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Boring…Posted by Synfinatic on June 24, 2006 at 7:43 pm in /dev/random.So I’ve watched a few world cup games… mostly because nothing else was on TV at the time. One thing though I don’t really get is, why do people like soccer (or football for everyone outside of the US). I’ll admit that the players have to be in really good shape to be running around like that for 90 minutes, but the game has a number of fatal flaws IMHO: It’s painfully slow. Field is so big it takes forever to get from one side to another.
SuckPosted by Synfinatic on June 19, 2006 at 9:29 pm in /dev/random.Well looks like things have gone from bad to worse. Server has hung in an apparent I/O wait condition @ load of 25+. Existing ssh sessions have hung and can’t login. Ping still works. The word “hosed” comes to mind. Hopefully when I hit the reset button in the morning things will magically work.
Murphy is my heroPosted by Synfinatic on June 18, 2006 at 8:47 am in Tech.I’m a big believer in Murphy’s Law… especially when it comes to computers. If you work with computers long enough, you learn to expect the unexpected. Case in point: My company has a server. It’s got a crappy Adaptec RAID card which is smart enough to tell me that one of the four drives has a problem, but not WHICH drive. The only solution was to get four new drives, replace all the existing drives and get rid of the crappy Adaptec card. Problems: RAID controller doesn’t seem to like a mix of the old SATA1 and the new SATA2 drives. It picks a random number of drives (0-4) to marked as failed during boot. About 5-10 reboots are …
This is my badge…Posted by Synfinatic on June 15, 2006 at 8:46 pm in It's Funny.I came across a fun email from an ex-coworker and friend at a privious company shortly after that company changed it’s badge policy to be, shall we say, “more strict”. mercy!!! have mercy on me!!! i wore my badge in the *shower* this morning! I AM A MAN!!!! I AM NOT A NUMBER!!! I AM MORE THAN MY PLASTIC CARD!!! [sounds of scuffle and beatings] [electro-shock therapy] [nine-hours of charlie **** harranguing and multiple e-mails later] …i will wear my badge with pride… This is my badge.
More site newsPosted by Synfinatic on June 13, 2006 at 8:01 pm in News.Well looks like Speakeasy had about a 2hr DSL outtage at my POP so my site went down. Doh. Oh well things are back up and everything seems grand. On a completely unrelated note, I’ve just re-enabled Project Honeypot for synfin.net. If you haven’t setup a honey pot MX record or added some hidden links to your site, take a few minutes and start netting some spammers. Also, I’ve made it easier to leave a comment by removing the captcha and switching to Askimet to filter spam. So far it’s caught 24 out of 24 comment spams attempted on the site, so I’m pretty happy with it.
DHS: So glad they’re on our side!Posted by Synfinatic on June 12, 2006 at 10:28 pm in Security.Let’s see, a guy walks into the DHS HQ with a fake Mexican ID which even if it was real wasn’t considered valid identification. So what do the rocket scientists for security do? Why they let him in of course! Now of course, the fake ID was really good. You’d have to be a real expert to pick up on subtle mistakes like stating Tijuana is in Brittish Columbia (B.C.), claiming to live on “123 Fraud Blvd.” and misspelling “Staton Island, N.Y.”. Yep, I can really understand how the crack DHS security force could let such an well forged ID through the front door. The good news? “DHS is following up on these allegations and …
Making progressPosted by Synfinatic on June 11, 2006 at 10:18 pm in tcpreplay.Woot. Actually making progress with the tcpedit libraryization. The API is finally coming together and seems usable. One of these days, I should make libtcpedit a plugin chain rather then a bunch of static code, but that’s like a 4.0 feature. :) Anyways, hopefully in a couple of weeks beta8 will be ready to go. I don’t think tcpbridge will be working, but that can come later.
Tcpreplay News moves to my blogPosted by Synfinatic on June 10, 2006 at 2:04 pm in tcpreplay.I’ve come to the realization that my blog is a much better way of reporting of what’s going on with tcpreplay then the news section, so I’ve decided to move to using the blog for now on. Anyways, with that said, tcpreplay is still in active development as I have time. I know it’s been a long long time since the last 3.0beta release, but since then I’ve doing a major rewrite to clean up the code. Like most rewrites I’m sure it’ll pay off dividends in the long run, but it’s taking longer then I had hoped. Once the rewrite is complete, I’ll move towards a release early, release often methodology. I’m also still in the …
Site newsPosted by Synfinatic on June 9, 2006 at 10:50 pm in /dev/random.Well let’s see… I upgraded Wordpress to 2.0.3. Anyways, right now, my main goal is to learn ruby and rails so that I can use it for work and some side projects I have in mind.
Great quotePosted by Synfinatic on June 5, 2006 at 10:50 pm in /dev/random, Cool.I have a poorly maintained hobby of keeping track of great quotes. Just recently I read another great quote which I found very timely considering what is going on in the world and the US of late: As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an
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