Food

Our milk better not be off. I want breakfast.

Almost done...

Café Theologica (Christian Ed Unit) is almost done. Yay! By almost, I mean that we only need to do cuts, one final listen through and then produce én mass!

Yay!

It's been a while...

But I think it's time that I journal my life again. Everything has been a bit crazy recently. I'm starting to get a cold, my wife is working out if she does or doesn't have thyroid cancer (the odds are on that not being the case, but it's still not easy...), we've shot our feature film for PY Winter Camp 'Sticky Sam' and I've been pretty flat out at work - editing, dealing with Telstra, doing network admin...

Obadiah (the dead server) is working well now. Haven't had to do much with it. New ADSL connection is fast and reliable. Plato (a server I have a little bit to do with) works too.

I'm listening to a theology session on Jesus and the Church. It's interesting. We've talked about Israel and their place in everything, and we've also talked about who Jesus is. I think We're trying to answer the question "Jesus fits in as the Messiah, but what really does that mean?".

I have food in the cupboard, and I'm not too hungry either.

Cubase SL3 is much better than Cubase SX3. Apparently there isn't supposed to be any major difference there, but I can assert that there really is. It also works better on Windows that MacOSX I think... but I'm not sure.

So yes. This is boring. I will find something interesting to write about later... but yes... life is fun. And God is good. Praise him.

The Da Vinci Code

This article comes highly recommended from a friend. It's worth a read.

I'm going to write a gospel...

Well. Secrets of the Da Vinci Code is on TV at the moment. They are having a debate about whether Jesus was married to Mary Magdaline. It's quite an interesting argument. There is a bunch of scholars that have no international credibility in the history field, but still have published books promoting their crazy historical ideas. But that's not what makes it interesting. What's interesting is that they are basing their rediculous claims on historical fiction.
So I'm going to write a book. I'm going to claim that I have found the secrets of life, the universe and everything - and that it has been passed down to me through my family line since not just Jesus' time, but from Moses. You see, my great (great)+ (that's a regular expression that says to repeat at least once more, and as many times as you can) is actually Moses. And he said that what is written in the Torah about the Israelites seeking the promised land is actually all a folk tale. In fact, I have sole claim to this land, and I should start a new nation there. Or I could not. I think I need to refine it to make it more believable. I'll work on that :-)

It works... and it's tested

I don't think there are any outstanding problems either!

Hallelujah!

Write more later!

It's up...

Well... it's finally back. I might post detailed instructions on what I did and some of the pitfalls or reinstall qmail on a server tomorrow, but for the moment it's safe enough to say that there a lot of hidden traps for those who are not wise when they enter into these arrangements!
Hallelujah. Praise God!

Interesting facts...

According to the Translation Dashboard object in Tiger... Translating
"I like bing lee" from English to french means: J'aime la lie de terril
which in turn means "I like the dregs of spoil heap".
If I then translate that back to french, I get J'aime les restes du dépôt, which apparently means I like the remainders of the deposit in English.
So, it is obvious that "I like Bing Lee" is actually supposed to mean "I like the remainders of the deposit" - but I take no responsibility for discovering this slight quirk of translation. Mr Lee - please don't sue me - I have no money!

Mac OSX Developing with Core Data

Developing with Core Data
This useful page has more useful information about developing with Core Data in OSX than any of the help documents. Read on!

How many files can one directory take...

And so the saga continues. More and more problems are being unearthed.
This time it's that my php session garbage collector hasn't been collecting garbage. There is at least 500 000 files in my php session directory... which is about 500 000 too many. Deleting it is fun, because rm * doesn't really work - it's got too many files...
That's where we become friends with a little program called xargs. This takes a bunch of consecutive command line printouts and combines them into the arguments of a program. or something like that.
Using it and the find program, you can make a very pretty little... well... one line program that finds all the files in a directory and removes them, 1000 files at a time.
And that's what we've been doing for about 20 minutes. Keep in mind we probably remove 1000 files a second. So that's probably about 1.2 million, or a few more. It would have been interesting to know how many went, but I really really have no way of knowing. Any script that would count them would just be to complicated, memory hungry and inaccurate now anyway :-)
Very sleepy ... but not hungry.

