Feedback forms on the web and stupid web programming
I filled out a feedback form on the web only to realise what a terrible job the web programmers had done. After I clicked on the submit button, the webserver was kind enough to send a copy of my complaint to my email address. The sad thing is that the email address I’d entered in […]
Read More → Feedback forms on the web and stupid web programmingIT i Norge
IT i Norge er synonymt med .NET eller Java, og prøver du å hinte til Unix, så ser de på deg som et spørsmålstegn og lurer på hvilken planet du er fra. Noe omskrevet fra: http://www.tu.no/it/2014/06/04/kontraktene-renner-inn-for-it-norge-men-naringen-mangler-20.000-hoder.
Read More → IT i NorgeUncorrectable parity/CRC error on Seagate ST500DM002-1BD142 KC45
A harddrive as identified below, reported uncorrectable parity/CRC error on two separate occasions this month.
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Det er slemt å tvinge emotakter på folk. Fra et debattinnlegg på GS’ fora, september 2013.
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There are enemies out there and they’ve made us so paranoid that we’re willing to risk making enemies of our allies. From: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/german-chancellor-amongst-list-of-nsas-list-of-high-value-targets/?comments=1&post=26558191#comment-26558191.
Read More → NSA’s paranoiaUsing GraphViz to visualize the runtime dependencies of the installed ports
If you’re curious to find out how all your installed ports depend upon each other, you might want to run this neat, little script saving its output to a file, and install graphics/graphviz.
Read More → Using GraphViz to visualize the runtime dependencies of the installed portsBooks shipped from Amazon to you
Make sure to request additional wrapping, if possible, when ordering books from Amazon. If not, your books might attack each other in transit. The result can sometimes be devastating. Amazon US failed miserably when shipping four books last month, while their UK counterparts, around the same time, managed to wrap each of the two books […]
Read More → Books shipped from Amazon to youParallel build of mail/thunderbird in FreeBSD?
Update 2014-08-07: r363978, dated Mon Aug 4 09:11:25 2014 UTC, solves the parallel build bug once and for all, and there’s no need for the Makefile.local as shown below. I’ve been scratching my head over why mail/thunderbird doesn’t build in parallel when www/firefox does. Research reveals MAKE_JOBS_SAFE was removed last August, in r324744. I can’t […]
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Upgrade FreeBSD/i386 from stable/8 to stable/10 via stable/9
Some of my servers are running a fairly old version of FreeBSD/i386. I began researching how to upgrade them from stable/8 to stable/10 via stable/9. It’s pretty straightforward, but there are some pitfalls you should avoid.
Read More → Upgrade FreeBSD/i386 from stable/8 to stable/10 via stable/9Long-running Windows 7 SP1, Cisco VPN Client 5.0.07.0440, and “Reason 414: Failed to establish a TCP connection”
I’ve noticed that Cisco VPN Client 5.0.07.0440 tends to fail with “Reason 414: Failed to establish a TCP connection.” on long-running Windows 7 SP1. It’s been going on for years.
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