-
my first idea begins with “rtf”.
From freenode #amavis: <symtab> hello, i get this error <symtab> The value of variable $myhostname is “yggdrasil”, but should have been a fully qualified domain name; perhaps uname(3) did not provide such. You must explicitly assign a FQDN of this host to variable $myhostname in amavisd.conf, or fix what uname(3) provides as a host’s network […]
-
Groove.
(blame Yumpopstars.)
-
Yak shaving
This has been one of those weeks. Mostly the problem has been yak shaving — where to get one thing done you find yourself in a pile of other related but annoying tasks. For instance, yesterday someone needed to move an old SparcStation 5 that acts as a terminal server onto a new subnet. Yak […]
-
Nifty keypad attack
What do you do if you want to steal someone’s door code, bank card PIN, safe combination, etc., when you can’t watch them enter it, and checking fingerprints afterwards is too inconvenient? Just take a thermal image after they’ve left.
-
could you guys talk to those other guys and then
Here, have some more volume control hate, this time from Dell. I have a Dell Latitude D600. It has three “multimedia keys” for volume down, up, and mute. It came with a Dell multimedia USB keyboard, with eight multimedia keys: volume down, up, and mute, plus five more for browser control, I guess — back, […]
-
mmmmm
Hungry? (Be sure to note the “similar items” section. Also, if you weren’t around on the innarweb when this was current, be sure to also see dogs in elk.)
-
ui hall of shame: gnome-volume-control
This one’s a lot simpler than previous entries. The program illustrated below, gnome-volume-control, is the standalone volume control application for GNOME. The other volume control is an applet with a single slider, so this is the only way to change anything other than overall volume. Who in their right mind would let this go out […]
-
Why Google Base?
Google Base has broken new ground for Google by being the first service they’ve introduced which I can’t understand the purpose of. Google is a search engine. GMail is a mail client. Froogle is a search engine designed for shopping. Google Groups is Usenet and mailing lists. Google Suggest refines searches, Google Scholar searches academic […]