samba ADS nightmares

Posted by Benjamin Close on February 2, 2009 under OpenSource, UniSA | Be the First to Comment

Recently Ben and I have been trying to get a FreeBSD box to join an Active Directory domain. The domain controller was running Windows Server 2008. After a *lot* of stuffing around to get this working we finally found the solution to our problem – the version of samba. You see the problem we were [..more..]

Climate Considerations

Posted by Benjamin Close on January 29, 2009 under Country Living | Be the First to Comment

Australian Climate Zones

A list of decisions we’ve made when designing our new house, to maximise thermal comfort for our climate zone.

Submitted to Council, though problems persist

Posted by Benjamin Close on January 23, 2009 under Country Living | Be the First to Comment

Access Track for our block

After having the day off yesterday, Carly and I did a lot of ringing around to try and find out the state of things. Turns out that the second lot of engineering has now been done. Talking to Amanda at Format Homes, we were told that all had now been submitted to council – Which [..more..]

Welcome to Lot 723 One Tree Hill Road, Gould Creek

Posted by Benjamin Close on January 21, 2009 under Country Living | 4 Comments to Read

Lot 723 One Tree Hill Road

Welcome to the first in many articles about the creation of Carly and my dream paradise at Lot 723, One Tree Hill Road, Gould Creek, South Australia, Australia On the 29th of August 2008, Carly and I became the proud owners of 16.8 acres of land at Gould Creek,  South Australia.  The block is located [..more..]

Raid Status Script

Posted by Benjamin Close on under Other | Be the First to Comment

One thing that has always bugged me about the free operating systems is a lack of notification when things go wrong. In particular I run a FreeBSD server at home that has a SATA RAID 1 using a Promise controller in particular: atapci0: <Promise PDC20371 SATA150 controller> port 0xc000-0xc03f,0xc400-0xc40f,0xc800-0xc87f mem 0xde031000-0xde031fff,0xde000000-0xde01ffff irq 11 at device [..more..]

Adding Multiple Mice Support to FLTK using MPX

Posted by Benjamin Close on November 25, 2008 under OpenSource, UniSA | 6 Comments to Read

Details about adding multiple mice support to the FLTK toolkit