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Googlebot makes, on average, 270,524 hits to librivox.org every day. I’ve been working with google for 2 weeks now to fix this and so far it hasn’t helped. They said that they fixed it, by causing googlebot to index librivox.org less, but it hasn’t actually taken effect.

I keep telling them that googlebot must be broken in some way; librivox.org is just a wordpress / phpBB install, there’s nothing there that should make googlebot consume 41 GB of traffic per month. It’s actually driving the load average of my server high. It even caused a 31mbit/s traffic spike at 6AM this morning.

Here’s hoping Google continues doing no evil.

I just paid, and paid dearly, for two tickets to see Rush at the Verizon Amphitheater in Irvine, CA on July 25th, 2007. These are by far the best tickets I’ve ever had for any show. 5 rows back from the stage. Below is a diagram of the venue; my seats will be somewhere on the red line.

I am really, really sick of looking at dmesg and seeing messages like this:


TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 62.68.89.50:64651/80 shrinks window 2345094196:2345094197. Repaired.


I googled, and I googled, and I could not find a way to disable the messages. I found plenty of posts saying that the messages are harmless. There is no file in /proc that you can use to turn off the messages. However, I want to be able to look at dmesg without important messages being flooded away.

So, I commented out the printk() in the kernel source and recompiled it. The kernel I modified/recompiled is from Fedora Core 6, specifically kernel-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6. Below are links to the RPM for i686 and also the SRPM.

Beware, this is my first time recompiling a kernel the Fedora way.

Kernel for i686: kernel-2.6.20prep-1.i386.rpm

Source RPM: kernel-2.6.20prep-1.src.rpm