I’m currently reading a book that was recommended to me on the course earlier during the week – it’s called getting to yes, and it’s about negotiating an agreement without giving in (so the title tells me). It’s full of common sense advice, which is not surprising. Common sense advice seems to be the best kind of advice.
Course goodness
I have a course all the mondays of this week. It’s a complete disaster for me because it means that I have to get to the office before 9am. I never manage to make it into the office before 9 normally, 9.15 is my time.
That said, I need to hit the shower now or I will be late. C’est la vie.
Food sick
I had some seafood last night. I need to be careful when I have it, though. I’m not supposed to eat shellfish – I get violently ill. Well last night there were some mystery spring rolls, and it turns out that they were laced with shrimp.
I did not have a good night’s sleep last night.
Light clothes syndrome
Of course it would have to happen. Light clothes attract the most stain causing materia on the planet. Today it’s tan pants and a mocha. Laundry time again.
At a gig
Well I went to see Violent Vemmes again. I swear it’s becoming a habit with me. I’ve been to see them three times in Dublin in the last while. They seem to just keep coming back. It was a change form the last time I saw them. They skipped out on all their newer pieces in favor of the old reliables. It was fun and bouncy and it looked like everyone loved it.
I’m going to try to get a ticket for the Barenaked Ladies on Tuesday. Will I won’t I?
Friday Music
Today’s music is Evanescance. It seems very goth/rock. I like it. ‘Nuff said.
loopback file system
Most people think that you can only mount a directory onto another file system, which is true most of the time. Most file systems have code to prevent you from mounting a filesystem on a file,
not the loopback file system under Solaris (I’ve not checked on linux). With this lovely beast you can mount a file on top of another file.
Say you’re on an unsupported operating system
, and every time you try running a script it moans at you using a dialog that the OS you’re running on is not supported. You copy the file locally and make the changes to it. Then through the magic of lofs you issue:
# mount -f lofs /tmp/fixedfile /dist/brokenfile
then when you issue a /dist/brokenfile it runs your new /tmp/fixedfile, without you having to copy anything else to the new location.
This comes in handy when you’re trying to install a machine over NFS and you can’t write to the /etc/default/login file which has a
CONSOLE=/dev/console
.
you fix the file, use the mount -f lofs /tmp/login /etc/default/login and then you can telnet to it with ease to do some last minute checks before rebooting the machine from the comfort of your home.
Power Consumption
It looks like the power consumption on 0.16 of Pocketcity is very high. I’m going to have to figure out why that is and work out how to reduce it. Someone complained about having used up 3/4 of their battery life after an hour, which is not good.
It’s an M130 and doing a quick google shows me that it should have a typical battery life of 4 hours.
See the pretty flowers
I was at home for the weekend. The weather was nice and I got some photographs of some flowers. Sad, I know. I need to get a new digital camera, as my current one is really poor, that and I want to take more prefessional looking shots.
Sick
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. I wasn’t feeling the best so I decided to head home; unfortunately my stomach didn’t want to last the entire journey so by the tme I got to Landsdowne station I needed to escape really quickly. I barely made it to a bin in time.