A scratchpad full of useful information, rants and old scriblings
The discussion about the logo contest leaked to slashdot.
This resulted in the first nominations. I like this one :-):
This one is nice too:
// BSD \ || Free | || At | || Last | \||/\/\//\|/
I think a new logo is necessary because the daemon is somehow copyrighted by Kirk McKusick, which makes it difficult to use it. For example an image was deleted from the “FreeBSD” entry in the german Wikipedia, because Kirk’s license is not compatible with the Wikipedia GNU FDL.
One year ago i decided to do a “make world” on my server. Since then it is running continously.
$ uname -a FreeBSD huckfinn 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Mon Feb 9 21:55:40 CET 2004 arved@sauna.arved.de:/usr/obj/usr/local/home2/source/RELENG_4/src/sys/HUCKFINNipf i386 $ uptime 12:00AM up 365 days, 8:31, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
I tried to install Solaris 10 on my sparc, but failed.
Unfortunately the Firmware was too old to boot, so i followed the instructions at sunsolve to update the firmware.
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0 File and args: /flash-update-450-latest - RED State Exception TL=0000.0000.0000.0005 TT=0000.0000.0000.0010 TPC=0000.0000.f000.4200 TnPC=0000.0000.f000.4204 TSTATE=0000.0091.0000.1505 TL=0000.0000.0000.0004 TT=0000.0000.0000.0010 TPC=0000.0000.f000.4200 TnPC=0000.0000.f000.4204 TSTATE=0000.0091.0000.1505 TL=0000.0000.0000.0003 TT=0000.0000.0000.0010 TPC=0000.0000.f000.4680 TnPC=0000.0000.f000.4684 TSTATE=0000.0091.0000.1505 TL=0000.0000.0000.0002 TT=0000.0000.0000.0034 TPC=0000.0000.f000.3030 TnPC=0000.0000.f000.3034 TSTATE=0000.0091.0000.1505 TL=0000.0000.0000.0001 TT=0000.0000.0000.0034 TPC=0000.0000.f000.8084 TnPC=0000.0000.f000.8088 TSTATE=0000.0091.0000.1605
What am i doing wrong?
Today my mouse @work stopped working because of a loose contact in the cable. It was a four year old MS Intellimouse Explorer. Unfortunately this defect is not repairable, because it is not possible to open the Mouse. So I am now looking for a good replacement. Requirements: USB, 3 Buttons and a Wheel. Preferrable not from Logitech or Microsoft. And i don’t like the wireless mice that require an extra battery.
Today I received my first trackback spam, well more than 100 pings from several different IPs. Until today I had not even enabled MT-Blacklist for trackbacks. I had to disable trackbacks, this is depressing 🙁
Unfortunately MT-Blacklist De-Spamming seems to hit a system limit. I could only delete 5 pings at a time. Otherwise the server spits out an Internal Server error. Probably because the execution time gets too long. Maybe I should consider replacing my Webserver Epia with a Minimac (which btw boots FreeBSD) or the 1Ghz Epia.
While I was waiting for the de-spamming to process I updated the weather plugin to 1.1.9. Hopefully this fixes some oddities and does not introduce new bugs, because I don’t want to look at the code. If you want to know a reason why not to use php, look at the code
Last weekend i hacked on the rssfetch code. It is now object-orientated, because I started to write unittests after reading the Unit-testing chapter of “Dive into Python”.
I am a bit late, here are my pictures from the first snow in Vienna this year:
BTW, running Safari, Terminal.app, iTunes, Apple Mail plus iPhoto is too much for 256 MB RAM. After one year and three months my iBook needs an upgrade.
I wanted to donate money to last.fm, so i needed a Paypal account. In Austria Paypal only supports credit cards, but in Germany it is possible to use it with normal bank accounts. Unfortunately the Paypal website is a bit unflexible and does not support bank accounts in a country different from the snail mail address (BTW Amazon does support this, but unfortunately they calculate the tax rate from the address and not from the bank account country). Hopefully paypal never has to send me snail mail, because I am now registered in “D-A-1170 Wien”.
BTW Paypal offers the possibility to add a “Donate via Paypal” button to your homepage. But I doubt anyone would donate money for reading this blog 🙂
Via AK:
Web.de is next to GMX one of Germany’s largest FreeMail providers. BTW my first email address was arved@web.de.
Unfortunately they have a serious problem, because in the last half year, i was not able to send mail to web.de customers:
451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx-ha01.web.de. 451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx-ha02.web.de. <....@web.de>... Deferred: Connection reset by mx-ha02.web.de.
So if you expect a reply from me don’t use web.de
MovableType release the nofollow-plugin yesterday. The big search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN) and blogsoftware companies (LJ, 6A, Blogger) have defined a new standard to fight comment spam. All links added via comments are now extended with a
rel="nofollow"
I am not yet 100% sure if this will solve the problem.
The plugin should work with the 2.661 version of MT, so I have installed the plugin, and if it works i will add the plugin to the FreeBSD port.
