sysadmin madness, in relative perspective
So, for a project I needed to get something running in order to insure memcached would keep on running. The (for me) natural choice for this was daemontools (0.76 at time of writing). There are a couple of things you have to pay attention to, in order to get this going on RHEL 6. (and … Read More “daemontools on redhat enterprise 6.0” »
This website is now IPv6 compatible! I encourage everyone to join in.
int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random. } for people who don’t understand what this means: this is how Sony’s PS3 got hacked.
I can finally, after being long overdue, add the UK, and more specifically: Scotland to my list of countries visited. Last month, Kirsteen and I travelled to Glasgow on a family and friends visiting trip. I absolutely loved it. Though we did find the hotel lacking. Not worth what they charge. Though the breakfast at … Read More “Add another to the list” »
My friend Timea Huzar pointed me to Sean Tibbetts’ awesome blog. For those who are not in the know, Sean has been the live bass player of Kamelot, and has now become the official full-time bassist of the band. (and he deserves it!). Apparently, not many people where in the know that Sean had his … Read More “Sean Tibbetts has a blog!” »
When you see the backup of a (non localhost) client failing with the message: Fatal error: Failed to authenticate Storage daemon Keep in mind that bacula uses tcpwrappers, though probably not in the way you expect it. instead of doing: bacula-sd : 111.222.333.444 do: $name-sd : 111.222.333.444 where $name is the name you specified in … Read More “bacula: Fatal error: Failed to authenticate Storage daemon” »
Normally I don’t answer ‘blocked’ phone numbers on my cellphone, but since I’m expecting a call from a company I got tempted today. It was (off course) some call center, who immediately asked: “I’m sorry to bother you, but do you by any chance have children under the age of 12?” my (logical) answer was: … Read More “do companies ‘sell out’ their customers?” »
Someone on IRC pointed me to this wonderful bug in Spamassassin, it’s easy to quickfix, but the fix itself will become a bug in 10 years, in any case, until they push an update that correctly fixes this: ##{ FH_DATE_PAST_20XX header FH_DATE_PAST_20XX Date =~ /20[1-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006] describe FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the … Read More “Spamassassin 2010 bug” »
I had a wonderful Christmas this year 🙂 On the 24th, my girlfriend Kirsteen flew in from Vienna, where she lives, and she stayed until the 27th. We did the whole exchange of gifts on Christmas-eve, a first for me – it’s more a British tradition I think, and since she’s Scottish … I think … Read More “a wonderful xmas :)” »
Venezuela president Chavez used the climate summit for his own political agenda, in a speech where he claims Venezuelan rights to the Dutch Antilles, an island group 40 miles north of Venezuela. These islands have been under Dutch control since the 17th century. Long before attempts of Venezuela to become itself independent. It seems Chavez … Read More “Venezuela: ‘Dutch Antilles are ours, US and Dutch gearing up for aggression’” »
