http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew The Life and Times of a Unix Geek Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:02:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en @choochoobear wow, hope the cop nailed her ass. http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/784 Not as in I WAS antisocial, but as in I discovered how much I dislike people. Now I don't, as a general rule, have a problem with people. I'm a pretty gregarious kind of guy. However lately I've discovered how much I dislike groups of people. Groups in public places. Hanging out ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/782 Coming home from work the other night, as I turned into my neighborhood I encountered a bit of police and fire activity. No lights and sirens and fire was leaving the scene, so I didn't think much of it. Probably someone called 911 for a medical emergency and it was ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/781 "Well, that was an adventure." Weather closed in on the Irving call center and knocked power out. Power flickered, went out again and the generator kicked in (but didn't restore power to us on the floor.) Window blowing outside, looking very much like tornado weather. Wind died, power came back and we're ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/779 Ugh. Later to work today than usual. Slept right through the alarm clock. http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/778 Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra "Concerts in the Garden" series. Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor Kyle Orth, Piano Glinka Overature to Ruslan and Ludmila Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 Liszt Totentanz for Piano and Orchestra, G. 126 Kyle Orth, Piano Intermission Tchaikovsky Waltz from the Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker, Op. 71 Tchaikovsky Waltz from Swan Lake, Op. 20 Tchaikovsky 1812 ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/777 Given the nature of Twitter, I don't understand those who just automatically follow everyone who shows up on the Twitter home page. I just blocked about 5 "followers" who were each following a couple of thousand people. Some were following as many as 80k people! Clearly they're not actually "following" ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/773 @GregWillits I'm sorry to hear that. Seems to be the week for media personalities to pass on. http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/774 Finally up for the day. Catchng up on the e-world, then off to the grocery store. http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/775 Thanks to for linking to Turns out these random "salmon" IMs are a bot, picking two people who have recently updated their LJ / Deviant Art / Xanga / Whatever and connecting them by IM. Neither one of them knows who the other is and ends up being totaly ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/771 I was at WalMart today during lunch and I swear I saw a zombie in the shoe section... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/767 Oh god, we've already lost 12 servers. I logged out of all of them and am holed up in an ssh session on my home server. I've shut down all outside ports and have been using "kill" very carefully, but the zombie processes keep coming! I don't know how much ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/765 I finally got a CentOS 5 domU running under Debian. The xen-tools xen-create-image method didn't work. I managed to find an appropriate build script for centos5, but it was pretty badly out of date, trying to install RPM versions that don't exist on the mirror servers any more. Trying to bring ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/764 Now that's just not playing fair. http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/763 I never was any good at foreign languages. http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/762 Because I don't think I should have money. Let Saudi Arabia have it all. http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/761 Aught to be a good title for a book on Xen, no? Anyway, while discussing Xen with the COO (and it just occurred to me, really this project should be the CTO's, not the COOs... odd how the COO does all this stuff...) he came to the conclusion that, like openVZ ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/760 testing ljxp from real wordpress blog http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/759 Done with lunch. Back to working on Xen deploy scripts. http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/758 SSH fixed (stupid blacklist), vpn working. Yay! http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/757 Trying to get my ssh public key working on my VPN server http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/756 So far this week I've: Finally gotten a working Xen system that will boot a Debian guest. Successfully installed ispCP on the Debian guest. Built another Debian guest to be an OpenVPN server. Successfully built an OpenVPN server and got two clients to connect from outside the network, through the DSL modem/router. Correctly configured the ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/755 While installing Ubuntu Server 8.04 beta on an HP DL-320, I discovered I had some trouble getting HP's "Proliant value added software" (hpasm) package installed. This package contains their system health check and control software which, among other things, switches the fans from "full-time full speed" (which is quite noisy) ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/753 About to update the blog to WP 2.5. It should be smooth but if things break, who knows how long I'll be offline. Not that I've been posting much lately... <edit>Update mostly successful. The LJ crosspost plugin won't reactivate, saying it caused a fatal error. Not very informative. I'll have to figure ... http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/752 Just a personal note so I can find how to install Debian on a DomU again http://blogs.pure-chaos.com/andrew/archives/751