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Scrumming

So now I’m a Certified Scrum Master, or at least I will be once the paperwork is submitted and checked. Right now it’s a fairly painless process, you show up to a seminar, take part in an active way, and emerge at the end certified by the instructor. In a few months people will have [...]

2009 06 24 Project Management Comments (3)

Cloudy Ideas

Many people outside the knitting world probably don’t think about the fact that knitters have conferences too, where they register for classes taught by famous people at some venue. Recently a famous knitter (Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka Yarnharlot) organised such an event. I think she got some bad advice from her IT people, whoever they were, [...]

2009 06 03 Comments (3)

OpenSolaris and ddclient

I have some minor sites running on the basement OpenSolaris box, and since our IP address changes regularly, I use ddclient to notify DynDNS of the changes. It was working just fine on the old Debian box, but of course OpenSolaris does things differently, and the ddclient package doesn’t come with all the bits you [...]

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2009 03 19 Comments (5)

Domain Registrars?

I’m thinking of registering a couple of domains. GoDaddy annoyed me with their lame Superbowl ads, and their registration system is equally annoying (far too many screens, all with options I have completely zero interest in). Does anyone have recommendations for good basic registrars? What I want is basic .com|.org|.net, as well as .ca (separate [...]

2009 02 23 Comments (16)

OpenSolaris Hostname on DHCP

By default, OpenSolaris doesn’t broadcast the hostname on the local network, just the IP address. To rectify this, find out what network interface you have (often nge0) by running ifconfig -a. It’ll be the one with the IP address given by the router (i.e., not 127.0.0.1). Then, as root, edit the file /etc/default/dhcpagent. Find the [...]

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2009 02 17 Comments (0)

Re-routing

One of the things I’ve wanted to do for a while was move the firewall/router and minor web sites served from an old Pentium 3 in the basement to a more modern solution. I’ve blogged some of the journey, starting with the motivation and moving through the todo list. Yesterday was the day for the [...]

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2009 02 09 Comments (2)