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Qmail in the public domain!

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Today I learned that qmail was released to the public domain back in November.1 Vincas tells me that he informed me of this change back in November when it happened, and that I was not interested. I do not know where my head was at the time.

As we are now looking at using [...]

OpenAFS

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Apparently OpenAFS does not really use unix accounts, and some chicanery is required to get the two to work together, and for all to be kosher. I am not a fan.

cluster woes

Friday, February 8th, 2008

We are having issues with ocfs2. These might be solved by upgrading to a newer kernel, but it is not easy to find newer amd64 kernels with xen support. Either way, it is leaving us in a bad position, where one node will frequently find itself unable to create more than a few [...]

I knew it

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Yesterday I spent my work day converting a number of xen virtual servers into physical servers. There has got to be a better way than what I did, but I do not know of a rescue environment that has rsync installed (to my surprise, I tried several with no luck), and I did not [...]

Google Confusion

Friday, December 7th, 2007

The street that my mother-in-law-to-be lives on is new, so I can understand and accept that Google Maps does not know about it yet. What frustrates me though is that there is an identically named street in a zip code that happens to be only about 20-30 minutes away from her house, said zip [...]

Gmail & AIM

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Mr. Mike Jazayeri announced that you can now sign into AIM from Gmail’s chat interface.1 This integration is cool, but I would love to see it go a step further. I would like to be able to add AIM buddies to my Google talk buddy list directly. That will truly be a [...]

ugh

Monday, November 19th, 2007

I hate Windows. I really really do. So I am particularly displeased that I spent part of Friday installing Windows 2k, only to find out that it is too old to be able to handle my processor, and so spent part of today installing Windows XP. All of this because 3ware is [...]

Bug fixing

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

I spent some time with the wp-randomquotes plugin today. I noticed a few months ago that it was not displaying every quote in the database, and this has been increasingly annoying me.

It took me longer than it should have to track down what was up. The problem was that when I delete a [...]

The DMCA covers simply deleting files‽

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

According to coupons.com it does.1 Mr. John Stottlemire figured out that deleting some files and registry keys off of his computer would allow him to print unlimited coupons from coupons.com, and posted instructions on how to duplicate the effect, and a program to do so automatically for those unable to follow the instructions.

He had [...]

localizers

Friday, June 8th, 2007

A year or so ago, HP came out with an RFID chip the size of a grain of rice.1 That provided a significant step towards ubiquitous localizers. Today, we have the next big step: wireless power.2 Now both of these just need to be miniaturized to nano-technology scales.

Mr. Luke Schierer. [...]

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