If you want to sync to a time server other than the default apple provided ones you can enter the address into the box in the ‘Date & Time’ preference pane. To enter multiple servers seperate them with spaces as show in the image below. All this actually does is write the information out to /etc/ntp.conf and restarts the ntp daemon. Remember that the file will get overwritten when you access the preference pane though.

If you need to initialise a raid1 volume with linux software raid but you currently only have a single disk available, use this:

mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level 1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/hda1

You can then mkfs /dev/md1 and then mount and use it as normal. When your second disk is available you can add it into the raid with this command:

mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/sda5

Now the raid will begin to sync, cat /proc/mdstat to check the sync progress

Couldn’t really visit the new forest without popping into Lymington and sitting by the Harbour side for a while watching the boats go by.

On solaris mounting a .iso via loopback is a little different to linux, first you need to use lofiadm to add a file as a loopback device, then you can mount it in the normal way. An example is below:

# lofiadm -a /u01/tmp/java_es_05Q1-ga1-solaris-x86-1.iso /dev/lofi/1
# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt/jes/1/

Back in November 2002 I spent a weekend over in Brussels with Roly

Fruity puds 🙂

En-route back to London we stopped off at the Devil’s Punch Bowl for a bit of a stroll. Very nice view, and my first real go at landscape photography.

I happened to have my zoom lens on the camera when this bird flew overhead, I held the shutter down to see if I would get anything decent. I took about 10 shots but this is the only one that came out ok.

While waiting for the Trafalgar 200 fireworks to start, I started playing around. This was done by pulling the zoom during a 5 second exposure.

One of my all time favorite aircraft, I love the gull wings.