February 20, 2009: Carpet Shampooing Day

Liesl got Dominica up early this morning around seven but fell back asleep a little after seven thirty.  So, as we had run out of baby formula last night and it will be a pretty serious emergency if we do not have any today, Dominica ran to Stop & Shop at a quarter till eight …

February 19, 2009: Email Server Arrives in Canada

The cold weather has returned to downstate New York.  No doubt about that.  This morning wasn’t quite that bad but it was not warm by any stretch. I got a chance to take Oreo on a nice, long walk today.  There was a break in the weather when the wind was still and the rain …

How To – Easy NTP on Solaris 10

Setting up NTP (the Network Time Protocol) on Solaris 10 is very simple but requires a few less than obvious steps that can trip up someone looking to set up a basic NTP daemon to sync their local machine. The first step is to install the NTP packages SUNWntpr and SUNWntpu, both of which are …

Time Sync on VMWare Based Linux

In many cases it can be quite difficult to accuracy keep time on a virtualized operating system due to the complex interactions between the hardware, host operating system, virtualization layer and the guest operating system.  In my case I found that running Red Hat Linux 5 (CentOS 5) on VMWare Server 1.0.8 resulted in an …