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Name: Berend de Boer
Member since: 2001-01-02 07:50:46
Last Login: 2010-02-09 19:11:41

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Homepage: http://www.berenddeboer.net/

Notes: I'm a software engineer, currently working for Xplain Hosting as Senior Drupal specialist.

My main interest is in web applications, and I prefer to write then in Eiffel. The most interesting class of web applications are business process systems, in which I specialise. I'm also busy with Eiffel free software projects. I maintain the Cetus Links Eiffel pages.

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6 Feb 2010 »

Problem solving day I think. Needed to make a copy of DVD on FreeBSD. Used the command:

growisofs -Z /dev/acd0 -dvd-video /path/

But this aborted with:

:-( unable to CAMGETPASSTHRU for /dev/acd0: 
Inappropriate ioctl for device

It appeared I had to do two things: make sure the atapicam driver is loaded and when done, use the proper device, i.e. the cd not the ac0 driver:

kldload atapicam
growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -dvd-video /path/

Loading this driver is best done at boot in /boot/loader.conf where I also enabled dma:

hw.ata.atapi_dma="1"
atapicam_load="YES"

6 Feb 2010 »

That was a struggle. Installed Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic which should postgresql for user authentication. Had this worked out perfectly on Ubuntu 8.04 but things have changed considerably since then. Just copying the files let to really weird errors.

For example just typing in passwd would give:

passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged

This was actually caused by me loading pam_pgsql as before:

password   required     pam_pgsql.so

But now it needs to be:

password        [success=1 user_unknown=ignore default=die]     
pam_pgsql.so use_authtok try_first_pass

etc. Users couldn't login any more, only if you used ssh keys.

Googled for hours. Now I understand the issues better, I understand this guy has his settings correct if you're looking for an example (he uses ldap, but just replace that with pgsql).

The only thing that worries me is that it seems that pam_pgsql.conf needs to be world-readable now. That didn't use to be the case somehow.

14 Dec 2009 »

One of the most famous economists died last week:

Just before the fall of communism in the thirteenth edition (1989), Samuelson and Nordhaus declared, "the Soviet economy is proof that, contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, a socialist command economy can function and even thrive." Six years later in the fifteenth edition (1995) they noted that Soviet Communism was a "failed model"). He did not have much to say about the free market success stories, from West Germany's post war recovery, or the success of countries Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. If it couldn't be traced to a government program, it wasn't that interesting.

And it's people like him who are advising the people in power, wherever you live.

10 Dec 2009 »

Tried to upload a .mp4 file with gtkpod, but it wouldn't let me.

The solution appears to be:

apt-get install libmp4v2-0

10 Dec 2009 »

Scary thing happened to me. I had my FreeBSD server lock up fairly randomly. Recently got a very consistent lockup: when doing a backup. Always one particular disk (only 1 partition) caused a lockup. On the console you could still switch console screens, but you couldn't type. Also was pingable, but you couldn't ssh in. fsck never helped.

Moved all data to a different disk, rebuild the file system, and it now appears to work fine. Not nice. Must be some very weird problem.

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