Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
VMware recently released version 4.0 of VMware Fusion, their virtualisation solution for Mac OS X. I tried out the new version on my Mac Pro under Mac OS X Snow Leopard yesterday. The update from VMware 3.1.3 to 4.0.1 worked absolutely smoothly. I didn’t even have to reboot my Mac. Both of my virtual machines [...]
NetBSD has supported S.M.A.R.T. for a long time. But this functionality is well hidden. You can enable S.M.A.R.T. and check a single disk like this: # atactl wd0 smart enable SMART supported, SMART enabled # atactl wd0 smart status SMART supported, SMART enabled id value thresh crit collect reliability description raw 1 200 51 yes online [...]
Yesterday evening I discovered thousands of lines like these in my server’s mail logfile: Jun 12 08:58:37 colwyn postfix/smtpd[25605]: warning: unknown[212.154.6.176]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed: PDM3MjM3NzE1Mzk1NjU1MDEuMTMwNzg2NTUxNUBjb2x3eW4uemhhZHVtLm9yZy51az4= Jun 12 08:58:44 colwyn postfix/smtpd[25605]: warning: unknown[212.154.6.176]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed: PDU0MDA0NDczMjgzNjU2NDAuMTMwNzg2NTUyMkBjb2x3eW4uemhhZHVtLm9yZy51az4= [...] Jun 12 23:00:15 colwyn postfix/smtpd[12864]: warning: unknown[212.154.6.176]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed: PDQ2NjM4MzI0NTAyNTQ2ODIuMTMwNzkxNjAxM0Bjb2x3eW4uemhhZHVtLm9yZy51az4= Jun 12 23:00:26 colwyn [...]