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Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder

This is possibly the most insightful thing I've read all day (which says something about the quality of my day-to-day reading, but that's a rant for another day). I have five terminal windows open right now, running two mail clients, editing this blog entry, and a couple of command lines hanging around just in case; I have two browsers open, one on each machine on my desk, with seven tabs open across both; I have Gaim running with a couple of conversation tabs going; I have a third email client running on my Windows machine, along with an SSH tunnel for covert communication back to the Bat-cave; and on and off I've got a mix of Remedy, various office suite programs, and the occasional video clip or audio file playing somewhere. And this, friends, is an incredibly slow day...I've been stretching for things to fill the time today, including (horrors!) actual work. I apparently have N.A.D.D.

Syndicated 2005-06-22 15:19:00 from esm

Fedora Core 4

It's out, so in usual fashion, I'm upgrading within a week of release. The web/mail server and database servers are both running FC4 now, and aside from the usual dump/restore needed with PostgreSQL, and some initial issues with Postfix and AMaViS, it went pretty smoothly. I'll do the router this weekend, since it's usually the most problematic of the three outward-facing machines (it manages four networks and a ton of iptables rules; the bridged and wireless interfaces are the two that usually give the most grief), and then hopefully find a minute or two to update the laptop before we go on vacation.

Syndicated 2005-06-16 09:40:00 from esm

Geek School

So, for the first time in my 10-year career, I'm actually enrolled in a vendor training course (thanks to $EMPLOYER). I'll be in at Sun's Chicago training center from Dec. 7 through Dec. 10 in their "Sun Fire(TM) High-End Server Administration" course, which really means I'll get to learn about some of the niggling differences between mainstream Solaris that everyone runs, and the stripped-down version they run on 15K and 25K system controllers. This, for a guy who swore he'd never fight with these damned proprietary UNIX monstrocities if he could help it. I'd still rather be running Linux, OpenBSD, or something similar, but hey, it pays the bills, and at least I have a better glimpse under the hood of how most of this works than some folks (sorry, Erica).

Syndicated 2004-12-03 08:51:00 from esm

Meltdown!

"Imminent death of the 'net predicted, film at 11."

Syndicated 2004-08-25 14:45:00 from esm

JabRSS

Jabber hacks amuse me; it's very cool to see what folks will come up with, given an open messaging system (see: TCP/IP, SMTP, etc). Hence, I'm not too surprised to see something like JabRSS, but it's still pretty cool.

Syndicated 2004-06-29 11:49:00 from esm

Tomcat is not my favorite thing right now. I have it working in concert with Apache to provide for a couple of websites that want to do basic JSPs and bean/servlet stuff. No problem, right? Just use mod_jk2 to connect to Tomcat, and you're all good. Except that mod_jk2 renders mod_autoindex non-functional when you have a DirectoryIndex index.jsp directive in httpd.conf. I've removed the DirectoryIndex directive for now, in an effort to get things working again, but it's rather irritating that, even if an index.jsp file doesn't exist, it still hands over the handling to Tomcat. Looks like I'm not the only one having this problem, but at least the Tomcat folks seem to be aware of it for Tomcat 5 development.

Syndicated 2004-06-24 09:28:00 from esm

Okay, Pyblosxom is finally driving this site, after a few false starts. Those of you who frequent my home page (both of you!), shoot me an email if you see something obviously not working. I've tried to put some basic redirection in place for old URLs, in my vain effort to combat the effects of the vanishing web; please let me know if there was something you found in a search engine that doesn't appear to be here anymore.

Syndicated 2004-05-27 13:37:00 from esm

This is probably the funniest thing I've read all week.

Syndicated 2004-05-26 15:21:00 from esm

Pyblosxom is here

After seeing Jeff Waugh's uber-cool website built on Pyblosxom, I was inspired. Imagine, rebuilding my entire website using tools written in Python rather than the crufty stuff I'd done in PHP previously. It appealed to the side of me that liked Wikis, but it was a little more web-focused, and since I know HTML, the formatting so common with Wikis was a little too low-tech for my taste.

Syndicated 2004-04-16 10:33:00 from esm