http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/ en-us Copyright 2008 Sun, 04 May 2008 23:53:18 -0800 Tue, 06 May 2008 01:54:45 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.32 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss That's just too bad. The building we live in will be shutting down power for some electrical maintenance tonight. Why do I care ? Well, because I have this trusty OpenBSD Firewall that's been humming along in a closet forever.... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2008/05/power_maintenan.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2008/05/power_maintenan.html Sun, 04 May 2008 23:53:18 -0800 http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2008/04/history.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2008/04/history.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:14:10 -0800 # uname -a Darwin Gozer's iPhone 9.0.0d1 Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0d1: Wed Dec 12 00:16:00 PST 2007; root:xnu-933.0.0.211.obj~2/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8900XRB iPhone1,1 unknown Enough said, obviously... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2008/02/iphoned.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2008/02/iphoned.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:23:45 -0800 Packing what little I need, then heading down across the border to Burlington, VT. In the morning, I am on a flight to Atlanta, Georgia. Destination, ApacheCon 2007 US. See you there!... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2007/11/traveling_burli.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2007/11/traveling_burli.html Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:28:51 -0800 Jolly Jumper Helper Originally uploaded by active_gozer Look at him fly!... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2007/10/jolly_jumper_he.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2007/10/jolly_jumper_he.html Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:05:17 -0800 My ex-colleague and buddy, Luke Closs is a pretty amazing juggler. Well, he gave a presentation entitled Juggling for Geeks at the recent YAPC::NA 2007. I also happen to love juggling in my spare time (quite modestly), and so... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2007/07/juggling_for_ge.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2007/07/juggling_for_ge.html Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:15:57 -0800 My evening started with the strange feeling something was going on with my home network. A little probing around quickly led to this semi-obvious problem: Jul 15 23:41:32 server openvpn[6815]: 255.255.255.255:35304 VERIFY ERROR: depth=0, error=certificate has expired: /C=CA/ST=British_Columbia/L=Vancouver/O=[xxx]/CN=[xxx].ectoplasm.org Allright,... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2007/07/openvpn_verify.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2007/07/openvpn_verify.html Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:50:19 -0800 I've been using smpatch(!M) on my Solaris system for quite a while. It ain't no yum/apt-get, but it's pretty good anyhow. One thing I've been really missing though, is some sort of --verbose flag to the thing. It tends... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/11/smpatch_verbose.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/11/smpatch_verbose.html Solaris Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:42:43 -0800 I've just finished presenting my 2 talks at ApacheCon 2006 US and it went really well. I was presenting one old talk, and a brand new one and they both drew a good crowd. Overall, I am quite pleased,... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/10/done_with_my_ta.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/10/done_with_my_ta.html Software Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:46:58 -0800 I've just run into a really amazing video of a guitar player from Quebec, but he might as well be from Mars. His name is Erik Mongrain, and you can watch him play a tune called AirTap! It's hard... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/10/guitar_player_f.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/10/guitar_player_f.html Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:26:39 -0800 .float { float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; border: 0; } I am awake and about to head down to the registration desk to officially kick off the conference. Somehow, I think this picture from Ted Leung I... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/10/apachecon_2006.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/10/apachecon_2006.html Software Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:49:15 -0800 I've finally arrived in Austin, Texas. All in all, it was an uneventful trip getting here. Now, it's time for ApacheCon 2006 US to start! The weather is warmer than I expected, so no complaints so far. I do... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/10/austin_tx_we_ha.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/10/austin_tx_we_ha.html Software Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:25:09 -0800 If you recognized the first few Bell numbers, you would, of course, have guessed 877 immediately. Otherwise, you would have done like me and headed off to the fantastic On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences I've just recently discovered. A... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/09/whats_next_1_1.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/09/whats_next_1_1.html Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:35:24 -0800 http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/09/proccpuinfo_on.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/09/proccpuinfo_on.html Solaris Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:52:08 -0800 I've always said Solaris was a solid operating system, just a sucky distro. Well, since Sun opened up things, OpenSolaris is making new distributions possible. There are already 4 listed distros: BeleniX marTux NexentaOS SchilliX Of the 4, I've... http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/09/a_better_solari.html http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2006/09/a_better_solari.html Solaris Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:06:55 -0800