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Monday, July 10th, 2006ok, here’s my latest bout of IE stupidity. The new system I’m setting up will have several developers working on several projects. We’d like to be able to use subversion to manage the projects without dealing with pathname stupidity, hence all new projects should have / as their base since they will later become [...]
Dependencies of Dependencies in FreeBSD
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006Something that is really aggrivating the hell out of me is FreeBSD’s package management system. I’ve heard people go on and on about how it’s the best out there, but frankly I’m unimpressed.
The main reason for this is there is no way to determine ALL of the dependencies that are going to be installed [...]
Morgajel is Not Amused
Thursday, April 6th, 2006I generally don’t like to talk about money on here because it’s depressing, but this bothered me so much I had to say something.
It’s going to cost us about $5k to get the movers to move our stuff from one apartment to another. The drive is too far for jackie and I to do in [...]
Slow Decline of Writing Skills
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006I’m sure I’m not the only person to notice this, but my spelling and grammar has been getting worse. I don’t think I’m the only one suffering from this problem.
I’m pretty sure I can attribute it to the internet in general, and this blog/irc in particular. Why do I blame them? Because I’ve gotten used [...]
Useful Utility: sed
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006Sed is a powerful utility for going regexes on the fly. Regular Expressions (regex) are beyond the scope of this artcle, but I’ll try to write one later. As I go, I’ll explain the regexes I use, but you really should learn about them because they’re handy as hell in many different utilities.
First up, [...]
instablity
Monday, March 27th, 2006I don’t know if BSD can smell the gnu in my blood or what, but it is seriously putting up a fight. As I mentioned in the previous post’s followups, I got kde working finally- however every time I pop open Konqueror and hit slashdot, the entire machine locks solid. Not just konqueror, not [...]
What’s Missing?
Saturday, March 25th, 2006So, I’m compiling a list of what’s missing from my BSD install from the get go.
tab-complete - stupid default shell is csh, which means no tab complete. Come on guys, jump on up to 1999.
alt key - This is probably a keymap issue, but the alt and delete keys do not work. Alt acts like [...]
Going Home
Monday, March 20th, 2006For the few people who haven’t heard yet, Jackie and I will be returning to Grand Rapids. I was offered a position at a local GR company as a Network Administrator. The company seems really nice from what I saw last friday.
I can’t describe how much I really hate the DC area. It’s [...]
Debian Stable maintainer quit…
Friday, March 10th, 2006My friend k_f sent me a link containing the resignation of the debian stable maintainer. I can completely see where he’s coming from- the Debian crowd seems to have collected all of the antisocial jerks over the years. I sent him the following letter of support:
Hi there, I caught your post to [...]
Spam and Ham
Thursday, March 9th, 2006I finally got around to modifying the sa-stats script k_f gave me- it now works on my setup of postfix+gentoo+spamd.
I unzipped, cat’ed and parsed my logs for the last 7 days and came up with the following stats:
Total messages: Ham: Spam: [...]
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