Posted on March 5, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Adafruit Industries is one of a number of sits I visit regularly, and within the last few days the blog had this gem. Quite possibly one of the funniest things I’ve seen. It’s a video made by another set of tinkerers I’d not yet heard of, but will be sure to follow now!
Posted on January 25, 2010 at 12:25 pm
So, I’ll have you know first off I’m NOT on acid, nor am I on a major cocaine high or anything of the sort.I left a voicemail at google voice to a friend this AM, that he had it translate to text. About the only thing it got right was our names. We figured out [...]
Posted on January 21, 2010 at 1:23 pm
A friend linked to this Times Online article about homeopathy in a recent Tweet, so I figured I’d share it here. In case any of you actually thought “homeopathy” was at a ll legitimate. Note carefully the paragraph where they admit knowing it’s bunk but sell it anyway because people believe it helps! Homeopathy has [...]
Posted on June 16, 2009 at 2:24 am
Did a not exactly smooth migration to my new webserver today. Found out that Debian 5/Lenny seems to have completely broken suPHP. It can’t correctly figure out the DocumentRoot anymore for some reason. It complains to error log ‘SoftException in Application.cpp:202: Script “x” resolving to “x” not within configured docroot’ – except it is so [...]
Posted on March 27, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Bryan Cantrill over at Sun Fishworks wrote an Excellent Blog Post on why SPECsfs sucks. Go read it. Seriously. You need to. Then start to wonder about all the other “benchmarks” SPEC publishes. The blog post there explains WHY you can’t get affordable storage from big vendors, and why all of it’s performance is so crappy [...]
Posted on February 10, 2009 at 4:15 am
Let me count the ways, here’s #2 (see the previous post on yum for #1)…. [root@vps0 security]# md5sum access.conf* 1ab9971e4ec0682b89aaff29fea6de9e access.conf 1ab9971e4ec0682b89aaff29fea6de9e access.conf.rpmnew [root@vps0 security]# Why the hell is it creating a .rpmnew file for an IDENTICAL *CONFIG* file? Hell even the (modification) timestamps are identical!
Posted on February 10, 2009 at 1:09 am
While doing a template fetch onto our Virtuozzo machine. A template fetch really just downloads every configured application (this is different from say EVERY application to create a mirror, it just downloads applications configured, and their dependencies). So it’s running yum in download-only mode. [root@vps1 private]# vztop vztop – 18:02:45 up 4 days, 17:30, 2 [...]
Posted on January 23, 2009 at 11:52 pm
So, if you’re using Debian 4, be careful to make sure your iSCSI Initiator settings are right, because if your auth settings are wrong, you will have a big box of fail. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 web6 ttyS1 web6 login: scsi2 : iSCSI Initiator over TCP/IP BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address [...]
Posted on May 9, 2008 at 10:00 pm
So, back in 05, I ordered a copy of The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from Amazon. The book arrived. Sometime later I was reading it and discovered that, lo and behold, it was missing pages 529-560. After some consternation and thought I realized indeed the pages were gone. I wrote Del Rey books, [...]
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