Feb 13 2006
Electric Fences and Redundancy…
I spent most the the weekend trying to complete a slightly overdue milestone in my fyp. This did involve trying to get Electric Fence to compile on Mac OS X. Eventually, I found a reference to the problems I was having, along with a working solution. Progress has been made, although still not as much as I wanted, but caffeine intake and motivation are both up…
Otherwise, it’s been a rather dull weekend. The only other significant thing I did was decide to switch away from Firefox and Thunderbird, back to Safari and Mail.app, for a few reasons. Mainly, the naggling little bugs the Mozilla apps have on OS X (such as lack of support for network location proxy details, not being able to access the OS X Address Book and the ever annoying false biff mail notification quirk) have just been getting on my nerves in recent times.
I’ve also become more concerned about the data I store in any one place without a backup, after seeing first hand the problems data failure caused someone in college recently. Hence I finally gave up on the idea of creating a home brewed WebDAV setup to emulate .Mac, and just renewed my trial account. After all, it’s cheap and obviously RAIDed…