With Apple's abandonment of PPC as of Snow Leopard, I began wondering what to do with the old PowerMac. It's annoying that so (comparatively) recent a piece of equipment should be given up by its manufacturer, but that's a rant for another day. Yes, we can still run Leopard until it goes out of support, … Continue reading ppc Linux on the PowerMac G5
I've been doing a lot of mucking around with KVM with libvirt (I keep promising an update here, don't I). In my desktop virtualisation requirements I had a need for presenting VLAN traffic to guests: simple enough, and I've done it before. You can do what I usually do, and configure all your VLANs against … Continue reading Network virtualisation
For a long time I've been managing virtual e-mail addresses (the ones you create when you sign up to a web service, so that you know where your spam is originating) using Postfix's LDAP alias capability. At the time I was still putting every bit of configuration I could into LDAP--particularly if it was user-id … Continue reading LDAP groups in Postfix
Since I've been back home now for almost a month, it seems silly to call these posts "travel updates". 🙂 With the experience of visiting le Viaduc de Millau still buzzing in my head, I pointed my trusty Peugeot back toward Montpellier for the journey to Germany. The run down the mountain back toward the … Continue reading Travel report: Driving to Sindelfingen
Seems like ages ago I watched that episode of Top Gear where they took a Ford GT, a Pagani Zonda and a Ferrari F430 from Paris to the Millau Viaduct. At the time, I didn't figure that I'd have any opportunity to see the bridge in the near future, but nonetheless subliminally noted it as … Continue reading Travel update: le Viaduc de Millau
There I was, standing in the Paris Gare de Lyon looking like an idiot staring at the trains on the platforms. I was about to experience my first trip on TGV! I took a few photos then loaded my gear on the train (big bag in the luggage space at the end of the carriage, … Continue reading Travel update: On to Montpellier
I listen to a few netcasts from Leo Laporte's TWiT network. For a while about 18-24 months ago a few shows on the network were sponsored by VISA, flogging their fraud protection capabilities. "Safe, Secure, VISA" was something I heard ad-nauseum a while ago (and started hearing it again recently, as I listen to old … Continue reading Safe, secure, terrifying, VISA
When last you heard from me, I had arrived in my Amsterdam hotel. The weather was a bit rainy, so I postponed the planned orientation walk and caught a bit of a kip, had some dinner, and made sure I was ready for the presentation the next day. I'm not going to talk about the … Continue reading Travel update: Riding the rails of Europe
Time to fill in a little bit of detail from my travel so far. I arrived in Amsterdam on Sunday morning, and decided that rather than get bounced by the hotel trying to check in too early that I'd fill in some time at Schiphol Airport. While I was there I had a chance to … Continue reading Travel update: Arriving in Europe
This post comes to you from the Cathay Pacific lounge in Hong Kong airport. Around 8 weeks have passed since my last post, and I'm pretty disgusted with myself at how little (read: not at all) I blogged when I was in the US and China. In fact, by the looks of things the site … Continue reading Back in the saddle again…
Crossed Wires 