It started well. I just plugged in the keyboard and it appeared to work. Until I tried typing an email and the ‘to’ line came out with a ” instead of an @. Aha! Simple – just change the keyboard layout. That’s a lot easier said than done in OSX Lion. For a start there does not appear to be a set of keyboard layouts to choose from. Enter Ukelele. This tool lets you create Read more
‘boot -L’ will give you the list of boot environments to boot from. So then you can just use the -Z option to boot the corresponding root fs.
Handy when you screw up boot environment activation 🙂 Read more
Someone pointed out recently that I hadn’t updated my posts about the rockery I started last year. Well here’s what it looks like now. Read more
I’ve been using my tonidoplug as a home NAS server for almost a couple of years now. It’s performed as well as can be expected for 2 mirrored 1.5TB disks attached on a USB hub. One evening recently though I noticed that it was unreachable. A quick look at the box showed that all was not well, both lights on the network interface were on as was the green light on the box. After trying Read more
That probably won’t be what you want though. For example our recent adoption from a recently deceased friend was developing a fascination for clawing at the carpets and rugs. Min decided that we should get a scratching post. I thought a scratching post was, well, a post, but Min had other ideas so we now own this 4 foot tall thing: Note the absence of a cat in that photo. I joked with Min when Read more
We got my mum a new bed recently. Turns out the cat was rather fond of the old mattress 🙂 Read more
This post originally appeared at http://blogs.sun.com/ford/entry/using_nat_in_the_global Since sun.com is going away soon (thank a bunch Oracle…) I’m going to mirror it here because I found it useful. Tuesday September 27, 2005 Using NAT in the Global Zone There have been requests to use IPFilter on Solaris 10 as a tool to allow use of networking by non-global zones without allocating an IP address for each zone. The general idea is to use network address translation Read more
It seems that our new government is digging its heels in and the rest of the EU (probably Germany) isn’t happy. So let me put the scenario into perspective. Ireland cannot borrow from the market at the moment, we are apparently going to stay a free market capitalist country, so we will be getting money from there again. What we need is money from the EU/IMF in the interim to get us through the mess Read more
I needed to get some new surdo beaters for the SRFC Ultras. Unfortunately these are about €15 to buy. So I decided to try and make some rather than buy them. After a couple of iterations I came up with a beater that seems to work well. The challenge is to come up with a beater that sounds right when hit hard. I had a proper beater to compare to and also a nice big Read more
So after about 7 weeks fermenting its nearly time to bottle the elderberry wine. It’s cleared and I’ve added some fermentation stopper. I’ll chuck in a campden tablet and bottle it on Sunday hopefully. Tasting it tonight its clear that its going to need to mellow a bit. Well, a lot. I might try a bottle after 6 months, but this stuff might not be drinkable for years! Still, once this is in bottles I Read more