Posts Tagged ‘geek’

OpenIndiana VirtualBox and NFS

I have a server called host. It hosts my NFS shares as well as a couple virtual machines using VirtualBox. Recently I had a relapse of NFS performance issues, which basically made it unusable as NFS server.

Firefox easy way to be safe from DigiNotar breach

I was asked recently how can you make sure that Diginotar breach will not compromise your security.

host refreshed with OpenIndiana 151

Since the opensolaris.org vanished I was left wondering, what I’m going to use for my storage/vm server next. Fortunately Open Indiana raised from the OS ashes and world was bright again for my server.

iPad flying and visibility

iPad is a great device for flying, however it has one big mishap for cockpit use.  The shiny screen which attracts sun so well that unless properly placed in the cockpit you can see nothing!

iPad and Flying in Europe

For my Euro Trip which I have planned with Ivan Horsky I’ve decided to purchase an iPad 2 to help us with planning and flight tracking. The original idea was that we are going to fly around europe in a PA28 which has just a single GNS430 and having a second GPS/Moving Map device would [...]

Long Stay at Hahn and G-OCCK in pieces

After 3 days of waiting we had an engineer come over from Bournemouth to fix the plane. Even when there is Diamond Industries HQ 100km away, the maintenance company wasted 3 days of our life and didn’t get us anywhere. The engineer started work minutes after arrival 10am . First he took off the avionics [...]

flightComputer Update

I’ve updated the flight computer to version 1.0.2. It irons out issues with incorrect ground speed reported. If you have not seen version 1 before it also features dynamically updating fields, no more clicking “calculate” to get the numbers. I can’t remember if I’ve released before version with working distance to time converter, well it’s [...]

IPv6 since

Since I blogged about test IPv6 website I’ve actually subscribed to the RSS feed of validated sites. It does couple of things …

Test your site for IPv6

I’ve found a nice website  to use for testing IPv6 from where you are, as well as verifying IPv6 for your servers. Very useful to double check if your server firewall rules don’t cut if off. It’s http://ipv6-test.com/ , however I can’t see anywhere who is running that page.

Flying and Mobile Apps

It is a while since I came up with an idea that I should invest some of my time to develop apps for pilots. Naturally, started developing some with me as primary consumer. That’s how very crude version of flightime appeared. It was KISS design, 2 buttons and it was logging my take off and [...]