Archive for March, 2006



Sometimes I just don’t like making complete sentences, so here it is:

ipw-firmware-kmod and iwi-firmware-kmod ports committed (mostly for people with centrino laptops)
openbgpd-devel and openospfd-devel ports committed (feel free to send me some feedback, and bug reports to the authors)
rc.subr merge from NetBSD and tweak to allow ${prefix}/etc/rc.conf.d/${name} to be used (only useful to ports and [...]

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Irish life update

I think everything is ok with the bank now. I’ve received my bank account details and my debit card. I’ve tried to register for a broadband connection at work but for some reason it has been rejected, I’ll try to find someone who knows more about it tomorrow.

Some days ago, I’ve received my first salary [...]

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AIB Bank account

Yesterday, I’ve finally been able to open a bank account a AIB (they required the PPS number I’ve been talking about earlier). I left my passport there in the morning, so I had to go back to the bank before they close (5pm on thursday).

Again I have to wait for them to send me the [...]

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OpenOSPFD on FreeBSD

Since I’m now working in a company that uses OSPF as an IGP, I thought it could be nice to test OpenOSPFD on FreeBSD, so I finally made a snapshot from the OpenBSD tree and tweaked openbgpd port to create the openospfd port.

I’ve sent a mail to ports to give the location of the port [...]

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New job, new life

For those who talk to me on a regular basis on IRC, that won’t be a surprise but I finally found a job in Dublin. In early january I sent a mail to a mailing list to ask people if they know about some vacant position for a junior sysadmin in Dublin and got 4 [...]

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