My girlfriend pointed me towards a couple of comic strips over at Achewood. I hadn’t seen that site but it looks promising enough to violate my ban on contentless RSS feeds. I guess I can use it as a hint to go look at the strip. Here’s a couple of good ones: – December 5, 2001 – February 28th, 2007 Of course, I continue reading xkcd.com, as well as indexed. I think I need a couple more techie/dorky cartoons to read.
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It’s scary, my experience with Microsoft Windows Vista on my desktop machines is starting to make me think seriously about a machine running Mac OS X. Maybe I’ll see if I can snag a cheap Mac Mini on eBay or something. Or, I could go back to Windows XP. Linux and FreeBSD aren’t options, given the applications I like to run. There is very little to love about Windows Vista, overall. Beyond the eye candy updates there are more problems than fixes, and it takes me 50% more clicks to do just about everything.
If anything, it’s how not to hold a rifle that you know is going to kick like crazy. Still amusing, though.
Well, it just fixed my iTunes Vista problems, but that’s very cool. Thanks Apple! Actually, iTunes still needs to be killed to quit it. I guess Apple programmers aren’t good Windows programmers after all. I think it may be time to ditch iTunes.
“Hey, server X’s /tmp is almost full. Do you know what’s up with that?” my coworker asks me. “No idea.” “Okay, I’ll call the application person and see.” …Five minutes pass… “So, can we start backing /tmp up?” “Why? It’s /tmp. People do not, and should not, store important things there.” “Yeah… this project’s software is keeping a copy of their important documents there.” “Do they realize that tmpwatch removes things left idle more than 10 days?” “Oh, crap….” …Ten minutes pass… “Can we shut tmpwatch down? It’s deleting this project’s data.” ARGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
“A vulnerability has been reported in Netrek Vanilla Server, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.” Why does this excite me? Because I haven’t thought about (or played) Netrek for years. It’s like seeing an advisory for Nethack. Lately, my gaming has been pretty low-tech: Dopewars and Wall Street Raider. Much to Sony’s dismay, good games don’t require crazy high tech graphics. Just ask Nintendo. 🙂
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of backscatter spam. Backscatter is the term for when a spammer uses your email address and you get all the bounces. Last night I got about 200 bounce messages, on top of the 1000 spam messages I usually get. The spam is filtered nicely, but the bounce messages head straight for my “in” box. The reason I like big mail systems is because the administrators usually understand the issues with spam and act to minimize the collateral damage from it. I don’t get backscatter from AOL, Hotmail, or domains served by Postini. I get it from all sorts of little domains and mail servers, where they don’t care enough to do it right. IT …
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Want to add a “RAM disk” to your Red Hat Enterprise Linux host? If you mean an all-RAM filesystem then it’s super easy. Add this one line to your /etc/fstab: none /ramdisk tmpfs defaults,size=1024m 1 2 (tabs between the fields, like everything else in fstab) Then a “mount -a” will get it running. Obviously change size=1024m to be whatever makes sense. Probably works great on other distributions, too, just haven’t tried it.