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I recently bought a refurbished HP DL385 server at auction. It turns out that it takes SFF (Small Form Factor) disks and has the ability to take 8 hot-swap disks (not bad for a 2U server). The machine supports SAS disks and S-ATA disks as well. So the next thing to do is to buy […] This morning there were two or three classes from a local primary school on board my tram taking up all the seats (mostly three children to a seat). So to answer some email and write blog entries I had to sit in a stair-well. Melbourne trams are symmetrical so that they can just change direction […] On Tuesday the 23rd of January I shaved off my beard after spending 107 days growing it, see above for the final beard pic. It was an interesting experiment and it’s something that I recommend trying, but I couldn’t keep it. Having a beard is more effort than being clean-shaven. Eating is more difficult […] You might expect that a vaccine against a disease that causes cancer would be widely embraced as soon as it was proven safe. If the disease in question was transmitted by contaminated food or water, sneezing, or most of the other ways that diseases spread then it probably would be widely accepted. However recently there […] Martin F. Krafft blogs about looking for advice on buying a “beamer“. He describes the word as meaning a projector in Germany (it also means the same in the Netherlands). Since the time when I lived in the Netherlands I have been using the word in English, most people immediately understand what it means, and […] It is reported that a theater in Florida has changed the name of The Vagina Monologues to The Hoo-Haa Monologues after a complaint. How does a medical term become so offensive? Is Hoo-Haa less offensive than other terms such as Beaver? The Vagina Monologues is old news anyway. The idea was surprising when it was […] Wouter wrote an interesting post about names. I wonder how many people know me as Russell SELinux… No related posts. Recently I had someone call my mobile phone asking whether I wanted to change phone providers. I asked them if they could hold the line – then I put my phone down and went back to work. It took over eight minutes before they hung up on me. Next time someone phone-spams you try to […] On a Debian mailing list someone claimed that it was inconvenient to use ssh tunneling for sending and receiving email due to the issue of broken connections. On my source-dump blog I have posted an entry with xinetd configuration for doing this in a reliable manner. Related posts: source dump blog Inspired by Julien Goodwin‘s post I created a new blog… service smtps { disable = no socket_type = stream wait = no user = USER server = /usr/bin/ssh server_args = USER@HOST -C /home/USER/bin/localsmtp bind = 127.0.0.1 } service pop2 { disable = no socket_type = stream wait = no user = USER server = /usr/bin/ssh server_args = USER@HOST -C /home/USER/bin/localpop bind = 127.0.0.1 } I […] |
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