Derek writes me today to tell me about a 43ft straw goat sitting dead-center in the Swedish town of Gävle. Now a huge straw goat just sitting right out there in the open is obviously a target for sabotage, but the Swedes have won a special place in my heart by making a tradition out [...]
Whenever you go to install applications and services on registered RHEL servers, it’s always nice to use the RPMs because up2date will keep everything current for you. Managing upgrades gets a whole lot easier when you can bring your system up to current with one simple command. Because of this, I decided that I would [...]
When many new servers are delivered from the factory, the system clock is way off. Most UNIX systems run “ntpd” to keep the time in sync with internet time servers, which are, in turn synchronized against an atomic clock. This results in a system time that is very very close to the “actual” time of [...]
OpenGroupWare is an open source groupware package intended as an alternative to proprietary applications such as Exchange and PostPath. It is fairly robust in its feature set, and even integrates well with MS Outlook.
Its strongest points, in my opinion are that it does not depend in any way on Active Directory, and that it [...]
Buying anime without first having seen at least one episode is a gamble, and I'm happy to say that Blue Seed is one gamble that definitely paid off! The story is solid, the animation quality is superb and the characters are all incredibly likable. There's is even some fanservice to top it all off.
Blue [...]
Japanese food, and sushi in particular, has become very popular around the world, and inevitably the word has managed to screw it up. So much so, in fact, that many Japanese citizens are coming back from traveling abroad and calling their government with complaints about soggy seaweed, limp noodles and sushi with toppings that are [...]
Mounting filesystems in RHEL is pretty straightforward and easy. Occasionally, however, you will not want the filesystem to remain mounted all the time, but rather to automatically mount for a set period of time only when it is needed. Because of networking overhead, and the general unreliability of networks, NFS mounts are a good [...]
Centralia Washington is most known to technical divers as the home of the "Meg hatchery" where the Megalodon rebreather is made. It turns out, however, that it's also the home of Ester Medley, a Ninety-four-year-old woman who managed to bowl the most impressive score of 244 yesterday.
Now, a bowling score of 244 is impressive [...]
