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William D. Revelli, on the Anniversary of His Death I wasn't even six months into my first job at NRL when I'd heard the legendary director of not only the Michigan Marching Band but all of Michigan's Bands had died at age 92. William D. Revelli left a lasting impact at Michigan. I can only relay that impact by knowing that it was his name on the building where I showed up days before the rest of…
It's story time, and still Boxing Day in some parts of the US. Recent rumblings about treating your customers right , why some folks don't, and the subtle slope between happy customers and captured customers remind me of one of my favorite hole-in-the-wall restaurant employees, Phil. He loves his customers: even the ones who ask for off-menu items, even the ones who can't properly describe what…
I wonder if this renders correctly? I think it does. I knew about the MD4C project for some time. I finally modified blahg to exploit MD4C so that I can create posts using markdown. I haven't tested it all out yet, but I hope to soon. It's been a while (eesh, 3.5 years) since my last post, and no surprised, a lot has happened since then. If I still have my half-dozen readers, hello again.
So recently I acquired @danmcd on Twitter. It was a long time coming. I was relatively late in early-adopting twitter: late spring 2009. By then someone else had claimed the handle danmcd , to my chagrin. I was chagrined (in 2009) because I’ve been danmcd at SOMEWHERE since 1988. First .edu s, even a .gov and .mil , and of course a series of .com s including my own kebe.com (Who and/or what…
So what happened? We’ve introduced a requested feature in SmartOS: the ability to select a platform image from loader(4), aka OS-8231 . To enable this feature, you must (using example bootable pool bootpool ): Update BOTH the boot bits and the Platform Image to this release. Normally piadm (1M) updates both, so please use either latest or another ISO-using installation. Once booted to this…
That I had to explain MTV's acronym... eeesh. When Cable TV Was Still Young Set the wayback machine 40 years plus 6-8 months ago (from the date of this post). Cable TV was rolling out in my suburb of Milwaukee, and it FINALLY arrived at our house. Hurray! We didn't have HBO, but we DID have all of the other fledgling basic cable channels... including Nickelodeon, which was then one of the Warner…
Two Decades Ago… Someone pointed out recently that the famous Internet meme “All your base are belong to us” turned 20 this week . Boy do I feel old. I was still in California, but Wendy and I were plotting our move to Massachusetts. In AD 2001, S9 Was Beginning OF COURSE I watched the video back then. The original Shockwave/Flash version on a site that no longer exists. I used…
Pardon my latency Well, at least I’m staying on track for single-digit blog posts in a year. :) Okay, seriously, 2020’s pandemic-and-other-chaos tends to distract. Also, I did actually have a few things worth my attention. RFD 176 The second half of 2020 at work has been primarily about RFD 176 – weaning SmartOS and Triton off of the requirement for a USB key. Phases I…
A Gentle Reminder About illumos A very bad security vulnerability in Solaris was patched-and-announced by Oracle earlier this week. Turns out, we in open-source-descendant illumos had something in the same neighborhood. We can’t confirm it’s the same bug because reverse-engineering Oracle Solaris is off the table. In general if a vulnerability is an old one in Solaris, there’s a…
Booting from a zpool The most recent published biweekly release of SmartOS has a new feature I authored : the ability to manage and boot SmartOS-bootable ZFS pools. A few people read about this feature, and jumped to the conclusion that the SmartOS boot philosophy, enumerated here: The "/" filesystem is on a ramdisk The "/usr" filesystem is read-only All of the useful state is stored on the zones…
In the prior post , I mentioned a need for four active ethernet ports. These four ports are physical links to four distinct Ethernet networks. Joyent's SmartOS and Triton characterize these with NIC Tags. I just view them as distinct networks. They are all driven by the illumos igb (7d) driver (hmm, that man page needs updating ) on HDC 3.0, and I'll specify them now: igb0 - My home network. igb1…
Twelve years ago I built my first Home Data Center (HDC). Six years ago I had OmniTI's Supermicro rep put together the second one . Unlike last time, I'm not going to recap the entirety of HDC 2.0. I will mention briefly that since its 2014 inception, I've only upgraded its mirrored spinning-rust disk drives twice: once from 2TB to 6TB, and last year from 6TB to 14TB. I'll detail the current…
Let's throw out the first pitch. I've moved my blog over from blogspot to here at kebe.com . I've recently upgraded the hardware for my Home Data Center (the subject of a future post), and while running the Blahg software doesn't require ANY sort of hardware upgrade, I figured since I had the patient open I'd make the change now. Yes it's been almost five years since last I blogged. Let's see,…
First off, long time no blog! This is the last post I'm putting on the Blogspot site . In the spirit of eating my own dogfood, I've now set up a self-hosted blog on my HDC. I'm sure it won't be hard for all half-dozen of you readers to move over. I'll have new content over there, at the very least the Hello, World post, a catchup post, and a HDC 3.0 post to match the ones for 1.0 and 2.0.
This is STILL only a test, but with an update. The big question remains: How quickly I can bring over my old Google owned blog entries? (BTW Jeff, I could get used to this LaTeX-like syntax…) You’ll start to see stuff trickle in. I’m using the hopefully-pushed-back-soon enhancements to Blahg that allows simple raw HTML for entries. I’ve done some crazy thing to extract,…