Category: General

Well, I guess it was as simple as opening the unit’s case, flipping switch #6 to ON and rebooting. That cleaned out the CMOS and NVRAM and after that success…. Read more »

I am about to give up on this box. I think a misplaced sense of gratitude to HP for their work developing DSpace made me do it…and now I know… Read more »

Lots of O’Reilly titles for free web-based viewing…also a few WORX titles and others. Great site: http://ebook911.com

OK, I guess this is an improvement over the last time Mason made IT news… From C/Net News The federal government is funding the development of a prototype surveillance tool… Read more »

Having a disk failure the other day reminded me I need to create a clone of the boot drive in our V880 machine…so recovery from the inevitable disk failure won’t… Read more »

A MySQL-based system I wrote about six years ago is getting kinda long in the tooth and I’m eager to replace it with something “newer” and, of course, better. If… Read more »

Just a note to point out a really good site, the New York Times Cybertimes Navigator. From their “about this page” section: For more than 10 years, the Newsroom Navigator… Read more »

Down today (Tuesday) from about noon till 2:30pm thanks to a power failure across campus. Gave us the opportunity (?) to fully discharge our UPS units.

What a fun Saturday. Was running a backup from home on the library’s primary webserver/MySQL machine…when I began getting things like this in my output: Jul 30 11:16:57 infosparc Error… Read more »

Doing an install of Solaris 9 on a new server this morning and there’s a bit of downtime while CDs load …. Turns out corgis are quite popular in Japan… Read more »