Just got back from town doing some looking around at various things, the biggest being a new cordless phone. Even with a full nights charge our current one lasts about 30 seconds before it starts it’s low battery beeping, so we went to look for a new phone. Could have gotten a new battery, but […]
Christmas Has Started Read Post »
This is new…. providing useful information in spam. I just got an email with the following: Subject: Broken link in www.arcterex.net There appears to be a problem on this page of your site. On page http://www.arcterex.net/news-to-98.html when you click on “me”, the link to http://www.arcterex.net/alan@northco.net gives the error: Not found. Suggestion: You may have forgotten
Some time RSN I need to set up and play with IPAUDIT and IPAUDIT-web. Also should finally get around to using snort as a proper IDS by using something like ACID. Lord knows everyone loves pretty pictures!
Set up IP-Audit System Read Post »
Looks like it was just a bad cable, so /home is back and my guilt can go away, as everyone’s data is safe. Email me if you’ve got questions about anything, but as far as I’m concerned everything is back as of 10pm last night.
I’m scared to see what happens if you plug ufies.org hardware problems into google. Here’s how my last Sunday was supposed to be spent. Firefly was working so basically my plan was something like this: Sleep in long enough to be rested (done) Go for run (done) Have nice relaxing breakfast (done) Relax some more
How I Spent My Sunday (Ufies hardware problems) Read Post »
If it’s not one thing it’s another. Logged in and the load was up to 160+, couldn’t log in as a user, couldn’t write to /home, nothing. Based on the dmesg output (read more for that) it looks like some sort of error in either the scsi drive or the scsi drive itself. Funny (not
I’m normally pretty impressed with Linux and it’s gains in the desktop, but every once and a while I find something that makes me cringe, and I know if I’m cringing, I know my UI expert buddies foz and engel would be rolling around and screaming in pain. This came up to me under the
Some Bad Nautilus UI Read Post »
Just got back from getting some (ironically enough) water in the break room upstairs and saw that they have a 274 page book on drinking water for sale (along some other interesting looking ones, including this one by the Dalai Lama. Almost three hundred pages to tell you all about how water is good for
I don’t know if I’d want to live in a country in which the defense secretary apparently has no grasp of the English language… who knows what would come out if he said “don’t press the red button”? This Yahoo story gives Rumsfeld a foot in mouth award for the following: “Reports that say something
America, This is Your Administration Read Post »
Just a quick note to say happy birthday to my friend and climbing partner Brad. Hope you have a good one dude!
Happy Birthday Brad! Read Post »