Category: misc

This post is only a test.
Fourth system this blog runs on. Didn’t get any better by having more + more hardware though.

🙂

While many in the US might think that getting a new car is mostly a matter of picking the right brand and dealership, in the end the darn things still have to be produced. Somewhere. And that part is actually quiet complex.

Nissan had to halt three of its plants since one chip was not available. Manufacturing in 2010 is a highly complex and interlocked environment.

Adding more machines for INTERDUBS. They get tested, triaged and configured for a ridiculous long time. That way once they are production machines they do only one thing: Run.

We experimented with benchmarking the performance effects of SELinux. As we expected it is not worth disabling. But now we know. We also know something we should have known: Enabling SELinux again on a bigger file system will make the next reboot take forever. Hours. Of course it makes sense, since all files will have to be relabeled.

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According to google the Chrisitan Science Monitor was one of the few publications that made the connection.

How soon before we will have we have ad messages sprayed on highways ?

While we are waving on the space merchants theme I could see that this
art project will turn into a commercial reality soon.

What is happening is that total surface of LED/LCD plasma displays around us is increasing constantly. While classical mass consumption is certainly not growing, the amount of screens to be filled certainly is.

When trying to recursively download some sites via wget I only got one message like:

Wrote HTML-ized index to

Turns out that I needed to add a * to the source path. After I changed

wget -r --ftp-user=user --ftp-password=pass ftp://hostname/path


to


wget -r --ftp-user=user --ftp-password=pass 'ftp://hostname/path/*'


things worked much better for me in GNU Wget 1.10.2 (Red Hat modified)

the new new new thing

I found this to be interesting with a great list of sources that illustrate the history of bubbles. Bubble History by Caslon Analytics

In server admin after I had turned on the NFS service I still found a status like:


nfs service is: running
nfsd is: stopped
portmap is: stopped
rpc.lockd is: stopped
rpc.statd is: stopped


Turns out that the other daemons spring into action once you share the first Volume.