As I predicted on the 27 of June Telecom hasn’t changed a single bit. All their rhetoric about embracing the new competitive environment and voluntarily separating themselves has been posturing and PR as evidenced by the following article in this mornings Computerworld.
Basically Telecom is saying Xtra is a brand, not a separate business unit, so it will continue to receive services in a different (favourable) manner to every other ISP.
The only hope now is for the Government to actually muster up the courage to enforce a physical separation on Telecom… We live in hope.
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Is thunderbird smarter than it thinks?
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We use a lot of Soekris devices at work which often get deployed to remote locations where its not easy to access them if things go wrong. I’ve recently been writing some software to act as a watchdog on the machine. As a very last resort this software makes use of the watchdog chipset provided by the Soekris boards so that if userspace goes away the machine will get rebooted back into what is hopefully a sane state.
Unfortunately the in kernel sc520 watchdog device doesn’t actually reboot the Soekris when the heartbeat ping from userspace is lost. This makes it virtually useless. There has been a patch floating around since 2004 that fixes this problem, but it hasn’t made it in to the kernel for one reason or another. I think it’s Soekris specific…
I’ve updated the patch to apply cleanly against the sc520 driver found in 2.6.16 and you can find it below.
http://www.mattb.net.nz/patches/linux/soekris-sc520wd.patch
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