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 …
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February 18, 2009: Snow Again
Lots of snow coming down today. I was starting to feel like winter was tapering off with the nice weather that we have had recently. Late this morning it started coming down in big, soft flakes at a pretty steady pace. I got a bit of a late start this morning. Liesl tends to cause …
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 …
Bones Season 3 Episode 7 Massive Amiga Blunder
So today Dominica was watching Bones, season 3 episode 7. She came down to tell me that they had put an Amiga from 1987 into the show and that I had to take a look. Of course, no one in Hollywood bothers to check anything at all or to even state the obvious correctly. They …
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February 17, 2009: Memories of Schoolbuses
Back to work today. Not that I don’t work on the weekend or holidays but it definitely feels quite a bit different on an official work day. Yesterday was very slow at the office and it really was almost completely a holiday. Good enough for me. The last thing that I want to do is …
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