Down time and updates
I’ve recently completed a rather hasty migration of the server that houses this blog, my primary e-mail and all of the source code repositories. Everything should be back to normal now, please let me know if something that you need is not working. In the coming week, I’m going to be diversifying things a bit [...]
A joke that came true – diet water
About a year ago, I posted a joke announcing “diet water”. I did not think that any company in their right mind would try to come up with such a product. Last week I saw diet water on grocery store shelves, made by some company in China. I hate to think that my sense of [...]
Some things just have to be compiled
I have a random problem, in particular random numbers. I am working on a re-write of SRCE to fortify things a bit .. and get rid of a lot of ugly code that was introduced when I wasn’t actively managing patches. Humans are the best source of entropy to get random numbers.. the amount of [...]
Why I reverse arguments
I was asked an interesting question about my “C style” by someone who was reviewing my code this morning. Since I’ve been asked the same question on several occasions, I’ll explain in a post. When testing stuff, its easier for me to see what I’m testing for first, rather than what is being tested. When [...]
A slightly better Xen console
I love the ability to console in to a paravirtualized domain, especially when making changes to firewall rules. What I do not like is what the redirect does to the terminal when using stuff that heavily depends on ncurses, like ‘top’ or the midnight commander. If your not familiar with minicom, its a simple ‘telex [...]
Xguests 1.0.8 released
Xguests, a program to print interesting information about guests running under the Xen (TM) hypervisor has reached version 1.0.8. Xguests does not require xend to be running and will print information in the following formats: XML 1.0 PHP Array Perl Array BASH Array Easy to scrape text CSV ‘xm list’ style
Yet another reason to FLOSS
Vendors of proprietary software took a hit in September, the hit is attributed to the current U.S. economic crisis. Small businesses just don’t have the cash to spend on software when free alternatives exist. Sure, they may have to bring the free stuff up to par .. but its cheaper for them to do so [...]
Odd delays with G-Mail
I’ve been experiencing some odd delays with my G-Mail account, some messages have been arriving almost 2 days late. I’m sure this is something that will be fixed soon. In the meantime, I have set up a temporary address on this domain: tinkertim@echoreply.us Note, if you already have my regular address @echoreply, just continue to [...]
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