Monthly Meeting this Thursday at AlteraI just spent the weekend at
BSDcan 2004, the first BSD conference in Canada. Turnout was
considerably higher than expected (something like 175 vs 75), making it
a complete success. There were some very interesting presentations, and
we even managed to tape about 1/3 of them.
I’ll be bringing one copy of freeBSD 4.8 and one copy of netBSD 1.5.3 to
the meeting to give away. I would have liked to get a few more copies,
but they all magically vanished.
I finally got around to getting the newer version installed.Of course,
the backup I did from the previous server (e-smith based) was considered
lost, as the default backups only include a limited subset of the
system, and I thought I had forgotten to use the built-in backup tool.
I found the backup, but I’m not sure where the corruption happened last
time, and this version is currently working. I think I’ll hold off on
screwing with it until it’s soaked overnight.
I have been rather emiss in the maintenance of the site. I had made an
attempt to upgrade the system, and it resulted in major corruption of
the back end database. Attempts to recover and go back were not
completely successful. A new version will be installed next week, along
with a different server machine. It will be a clean install, and I will
be attempting to copy over data from the current database. I doubt
anything of real value is here, so we might be starting clean.
If you didn’t notice the block on the left, there is a meeting this
Thursday at Altera, same as usual. Paul Garrett (N-Able Technologies) is
planning on presenting on extending the AD schema.
Please try to be there by 19:00, and there should be a sign with a
number to call.
If you didn’t notice the calendar icon, the meeting for this month is
this Thursday.We even have a prepared topic this time around. Paul
Garrett is willing to talk about extending the active directory schema
and display specifiers if it would be of any interest.
I think so, as Active Directory appears to be part of most of our lives.
At least we could get some useful info into it.