Monthly Archives: November 2006

Xen troubles

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Paul Tomblin

Yesterday I went out to the colo to put another hard drive in my 1U box. I’ve shut down my box about 3 times now, and one of the times the third domU got a corrupt disk and had to … Continue reading →

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Gah! I used to do this for a living?

Posted on November 26, 2006 by Paul Tomblin

As part of my vacation recovery, I decided to submit a patch to make GPSBabel understand CoPilot version 4 files. I wrote the module for understanding CoPilot files back in 2002, but it only understood version 3. I decided to … Continue reading →

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QA versus development

Posted on November 26, 2006 by Paul Tomblin

On a mailing list somewhere I was musing about why I, as a developer, always find myself annoyed at QA. And that’s not good, because QA and development are partners in making sure that what we develop comes to the … Continue reading →

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Getting there.

Posted on November 26, 2006 by Paul Tomblin

I’ve gotten a few steps closer to moving everything that was on my Linode virtual private server over to my colocation box. Basically, the only thing left there is the hardest one to move, and that’s the navaid.com waypoint generator. … Continue reading →

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Now I’ve *really* had it with this guy.

Posted on November 23, 2006 by Paul Tomblin

Back in June, I wrote about how the Maintenance Coordinator for the club’s Lance is downright secretive. Today, Vicki, Laura and I went confidently out to the airport for a flight we’d scheduled last week, taking the Lance out to … Continue reading →

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