One of my newest pet peeves (not like I have many of them) is the inability of system administrators/DNS administrators to add a root domain entry in their domain name server records. The biggest offender? The University of Pittsburgh oops. Sorry, I meant http://www.pitt.edu. I wonder how many hits the university loses when someone not […]

Posted on August 15th, 2003 by admin
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Looks like Bill Gates and Microsoft will begin to assimilate primates into the way of .Net. Is there no justice in this world? The animal kingdom isn’t even safe from the clutches of the Evil Empire!!!

Posted on August 6th, 2003 by admin
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Two new software installs this weekend: 1. Mandrake 9.2 beta 1. I had a whole 20GB drive sitting in my machine at home with a lame Gentoo install on it, and I read that beta 2 will contain the newest 2.6 kernel, so I thought “what they hey” and installed beta 1. Very nice. Gnome […]

Posted on August 4th, 2003 by admin
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How to start a flame-war of misinformation on the internet in three easy steps: 1. Reverse engineer the firmware of a Linksys wireless and find that it uses open source, GPL‘ed software. 2. Write an entry on your O’Reily blog claiming that the company is in clear violation of the GPL because you can’t find […]

Posted on July 31st, 2003 by admin
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In case you haven’t noticed, the website when *poof* for a day or so. I’m still waiting on more details from my host, but they said a hard drive failure brought down about half their sites. My guess is it was a firewall or gateway machine that went down, since I could still ping my […]

Posted on July 31st, 2003 by admin
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First, a bit of politics. Salon has a great piece on the widening divide between George W Bush and the neoconservatives and the traditional (small government, isolationist foreign policy, minimal government spending) conservatives within the Republican party. If you really think Bush represents the face of conservativism, read this article. Then there’s the do-it-yerself GNU/Linux […]

Posted on July 28th, 2003 by admin
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Larry Wall‘s 7th annual State of the Onion address is up on the O’Reilly site. These are always entertaining…Larry is a really bright guy (he created the first version of Perl by himself) and he knows a lot about a lot of things.

Posted on July 17th, 2003 by admin
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markko martin fans estonian badass My dreams of being a well known WRC writer may come true yet….

Posted on July 16th, 2003 by admin
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I almost never look at this site’s access logs, even though my hosting provider offers several nice reports on my admin page. I did, however, take a peek today, and I found this refering URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=perl+socket+applications&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N I had completely forgotten that I had posted my very own Perl lightning talk on the site a few […]

Posted on July 14th, 2003 by admin
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Just a few quick items…. There are new Seb photos on the home page. I posted a couple of climbing images from our last spring trip. In case anyone cares, I added a “Current Reading” entry on the sidebar of this page. I added a Creative Commons license to this page. Most of what I […]

Posted on July 14th, 2003 by admin
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