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Molenheide Belgium

On June 12, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko

In an hour, I will drive to Vlaardingen together with Luca to pickup Denise. We are then heading towards the Molenheide in Belgium. Why? Because Snow organised their annual spring-weekend. The kids are invited so Luca and Denise will travel along. I fear that we will hit high traffic near Eindhoven, but lets see how things resolve :-) . When we pass Eindhoven we will lookout for other Snow cars; there should be a few of them around there. Luckily after Eindhoven we are nearly there.

On sunday we will return in the midday, after that I’ll write up a little story and put in some pictures :)

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A BSD Magazine article

On June 11, 2009, In FreeBSD, Weblog, by Remko

At the beginning of this year I was asked by the BSD Magazine people to write an article. I asked what the idea was and I was told that I could emphasize on security, or the installation of FreeBSD and things like that. But then in a way to that everyone can understand it. Also I knew that I was going to move out of the house within limited time, so I agreed writing it if I could have some help.

Jeremy Reed, Michael Lucas and Murray Stokely helped where possible and it resulted in a very nice article. The issue should be out soon, so you are invited to order the issue of http://www.bsdmag.org and read the article I wrote. It goes about installing FreeBSD 7.1 (yeah it applies to 7.2 as well for whats it worth :) ). So stay tuned!

20090612: In addition you can download/order it from here: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdmag.05?id=HtzwqhCU&mv_pc=105.

If you read it, I am ofcourse interested in seeing what you think about it, so do not hesitate to let me know!

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FreeBSD – clang

On June 6, 2009, In FreeBSD, by Remko

[lang_en]Ed Schouten started working on a FreeBSD - clang project. He did this by importing clang into a project repository and making sure that a 'make buildkernel' succeeds. (If I followed correctly). I believe this is one of the steps that he will be taking to get the LLVM compiler suitable for FreeBSD, and perhaps eventually replacing the GNU licensed gcc compiler. That (like his TTY work) would be one hell of a job! Please poke ed@FreeBSD.org if you are interested in helping![/lang_en]

[lang_nl]Ed Schouten is begonnen met het werken aan het FreeBSD - clang project. Hij is hiermee begonnen door clang in een project repository te importeren, en ervoor zorg te dragen dat een `make buildkernel' slaagt (Als ik het goed gevolgd had). Ik denk dat dit een belangrijke stap is om te zorgen dat de LLVM compiler geschikt wordt voor FreeBSD, welke wellicht ooit de GNU gcc compiler kan vervangen. Net als zijn TTY werk zou dit een onwijs gaaf iets zijn. Neem contact op met ed@FreeBSD.org als je geinteresseerd bent om te helpen![/lang_nl]

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FreeBSD 8.0 Slush

On June 6, 2009, In FreeBSD, Weblog, by Remko

[lang_en]The FreeBSD 8.0 code slush had been announced. This means that large projects are no longer allowed to do "drive by commits" to the head branch, but that there is an organisation behind it that checks everything and makes sure there are enough people to cover the project and make sure it's in the best possible shape before the release. The release will take a little to get going, but the process had been started. From here on the team will have to manouver through a pipe that keeps getting smaller and smaller. If your favorite new feature is not in yet, don't hold your breath because this might mean that it will take a little longer to get it in a first -RELEASE installation. Stay tuned![/lang_en]

[lang_nl]De FreeBSD 8.0 code slush is aangekondigd! Dit betekent dat grotere projecten niet meer zomaar mogen committen in de HEAD branch maar dat er een organisatie achter zit die alles controleert, en ervoor zorg draagt dat er genoeg mensen zijn die het project dragen en kunnen zorgen dat het in de best mogelijke staat is voordat de release plaatsvind. De release duurt nog wel even, maar het proces is in eder geval gestart. Vanaf hier moet het team zich manouvreren in een steeds kleiner wordende pijp. Als je favoriete nieuwe feature er nog niet in zat, zou ik mijn adem niet inhouden, omdat het wellicht een tijd langer duurt voordat het in een -RELEASE installatie komt. Houd het in de gaten![/lang_nl]

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Backups restored

On June 5, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko

Make backups. That's one of the lessons learned after reinstalling Nakur. I transfered back all files to the machine, and most functionality is completely restored. This could only be done because of backups that I had available with rsnapshot. rsnapshot under FreeBSD is maintained by Ralf v Dooren, a Snow collegue! and works best for this to get the backups back at home...

There is one pity though, the upload speed is capped at 1mbit. This makes restoring large backups a bit more problematic. Even if you have all data (OK I now have a full SQL backup script running everyday instead of periodically), you also depend on the speed with which it can be restored. If that speed is inadequate it makes restoring painful.

I toyed with the hetzner backup FTP server and I am using Duplicity with a given password, so that I have "local" backups available, which can be transfered at multiple megabits, a full backup took ~ 4 hours, which makes it double that amount max to restore (I like to take the times bigger then they really are). That's better then 5 full days (5x24hours) :-) .

So, speed is also important :-)

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