http://interandom.com random interests, in case there wasn't enough complaining in your life already Fri, 02 May 2008 20:55:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just went to pay for something via PayPal. They default to using my checking account as a funding source. I usually want to use my debit card, so I have to change that every time. That's okay, even though I forget to change it sometimes, and they don't have ... http://interandom.com/2008/05/02/paypal-evil-another-example/ I just finally solved a horrible OpenVPN problem that I've been having for a while. The OpenVPN server is a VM running Fedora 8 under ESX Server 3.5. When I would go to download a file over the VPN, it was very, very slow - about 128kbit/s instead of the 16mbit/s ... http://interandom.com/2008/03/04/openvpn-slow-download-vmware-esx/ Seeqpod.com has a very badly written spider, apparently named 'heritrix'. It has been responsible for two librivox outages in the last three days. Specifically, it makes an extremely large number of simultaneous connections, and requests the exact same URL over and over and over again. Here's a log snippet. ... http://interandom.com/2008/02/27/seeqpodcom-is-flooding-librivox/ I spent way, way too long in a WoW dungeon today. As it always goes, when you try a dungeon with a random group of people, it seems fine at first. The first sign of trouble was when I realized that no one was leading. We were all following eachother. I'd ... http://interandom.com/2008/02/16/maraudon/ IRC support at its finest. It should be noted that adilger_ was actually very helpful. irq: does lustre support kernel 2.6.23? irq: i'm guessing not? adilger_: irq: there are some patches in CVS to add support for this, search bugzilla for 2.6.23 and you should find them... that is for clients ... http://interandom.com/2008/02/04/lustre-jackassery/ I've been exploring some blocked off World of Warcraft zones. Here are some screenshots! http://interandom.com/2008/01/27/my-journey-to-old-ironforge-ironforge-airport/ I'm considering changing site focus from simply technical articles to a more blog-like focus, where I would talk about what I've been doing. There will still be a lot of technical talk, as that's mostly what I do. There'd also be some good ol' introversion-fueled rants, of course. I just ... http://interandom.com/2008/01/22/more-blogish/ Trying to post from my Nokia N810 "internet tablet". Am I successful? http://interandom.com/2008/01/18/nokia-n810/ This is the first time in 8 years that I won't be on call for server problems over the holidays. I write it here as a memorial, because it will probably never happen again. That is all. http://interandom.com/2007/12/21/not-on-call-for-christmas/ Below is an open letter from Oliver Starr, a blogger for Blognation, to Sam Sethi, the CEO of Blognation.com. According to Oliver, Sam has been lying continuously to all of the bloggers under his employ for a very long time, causing great financial & moral problems. As Oliver posted this ... http://interandom.com/2007/12/05/sam-sethi-blognation-ceo-exhibiting-psychotic-behavior/ We've got about 80 Supermicro X7DBR motherboards in use at my company. They all have slots for this nifty IPMI card. Half of them don't work, because the BIOS is too old on the motherboard. Supermicro provides a BIOS upgrade. You must either be running Windows, or have the ability ... http://interandom.com/2007/11/06/supermicro-you-suck/ Say what you want about CNN. I'm going to say this right now: Their video sucks. They finally moved into 1999 when they recently switched to a Flash-based video player. They just waited until 2006. Whatever. But that's not what I'm complaining about. EVERY SINGLE ONE of their videos is stretched ... http://interandom.com/2007/11/05/cnns-crappy-video/ In the PowerMac G5 I have at work I have an ATI Radeon 9600 Mac / PC Edition video card. The reason I have this particular card is that it's the cheapest AGP G5 compatible video card that can drive a 30" monitor. However, once upgrading to Leopard, I was having ... http://interandom.com/2007/10/31/leopard-ati-radeon-9600/ This is a book about a sysadmin who is conscripted into doing black-ops type work. High math, sysadmin and occult stuff intersect in an extremely intriguing way. Don't let my previous description make you think the book is silly. It is funny at times, on purpose, but most of the ... http://interandom.com/2007/10/29/go-read-atrocity-archives/ I've complained before about VersionTracker and how freaking slow they are. (For those who don't know, VersionTracker is a software catalog site.) Other deficiencies include: Virtually no screenshots Site layout is too busy Linkjacking Despite gigantic corporate backing from CNET, it is still slower than my 14.4kbps dialup web server from 1998 Pay-for desktop companion ... http://interandom.com/2007/10/26/versiontracker-is-dead-long-live-iusethis/ http://interandom.com/2007/10/22/omfg-cnn-logo/ Today I finally solved a terrible problem that has been keeping me from wanting to take pictures. First, some background. Color profiles are basically config files for your OS/applications that tell your computer the color personality of your monitor. Every monitor displays colors a little differently. One monitor may show more ... http://interandom.com/2007/10/21/safari-aperture-preview-color-profiles-two-monitors/ Austin: I don't believe the peace of the planet earth is directly threatened by climate change. Austin: Thus, climate change has nothing to do with the peace of the planet earth. http://interandom.com/2007/10/18/overheard-on-irc/ OK two things. KeyCue is an amazing utility. You hold down CMD for a second or so, and it pops up a screen containing all the keyboard shortcuts in the currently running app. Screenshot below. Thanks to KeyCue, I discovered an unbelievably handy keyboard shortcut in Terminal: CTRL+CMD+V. It automatically escapes a ... http://interandom.com/2007/10/18/terminal-automatic-string-escaping-keycue/ I will not "sign up" or create an account in your "career portal" simply to apply for a job at your company. Also, I will not split up my resume to fit it into your tiny little text boxes for separate pieces of information. Do you have any idea how ... http://interandom.com/2007/10/17/note-to-employers-recruiters/