Archive for April, 2007

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

FreeBSD make world Problem

If you get the following error when you’re trying to ‘make world’ for a jail in FreeBSD,
can’t cd to /usr/src/tools/build/make_check
the problem is simply that you’ve forgotten to run cvsup to download the sources.
I’m posting it here so that in case someone else has this problem they won’t waste 20 minutes wondering what’s wrong and Googling […]

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

The Dangers of Scope Creep

Agency Byte has a good article up about scope creep. Scope creep is the unfortunate tendency where project scopes tend to balloon up during a contracting job. Most clients don’t know what they want exactly, but they’ll be sure to tell you during your work. And they’ll expect you to add these new things […]

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Stop Wasting Money on Computers!

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you may remember an article a while back about a piece of software called Cacti. It’s a nifty little web-based program that gathers information from a variety of hardware using SNMP. Cacti then presents the data in easily readable graphs.
At the time of the article, I installed […]