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ADODB on FreeBSD

Posted on 2009-05-23 by Jim Vanderveen

Recently I’ve had one of my student assistants working on setting up a web server. She’s pretty much got it, except that she hasn’t been able to establish a connection from the web server to our database server. We’re wanting … Continue reading →

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DTV conversion

Posted on 2009-03-07 by Jim Vanderveen

My friends and family know that we generally don’t watch TV, so I haven’t been too worried about the digital television conversion issue. Likewise it was no big deal when I heard that the DTV-to-analog rebate program was suspended due … Continue reading →

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Arden Park hams

Posted on 2009-03-02 by Jim Vanderveen

I got my amateur radio (“ham”) license last week, but I haven’t posted my callsign very widely because I applied for a [vanity callsign](http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/vanity.html) as soon as I got my license. (It isn’t possible to apply for a vanity call … Continue reading →

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Xserve disk mirror repair

Posted on 2009-01-27 by Jim Vanderveen

Looking over the last few posts, I seem to be stuck in a rut. I apologize to readers looking for stories about our remodeling project, progress on Barb’s quilt shop, cooking, or other tales of home. Believe me when I … Continue reading →

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Duplicate DHCP leases

Posted on 2009-01-16 by Jim Vanderveen

We’ve been getting the following types of error messages on our DHCP server (running on FreeBSD): Jan 12 07:01:52 *someserver* dhcpd: uid lease 192.168.100.200 for client 00:12:34:56:78:9a is duplicate on 192.168.100/24 Google turned up a [helpful post][] which told me … Continue reading →

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Background fsck problems

Posted on 2009-01-14 by Jim Vanderveen

We had some trouble with our [FreeBSD][] systems over the holiday shutdown a few weeks ago. Our backup generator didn’t kick in during an extended power outage, and our UPS’s didn’t provide enough runtime to see us through. Result: all … Continue reading →

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Burning ISO images on a Mac

Posted on 2009-01-13 by Jim Vanderveen

I burn ISO images on my Mac fairly frequently, but not often enough to have the process committed to memory. In the past I’ve always followed the instructions I found in a macosxhints post. It works, but it has always … Continue reading →

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Metric recipe conversion-butter

Posted on 2008-12-11 by Jim Vanderveen

We have a few recipes from friends in France and Sweden that use metric measurements. Some of the volume-volume (e.g. 1 teaspoon=5 mL) or weight-weight (e.g. 500 g=1.1 pounds) conversions are pretty trivial. Other conversions are more difficult, and I … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving pictures

Posted on 2008-12-02 by Jim Vanderveen

I only took a few pictures of [our Thanksgiving feast][tg]. Fortunately, my cousins brought their cameras and didn’t hesitate to use them (and share)! I’ve included a few crowd shots from Greg and Cal. They also allowed me to add … Continue reading →

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