This ‘fake’ movie trailer is extremely funny (be aware, you need to be a geek to agree)
If only there was a real movie! would be very nice!!

This commercial for Oracle and Trailer for Iron Man is out for a little while now,
just forgot to post it here.

If you haven seen it already, enjoy!

I was searching how to auto select HD when you link to a youtube movie.
Actually it’s not so difficult, say your movie link is

• http://youtube.com/watch?v=0EAw0pMKxlc

To auto select the HD movie add &hd=1

• http://youtube.com/watch?v=0EAw0pMKxlc&hd=1

But playing a HD movie in a little window is a little bit to stupid imho, so change your url to this to stretch it over the whole window

• http://youtube.com/v/0EAw0pMKxlc&hd=1

Then to let it run automatically add the following

• http://youtube.com/v/0EAw0pMKxlc&hd=1&autoplay=1

This is Mi-U, I was playing with my HD Sony HandyCam.
I slowed this video down to 50% of the original using iMovie

Isn’t she cute?

I created this movie to show you my view on what we do with our oceans isn’t right. We worry about how we kill sheep, cows, pigs, … but what about these animals living in/near the sea?

Today my UPS’es made themselves usefull.

$ grep apcupsd /var/log/messages
Feb 24 13:02:39 soekris apcupsd[1369]: Power failure.
Feb 24 13:02:45 soekris apcupsd[1369]: Running on UPS batteries.
Feb 24 13:41:27 soekris apcupsd[1369]: Mains returned. No longer on UPS batteries.
Feb 24 13:41:27 soekris apcupsd[1369]: Power is back. UPS running on mains.

I must say the UPS with my OpenSolaris laptop and 2 external ZFS disks  on came close to a shutdown because the battery was almost empty.

I had enough with the old layout, it was ok but I needed a change.. So I ended up with this and then realized that my site changed the same way sun.com did. From blue to red. I think I spend to much time on those sites.

I will try to post some more soon..

I wanted some backup in case the power went down at home, not that it happens every day or even month but it happens. there was always a problem after such an event, not all the discs were found on my opensolaris (usb disk with a very low spin up time) or it was stuck on the boot archive. So I bought me two of these UPS’es, each for about €80 and they have a usb cable to monitor them! I hooked one to my soekris downstairs wich runs openbsd and one to my backup/media server running opensolaris. here is what I did to configure them from the source on http://www.apcupsd.org/

Installation on OpenSolaris:
First of all, when you plug it in you’ll see this on opensolaris:
Jul  2 20:56:34 OpenSolaris usba: [ID 349649 kern.info]         APC Back-UPS ES 550 FW:828.D3 .I USB FW:D3  3B0???X?????
Now you need to install SUNWgmake and download the usb.h header file

# pkg install SUNWgmake
# cd /usr/sfw/include
# wget http://src.opensolaris.org/source/raw/sfw/usr/src/lib/libusb/inc/usb.h
-> unpack the apcupsd tarball and cd into it.
# ./configure –enable-usb
# gmake
# gmake install
-> cd to the config files in /etc/opt/apcupsd

Installation on OpenBSD:
You’ll get this when you plug it in
ugen0 at uhub0 port 1 “APC Back-UPS ES 550 FW:828.D3 .I USB FW:D3″ rev 1.10/1.06 addr 2

-> unpack the apcupsd tarball and cd into it.
# ./configure –enable-usb
# gmake
# gmake install
-> cd to the config files in /etc/apcupsd

On both operating systems you need to at least have these settings:
UPSCABLE usb
UPSTYPE usb
DEVICE

On OpenSolaris you need to reconfigure before starting apcupsd so do:
# touch /reconfigure && init 6
-> apcupsd will start automatic now, check the status with:
# /etc/opt/apcupsd/sbin/apcaccess status

On OpenBSD you need to edit /etc/rc.local so apcupsd will start automaticly then check the status with:
# /sbin/apcaccess status

Don’t forget to read the manual! a point of intrest:
*BSD: http://www.apcupsd.org/manual/manual.html#known-bsd-usb-issues

I have two 1TB Maxtor basic drives connected to my opensolaris box. On there I run a ZFS mirror. All working well, maybe not on mega speeds but fairly enough for home use (it does stream movies to my AppleTV with XBMC over smb) The downside I discovered later, is that they auto sleep after 15minutes of being idle and I will tell you this, ZFS doesn’t like this feature… I fixed this with a crontab writing a tmp file in a directory on the disk but that gave me some unwanted problems in some cases. This morning I was fed up with it and I wanted a good solution and it seems, there is one… but the application doesn’t have a lot of functions when you use it on MacOSX it appeared… so you really need to do this on a windows computer (scary huh) so here is the application. Have fun!

I’ve been playing with Round Robin Databases and rrdgraph. So I needed some data.. and te target was the connections per minute to my ntpd server. check it out here: https://sunrise.yakuza.be/ntp/. I must say it’s easyer then I tought.

What do you think of the result?