Trial photos can be found at http://morgen.smugmug.com
The 2009 Sonoma SDT is over. It is a great trial. Lots of wine to win (raffles or placings). If that fails, you can work and get paid in wine. The Milberg's ranch is beautiful and both fields are difficult. The sheep were extremely challenging. It is one of the top trials around the country and I am certainly glad that I got to run in it.
Tess had one of the few perfect outruns and lifts. The fetch was really good until we got to the post. Those darn sheep were not going to go between the judge and me (there was plenty of room) around the post. We finally got them thru but lost all our fetch points in the process. Tess' drive was pretty good. The cross drive was great but, I forgot to give a full flank around the corner and the sheep ended up back by the set out pen. She got them off and back down to the shedding ring but that cost us big time. I only had 45 seconds to get the shed, right after the clock went off the sheep split beautifully.
I ended up scratching the Hill field. It had rained Sat. and I was concerned with Tess' pulled muscle with the steep hill and ravines. I saw too many dogs taking headers when I was scribing for Patrick.
I am already looking forward to next year.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Blog 8
Now that Windows is coming out with Windows 7, the debate is on again that Linux is dead. What do you think? Is there room for both Windows and Linux? And what about Apple?
No, Linux is not dead. I think each OS has its own strengths and weaknesses and that includes Apple. There is room for all three OS’s. All three have been going for years now. Just because Windows 7 seems to have fixed Vista problems does not mean that they can’t all survive.
Personally, I do not like Vista and I hope Windows 7 is better. If Vista’s problems are fixed, I would suspect that some users that jumped ship might come back.
Competition is great on all fronts. Each company gets pushed to come out with something better. However, I don’t think any one of them can deliver a knock out punch.
No, Linux is not dead. I think each OS has its own strengths and weaknesses and that includes Apple. There is room for all three OS’s. All three have been going for years now. Just because Windows 7 seems to have fixed Vista problems does not mean that they can’t all survive.
Personally, I do not like Vista and I hope Windows 7 is better. If Vista’s problems are fixed, I would suspect that some users that jumped ship might come back.
Competition is great on all fronts. Each company gets pushed to come out with something better. However, I don’t think any one of them can deliver a knock out punch.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Chiro update
On Saturday, I took Tess and Brie to a new chiropractor. I have been looking for someone that I liked for quite sometime. I am very happy to have found a good one.
Tess has a pulled abductor muscle. She will be getting babied for awhile. I hope the trial this weekend and the trial in April do not hurt it any more. I definitely don't want her on the injured list for the Finals. After her adjustment, Tess sprawled out the width of the back seat and slept all the way home.
Brie needed adjusting, also. She was not too bad. Her back was arched when she went in and flat when she home. Tess and Belle will be returning in a couple weeks.
I will post a trial update next week. I have a new (in progress) photo site at http://morgen.smugmug.com . I will post photos of the trial there. Right now I only have a couple of photos on the site.
Tess has a pulled abductor muscle. She will be getting babied for awhile. I hope the trial this weekend and the trial in April do not hurt it any more. I definitely don't want her on the injured list for the Finals. After her adjustment, Tess sprawled out the width of the back seat and slept all the way home.
Brie needed adjusting, also. She was not too bad. Her back was arched when she went in and flat when she home. Tess and Belle will be returning in a couple weeks.
I will post a trial update next week. I have a new (in progress) photo site at http://morgen.smugmug.com . I will post photos of the trial there. Right now I only have a couple of photos on the site.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Weekly happenings
I finally got to haul the sheep out and work the dogs tonight. It's still a little muddy but not too bad. I am trying to get used to some new whistles. When I was at Suzy's last time she told me that I wasn't blowing my stop whistle properly. That it sounded just like a 'there' whistle. So I have been working on it. They sound right to me but, I am not getting the quick response that I want.
Tess and I are working on slower flanks. Which goes back to the whistle again. I am working on blowing the whistle slower.
Brie did pretty well. I have been using her to separate sheep and load the sheep in the trailer. She is learning that there is a reason to lie down when I tell her to. She seems to enjoy driving now, too.
Saturday both Brie and Tess go to Truckee for chiropractic. Tess sure needs it. It's been really tough finding a good doggy chiropractor. I hope it works out well. It would be nice for Tess to feel good for Sonoma the following weekend.
Sonoma run orders came out today. There's a total of 99 dogs running over the 2 days, 44 and 45 each day on both fields. That's a lot dogs. I have campgrournd reservations at Calistoga. I am not looking forward to 4 dogs in the camper with me but... that's the way it goes. I am really excited about the trial, it should be a lot of fun.
Tess and I are working on slower flanks. Which goes back to the whistle again. I am working on blowing the whistle slower.
Brie did pretty well. I have been using her to separate sheep and load the sheep in the trailer. She is learning that there is a reason to lie down when I tell her to. She seems to enjoy driving now, too.
Saturday both Brie and Tess go to Truckee for chiropractic. Tess sure needs it. It's been really tough finding a good doggy chiropractor. I hope it works out well. It would be nice for Tess to feel good for Sonoma the following weekend.
Sonoma run orders came out today. There's a total of 99 dogs running over the 2 days, 44 and 45 each day on both fields. That's a lot dogs. I have campgrournd reservations at Calistoga. I am not looking forward to 4 dogs in the camper with me but... that's the way it goes. I am really excited about the trial, it should be a lot of fun.
Blog 7
Do a little research and tell me a good reason you might use the crontab as root. How about a normal user?
