Issues Sharing Automount Home Directories from Solaris to Linux

I discovered this problem while attempting to share our automounted home directories from my Solaris 10 NFS file server to my SUSE and Red Hat Linux NFS clients. automount[10581]: >> mount: block device 192.168.0.2:/data/home/samiller is write-protected, mounting read-only kernel: call_verify: server 192.168.0.2 requires stronger authentication. It turns out that the solution is quite simple. The …

Children of Mana

Two things stand out the most when you first start playing Square Enix’ Children of Mana: the hand-drawn graphics are positively beautiful and the gameplay sucks. I had high hopes for Children of Mana. I have been a fan of the series since I played the first installment, Final Fantasy Adventure on the original GameBoy …

February 8, 2008: Dominica Finally Sees the Hudsucker Proxy

Boy was I tired this morning. Good thing that it is Friday. I am looking forward to having some time to get things done over the weekend. My class at RIT expects the work for the class to be done between Monday and Friday which is rough but at least it pretty much guarantees that …

February 7, 2008: Alderon Had Weapons of Mass Destruction

One of the things that I love about working in Information Technology is that, unlike many other fields, we are less of a study in our own right but more of an application of knowledge and processes from myriad different disciplines.  Few fields have so much opportunity for breadth, variety and intellectual adventure.  I mention …