

Yes, I said Leverage- I sound like a big fancy CIO, don’t I?:) I have been a Michigan resident for 26 of my 27 years. I left Michigan for 18 months to take some contract work in DC- My wife and I weren’t happy with the area and moved back first chance we could. Unfortunately for us, the company that hired me started to flounder and laid me off after 5 months.

March 21, 2007

Kubuntu on Draccus

This was one of the articles I never posted for whatever reason… So I’m switching over to Kubuntu on my main workstation. The following is a list of things I had to tweak to get kubuntu working as I wanted as well as a rage meter displaying how annoying it was to configure. Project Rage level Time Wasted ldap auth frothing mouth 1.5 hours nfs mounts minor annoyance 5 minutes nvidia driver n/a 1 minute wacom n/a 1 minute Unfortunately I don’t remember what else I changed on it, so overall this is much less than there should be.

March 19, 2007

ldapifying an ubuntu server

I recently wrote a nice little script in ruby for ldapifying new ubuntu servers- all the server needs is a ssh key set up for root, the rest is cake… jmorg@util3:~/base_configs# ./ldapify -h Usage: ldapify --install hostname [$options] ldapify --check hostname ldapify --uninstall hostname --install hostname hostname to ldapify(foo.pub.local) --uninstall hostname removes ldapification from hostname -a, --access_group access_group access_group that has access to hostname --no_group_dn No access_group limitations- use with caution.

March 19, 2007

Intro to apt-get

This article was originally written for draccus.net, then moved to morgajel.com. I’ve updated it a bit here to make it a bit more modern before posting it to my employers bbs. Apt-get is a great package management utility created for the Debian Linux distribution. It can be found on children distributions like Ubuntu, Linspire, and mepis. For those who are not familiar with it, let me give you a quick run down.

February 27, 2007

Ian is here

So Ian was born at 5:02am on monday (Fed 26, 2007). 7lbs, 15oz, 20.5 inches long. He is already carrying on the fine Morgan tradition of being an asshole.

February 22, 2007

Good Guy or Bad Guy?

So I was in a Gamestop yesterday buying an extra nunchuck for the Wii (I plan on getting Wii Play which comes with a remote), and I overheard this conversation: [GSEmployee] Ma’am, you do realize that Call of Duty 3 is Rated T? [Lady] I don’t know, is that appropriate for a 13 year old boy? Is it violent? as a side note here, this lady was completely clueless that call of duty was a WAR gam, about WAR, where you SHOOT people.

February 4, 2007

I wrecked the car.

Whoops. This happened after work on Tuesday. Jackie was at home. I was on a small service drive that T’d into a 4.5 lane road that was fairly busy. looked left, saw a car with it’s right turn signal on in the right lane. looked right, say a red light. looked left, saw the car with the blinker slowing down as if to turn down the road I was on. looked right, saw the red light turn green, meaning I had about 10 seconds to react.

January 28, 2007

The Domination of the Wii

So for those who have not been initiated, the Wii is the new Nintendo console. The cool thing about this console that makes it stand out is the motion sensitive controller. It adds a whole new dimension to gaming. I stopped being a big console player after the failure of the Atari Jaguar around 1994- it was a big disappointment for me. The next console I got was a PS2 in 2001 or so- I even waited an extra year to make sure it wouldn’t be a failure.