SUNWyp - A.K.A. NIS
Monday, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:31 · 2 minute readSo, over the last week I have been trying to get NIS to work with OpenSolaris in VirtualBox machines.
I managed to get the master server to work fine by doing the following:
Read On →So, over the last week I have been trying to get NIS to work with OpenSolaris in VirtualBox machines.
I managed to get the master server to work fine by doing the following:
Read On →Read On →The George Ward School Association are attempting to organise a ‘Goodbye George Ward’ Event The date has been set for Saturday 3rd July, from 10am – 5pm with a Celebration Ball in the evening from 7.30-11.30pm. (Tickets to be sold to public nearer the event)
So, I’m a little late to the blogsphere on this one, but then when am I not? I’ve read some pretty damning things about the iPad, it doesn’t have a SD card reader, it doesn’t have a camera, it has files and no file system, it doesn’t do Flash, and that the name suggests a type of adult nappy… I thought that I’d look at these comments and generally give my views on the iPad and it’s hardware.
Read On →Faye has got a new phone, some up-to-date Nokia to replace her old 6200. Her 6230 still works apart, just the battery doesn’t hold a charge very well.
Read On →Well it’s been a while since I last posted here. Though it’d be right that I come back with tales of new desks, screens and computers!
So what’s new? I’ve left Camberley, worked for the MoD over the summer and am now back in Aber living with Faye (hopefully a film of the flat coming soon). Since being in Aber I have bought a new desk, a new chair (which is annoyingly not here), a pair of new monitors and a new shiny computer.
Read On →Yesterday while surfing the web, a pop-up notified me that the Camino 2.0 RC was available to download and install! Heading over to Camino’s web site, I found the team thanking all the beta testers.
Read On →I pre-ordered my copy on Monday at work, and this morning was greeted by this:
Read On →At work I’ve got a situation where I want to store a load of files in a central location, and then scatter links across the rest of the file system (for reasons best not explained here). The file system will be picked up and moved at some point, and indeed everybody accesses this file system through different addresses, so a relative link is exactly what I wanted. Under UNIX, I’d do something like this:
Read On →Yes, it would appear I’m becoming a little more Web 2.0 compliant…I now use RSS and Google Reader. For years I couldn’t understand why you would want RSS, I had bookmarks and could click on them and look at the site myself, but there’s something about having everything in one place which is very nice.
Read On →