infofarmer braindumps

Fri, 22 Jan 2010

Just redid new account automation for @gubkin to build on LDAP and NFS. Had to relax security a bit :-(

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mutt is really faster with tokyocabinet (thanks @Keltounet!), but it’s still rather slow, and now buggy with new ncurses :(

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mutt is dying on me and there’s no alternatives. Alpine? sup? gmail? everything is so clumsy! :(

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Thu, 21 Jan 2010

http://foursquare.com says “413 Request Entity Too Large nginx/0.7.64”

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Ironically, http://demo.liftweb.net/ (Lift based on Scala/JVM) seems to be dreadfully slow.

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Phronix benchmarks… as authoritative as always. Now it’s Debian/kFreeBSD vs Linux.

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Apple Keyboard feels so weird. fn as an edge key. It hurts me.

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Listen to random audio. html5 audio mp3, falls back to ogg, falls back to flash. http://heka.cenkes.org/audio.sh

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Listen to random audio. html5 audio mp3, falls back to ogg, falls back to flash. Tested in 30+ popular web browsers.

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New chromium for FreeBSD build (2010-01-20), http://chromium.jaggeri.com/

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010

Latest Kindle for PC does not seem to run under wine.

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Redmine wiki lacks auto-parenting for newly created topics :-(

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Facebook: “Our systems have detected that infofarmer@freebsd.org is no longer a valid email.” WUT?

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010

Today I killed my stomach with sweets :-) :-( Sweet life is sometimes not a pleasant one.

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Mon, 18 Jan 2010

Spent time installing redmine only to discover it doesn’t support documentation versioning. FAIL.

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hm, gmountver(8). The idea looks very specific, almost hacky, but could be useful.

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Hurray! «me» now means both IPv4 and IPv6 in ipfw on FreeBSD-current.

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Such a well-written spam message! Impeccable English and even a link to Wikipedia. If only all spam were like this…

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Sun, 17 Jan 2010

Wow, car number plates are easily readable on Yandex (Russian Google) street view.

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free.napster.com — sounds like 32kbps mono mp3s... with lala and spotify around... at least Roxette is present.

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WriteRoom, textroom, Q10, ommwriter, ... — poor restless souls in search for one true vim in a full-screen terminal.

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Shazam from Ovi refuses to start on my Nokia E63. And SoundHound lacks a trial version. Fail.

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010

Is Perl5 dying? Facts say it’s well alive, but so many geeks have been bashing it for years.

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The first rule of xml - do not use xml /http://friendfeed.com/asimplesystem

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Coverage-wise, Grooveshark wins hands down, thanks to crowd-sourcing. Not very legal, but it’s the future.

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Chromium on FreeBSD is convenient if only because it doesn’t crash nearly as much as Firefox does with flash enabled.

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Listening to Spotify on FreeBSD/amd64 under wine in Russia :-)

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Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle are both on lala.com, but not Roxette… Something is not quite right.

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spotify.com tends to say: 500 Internal error, powered by CherryPy 2.3.0

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Michael Jackson dominates Ovi music store…

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Fri, 15 Jan 2010

I officially (but very secretely) have a terrific new job since yesterday. http://twitpic.com/y6cqy Mood: very grateful

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Moscow downtown. Where it is ridiculously difficult to get a decent business uplink for less than an arm and a leg.

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Left Seamonkey 2.0.2 overnight with 1 html5 audio tab (http://moztw.org/demo/audioplayer/) — it now takes 100% cpu even w/ no tabs.

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010

Ironically, viewing huge W3C standards tends to hang my poor Firefox.

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FreeBSD commit logs are so much like twitter, only we have a great OS as a side effect.

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Oh, and Rui Paulo has just updated FreeBSD’s 802.11s mesh code to D4.0. Not that I have tried meshing so far.

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Jira requires a java app server to run. And I don’t want to support an elephant. Hosted solution is from $150/mo. Not for me, atm.

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At last, in a somewhat titanic coup, Ed Schouten pushes FreeBSD-CURRENT off utmp to utmpx.

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Note to meself: supported Flash codecs (not many): http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402866.html

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Tue, 12 Jan 2010

A major Moscow street camera integrator now caught providing random images instead of feeds and spreading viruses among rivals.

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