Copying large volumes of files on FreeBSD

So - somewhere in copying my php_sesions directory I have discovered that cp and NFS aren't really good ways to do backups. So, I'm trying rsync and NFS. If that doesn't work, then I'll have to try rsync with an rsync server. In reality, that's probably the smarter thing, but who really knows :-)
Now I know that jenfafa has been complaining that she doesn't really understand, so I thought I should give a bit of a dictionary lesson.
FreeBSD - An operating System (like Windows or Mac OS X) based on the BSD Unix. It looks a bit like DOS, but is a lot more powerful and better than Windows. Good for running servers
Partition - A way of dividing up Hard Disk Drives
NFS - Network File System is a way of connecting computers over networks and allowing them to access files on eachothers hard drives
cp - The Unix Program used to copy files between computers
rsync - A Unix Utility that allows you to copy large numbers of files between computers for backup purposes etc.

I'm sure there are other terms... but NCIS is on and I'm hooked... hmm... will write more later!

So here is the problem...

Bad sectors or something. For the moment the rwts.com.au and associated domains are all down - including email and anything else. While that's happening, I'm moving about 15GB of data across a slowish connection (I think i'm maxing at about 800kb/s), and then as a short term solution I'm going to mount the problem partition over NFS and use it that way. It will be slow, but at least services will be up rather than dead.

So I am...

annoyed
adjective
the debate moderator was clearly annoyed
irritated, cross, angry, vexed, exasperated, irked, piqued, displeased, put out, disgruntled, chagrined, nettled, in a bad mood, in a temper; informal aggravated, peeved, miffed, riled; teed off, ticked off, sore, bent out of shape.

But i lied...

Still not working...

It seems to work... for now...

I incereased

kern.maxfiles to 32768 and
kern.maxfilesperproc to 32768

and it now seems to work. We'll just wait and see how we go from here!

Maybe this is the problem

There is a rumor that a server may not respond correctly if the max file descriptors value is not correctly set. So I'm checking that out now.

If you have other suggestions... i'm curious :-)

Sunday School...

Is fun... and went well. We're back home now. The dodgy brothers went off!

Next week, Adrian is going to give his testimony with the Kids. Abra is helping Bec as well. While we're in tamworth.

In other news, I now have the installers I need to start putting stuff back on my laptop. Isn't that fun :-)

Oh... and Dad's surgery went well. Praise God! It's easy in the business of my life to forget about that... something which really saddens me. I really wanted to go see him last night, but just couldn't make the time. I think I need to change that. I'm going to see him today, come rain hail or shine.

Anyway... cést la vie...

Tiger

Is nice. And fast.

And now my mail works.

Hallelujah.

And on that note, I'm bedding now.

It's Back!

Well... it appears that my server suffered from a bit of a disk issue. A quick fsck ( man fsck ) fixed up all of the problems. So now, it boots. I've decided that backing up important directories is a good thing to do, and I will probably take the time to write a little script to do that over the next few days.

Church is tomorrow, and I need to do some stuff. Now I can (hopefully) get access to my email, I should actually be able to put a service sheet together. I'm planning to get up at 7:30am - it's about 1:30am now... so that could be an interesting experience.

Anyways... back to... well... something :-)

It's Back!

Well... it appears that my server suffered from a bit of a disk issue. A quick fsck ( man fsck ) fixed up all of the problems. So now, it boots. I've decided that backing up important directories is a good thing to do, and I will probably take the time to write a little script to do that over the next few days.

Church is tomorrow, and I need to do some stuff. Now I can (hopefully) get access to my email, I should actually be able to put a service sheet together. I'm planning to get up at 7:30am - it's about 1:30am now... so that could be an interesting experience.

Anyways... back to... well... something :-)