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Waa, my subversion is broken!

over 4 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
OK, this is mostly a note-to-self because Google wasn’t being helpful enough in finding the solution. When I tried running an svn stat in my home...

Solaris: Bonding network interfaces

over 4 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I’ve managed to find a new home for the Thumper. The noise it’s making is driving me absolutely batty, and I have to switch it off at night...

Best Practice with sudo

over 4 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I just found this lecture in some documentation I’d been writing for a client. Clearly I was running through an install, documenting it as I go along...

iPhone SDK prediction

over 4 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
So, the iPhone doesn’t have a specific Software Development Kit (SDK) as such. You just create web applications and they’ll happily work on...

Free t-shirts!

over 4 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
Well, for me, at least. After I mentioned my experiences with Splunk recently, a couple of Splunk’s folks got in touch with me by email, asking...

Solaris: Logging to a separate loghost, the easy way

over 4 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I had a little difficulty Googling for this one, so I thought I’d share. I’m sure you’ve all seen the following in /etc/syslogd.confauth...

New in Edge Rails: Kine!

over 4 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I’ve just done a piston update on a project I’m doing that’s using edge Rails and was reviewing the changes. Apart from the lovely documentation...

Solaris: Upgrading to Sun Studio 12

over 4 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I should probably be ashamed that it’s taken me this long to notice: I don’t have a compiler installed in my zones! I discovered this afternoon...

Integrating capistrano with SMF

over 4 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
I’ve got a new application I’m in the process of deploying in order to demo for a client (no, it’s not ready for everybody else to have...

Tracking which deployment you’re looking at

over 4 years ago by Graeme Mathieson on Notes from a messy desk.
Inspired by PJ’s Err the Blog post Cappin’ the Stat, I decided to put together a similar recipe of my own. Sometimes I want to know which version...