Friday was Canada Day, Monday is Independence Day. That makes it a very long weekend when you take stat holidays in Canada and report into a group in the US ($DAYJOB). As a result, I get to spend the Monday collecting any items that cropped up on the Friday and taking care of them before my compatriots south of the border have a look at them. This doesn’t really happen all that often, but it’s nice when it does.

I was just thinking about all of my past comments to the “Usual Suspects” about adding data from times long gone to the site. That reminded me that I once had a blog on Vox which closed last November (2010) and they provided a mechanism to convert the blog over to wordpress.com.

As it was going to vanish and I had actually bothered to post some items over there, I decided to do the migration and save the data. The actual process was much smoother then I expected it to be - the posts translated properly and looked good. As this was effectively a Q&D backup, I left it as a private blog, deciding that I’d move it here eventaully.

For those interested, Dan has posted the audio for the talks at BSDCan 2011:

The audio recordings for BSDCan 2011 are now available.

You can find them all listed here:

http://www.bsdcan.org/2011/audio/

Each talk in the schedule has a link to its audio (if available).
That is, find the talk in the schedule, and there will be a link to
the corresponding audio.

For example, at http://www.bsdcan.org/2011/schedule/events/256.en.html
you will see a section titled ‘Links’ and a link labeled ‘audio’.

Update: The contest has been close for new participants since May 31, 2011, so no value here *sigh* Voting also ends June 17 at midnight Pacific, so no chance of wining. On the other hand, the rest of the information is still of some value.

I was just looking up the model number for a drobo and I ended up hitting a hyperlink to a drobo contest. I have no information beyond the title of the page and the context of that page which seems to indicate that the entry with the most votes wins 100 drobo units. I’m guessing it’s a basic 4 bay model from the picture I saw briefly.

Title: June Meeting
Location: The Second Cup, Bells Corners
Description: We still don’t have a proper venue. I’m hoping to have that corrected by the end of the summer, so we have to suffer at a coffee shop for the moment.

No formal agenda, just whatever we come up with. I’m thinking it’s time to start messing with firewalls again, especially as I have two ISP connections now. Time to have a bake-off for M0n0wall vs. Smoothwall. I may try out a cisco ASA unit and if I can convince Bruce to help out, a small Fortigate unit.