We bought a Uniden TRU5885-2 5.8 GHz cordless phone yesterday. For the past couple of years we’ve been using a 2.4 GHz phone and have been suffering from interference with our 802.11b Wi-Fi home network. Picking up a phone call would sometimes disrupt the wireless Internet connection and our SSH sessions would terminate. When our […]
One week after disaster struck, Glenn (the friendly neighborhood admin for my ISP) has restored my MT database files from backup tape. I’m running again. A quick post-mortem: what happened to me was similar to what is described here. However, running db_dump -r did not successfully recover the data, which is why I needed to […]
MovableType databases got corrupted yesterday, and now everything has gone to hell. I am editing this file by hand. Waiting for my ISP to do a tape restore, which means I can’t really update the blog until Sunday… 🙁
One of my co-workers asked me this week for an easy way to see which files had changed in CVS over the last week. I suggested that rcs2log would be a good first start, but strangely enough he had never heard of it before. rcs2log is a nifty script that you can use to generate […]
I’ve been a very happy Palm Zire owner since January. It does the two things I need it to do (Calendar and Address Book) really well and has phenomenal battery life. I don’t need anything fancier. Today, on the palm.com webiste, I noticed an advertisement for an Open Box Palm Zire for $49.99. Cool.
I just finished writing up 4 pages of documentation on how to correctly build shared libraries for FreeBSD using Yahoo!’s Makefile macros. The fact that Makefiles are such a black art probably explains the popularity of alternative build systems. I’m sure a bunch of these ideas will be covered in Theodore Ts’o’s Designing and Creating […]
Nullsoft (the Winamp people) today released WASTE, a secure, mesh-network IM/chat/file-transfer system. Looks kinda cool. They even GPL’d the code. WASTE is initially available on the following platforms: Windows FreeBSD MacOS X Notice a particularly popular operating system missing from that list? No, I’m not talking about Solaris.
I hate email almost as much as I hate the web. I’ve found that I’m using my Windows 2000 laptop a lot these days, but I’m still doing my email on my 4.5-year-old FreeBSD machine (running a vintage 2.2.7 kernel, complete with the a.out runtime linker bug). Switching back and forth between the two has […]
After 3.5 years of using TiVo, I’ve finally decided to crack open the case and increase the recording capacity. I purchased my Philips 14hr HDR112 TiVo (the first model ever manufactured) from Fry’s Electronics in Sunnyvale on October 22nd, 1999. Today, Ariella and I schlepped out to Fry’s in Woodland Hills to purchase a Maxtor […]
John Doe. Joe Schmoe. Ploni ben Ploni. When the Gemara needs a placeholder name but doesn’t want to use a real one, apparently it uses the name פלוני (transliterated here as Ploni). Ploni can be used both as a person’s name as well as a name of a place. In mock contracts, sometimes the formula […]