Author Archives: David Terrell

One of those days?

Posted on February 23, 2007 by David Terrell

I try not to do the “bitch about my day” thing here, but it’s not even 8am yet and: Didn’t get to the El with time enough to spare to grill an aldermanic candidate outside the station. El car had … Continue reading →

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KDE: Control background from command line

Posted on February 15, 2007 by David Terrell

My friend Keith has done rotating backgrounds on his desktop for a while, and I was thinking today that it would be kind of nice to do that as well. Step 1: Download some files and put them in a … Continue reading →

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Lieberman wants out?

Posted on February 12, 2007 by David Terrell

Really?. Let him go. If he wants to bet on the GOP re-taking control of the Senate in 2008 — well, good luck with that. The only practical result would be that he would lose his chairmanship, and he’s doing … Continue reading →

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Ack. Poor solaris telnetd

Posted on February 12, 2007 by David Terrell

first nobody uses it, now this: There is a major zero day bug announced in solaris 10 and 11… Ouch. Goes without saying — if you’re using it: stop.

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we.b.metho.ds

Posted on February 12, 2007 by David Terrell

Can anybody explain to me why — in 2007 — after the google web accelerator, after the rails meltdowns, after google mass wiki deletions, after approximately 572,349 blog rants on RFC 2616 9.1 and 13.9….. Why the “delete this post” … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.0.6 (7)

Posted on January 16, 2007 by David Terrell

Whee, security fixes. This was my first test of SVN vendor branches, and I managed to hork up the web directory pretty bad when I first did it, but a quick fresh checkout and everything was fine. Duly noted: When … Continue reading →

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Spam

Posted on January 4, 2007 by David Terrell

Steven Engelhardt succumbs. This is why good anti-spam software trumps SQL. I only spent 6 months deleting spam from MT and adding to the blacklist by hand before I went looking for a better way. That way is Spam Karma.

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It's nice to know

Posted on January 2, 2007 by David Terrell

That having personally agonized over whether or not to get my children vaccinated (we did), that it was all a big scam to make a lot of people very rich. Fantastic. Update: in case you were paranoid, most vaccines do … Continue reading →

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Digging a hole

Posted on December 30, 2006 by David Terrell

I am completely uninterested in sites like digg.com. It seems like they’ve managed to create the intellectual heft of slashdot without a centralized set of editors. One digg-linked author took the matter into his own hands and blocked access from … Continue reading →

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Accountability? What's that?

Posted on December 29, 2006 by David Terrell

Look for a lot more of these kinds of “looks back” as we prepare to re-re-redeploy more soldiers for no good reason. Happy Holidays, everybody.

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