Too many people I know have been telling me in the last few years how wonderful and beautiful markdown is. I never believed them, because I have quite a bit of experience with wiki markup, whose proponents have been saying exactly the same things about wiki markup for several years prior to markdown’s release. Just …
Continue reading Markdown is readable? Yeah, and my prose is gold.Standing in front of my new stand-up desk I’m experiencing an unexpected sense of freedom. I wanted to try a stand-up desk for years. Several people I know recommended them but the problem is: my desk is huge, it’s well organized, and I didn’t want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on something I …
Continue reading DYI cheap stand-up deskI did something terrible, something no sysadmin in their right mind should do to a server. I ran nmap. Once. And I got myself on some kind of blacklist, essentially into a hosts.deny I could no longer access the website I was working with. Requests would time out, with occasionally a half-loaded page which I …
Continue reading New service for pissing me off – BitNinjaThat’s me. To date this blog has been the complete extent of my presence on anything resembling social media. I don’t even send text messages because I think they’re dumb. But I’m starting a new blog (very soon, hopefully next week) which I want to be noticed. And I figured the only way it will …
Continue reading Social media dinosaurslittlesvr.ca is now in its fourth incarnation! It started as a massive old PII, which I eventually replaced with a tiny Koolu for 400$. I was excited about that because the new server used less than 10W of power, had no fans, but did everything I wanted. Later I upgraded that to an Intel Atom …
Continue reading littlesvr.ca is big againThere are licence agreements, disclaimers, waivers, and other such crap that exists because there are lawyers, who later become judges. I get that and I don’t know of a solution for it, that’s not what this post is about. It’s about this, which I just received in the mail from Enbridge (from a flyer about …
Continue reading Can we stop with the benevolent bullshit please?My son likes tools. I hope that he keeps getting better at using them and he’ll know more by the time he’s 12 than I do now. To get him started I needed a real workbench for him, which is his own. I’ve been planning this for a while, and finally got it done. Here …
Continue reading Start-em early, workbench for my 2-year-oldI was looking for a script like this and for some reason was unable to find one. I’m sure every sysadmin has something like this, but maybe not. It’s helpful for cases when you have only one server without any kind of load balancing and one day it simply runs out of memory (or disk …
Continue reading Monitor linux server memory/filesystems and email/reboot when lowI first thought this was a joke, but it isn’t. Someone actually ran a study about how well people can detect bullshit. And the result is a wonderfully-written paper (which I’ll copy here, because the original will probably get its URL changed). I haven’t finished reading it yet (my attention span isn’t what it used …
Continue reading On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshitI wanted to build this for a long time. I hate looking through random boxes for a socket that’s 1mm larger or smaller than another socket which almost fits the nut I’m taking off :) Part of the problem is that all the large socket sets you can buy have some sizes missing. Even the …
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