Author name: Arcterex

Don’t Speed Up!

Wow, had a gooood dream last night. Trippy and committable that is anyway. I don’t know how it started out, but myself, Foz, and Engel were driving back from somewhere in Foz’s car. He was driving, and his attention drifted for a second or two and the car went onto the shoulder, hitting a young […]

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Today, apparently, is Saturday

Ok, many things to tell… but first, a couple of dreams. The first was from last night: Firefly and I went to someone’s house…. it was in the woods, off a side road, and the driveway went through fairly dense trees. The driveway was the kind that loops around in a semi-circle, with an in

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04/08/2002

Just finished Cryptonomicon [archive.org link], which I’ve been working on for a while now, but only recently had the time to get it finished. It was a great book, full of pure geek-love, and lots of cool crypto, security and networking geek stuff. I only have a couple of complaints about the book. It took

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Time to Spring Ahead!

Why the hell am I still up? Trying out Dungeon Siege [archive.org link]. It’s ok, a bit like Ultima Online was I assume (I never played it). While it is very nice looking, the first part, and I admit I’m not all that far along, is booooooooring. Basically you walk along, and at set times

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Big Screen Lust

Well, it looks like we’re back up, at least to some degree. I managed to convince Tom to head in to the colo and open it up for me, so I could look at the box. It looked like a random crash, and booted up just fine after hitting the big red button. I replaced

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UFies.org update

Ok, here’s a quickie update: New hardware (case + HDs) have been got, and the hardware is all installed. I have to do some set up still, but the OS has been installed onto another drive, and will be copied across to the new one(s) which will be using software IDE RAID5 on /usr/ and

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