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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Pictures from the $CURRENT_EMPLOYER data center.

29-Aug-07

I was doing some recabling of several systems today as part of upgrading systems from ESX 2.5 to ESX 3, and it occured to me:

that I've filled a rack (to power, network patch panel, and SAN patch panel limitations, there's another 20 or so RU of physical space… but if it gets filled, it'll [...]

Finally, a decent hacker-style response to the TSA!

13-Aug-07

I was thrilled by this story in this evening's Marketplace.
The nut is that there are (finally!) a couple of companies filling the niche of “really, fuck the TSA, having to zip lock up mini-toiletries, endure security on baggage, and so on”. There are a few details different, but the basic idea is that these are [...]

From the corp. IRC server (gr is me):

10-Aug-07

[15:34] gr: Okay, so
[15:35] gr: Adult-size Heelys + data center = fun
[15:35] [REDACTED 1]: sure, just ask [REDACTED 2]
[15:35] gr: I'll have to bring mine along the next time I'm in [town] then
[15:36] gr: We can race or something
And then I searched for “heelys” on youtube. And got humbled. What are those kids, 6? Yeesh.

Nice iPhone, Karl.

07-Aug-07

Speaking of web2.OMG invites…

01-Aug-07

I've got two left on iminlikewithyou.com. Any takers?

HEY GUYS! THE PLUS SIGN IS A VALID LOCAL-PART EMAIL ADDRESS CHARACTER!

01-Aug-07

I can understand incompetency preventing use of “+” in the username portion of an email address at a lot of corporate sites. Those folks are used to Exchange and they restrict to alphanumeric so that people don’t put spaces in. But when an open source project tells me “gr+theirsitename@…” is invalid? Okay, so I do [...]