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  1. Re:http://bash.org/?5273 on What Bizarre IT Setups Have You Seen? · · Score: 1

    And he had the cheek to move the PHP script that controlled his X10 lighting (cron is a wonderful annoyance tool...)

  2. Re:of Software RAID on Upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy Eft a "Nightmare" · · Score: 1

    > This seems to be related to the change to UUID's ... which are about the only sensible way to enumerate disks on large systems, especially when you are arranging arrays with multiple paths.

    mdadm and dm-multipath *need* to give a disk some sort of id to be able to cope with not trashing your large multi terabyte tunes collection :-)

  3. TSM under debian on Using Debian in Commercial Environments? · · Score: 1

    The IBM RPM's for TSM work fine under debian

    I used "alien" to convert to .debs and did a dpkg -i ...

    Admittedly our TSM server is a large AIX box, but backing up /home from a debian stable system seems fine

  4. Adds a whole new meaning to... on Microsoft Rolls Out iLoo · · Score: 1

    Buffer overflow anybody?

  5. Marine Navigation on A Better Breed of GPS Software? · · Score: 1

    I ran across this problem last year when speccing up for marine software. All the nautical ones (for non SOLAS anyway) were windows based, Sure if you have a nice integrated bridge system it'll be some flavour of *NIX, but not joe average.

    One of the hassles (certainly for UK) is that ARCS (the admiralty raster charts) are _very_ expensive. oh, and dongle protected...