Niall's Weblog

One of the major improvements in the upcoming OpenBSD 4.2 release is FFS2 support. FFS2 adds more dynamic inode allocation and theoretical support for large (>2T) filesystems. Much of the work to incorporate this was done by Pedro Martelletto, with further integration into OpenBSD done by Todd Miller and Otto Moerbeek. By itself, FFS2 does [...]

A couple of close friends and I use a private SILC chat-room to communicate. I use the console silc client, running under GNU screen. Very often we trade links to various web pages. Very often these are too long to fit in the console window and become a pain to select in order to paste [...]

I’ve been doing chin-ups and pull-ups for a while now, first at the gym and now at home since I bought a $15 chinning bar and drilled it into a door frame. In general it seems that chin-ups refer to the grip with your palms facing you whereas pull-ups refer to the grip with your [...]

I already wrote a bit about completing my fixed-gear bicycle last week, and since then I have had the chance to ride it around San Francisco a good bit. I live in the Inner Sunset, by Golden Gate Park, and I work downtown on New Montgomery. Its around four and a half miles from my [...]

I finished my bicycle a few days ago, and have been riding it an tweaking it since. The Shimano UN-53 works fine on the Italian frame and crankset fits perfectly. For the moment I’ve mounted my old, standard road pedals – I’ll put on the SPD pedals once I am more used to riding fixed [...]