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Jeremy Zawodny’s first webserver

Posted: Sunday, January 1st, 2006 @ 5:00 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Jeremy Zawodny is giving away (on craigslist) his first webserver. This is the server that hosted what was probably the first online voting experiement. A feat, that in nearly 10 years most major goverments of the world have been unable to replicate. It’s a decent machine (Pentium 133 with 96MB of RAM), I still have […]

because, when the disk is full, what you really want to do is halt the boot process

Posted: Thursday, December 29th, 2005 @ 7:03 pm in Uncategorized, Linux, MySQL | 1 Comment »

Dec 29 09:53:09 some-server mysqld[900]: /usr/sbin/mysqld: Disk is full writing ‘/var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.000219′ (Errcode: 28). Waiting for someone to free space… Retry in 60 secs

because, you know, it’s OK to block the boot process (/etc/init.d/mysql hangs) becuase MySQL can’t write to disk, in fact, if your going to do this, make absolutely sure that you startup before […]

Alice’s Restaurant sucks

Posted: Tuesday, December 27th, 2005 @ 9:49 pm in Uncategorized, Movie Reviews | No Comments »

Alice’s Restaurant sucks.
In the words of an IMDB comment.
The story was non-existent, characters weak, and relationships confusing. The song is great though. Don’t go out of your way to see this film, you won’t really miss much.
In the end, I suggest you go far out of your way to NOT see this movie. And to […]

Wordpress 2

Posted: Tuesday, December 27th, 2005 @ 4:15 pm in Uncategorized, wordpress | No Comments »

Anyone who knows me will find this entirely unsuprising. I tried to upgrade to wordpress 2, I didn’t do a database backup first, I forgot to copy the dark_maple theme to the new wordpress 2 directory and subsequently got very frustrated when wordpress refused to use the dark_maple theme, It doesn’t help that upon logging […]