Blindly Accept the Defaults

Huh. Somebody linked to my post on hacker news, which resulted in some interesting comments. Some of them are fairly insulting, but, hey, whatevs. Mostly, I feel I should clarify: I tend to write a certain way on this blog. The post in question was deliberately bombastic; it was reflecting a certain frustration I often …

I don’t often (read: ever) post about Windows, but I thought this might come in handy for a few people. I’ve been working for a new client recently, helping out with their infrastructure. One thing the CTO really wants to do is to use BIND as a DNS server, instead of Windows. The infrastructure side …

I recently ran into this problem after upgrading to Oneiric (I’ll keep my opinions to myself on that upgrade; suffice to say I am very much using the “GNOME Classic Fallback, Ancient Thing, For Grumpy People” instead of Unity). More recent versions of OpenSSL remove SSLv2 entirely, due to the protocol being insecure. Certain versions …

So, inspired by my birthday gift of an iPad to Brittany, I decided to make the jump and buy a tablet. I wanted to go out on a limb and own a device that wasn’t iOS based. I’ve been looking at a number of Android tablets for a long while, and many of them seemed …

It has been an incredibly long three weeks. At work, we’re getting close to relaunching our main website: I’ve spent quite a bit of my time working with Eucalyptus, Merlin, mod_passenger and all sorts of things. In addition to that, my most beloved host, eris.discordians.net, suffered an embarrassing disk failure, which resulted in exposing a …