Comments closed until further notice

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An alarming amount of SPAM is getting through akismet. I do not have the time to sort through a spam queue. I definitely don’t have time to moderate Viagra and get rich quick by blog posting blurbs, so I have closed comments.
This ‘pay per posting’ trend is showing just how much a single link from [...]

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On tit for tat

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There’s two ways that you can look at the rewards of writing free / open source programs licensed under the GNU general public license. What you expect is of course entirely relative to your motivation for writing something.
Way # 1 – `Tit For Tat’ (somewhat coined by Linus) means simply “I give you source code, [...]

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Dear stalker : I am not Mars!

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To the dear, depraved soul who believes my cell phone number belongs to some girl named “Mars” (living somewhere in Metro Manila):
I am not Mars. Mars tricked you. You asked her for her cell phone number and she rattled off appropriate digits at random. Unfortunately those digits matched mine. Likely, you sent her a text [...]

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SRCE RPM packages available

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Holy RPM Batman! Scott Shinn, the author of Atomic Secured Linux has just released a number of SRCE RPM packages. Scott grabbed the latest SRCE nightly snapshot and ran it through his build farm, SRCE did pretty well.
i386 and x86_64 RPM packages are now available for most RPM based distributions including RHEL, CentOS, Fedora and [...]

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Mathematical Oddities

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Today I was in a book store, looking around for something neat to grab. I happened upon an interesting display, to the left was an abacus, to the right was a scientific calculator.
The abacus cost nearly four times as much as the calculator. Sometimes, life lets you chuckle. This was one of those times.

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The higher level footprint

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I’ve been asked on many occasions to explain my aversion to higher level languages, such as PHP. I have absolutely nothing against PHP, in fact, I use it to power most of echoreply. What I can’t stop bitching about is how people use higher level languages when they have no real knowledge of what their [...]

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Goofing off in epoch proportions

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I just finished re-writing one of my tools that will be included with my extended ext3cow tool set, something to help translate epoch (UNIX stamps) to standard calendar dates. The tool also settles races, telling you which file in a group has the latest modification date.
For those of you who don’t know about the UNIX [...]

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No more ext3cow journal aborts :)

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A good natured ext3cow user named Nicholas finally nailed a problem that has been perplexing at least five people for the better part of a year. Under heavy usage, ext3cow would crash with a nasty journal abort. No damage was ever done, just remounting fixed it .. but it was impossible to build your code [...]

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