It never fails. As I type, Windows 2000 is reinstalling on my gaming system. Why, may you ask, would I do such a thing? Were it a GNU/Linux system, such an act would be preposterous! The simple, sad truth of the matter is, I thought I would spent a few moments to reinstall Windows over and existing install, maintaining my settings, so APCI would work properly again. For some time now, for no obvious reason, my Windows 2000 install simply fails to poweroff when I shut it down or even reboot without manual intervention. Why? Who knows. That’s how Windows issues go.
04.30.06
04.28.06
The state of Florida’s investment plan retirement management company, Ernst & Young, really sucks. (It’s useful to note that CitiStreet is involved and sucks, too.) Some of that might simply be silly Florida laws, but it is nonetheless annoying. My goal is simple: rescue my retirement funds from the sadly inept options of the FRS Investment Plan and transfer them to a FirstTrade account. Should be simple, no?
04.27.06
A couple of years ago, I was singing the praises of milter-greylist. While greylisting is still effective, in the past year I’ve noticed an increase in the number of spammers, especially this year, that utilize more RFC compliant spamming tools that resend on temporary failure. To combat that, I have recently started using milter-regex to reject on, among other things, invalid HELO strings.
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04.23.06
For years, I’ve been putting off locating some kind of catalog system for my VHS cassettes. As the years passed, DVD has become pretty ubiquitous. Meanwhile, I still had not adopted a catalog system and the problem of what I have locally available remains. Finally, I decided to search the usual places, Freshmeat and SourceForge, for something to fill the bill. I eventually settled on VCD-db, which is the (only) Web based, platform agnostic cataloging system for media I could find that appears to be in active development. Another option was a Java based system still maintained, but given my dislike of Java and loading JDKs on all my systems, I decided to skip it.
04.21.06
The Web site Matt’s Computer Trends has followed the price per GB for hard disks dating back to 1995 and generated some interesting graphs and discussion. Though I rarely link elsewhere, I found this article particularly interesting given my recent spat of purchasing several large ATA drives.
04.10.06
[23:44] [MrSue] so that's it? [23:51] [MrSue] Hmm well I was told this was a lame channel [23:51] [-- MrSue has left this server. (Remote closed the connection) [23:59] [grepper] yes, we get many morons coming here [00:00] * JasonBox laughs [00:00] [JasonBox] I'm pleased we lived up to his expectations ;) [00:01] [EruditeHermit] grepper: you're so lame [00:02] [EruditeHermit] =p
I almost missed it, but 2.6.16 shipped with an NFS update that makes me happy. It’s now possible to kill those nasty processes hung on RPC calls when your NFS mount point goes away. Previously, you could umount -l with some success, but this is better.
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