Category: computing
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Grumpy thots on SELinux
I just spent an hour trying to get a Samba share running on Fedora 20. It used to not take that long, I’m familiar with how to get Samba running, how to create shares, and how to manage valid users and masks. But when it still doesn’t work? Well, what other thing do you do–you…
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Replacing a loud fan in my home ZFS NAS
The blue-LED fan I have in my ZFS on Linux NAS is a bit louder than the other fans that I’ve been hoping for. I am going to replace it with a 600rpm fan. You will notice that I have drilled extra ventilation into the top case panel. Notice the clear-plastic fan. It…
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Want a quiet Thinkpad fan
I wish the fan in y T430 was this quiet. The laptop fan spins at over 2500 rpm.
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Windows OEM License
So it turns out you can destroy a windows virtual host really quickly, just by moving it from one host system to another host. This is something I’ve done with Linux virtual hosts many times, and it seems like an intrinsic way to manage resources. But not with Windows. They really expect you to take…
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Backups failed last night? Oh, yeah–blame Comcast
This is not the first time I’ve had mysterious backup transfers fail. So I installed Smokeping. And it was clear that Comcast dropped Internet at our office.
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Parenting and Teaching Programming
At what level of programming are we actually imparting the philosophy of human thought? Or, another way, a basic program that prints out a few numbers is truly trivially basic: it merely teaches some programming syntax. However, contrast your smartphone apps to your old DOS/Windows apps. A significan understanding of human haptics and intuition have…
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Crazy Perl Day
I’m surprised that this is the first time in Perl that I’ve bothered to use the posix character class [:alnum:]. Check this nuttiness out: ($::port_name, $::first_port, $::last_port) = $::port_range =~ /([[:alnum:]]+[^[:alnum:]])(\d+)-[[:alnum:]]+[^[:alnum:]](\d+)/; Yeah…it’s better with coffee.
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My Pogoplug Thinks its in China?
I think I have to set a regulatory domain for my usb ath9k module because it appears to think it is in CN, which I’m assuming is China. [ 43.313192] usb 1-1: ath9k_htc: Firmware htc_9271.fw requested [ 43.331335] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc [ 43.588793] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: [ 43.593951] cfg80211: DFS…
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SourceForge is making Open Source Look Like a Scam
Not only when I download something from SourceForge these days am I presented a proxy-downloader that tries to sell me on installing some unsolicited system utility — like a browser home page take over — it manages to install some other bullshit system utilities as well. Holy shit. This is not the Sourceforge I used…
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