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Archive for August, 2006
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006Arcen
Friday, August 18th, 2006Last tuesday I cycled with some friends (about 11) to Arcen to visit the Hertog Jan brewery. The ~75km of cycling went pretty well — way better than expected. We stayed on a 4 star camping for the night and cycled back the next day.
Needless to say, this was a great experience and we all had a lot of fun.
Some photos were made, I’ll post them as soon as I get them.
WP 2.0.4
Friday, August 18th, 2006Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4.
As usual, slam the F5 button (or similar) once (or twice on stupid browsers) to invalidate the old stylesheets and images in the cache. If your browser is really stupid (*cough* IE *cough*), you might need to purge the whole cache manually, but that isn’t my concern 
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bcmap 0.1
Sunday, August 13th, 2006bcmap is a simply program to be linked against klibc to map Broadcom RAIDCORE disks to more sensible and stable device nodes.
Currently the bcraid drivers assign the next available sd node to a detected disk, which is very inconvenient when you have a usb stick inserted on boot which pushes your root disk from sda to sdb.
bcmap ensures that your first array will always be /dev/bca, which is a nice thing.
>>> bcmap-0.1.tar.bz2 (source code)
Licensed under the (holy) GNU GPL v.2
bcraid drivers part two
Saturday, August 5th, 2006Here’s a small patch that tweak the broadcom raid drivers for the bc4000 series to run on the latest kernels:
http://w-nz.com/~darkshines/projects/bcraid-2.1.0-bw1.patch
Note that it is everything but complete. Some other pointers getting the bcraid to work:
- Use sparse memory or conitguous memory instead of incontiguous memory in the memory layout configuration in the kernel. (
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y) - Enable the magic sysrq key (
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y)
At the moment I’m trying to get the bcraid module working in an initrd to allow the root partition on the raid drivers.
Oops
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006The mysql wasn’t enabled whilest updating dev-lang/php. This caused a big part of my website to fail to operate any longer after the update. I enabled and re-emerged and everything works fine again. Sorry ’bout the downtime.