At work, we're endeavoring on a project that involves low level switch programming. This article, titled "Ethernet for Programers" was posted to Reddit or Digg, and looks super useful. It's not just about packets and frames, but includes microcontrollers, SPI interfaces and the sort.

I've been setting up an Debian image that can be used by a number of developers at work. The developers need X installed, but not necessarily running on the server--that way they can use it for remote desktop environments back to their local computers, thin clients, etc...

In looking for the "Debian Way" to do this, I found what I needed on the Debian Tips page.

Specifically, do the following:

cd /etc/init.d
update-rc.d -f ?dm remove

I've recently run into a handful of systems that have thrown up an error when trying to sync the system clock to the hardware clock:

inara:~# hwclock --systohc
select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out

I found a couple of useful pages with a work around solution, which is to provide an additional command line parameter to the hwclock command, specifically "--directisa." Depending on your distribution you may be able to add this to /etc/default/clock, or /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh to include the fix permanently.

Quick little avatar, made at Face Your Manga site. Didn't spend too much time on it, but there it is.

And...I wish I was that skinny!

New site, well fed, happy, and tucked away into bed...