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, [...]
Is this even English?
The first thing you'll probably want to to is get the source to build cleanly without using RPM. To do this, unpack the sources, and change the directory name to $NAME.orig. Then unpack the source again. Use this source to build from.
Wait, what? I mean, I'm even letting the complete Fail at [...]
When you people were telling me to go look at the spec files that you'd written for something else (which was helpful, in theory) or that I should really be using XYZ other Linux distribution (which was completely useless, so you can go get fucked again, still), what you really should have said was:
“Hey, dumbass! [...]