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interpreting the void as SamV
This is one of those meta-posts where your narrator writes about what they hope to achieve with their blogging. Where they make excuses for not updating their online presence so often. I've been making sure my blog meets the minimum standards for today's blogosphere.
The first requirement is good tagging of my posts. I'm going to tag my posts to indicate what audiences I think are interested in those rantings. Like, this one is tagged meta, meaning that it is a meta-post, or a post about posting.
The second is good syndication, linked to ...
This article is about me and a couple of mates and our expedition into one of the three remaining Degree Confluence points on land in New Zealand. These confluence points are where lines of latitude (aka parallels) intersect with lines of longitude. There are 29 points altogether in New Zealand, and the project has been running for some time, so the low-hanging fruit has already been plucked - including all the points in the mainland United States. We visited the ...
So, my /home was on reiserfs. Yeah yeah, I know - but look, Nina Reiser was still alive when I made that call.
I got the old un-stat(2)able inode issue with ReiserFS. I'd first noticed this when using cddump, a program which made backups spanning multiple CDs; that program would make potentially hundreds of thousands of hard links to every file on your filesystem in short succession. Turns out such stress testing had never been done by Namesys, and needless to say, it found race conditions and that was the symptom. Even root cannot stat(2) ...
Recently, I had an atheist at work make an argument which shook me out of my dogmatic agnosticism. I can perhaps certainly blame one of my parents for bringing me up with such dogma.
I now have decided that I am a free-thinking atheist. I even updated my Facebook status.
The reason I did this is because I realised that agnosticism is being used to say whether people are agnostic about the things that religion makes. But I'm not agnostic about that, I don't believe it - though I will try not to hold it against you if you do, after all we all have our own delusions.
What I'm...
Whee! Now all I need to do is get skeinforge working.
This is product from "my" RepRap 3D Rapid Prototyping Machine. I'm still working on getting the movement smoooth; the shape which looks like a flat hand was just some random movements to test extruding and moving on the flat, while the second one was seeing if I could draw squares on top of each other. Unfortunately there ...
You don't have to be female to get annoyed when people don't take your patches.
I would like to point out this piece, which repeats a claim that meritocracies are not meritocracies - they are "merit-and-confidence/pushiness-ocracy".
I ask the question;
...self-confidence is highly gendered.
This whole argument seems to rest on this claim. Is this not a little self-defeating and itself sexist?
My above comment (reproduced to the ...
C:\>memMemory Type Total Used Free ---------------- -------- -------- -------- Conventional 638K 59K 579K Upper 0K 0K 0K Reserved 386K 386K 0K Extended (XMS) 3,627,654K 30,373K 3,597,281K ---------------- -------- -------- -------- Total memory 3,628,678K 30,818K 3,597,860K
Total under 1 MB 638K 59K 579K
Largest executable program size 578K (591,856 bytes) FreeDOS is resident in the high memory area. C:\>
Remember the days of ...
...since I set up Sender Protection Framework on my mail server.
With GMail and Hotmail on board, I've decided that there's no longer any excuse not to have SPF set up. Memo to the internet: you've had more than 5 years to get this stuff sorted out. If you don't have it set up now, messages to my mail server will be immediately bounced with the following message:
Recipient address rejected: SPF: domain of sender edgaines@example.com does not designate mailers - see ...
I heard about another kernel NULL pointer vulnerability via Vik's News Clippings and thought I'd give it a try. I downloaded some exploit code and tried it on a system running the Debian stable vserver kernel (2.6.26 based).
The result?
myvserver:~$ ./exploit [+] MAPPED ZERO PAGE! Unable to obtain symbol listing! Unable to obtain symbol listing! Unable to obtain symbol listing! Unable to obtain symbol listing!...
Larry Baldock, the guy behind the $9m waste of taxpayer money called the citizen's initiated referendum, offers this hogwash.
Let me tell you why you are wrong and why your argument is flawed from the very beginning.
Oh, I can't wait.
Firstly, some adults can hit others without breaking the law. They are called police and we give them this authority because we know that in some circumstances someone must use reasonable force to correct the unacceptable behaviour of some adults in our...