Novell Netware

I just finished writing Novell Netware support for Full Spectrum Backup. It was fun - ncpmount is very easy to use on Linux. I ended up storing credentials, and having the front-end invoke a shell script (also run by rc.local on boot) - and voila, it actually works!

Novell did complicate matters with their website. The evaluation version of Netware was very helpful. Finding it on their site - ouch. It's a bit like being a rat in a maze, with only the faintest hint of cheese...

Giuliani: terrorist apologist?

Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani isn't doing terribly well in Republican primaries right now. This may be a good thing, given his Irish Republican Army [IRA] connections from the past! The champion of post-9/11 terror-fighting has a long history of IRA sympathies. In recent years, he's given Gerry Adams a warm reception (even giving him the 'Crystal Apple' when he was Mayor of New York), and has even named a road in New York after an IRA bomber!

Of course, Romney isn't really that much more palatable a fellow.

I try not to post too much stuff like this...

... but some kitties are just too hard to resist!


more funny pictures

Microsoft wonders why Linux developers call them names....

...and yet using Volume Shadow Copy to copy an open file requires nearly 2,000 lines of C++ and an Interop assembly (in C#). The Linux world can enjoy "lvm create snapshot" or equivalent - as can FreeBSD, Solaris, and just about everyone who isn't a Mac. (Snapshots seem to be the 'time machine' everyone is excited about for Leopard... yay, a feature the rest of us have had for nearly a decade).