… we’d be driving cars with 17 wheels, 8 transmissions, and 3 engines. This is especially true in the GNU crowd.
For reasons that will become apparent in a post I’ll make in a few days, I was simply trying to build ffmpeg out of the FreeBSD ports collection. Building individual ports immediately after updating one’s [...]
Something verging on two months ago, I noticed that I wasn’t able to reach certain websites that I frequent (usually by way of RSS feeds) from my home Internet connection (a business DSL dry loop through Verizon). Some examples: Foobooz, riotclitshave (it’s a pun on right-click, save; shut up), Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s blog. What these sites [...]
As my resume does exist in several places online, I am frequently contacted by recruiters. I’m generally unsurprised when they ignore my preference (noted rather explicitly on, for example, LinkedIn) that they contact me via email rather than the telephone, nor when they call both my home (which, until recently forwarded to…) and my mobile [...]
Schedule maintenance on a PDU in the middle of a day, on a week dayWednesday.
When questioned over this obvious risk in the change management meeting by the Director over Windows systems, assure everyone that nothing could go wrong because the circuit is redundant.
Permit your electrical contractor to blow a fuse when performing [...]
Riding on this, perhaps now evident, wild hair I’ve gotten to go back to writing things online, I decided that I would go ahead and install locally an online photo album. (I’m uninterested in using sites like Flickr or SmugMug because it means giving my content to someone else, at least for them to take [...]
I didn’t really make much noise when I sucked this content out from Livejournal and put it up here (although maybe I’ll go over there and note that this exists, now that I’m comfortable with its stability), but now I’ve also finally gotten around to something I’ve meant to do for some time: /var/log/gr, wherein [...]
From the work IRC server (gr is me):
[15:01] jon: dove55
[15:01] gr: That’s a pretty lame password, jon.
[15:01] _travis_lappy486_: O.o
[15:01] _travis_lappy486_: LoL.
[15:01] _travis_lappy486_: Quick!
[15:01] jon: doh
[15:02] gr: travis, tempting, but technically that would be a firing offense.
[15:02] gr: Internal security is an HR issue, not a technical issue.
[15:03] _travis_lappy486_: LoL.
[15:03] jon: to late anyway
[15:03] _travis_lappy486_: Definitely.
[15:03] [...]
First off, the reason to do this is that lots of places (notably, anything Brad Fitzpatrick touches…) now weight PTR records matching things like /(dsl|static)-[0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+/ as indicating spam. Which, you know, I understand, but it’s a pain for people who maintain their own mail servers and have one of the less-than-ideal ISPs. When I moved [...]
Snooth just hit techcrunch.
I think I hear the hounds being unleashed…
eAccelerator.
No, it's not perfect English (Oxford, American, whatever… Standard {Written,White} English), but it makes its point clearly and concisely. Like a blog, it's still conversational (in a way technical documentation “shouldn't” be), but that isn't getting in the way of my understanding the content.
Yes, eAccelerator is easier to describe than the sprawling blob of PHP, [...]