I managed to convince work to lend me one of their unused tape libraries, and I am now the proud borrower of a Digital TZ875 5 DLT library and DLT2k drive. I grabbed a SCSI-2 cable (HD50) for it, but now I’m wondering what to plug the other end into. On one hand, I’ve got […]

I have fish! Candice brought her 10-gallon aquarium over from her old place yesterday. It’s the perfect size for the kitchen counter, although I imagine we’ll move it out into the living room once it gets a bit better furnished. (Augh, furniture. Still no progress, sigh. Bedroom might come first anyhow.) We need more fish, […]

Via Q_skud_: Hipster Bingo. I was pleased to discover that I did not complete a row myself.

The Mitel firewall and joshu.mati.ca are a ten-minute drive from each other along a single road, but my route there seems to be taking a bit of a… vacation. traceroute to joshu.mati.ca (66.11.173.170), 40 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 134.199.17.251 (134.199.17.251) 55.130 ms 0.859 ms 1.852 ms 2 134.199.251.2 (134.199.251.2) 0.408 ms 0.393 ms […]

Best. Blond. Joke. Evar.

I’ve complained here in the past about my ISP, IStop, and how well they tend to live up to their name. Lately, though, they’ve been improving in reliability quite a bit. I’m still not sure if I’d recommend them for everybody, but I think I’m going to stick around for a while. Today, all IStop […]

Showed up in root’s inbox today, sent by another admin: > allspice : Jul 4 15:33:10 : root : user NOT in sudoers […] Was me. Who’d have thought one litre of beer could affec,mb bnjeat Maybe I’ll take the rest of the afternoon off.

Why I want to move to Vancouver, reason #314: Vij’s.