This is not a mundane detail, Michael.

We are throwing a FireFox 1.0 release party. Sign up.

More ResTek!

Mike :: Oct.30.2004 :: General :: Comments Off

[mike@heimdall]- w
 14:00:16 up 314 days, 23:10,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
[mike@heimdall]- sudo shutdown -h now
Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Wed Oct 20 14:02:09 2004):

The system is going down for system halt NOW!
Connection to heimdall.restek.wwu.edu closed by remote host.
Connection to heimdall.restek.wwu.edu closed.

Heimdall has faithfully chugged along for years collecting bandwidth stats. As our most underpowered server, it has recieved the fanciest home in the basement of Bond Hall. Now that the filters can collect all bandwidth stats and run our IDS, we have no use for this lowly pizza box.

Next time I’m down there I’ll take some pictures to post up here.

Mike :: Oct.20.2004 :: General :: Comments Off

I donated my $10 (student rate) to the fund to put a full page add in the New York Times after Firefox 1.0 comes out. You should to. Sounds like extra money will be used for other publicity stuff involving the 1.0 release.

Mike :: Oct.20.2004 :: General :: Comments Off

This looks like the coolest thing ever

If only mono wasn’t so platform unfriendly. Here’s a summary of my frustrations:

• Wouldn’t work on FreeBSD for the longest time
• Currently doesn’t work with linux with NPTL enabled glibc
• Currently won’t read or write files that are stored on NFS shares

Mike :: Oct.19.2004 :: General :: Comments Off

Loaded up my Gmail account this morning to find 20 some new messages. All from new comments on my blog. ugh.

I’m so honored. Not. Screw texas holdem.

I’m usually not this popular

Mike :: Oct.19.2004 :: General :: 2 Comments »

I was cleaning up disk usage on some servers today, and removed a bunch of huge log files that were bloated from fall opening. I was later thinking that this might screw up tenshi. Turns out tail will follow the filename even as it gets cleared and started from scratch. Simple little thing that prevents you from having to restart your log monitor after every log file rotation.

Mike :: Oct.18.2004 :: General :: Comments Off