mindlace

Every time I hang out with that kid I come out of it feeling rejuvenated and with a renewed faith in our ability to bring some measure of sanity to this benighted ball of rock. Plus he’s pretty hot.

I’m very spoiled by the virtual interface feature of Linux, and routinely have quite a few IP addresses associated with one virtual interface.
I’m building a cluster now, where all the machines have only private interfaces save one; obviously, I’d like the internal machines to be able to do their own updating, etc.
So I need to put in […]

So. Today was good as a client signed off on some really fun work that means I can relax about January being my Doom. It is bad in that I have finally sliced my wrists off with the bleeding edge; there’s some interaction between my ldap server, dns resolution, smtp server, and virtual machine environment.
Remind me […]

so ok, if I typo and do “aptitude uipdate”, should it not know what I mean?
In the case that arguments or their values have a finite set of valid inputs, it seems like one could readily have the correct version printed as a “did you mean this? if so, press enter, if not, press n” instead […]

Nature Mill makes an indoor composter. It makes me think that an indoor gas-generation device could work.

Kevin Kelley’s tremendous Cool Tools pointed out that Frybrid sells a very nice diesel-svo conversion kit.

It appears, despite someone’s claim of old Mercedes being a horrorshow for parts, that I’m not the only one who is fond of old Mercedes diesels. Though now that I read the entire thing, he claims similar status for them. As Vika’s lovely Carolla edges ever closer to 200k miles, I get more and more […]