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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 (7)

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)