I was really craving a cheapass burger, and used McDonald's stoppage of using pink slime to rationalize going there ( Read more... )

I finally got around to watching the ending of BSG (yes I am a slacker). I thought it was pretty good all around, and the whole part of finding pre-civilized new earth was a good homage to the final episode of the original series as well (where the crew just miss seeing signals from the moon landings). Of course, I also watched season 4.5 in the ( Read more... )

So apparently there's some controversy about seeing people dancing in the streets over OBL being killed. One side side is basically jingoistically mouthpiecing "hey it's free speech nothing wrong with that", the other said basically says "isn't it a bit creepy or odd, since that's what a bunch of angry Muslims did after 9/11?" while the the ( Read more... )

A 25 year old legacy is coming to an end. Oracle refuses to pay the $30/year and a couple of rewrite rules to maintain sun.com

long live sun.com! tossed out like cheap trick. From the former makers of Grid Engine, StorageTek, and ZFS.

FreeBSD 8-STABLE is still on pf 4.1 but the documentation at openbsd is based on 4.7 which rewrote half the routing stack, so reading pf.conf(5) is still your friend ( Read more... )

Here is a working wpa_supplicant.conf for 8.2 to associate with uabwifi-nac, which uses PEAP-MSCHAPV2 against your BlazerID credentials. Pay close attention to the lines that are quoted or not. wpa_supplicant(8) has a funky quote parser.

network={ #this line must not be indented ( Read more... )

So I modified a set of Pawel's ZFS-root dataset layout here ( Read more... )

Ugh, I'm stuck having to put my workstation on wireless because as peon, I can't have root OR baremetal access to the box MY NIH grant paid for. I specifically speced the machine so I could play with ZFS on it. But that was before I found out that in order to connect to the gigabit ethernet, you have to give up all admin rights to the machine. WTF ( Read more... )

What's really the difference between 6x1gb of DDR3 1333mhz registered and DDR3 1066mhz unbuffered?

Application: 2 westmere E5620s (2.4ghz each). 3D Visualization workstation.

18:50 <@aDe> today's punch-in-the-face goes to marcus, I think
18:50 <@CowbertDH> aww why
18:50 <@aDe> slow repocopy FTL
18:50 <@CowbertDH> heh
18:50 <@CowbertDH> flood his inbox!
18:50 <@linimon> already done