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2005-09-16 08:42
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I once read a very in-depth whitepaper on why USB could never be used for networking. Which is funny, today. And yet at the same time, so very, very dumb. My USB Networking Device...stopped responding today between 0730 and 0800. Wired networks are really the only way to go.



My primary Solaris server died today at 1040. My homepage is down, my gallery is down, my virtual Sun CD is offline, and my O'Reilly books are inaccessible. I was going to play with postfix this weekend. Sweet Tony has volunteered to swing by the ADC on his way out of town to fix, but that would delay him many hours and I'd rather he make it to East Texas safely and rested instead.

It's Friday and I have absolutely nothing to do. I'm guessing I'll make dinner at the hotel, watch a movie on the computer, maybe even install an operating system and build a mail server...sleep in a little Saturday morning.

Such is the life I lead whilst on travel.
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The Gallery Server

2005-08-10 16:06
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The Gallery Server base page is set. No more apache's "Not the page you were expecting to see?" Really, the apache default page was fine for my purposes, but those Gallery visitors...damn. Kept getting lost. I created the backdrop from Mac OSX wallpaper, gave it dynamism to withstand tiling (though I believe this greatly detracts from the original) and merci, madam, voila a' bearded clam:



Thanks drax0r. I stole your homepage drax0r.org and modified it for my own use. I know it's not black text on a white background, and that all those needless images get in the way, but it also has no links to ass-ramming tattooed bimbo's on it, ergo I feel much better about using it as my default homepage at work. I credited you on my page, though truth be told, with your HTML experience, I'm sure you stole it from someone else.



Why penguins don't live very long


I spent over 100 hours in Dreamweaver to create our Wild Damn Texan website, and boy was she a polished beauty!


Compare this to my 3-hour command-line HTML 4.0 rush-job and the results are predictably (as Tony would say) "Less gooder." Though he did appear enamored on first glance. I sure it was just the subject matter: http://wilddamntexan.com
  • ◾ Current Music: Bond - Shine; Bond - Born
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The Steven J. Goodmark Memorial Library

2005-08-09 12:54
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Almost nothing can be compiled from source on a SPARC linux platform and that's sad. The good news is that it can be compiled via the 'emerge' command if it's available. I'm constantly in awe over the number of run-of-the-mill applications gentoo has ported for SPARC linux.

Had a user tell me today, "vi on Sun is so much different than vi on linux," I began to think of the one thorn in my side of vi vs. vim - page width limitation for editing (which is why the first thing I do these days on Solaris is compile vim), when he completes with, "It took me forever to figure out how to insert text!" Hmmm. ln -s /bin/pico /bin/vi?

When you call credit card companies, before, during and after you navigate the phone menu maze, they often implore you to accomplish your needs online. Oddly enough, exactly zero credit card companies have a "Close your account" tab online! Of course when I tried to close the account over the phone, she suggested I keep it active because I had accident coverage for One hundred million thousand dollars! WOW!

Updated the Gallery today!
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Gooie?

2005-07-27 15:21
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Rec'd the following email today:

"Resolved issue with the missing archive logs in the Veritas backup. We were looking in the wrong place in the admin gooie! Looks like they are getting backed up to tape."

I'm sure she meant GUI, the acroynm for Graphical User Interface...then again, who knows. Perhaps I should volunteer to check her gooie!

Gooey-goo, for chewy chewing, that's what the Goo-goose is doing!
-- Fox in Socks

Upgraded my gallery today. But I take no credit for it. David also runs his gallery at retrospective.us and he figured it all out by becomming one with the config.php files. Where as I was just trying to follow the provided instructions. What an idiot! Anyway, pics on lj are back.
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