Author: daveg

Remote syslogging

Today I was setting up centralised syslogging at work to some plain old syslogd server. I’ve only really setup up centralised syslogging with syslog-ng before.

Anyway, in the syslogd man page, is said to send the syslogs of a server to both the central syslog server and locally, with entries like this in /etc/syslog.conf:

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages,@hostname

For some reason that didn’t work at all. Depending on how I did it, it either only went to the central syslog server, or it just wouldn’t log at all. I ended up having to do it like this:

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none @hostname

I managed to find that piece of information on the LinuxSA mailing list.

2 Years

Well yesterday Rozie and I celebrated the 2nd anniversary since we got married. I can’t believe its actually been two years. It seems like ages ago since we went and celebrated our first anniversary at harbourkitchen&bar. To celebrate, we had dinner at Luke Mangan’s Salt in Darlinghurst. Managed to pile in 4 courses which included oysters with soy, leek & wasabi dressing, quail tempura, goats cheese stuffed tempura of zucchini flowers, filled with goats cheese & green olives, beef with porcini curd, Rozie the mint crusted breast of guinea fowl dish for main and we shared a warm chocolate tart that just beautifully melted everywhere for dessert. It was nice, made even better by turning off the phone and ignoring my calls from the helpdesk until I got home 😀 (Thanks go out to my oncall backup though…)

Update: Mel informed me that perhaps I should be saying that time has gone quickly since Rozie and I have been married. Thanks Mel 😛 It seems like ages, because time has gone so quickly… 🙂

New Dark Comedy album coming

Dark Comedy - Funk Faker

Update 30/09/2004: Looks like they’re back in again.

Update: Looks like all the copies over at Disk Union are gone

Oh, and it looks like its already available in Japan.

DARK COMEDY-MUSIC SAVES MY SOUL

SELF-OBSESSION, it’s the 21st century epidemic. M-m-my generation has become the me-me-me generation and reality has become a TV show which turns our next door neighbours into stars that flicker and die in the blink of an eye. It’s Warhol’s fifteen minutes reductio ad absurdum, Alice navel-gazing through the looking glass. And while our cathode ray icons relentlessly chant “mirror, mirror on the wall …” the myth of Narcissus – condemned to waste away adoring his own image – seems entirely apposite.
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OpenPower

Yeah, baby. Got to get me one of these sweet IBM OpenPower servers. OK, I know, they’re pretty much a pSeries without the AIX license, but hey. Its niiiice. Now I can have a 64-bit Power series CPU machine without having to pay any money for an AIX or OSX license.

I do wonder whether this server without the AIX license is a response the ongoing SCO vs IBM nonsense

Vapourous

Reading this article over at Wired makes me all sentimental. It reminds of when I first started buying Wired, and when I first started working in IT. Everything felt so new, exciting and crazy promises like being able to run any application on any operating system on any hardware platform with very little overhead, like Transitive Corporation are promising with their QuickTransit “hardware virtualization” product.

I’ll believe it when I see it…

Stateless Linux

This sounds interesting, Stateless Linux.

the goal: a uniform framework to cover all common ways of instantiating a centralized OS install read-only on multiple physical or virtual computers

This could be great for some of the server environments we have here at work. The IBM blade servers come to mind immediately for me, but I guess it doesn’t need to be just for that. Anyway, here’s the fedora-devel-list announcement, a proposal PDF document, a How To and some rpm packages.

Dreams

I’ve been having quite a few dreams lately which feature people who I used know or were friends. The thing that bothers me is that I’d rather not dream about them. I really wish they’d stop bothering me and let me sleep in peace. Is that too much to ask?

The Donnie Darko soundtrack you want to buy but can’t

From Art of the Mix via Beta:

  1. Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
  2. INXS – Never Tear Us Apart
  3. Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels
  4. Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
  5. Duran Duran – Notorious
  6. Steve Baker & Carmen Daye – For Whom the Bell Tolls
  7. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
  8. The Church – Under the Milky Way
  9. Tears for Fears – Mad World
  10. Gary Jules – Mad World (cover)

A collection of all the 80’s songs that weren’t on the original Donnie Darko soundtrack.

Meh to Gmail

Wow, so everyone is getting gmail for their little 1Gb email boxes. Looking on dorja:

Disk quotas for user daveg (uid xxx): none

And there’s seems to be about 19.5Gb free at the moment as well… *cough* 😉

I wouldn’t mind checking out gmailfs though.

WWN: RIVER OF BEER DISCOVERED IN GERMANY

From the authoritive Weekly World News:

A PREVIOUSLY undiscovered natural river of beer has been found deep in Germany’s Black Forest.

The existence of the Krautlager River, as it has been named, came as a pleasant surprise to most Germans as it is not even charted in maps of their legendary forest. The river of beer is believed to be the result of a fluke of nature.

Synergy

I nice piece of software that I haven’t come across before is Synergy, which is I guess acts as a virtual KVM for two or more computers. Swapping control between the computers (Windows, Linux, various Un*xes and Mac OS X) is as easy as moving your mouse to the edge of the screen onto the other one. And it supports full cut and paste between the two computers. And its free.

Imagination – Just an Illusion

Imagination - Just an Illusion

Searching for a destiny that’s mine
There’s another place another time
Touching many hearts along the way
Hoping that I’ll never have to say

It’s just an illusion

Follow your emotion anywhere
Is it really magic in the air
Never let your feeling get you down
Open your eyes and look around

It’s just an illusion

Could it be that it’s just an illusion
Putting me back in all this confusion
Could it be that it’s just an illusion
Now

Could it be a picture in my mind
Never sure exactly what I’ll find
Only in my dreams I turn you on
Here for just a moment then you’re gone

Could it be that it’s just an illusion
Putting me back in all this confusion
Could it be that it’s just an illusion
Now

Dungeons and Dragons Turns 30

Its seems like an eternity ago that I used to huddle in one the art classrooms that our art teacher Mr Dawson used to let us play Dungeons and Dragons and other role playing games during our lunch break with other nerdy pals of mine. Alas I gave up on it by part of the way through year 8, but my other friends carried on, making their way into magic cards, RPG conventions and live role playing. Even though it was a small part of me growing up (I never really quite got the grasp of it due to the fact that I never owned any D&D books and some other unnamed people deemed not smart enough to figure out the rules, so they just didn’t tell me squat at all), it is something that I look back fondly on.

Anyway, Happy 30th Birthday Dungeons and Dragons. I roll my 20 sided die in your honour 😀