I have a VM slice that I use to run DNS, a bzflag server, and a few other incidental things. This is what I see on it right now: % uptime 12:05:13 up 450 days, 15:17, 5 users, load average: 1.93, 1.35, 0.60 It’s currently running Debian lenny, but I decided that I wanted to [...]
Archive of posts filed under the misc tech category.
Firefox 4 and Vimperator 3
I’ve been using Google Chrome’s dev channel for the past year or so as my primary browser, but between some questionable aesthetic decisions and Chrome’s tendency to segfault every hour or so for the last few dev releases, I decided that it’s time to give up on the faster browser in exchange for the usable [...]
Github
Brief post. I decided to actually use Github once in a while now (not in the least because I use it for open-source stuff at work). My page is up at github.com/Roguelazer, and the work account which I’m a contributor on is at github.com/Yelp. So, uh, feel free to comment on or improve any code [...]
iPad Reactions
So, yesterday was the big day. The Coming of The Tablet. I’m not exactly a big tech pundit. I’ve never seen an iPad in person. I haven’t even played with the emulator yet. But I thought I’d still post my immediate reactions. The Name: It’s not that bad. It doesn’t trigger the same juvenile “feminine [...]
SpamAssassin 2010 Bug
Hey all. One of the sysadmins at Mudd, Claire Connelly, pointed out that there’s a widespread bug in SpamAssassin that might cause large numbers of false positives on mail sent after 2010-01-01. Apparently, the “date in future” rule is hardcoded to look for years after 2010. You can read more at LWN; the short of [...]