You would use the root crontrab anytime you need to run a system-wide scheduled task at a regular interval. Like system-wide maintenance, database backups, corporate system backups. At NV Energy we have an area on the network to place files temporarily. Every Friday all the files get deleted. The root crontrab could be used for that.
A normal user could use their crontab to backup all their personal files or they could use it to send themselves an appointment reminder. Any repetitive task that you have to do on a regular basis would be a good candidate.
You would use the root crontrab anytime you need to run a system-wide scheduled task at a regular interval. Like system-wide maintenance, database backups, corporate system backups. At NV Energy we have an area on the network to place files temporarily. Every Friday all the files get deleted. The root crontrab could be used for that.
A normal user could use their crontab to backup all their personal files or they could use it to send themselves an appointment reminder. Any repetitive task that you have to do on a regular basis would be a good candidate.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Blog 6
In your own words explain how linux kernels are numbered.
Geez, who’d a thunk it? Obviously, not me, I had no idea that so much could be written about the version numbering of an OS. I really don’t know that I can make this subject interesting or think of a new way to explain it. It seems an overdone subject to me. Here goes…
The first release of the Linux kernel was in September of 1991 as 0.01 by Linus Torvalds. In October, it went to version 0.02 and so on. In March 1994 they went to 1.0.
The numbering scheme currently consists of four numbers, like A.B.C.D and maybe some letters. Let's take Pandora’s revision number of 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 and see if I can explain it.
The first number in the ‘A’ position is the kernel number. It rarely changes. That’s kind of obvious since current kernel is only at 2.b.c.d right now. That was easy.
The second number in the ‘B’ position is 6 for major kernel revisions. This position used to be an odd/even system. When the number was odd it was a developmental version. When the number was even it was a stable release. The problem with that system was that a lot of people did not want to put a developmental version on and risk losing their system or their data. So, when they did release the stable version more bugs would be found because of new scenario’s that did not get tested in the development phase. Now with the 2.6.x numbering scheme they have eliminated the odd/even system.
So, let’s look at the ‘C’ position, in Pandora’s case it is 13-1. This position was for minor revisions such as bug fixes, new drivers, features, and security patches. Back at release 2.6.8 there was a serious flaw that had to be fixed immediately and that gave us the ‘D’ postion. With revision 2.6.11 a new policy was implemented and bug fixes and security patches are now in the ‘D’ postion. The ‘C’ postion is now only for new drivers and features.
Pandora’s ‘D’ postion is 1532_FC4. The ‘D’ postion is also associated with the ‘build’ number. The build number is the number of times the compiler has built the kernel. So, I think, in Pandora’s case it would be 1532 times or 1532 bug fixes to the kernel. From what I can find out about the letters that are added in, those would be the developer’s initials. You could also, see ‘rc1’ or ‘rc2’ which stands for release candidate 1 or release candidate 2 instead of the developers initials. I think I got it.
Geez, who’d a thunk it? Obviously, not me, I had no idea that so much could be written about the version numbering of an OS. I really don’t know that I can make this subject interesting or think of a new way to explain it. It seems an overdone subject to me. Here goes…
The first release of the Linux kernel was in September of 1991 as 0.01 by Linus Torvalds. In October, it went to version 0.02 and so on. In March 1994 they went to 1.0.
The numbering scheme currently consists of four numbers, like A.B.C.D and maybe some letters. Let's take Pandora’s revision number of 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 and see if I can explain it.
The first number in the ‘A’ position is the kernel number. It rarely changes. That’s kind of obvious since current kernel is only at 2.b.c.d right now. That was easy.
The second number in the ‘B’ position is 6 for major kernel revisions. This position used to be an odd/even system. When the number was odd it was a developmental version. When the number was even it was a stable release. The problem with that system was that a lot of people did not want to put a developmental version on and risk losing their system or their data. So, when they did release the stable version more bugs would be found because of new scenario’s that did not get tested in the development phase. Now with the 2.6.x numbering scheme they have eliminated the odd/even system.
So, let’s look at the ‘C’ position, in Pandora’s case it is 13-1. This position was for minor revisions such as bug fixes, new drivers, features, and security patches. Back at release 2.6.8 there was a serious flaw that had to be fixed immediately and that gave us the ‘D’ postion. With revision 2.6.11 a new policy was implemented and bug fixes and security patches are now in the ‘D’ postion. The ‘C’ postion is now only for new drivers and features.
Pandora’s ‘D’ postion is 1532_FC4. The ‘D’ postion is also associated with the ‘build’ number. The build number is the number of times the compiler has built the kernel. So, I think, in Pandora’s case it would be 1532 times or 1532 bug fixes to the kernel. From what I can find out about the letters that are added in, those would be the developer’s initials. You could also, see ‘rc1’ or ‘rc2’ which stands for release candidate 1 or release candidate 2 instead of the developers initials. I think I got it.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Weekly happenings
Due to weather conditions there has not been much dog working going on this week. I say not much, try none. It's a muddy soupy mess in the sheep pen. Yuck!
I am supposed to go to Geri's trial in Tulelake on Sunday. I'm not sure if I'm going to make it. I don't know how much sense it makes to drive for 4 hours, have a 12 min. run with Tess and then 4 hours home when I haven't worked my dog for a week.
Good news is that I made the draw for the Sonoma SDT.
I am supposed to go to Geri's trial in Tulelake on Sunday. I'm not sure if I'm going to make it. I don't know how much sense it makes to drive for 4 hours, have a 12 min. run with Tess and then 4 hours home when I haven't worked my dog for a week.
Good news is that I made the draw for the Sonoma SDT.
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