SFF disksSFF disks
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[...]
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reading email on a tramreading email on a tram
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[...]
last beard postlast beard post
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[...]
vaccinationsvaccinations
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[...]
the word “beamer”the word “beamer”
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).[...]
slangslang
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[...]
namesnames
Wouter wrote an interesting post about names. I wonder how many people know me as Russell SELinux… No related posts.[...]
phone spamphone spam
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[...]
ssh tunneling of emailssh tunneling of email
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[...]
how to run dynamic ssh tunnelshow to run dynamic ssh tunnels
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 {[...]