Archive > May 2007

Is it me or are time warners domain name servers in Rochester slow as hell?

I set up bind as a caching nameserver on my home network, + squid as a caching http proxy. The only serious editing of the squid config beyond the acl was setting cache_dir ufs /store/squid/ 100 16 256. I did it this way because /store is where md0 my raid 5 setup is mounted, thus [...]

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Yet another new theme for my rants.

Its called “first spring”. Some cat online didn’t like the old one and recommended this one. I like it.

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I finally got around to setting up printer sharing via samba today.

It was so easy that its not really worth noting, I just wanted to remember that it got done on this date. If you are looking for a how to just google “samba printer sharing cups”. The only snafu was I forgot to add guest ok = yes to the smb.conf. It was nice to [...]

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Not that its news, but half a million 13 year olds messed up digg.com today, then Kevin Rose stepped up and said a very grown up thing about it. It boiled down to look, we built this site for you, if you would rather get us into some shit that may make us go away, [...]

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Where in the world is Ernest Price?

Where the fuck is my older brother? No one in my family has spoken to him in over a year, and I haven’t seen him since he totaled my damn car in 2002. The last thing I heard was that Oliver (AKA “Twist”) was working as a roofer in Texas just after hurricane Katrina hit. [...]

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