Back after a year
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I managed to defeat the very purpose of a blog by letting this thing stay offline for more than a year. Nutshelled, here’s what happened:
- Around June? of 2007, server won’t boot;
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Globelines Broadband shifts to PPPoE. Finally.
Filed under: Geek
Ah, joy. DSL at home went down late in the afternoon of Saturday, May 12. After the usual round of dialing 9198888 and going through the horrors of CSR-speak, a Globe guy did eventually come over to fix things in the early morning of the next day, Sunday.
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“Carwash For Peace:” Jimmy Fallon as Peacenik
Filed under: Music
He’s all over the place promoting an upcoming album, and using this little ditty as come-on. The song won’t really elicit Joan Baez-esque images, nor will it make Paul Simon feel any twinge of literary insecurity, or make Peter, Paul and Mary rethink “Blowing in the Wind,” but hey, the song’s fun.
A geek’s “chick wishlist”
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Instead of indulging in what an ex undisguisedly derides as “drunkdialling your exes again,” (she’s evil but funny) i thought, why not just list those qualities i hound and which unfailingly haunt me around 2 or 3 in the morning, more often than not leaving me with a “oh god damn i am so going to die alone” funk.
Ok, so here we go: In no particular order (too tiring)
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Fortunes (9)
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The Heineken Uncertainly Principle:
“One can never accurately determine the amount of beers one has had the previous night.”
Fri May 11 10:33:14 PHT 2007
10:33AM up 3 days, 19:04, 1 user, load averages: 0.81, 0.39, 0.30
FreeBSD: Scanning for access points with ifconfig(8)
Filed under: BSD
FreeBSD’s ifconfig(8) has a few nifty switches for manipulating wireless interfaces built-in, obviating the need for third party applications to do various things. The first of these that I ran into while configuring a FreeBSD-based wireless client is the list scan parameter. Of course, the manual page for ifconfig(8) should be the primary source for what this parameter does:
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Conanism: 8 May, 2007
Filed under: Quotes
“Former President Bill Clinton wrote the clues for the New York Times crossword puzzle recently. It was obvious he did it because the clue for 9 across was ‘Synonym for pain in the ass. Rhymes with millary’”
