Well, I woke up this morning as usual and checked my email to find that Big Brother had notified me of a RAID error on UFies.org. Seems that sometime around 4am one of the partitions in the /var RAID5 array blew up. hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError […]
The Smell of Hardware Errors In the Morning Read Post »
Just saw this story while watching CNN while delaying doing some bookkeeping. Basically a 12 year old girl was hit by a drunk driver and was paralyzed. A very sad story, my heart goes out to her parents. They of course, sued… but they didn’t sue the drunk driver who hit them. No, they sued
Lets Sue Everybody! Read Post »
Ok, I just spent the last five hour or so dealing with comment spam, basically since my last entry, across the four blogs I have. Lots of fun. Looks like others are getting it too. Sadly, I can’t bill these bastards for my time, though hopefully someday I can take it out of them via
Killing Comment Spam Read Post »
I don’t fucking believe this shit. I wake up in the morning to find that now my blog and ufies.org are targets for comment spammers. “Spoiling it for everyone” is about what it is. This is what I got in my email, as I get a notification each time a comment is posted. So now
Comment Spammers Die Read Post »
Found it! this picture is the one I was talking about when I mentioend multiple monitors. It’s real, not fake, using a technology that allows you to link up slave computers for displaying graphics. No idea what the website is, as this isn’t the place I originally saw the pic. There’s some other funny stuff
Multi Monitor Heaven Read Post »
A guy here at work brought in a small sample of Aerogel, a material that is 99.8% air, incrediably light, works as an insulator, and is the lightest known manmade solid. It is designed for the space program to aid in the collection of space dust. It’s so light and translucent it almost isn’t there,
Silv mentioned he’d been hit by comment spam, here’s a one click comment spam deletion hack, another via NSLog(). I haven’t tried it, because it hasn’t become a problem (yet).
Quick Comment Spam Deletion Read Post »
Some bastard spammer used a @ufies.org email address to send spam advertising anti-spam software. Now all email to that account is routed to my “mailer-bounces” mailbox, which is 25 megs in size and almost 7000 messages strong. Weee. Ask me why I love commercialism again? Oh right, “progress” :-P~ I also got an email last
Finally I’ve found justification for having my two monitors set up! I wonder if more monitors makes you even more productive? I’m sure around the 32 monitor mark you’ll lose some productivity due to craning your neck though.
Multiple Monitors and Productivity Read Post »