Older blog entries for backtick (starting at number 2)

Well, we just had a SERIOUS storm front come through. Nothing like watching trees fall down around your data center, see power lines outside arcing together, and not even get an alarm inside the datacenter proper, much less any kind of actual power failure. Kind of cool, actually :- )

And I think some of our sales crew had some potential clients here, so I expect they'll be reasonably well versed in what our center can handle! Maybe mother nature was helping close the deal? :-)

9 Nov 2000 (updated 9 Nov 2000 at 19:32 UTC) »

Gods, the last day or two has been interesting, considering the "election that just won't die" is still going on. FLIP A COIN! If the vote is this close, and people refuse to use a popular vote as the real voting mechanism (for which there is a great supporting article on /.), then let fate decide. Heck, if the vote is that close, no matter what half the people will be mad. At least that way no one can claim it's rigged :-) Thank gooodness we don't have to declare random or pull entropy from the kernel for coin tosses!

Okay, so geek related... I'm trying to see if I can't find some of the fingerprints that seem to be missing from Queso/nmap/etc to make those a bit more current. That'll be a spare time kind of thing, tho :-)

I'm using a few things as 'recent reference' material:

http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap- fingerprinting-article.html

http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001102S0005/1

7 Nov 2000 (updated 7 Nov 2000 at 23:30 UTC) »

Wow, finally managed to remember to set this up. This will be the first in a string of random diary entries, as I'm not even going to think about saying I expect I'll do this regularly. I'm amazed I remember to wash clothes or eat on a regular basis. Oh, and for those geeks who hang out in #linpeople, I was a regular in there WAY back in '94 and for a few years as 'fstab'. Unfortunately, the real world got in the way. I happened to wander back in the other day for a few minutes, and got a real kick out of getting to help linux geeks via IRC again.

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