Unlikely Bedfellows

A long while ago, when I was still green behind the years and was living in the Institute with Tree Lined Avenues, I was gifted one of those little plastic plaques with a pithy message written on it.

It read thus:

If you love something, set it free;
If it comes back, it is yours.
If it does not, it never was.

Renaming a mountpoint

A friend at work noticed something interesting. On his Solaris box, he tried the following:

$ mkdir /mnt1; rm -fR /mnt2
$ mount /dev/dsk/somedisk /mnt1
$ mv /mnt1 /mnt2
$ mkdir /mnt1

Assembly in DragonFly

I posted this on the DragonFly users mailing list ages ago, posting it here for my reference.

I was trying out a simple assembly “Hello World” under DragonFly, and found that one needed to do a little more than “as -o hello.o hello.s; ld -o hello hello.o” to get it to work. So here’s what I did:

Firewalled :(

ARGH!

The administrator minion bots of the Empire that controls my workplace have struck. Ports that allowed one to connect to the outside world have now been blocked by these mindless bots. Which means that I’m now unable to run cvsup to update my DragonFly source tree.

I have to think of other means of updating my DF source tree now. Nothing irritates me more than someone forcing me to think!

Also discovered that most of the posts that I imported from my previous blog have had their formatting mangled horrendously here. I just don’t have the time to go and fix every one of my sixty-four last posts. Moreover, the “visual rich editor” that WP offers doesn’t have a quick-fix “justify right AND left” button.

Grrrr.

Update:
Thanks to the ever helpful and friendly DF mailing list, I am now armed with other ways of updating my DF source tree :) Snapshots of the source are available for download as tarballs, and there’s mercurial. I also discovered that plain vanilla CVS works. I’m going the mercurial way.