Archive for July, 2008

Dell Order Checking: via cron

Ok. So let’s start off with a fairly obvious statement. I’m indolent. And I can write scripts. This is a dangerous, nay, perilous pairing…
So, with this existing laptop really getting on my nerves, and the lack of email coming from Dell regarding the new ‘un I ordered, I thought I’d tidy up some diff-scripts used [...]

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OS Updates

Dontcha just hate doing them?
Particularly when there’s the whole big fun of package updates, and it taking about six iterations of the various tools to get things up and running properly again?
Ach well. Mainly done now. Urfgh.
Shame about freebsd-update(8) not wanting to play ball: my guess is that the SINGLE SERVER was over-loaded.

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