I’m building a new server and decided to toss on an old crystalfontz lcdpanel. Not really anything hard about this (apt-get install lcdproc, edit /etc/LCDd.conf, run lcdproc) but it looks kinda nice. Sorry, my basement is a little loud around the server rack.
Archive for April, 2008
Ubuntu server 8.04…
Not so clean. tried to update cpan perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Bundle::CPAN’ catastrophic errors all over the place. I thought it was just the Scalar List Utils error from a while ago, but Perl is hoaked – feeds you back pages of /usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE/perl.h:420:24: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory until you run: apt-get install [...]
Former Guantanamo prosecutor says trials tainted
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – The former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals testified on Monday that the tribunals were tainted by political influence and evidence obtained through prisoner abuse. Air Force Col. Moe Davis, who quit the war court last year, said political appointees and higher-ranking officers pushed prosecutors [...]
Jesus made me puke
So here I was, standing in the church parking lot, having responded to church advertisements hawking an “Encounter Weekend” — three solid days of sleep-away Christian fellowship that would teach me the “joy” of “knowing the truth” and “being set free.” That had sounded harmless enough, but now that I was here and surrounded by [...]
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.04 was officially released as production code on Friday. I’d already been running beta versions of it on two laptops (or the wife was, I should say) so I felt that I pretty much was ready to take my production laptop to it as soon as it hit general release code. All the public [...]
Hacker testifies News Corp unit hired him
SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) – A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp (NWSa.N) unit hired him to develop pirating software, but denied using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service. Christopher Tarnovsky — who said his first payment was $20,000 in cash hidden in electronic devices mailed [...]
Asus 500g and DD-WRT
I’ve been a big fan of the $9.99 special wireless routers for a while, but I’ve started having problems recently. I’m not sure if it’s because everybody in the neighborhood is buying fios and all the lame actiontek routers are being installed with the wifi enabled, but for whatever reason I’ve been having a hard [...]
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