Were my expectations too high? Support, what RHEL service is logging this? rhnsd? yum-updatesd? It should show the process name in the syslog output. Please fix? Oct 27 10:00:04 rcf-monitor : 4 updates available Response: I think that rfc-monitor is likely a third-party service of some sort. I haven’t been able to find any mention [...]
Author Archives: JB
twm Shirt
August 26, 2011 – 10:18 pm
Paying homage to the classic Tab/Tom’s Window Manager, it’s the twm shirt, available with no markup in cost toward my wallet. Designed by yours truly. If you’d like to do something else with the design, here it is in multiple formats, and I’d love to hear if you liked it. OpenDocument Drawing Big-ass PNG @ [...]
Adjusting a PostgreSQL Sequence
August 8, 2011 – 3:58 pm
I recently had the unfortunate task at work of copying most of a production PostgreSQL database to a development server. The whole database would have been simple. It’s the “most of” part that made things messy. At any rate, I ended up in a position where I needed to make various incorrect “sequence” definitions match [...]
The First InterOp
August 7, 2011 – 4:08 pm
I wasn’t aware of this and thought it was cool. From The Robustness Principle Reconsidered: The original InterOp conference was intended to allow vendors with Network File System (NFS) implementations to test interoperability and ultimately demonstrate publicly that they could interoperate. The first 11 days were limited to a small number of engineers so they [...]
On Home Renovation
June 26, 2011 – 12:48 pm
A month or two ago, I finished up a pale blue and chocolate (trim) painting of my bedroom. I also replaced all of the 2-prong (but internally grounded) outlets with 3-prong outlets and replaced the window handles and lock. I was really enjoying my work and detail. I got to the door part of the [...]