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| Friday, July 25, 2003 |
| No Tongue, Just Cash Please. |
| posted @ 17:22:00 MDT by bryn |
| I somehow keep forgetting to add a cron job to remember this but apparently today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Appreciate us or else... muwahahahaha! 8) http://www.sysadminday.com/ |
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| Surfing the Spam Event Horizon |
| posted @ 14:24:00 MDT by bryn |
| Another day, another inetnum closer to blocking almost all of APNIC. Holy canned meat, Asia, get a grip! Let's see a little fortitude. |
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| Sunday, July 20, 2003 |
| Got Bats? |
| posted @ 02:01:00 MDT by bryn |
| Tonight was the first night I remember seeing bats since I first moved to the Northwest. Is this unusual? |
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| Thursday, July 17, 2003 |
| Happy 10th Slackware |
| posted @ 16:51:00 MDT by bryn |
| Ten years ago today Slackware Linux was released. Slackware was my introduction to Linux and after using a lot of distributions over many years I've come full-circle and consider it the best of the bunch for general-purpose use. Well, I'm still a FreeBSD slut at heart but we're talking Linux here. =) I still remember to this day my two 486's, a 33MHz and a 66MHz, networked together with coaxial cable using the same 14.4K dialup connection under my desk. This was back in the mid 1990's before ICS was a glint in Micro$oft's eye. Open Source gives you knowledge. Knowledge is power. I'd like to say a big thanks to Patrick Volkerding for not only bringing Slackware to life but for sticking it out and continuing a strong, solid, elegantly simple vision. See the Slashdot entry. |
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| Wednesday, July 16, 2003 |
| Muwahahaha |
| posted @ 23:19:00 MDT by bryn |
| It's alive! It's ALIVE! Dork factor increased exponentially. |
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| Peanut, I mean Penguin Clusters |
| posted @ 22:41:00 MDT by bryn |
| Project for the week: openMosix. There are two things I am at the moment... bored and a geek. Well, there are a lot more things I am than that but let's not get into all that or someone's going to need to get their head examined. I recently discovered (okay - realized... well, admitted to myself) that I have around a dozen more-or-less useless computers hanging around the house. It's quite a mishmash, original Pentiums, Pentium 2's, K6's, K6-2's and we won't even touch the two 486's in pieces in the back room. For a long time now I've been half-ass following Mosix and other clustering technologies. (See reference material confirming "I'm a geek.") I finally decided to dust off a few of these boxes I have and try building an openMosix cluster. Why? Because they're there. As I recently brought the local population of systems with CPUs faster than 1GHz around these parts up to two I'm also building one of them into a Linux audio workstation. Because I am such a dork, I mean geek, I decided to do this using Gentoo Linux. I tried Gentoo before on my dual P2-400 (the very machine I'm on right now) but gave up on it after three and one half days of just building a workable system with not even an X-Window installation. I figured it shouldn't be quite battle with a >1GHz machine but here I sit on my third day of compiling without ever seeing another window manager but twm so far. I made the mistake of running 'emerge gnome && emerge kde' and the window on my bottom right hasn't stopped scrolling gcc output since Monday evening. Well, it stopped overnight last night at some point when, during the gnome build, a corrupt header was found in my xfree install that I did on Monday. So the first thing I had to do was 'emerge sync' and reinstall the needed X files. Now I'm back building KDE and supposedly gnome is installed. I haven't had the heart to see if gnome actually runs yet. I know I've said it before but these Gentoo freaks have way too much CPU and real life time on their hands. Unbelievable how much of an ass I am to say that when I'm compiling a kernel with openMosix support in the window on the bottom left. =) |
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| Tuesday, July 8, 2003 |
| Verizon |
| posted @ 20:39:00 MDT by bryn |
| I think I love Verizon's ISP. I don't use them at all but they've made their client IP blocks so damned nice and easy to block from sending mail I might want to kiss them with tongue. Okay, maybe that's a bit extreme but I won't hesitate to give them good marks in the network planning and good netizenship departments... so far. |
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| Sunday, July 6, 2003 |
| Yes, no, maybe? |
| posted @ 02:33:00 MDT by bryn |
| Patronized? |
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| Friday, July 4, 2003 |
| USA |
| posted @ 03:00:00 MDT by bryn |
| If you live in the USA take a moment and remember you live in the USA. Nice, ain't it? Enjoy. Also, remember how we got here. |
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