http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk The unwanted stock pile. Sat, 24 May 2008 18:35:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Introduction After the disk in my laptop recently died I decided that it would be a good time to try and install the latest version of Open Solaris onto my laptop. Unfortunately the only option I have for installing new operating systems onto this laptop is via PXE boot, this ... http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2008/05/24/pxe-net-booting-open-solaris-200805-release/ I have recently been migrated to a new ZFS based home directory at work, I've got hourly snapshots of my data and (as I've just found it) automatic on disk compression is enabled. Recently, when dealing with a corrupt .tar archive the on disk compression managed to suitably confuse me ... http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2008/05/10/zfs-compression-when-du-and-ls-appear-to-disagree/ Since late 2007 I've been working on a project involving Django, initially we started developing the software using 0.96 stable release, however recently made the decision to move to the SVN release. One of the main reasons behind this was the availability of new features and of course plenty of ... http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2008/04/27/referential-integrity-and-django/ Its that time of year, I had the same issue in 2007. This time I'm pleased(?) to say that only my laptop hard disk has died, I'm also pleased to say that this time I had a backup. Fingers crossed this is the only disk (this year). http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2008/04/27/when-good-hard-drives-go-bad-2008-remix/ After re-organising a large number of photos using eog I started to notice spikes of cpu usage while moving from image to image. At first this was just inconvenient but as time went on (and as more photos were viewed) the cpu usage spikes became longer and longer. Is ... http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2008/03/31/high-cpu-usage-from-eog-gnome-panel-blame-gtks-recent-manager/ After reading about Sun hiring some Jython developers I decided to install it myself under Debian testing to see what all the fuss is about. As a big Python fan a world without the GIL (Gloabl Interpreter Lock) of CPython sounds just lovely. After installing it I had a little ... http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2008/03/04/which-jython/ Every so often I look through a list of search terms people use and end up at this site, lots of them make sense and are relevant. However, there are a few which I cannot explain, most of them are questions which clearly need answering, lets see if I can ... http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2007/10/07/i-can-hardly-hear-you-say-what-i-should-do/ Here is something you don't see often, a parody warning sticker. The original warning sticker is stuck on nearly every metro door on the Paris metro, the parody version is harder to find. First of all we have the original warning sticker: The sticker reads: "Attention!: Ne mets pas tes mains sur ... http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2007/09/30/attention-do-not-look-at-adverts-the-anti-advertisement-adveritsment/ Recently while attending a networking course which covered redundant multipathing for high availability systems I got to thinking - could this be applied to my wired / wireless network at home? The end result being that removing the wired network from my laptop by unplugging the cable would instantly fail ... http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2007/09/14/redundant-bonding-of-wireless-and-wired-interfaces-in-ubuntu/ Picture the scene, you return to your system and casually attempt to create a new file on one of your disks. Permission Denied. What? Check you're logged in as the correct user - check Check that the user has write permissions - check Following this you start to get a sinking feeling, something ... http://blog.buttermountain.co.uk/2007/05/03/when-good-hard-drives-go-bad/