The 25 Year Old BSD Bug This is funny. All bugs may be shallow, but it still takes someone to see the bug. veenema.net – HOW TO Create your own bootable ESX 3i usb stick Was going to have to figure this out on Tuesday, so this is timely and useful. Sweet.
I had the opportunity/task today of replacing a Dell PowerEdge 1950 system board. A voltage regulator was dying and taking the machine with it. I hadn’t actually seen one of their integrated TCP Offload Engine keys before, and they’re interesting, if not a bit small. Go RJ11! Personally, I like bigger parts, so when they fall on the floor I can find them again. Not that I ever drop anything. Nope. Never.
Robert Reich’s Blog: Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Listen to Economists Yeah, why listen to people who know things? The day the music died [dive into mark] DRM is bad. Long ago I stopped purchasing things from the iTunes Store because of their DRM and its incompatibility with non-iTunes software. Physical Limits: Extreme Skydiver to Plummet 25 Miles to Earth This should be interesting… College Waterpipe Smoking a Growing Public Health Problem | Science Blog “In a hookah, tobacco is heated by charcoal…” I hate to tell them this but tobacco isn’t usually what is smoked by college kids with a hookah. Just sayin’, that’s all.
Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor – (37signals) Amen.
/etc/hosts is a nice way to temporarily convince a host that certain DNS mappings exist, for testing, troubleshooting, or just temporarily working around oddities. However, I’ve seen a resurgence in using /etc/hosts for more than just temporary purposes. This, in my opinion, is bad. I’ve always been a huge fan of tip #6 in “The Pragmatic Programmer:” Don’t Repeat Yourself. As soon as you repeat yourself you risk the different copies getting out of sync, which causes problems and confusion. Putting a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) in /etc/hosts as well as in DNS means that at some point later in life the two will be out of sync. “It’s only on a couple of hosts, for testing.” First, if it’s …
I just cleared out my voice mail box, and I made some observations about voice mail messages: First, I hate voice mail. Email me instead. You don’t have to tell me what time it is. Voice mail is time-stamped, and it usually doesn’t matter that much. You do need to say who you are, because voice mail doesn’t record that. Do this in your first sentence. If you are with a vendor you should say that, too, especially if I’m waiting for a call from you. Please use your full name. You might be one of my closest friends but sometimes phones make people sound weird, cell phones cut out, and background noise sometimes makes it hard to figure out …
So far I have nothing but good things to say about doodle.ch, a site that helps groups make decisions or figure out dates for activities. I always hate finding a time when everybody is free, so a tool like this helps immensely. The nice thing is that you don’t need to register, log in, or give up any personal information (besides your email address) to participate. I had my poll up and running in less than two minutes. Well done!
Detecting Multi-Core Processor Topology in an IA-32 Platform Yay! Sample code! Chad Vader provides the voice of Darth Vader on tonight’s “Deal or No Deal” | Dane101 If you haven’t seen the Chad Vader clips go to YouTube and check them out. They’re filmed around Madison. Extra congrats to Matt Sloan, who does an excellent Darth Vader impersonation. Trapped in an Elevator: Online Only Video: The New Yorker “This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten writes about the lives of elevators, and tells the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours.” Awesome video. Trapped in an Elevator…With Diarrhea Video Parody of the “Trapped in an Elevator” video, funny …
I decided yesterday that I need a new ring for my iPhone. The venerable CTU ringtone just wasn’t cutting it anymore, and since tons of people have iPhones now it’s hard to use a built-in ring. Given that I also refuse to use a song as a ringtone I thought Star Trek sounds might be appropriate. These seemed best. Updated: not just for Star Trek anymore. 🙂 Star Trek TNG – Alarm Klaxon.m4r Star Trek TNG – Photon Torpedo.m4r Star Trek TNG – Tricorder.m4r Star Trek TNG – Door.m4r Star Trek TNG – Incoming Subspace Message.m4r Star Wars – Blaster.m4r Green Tree Frogs.m4r Cattle – Cows Mooing.m4r Cattle – Bull Mooing.m4r If you have an iPhone, enjoy.
I got this from mmk_kobayashi’s Flickr photostream, which is an amazing collection of images. Some are somewhat NSFW but it isn’t too bad. Regardless, I thought this was absolutely appropriate for today. Update: I removed the link to Flickr, because apparently the account was removed almost immediately after I linked to it. More proof that this is perfect for today.