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admire the width of my band!
My web, mail, and DNS hosting is at Dreamhost. It’s a pretty good provider; certainly not enterprise-class and there’s been a couple of times I’ve had to have discussions with support about why something was their problem and not mine, but for personal or small-business shared hosting, it works out pretty well. Multiple shell users, […]
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hold on, i can look that up
A list of things that I have wondered about while not at home, from the Wikipedia pages in the URL history of my Blackberry: Adult Swim Apple Baseball Citric acid Couscous Dacquoise Lever Little Feat Mortadella Ottawa Praline Tour de France I wonder why I was looking up Little Feat?
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Merry Christmas again!
Ok, so maybe I will post on Christmas Day. Today was great! Candice and I got up early to open presents and have a big breakfast. By coincidence Nyxie and I both got each other iPods — a Shuffle for me and a Nano for her. I have simple play-and-forget for those occasional times I […]
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Merry Christmas!
It’s still Christmas Eve here, of course, but I doubt I’ll be posting for the next few days, so you get it now. I hope you all have a happy Christmas, Chanukah, Festivus, Kwanzaa, or whatever you might do for the next day or two. I got my first Christmas present early — a permanent […]
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ntdsutil auth restore subtree
One amusing element of a major outage on the last day before Christmas holidays — on which a lot of people bring their kids in to work — is a lot of “Fuck! Crap! Uh, oops, sorry.” We now have a few system administrators, myself included, going “Rats!” when things don’t work out. It’s sort […]
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Automatic Threadless wallpaper generator
I realized while browsing through Threadless’s catalog the other day that while there are only a handful of designs there that I’d like to wear, pretty much all of them with suitable background colors would make great computer wallpaper. But since there were hundreds I liked, I didn’t want to have to edit all of […]
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Butter many privates
Someone over in Engrish found a Chinese food menu which had been translated to English character by character with no regard to content, and posted scans. Seriously some of the best Engrish ever.
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first, draw a safe on a cardboard box
New from O’Reilly/Syngress: How to Cheat at Designing Security for a Windows Server 2003 Network. I realize that “How To Cheat At” is a book series, but how could a title like that get past an editor and the book’s author without any red flags being raised?