Tin Foil Soldier

I now have Windows 7 on my home computer and my work computer and I think I have to say that Vista was less of a hassle.  Win7 might have some slick fanciness but Vista had a lot of the same features but people were too busy complaining that Vista ran slow on their POS [...]

character speed / Accuracy
[267/364]/min  [8.11/2.24]%
Klavarog ?
via Klava Helps You Hone Your Touch Typing Skills – Typing – Lifehacker.
I can type pretty fast, and I dare say faster than most, especially when I am thinking about what I am going to type in my head instead of reading it off the screen.  I [...]

Okay dammit, not sure what is hanging Apache up, its fully patched, as is MySQL, PHP, wordpress, everything.  Something connects to the server and the computer just can’t handle it and locks up until I do a hard reset.  Fortunately the server boots fine from this since I futzed with the software raid a while [...]

Dr. Temperance Brennan: Can’t you just be satisfied that if I’m wrong about God that I’ll burn in hell?
via “Bones” The Priest in the Churchyard (2007) – Memorable quotes.
I made this post as a draft back in September but I just found it when I upgraded Wordpress.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the crazy right wing [...]

Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » Apache Hung.
still not sure what happens, but the server sends tons of DNS requests out while it is happening (I can see that much from the Cisco FWSM)
Apache doesn’t have HostnameLookups turned on, I already checked.

You might have gone down the rabbit hole before. But never with a guide quite as attuned to the fantastic as Tim Burton.
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There is the usual Burton-esque ghoulishness (Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen, whose favorite retort is “Off with their heads,” has a moat filled with bobbing noggins), but Zanuck assures most kids can handle [...]

not sure what happened, but Apache seems to have been hung, and it had the whole server tied up as it did its thing (or rather, didn’t do its thing)

So, I upgraded to Wordpress 2.8 yesterday, which went fine thanks to my script.
Then the Wordpress Stats plugin wanted to be upgraded.  Only problem is it only comes as a zip file and I haven’t had to unzip anything since I had to reinstall tinfoil.
Emerge -pv zip unzip
[ebuild  N    ] app-arch/zip-2.32-r1  USE=”crypt” 789 kB
[ebuild  [...]

If you’ve upgraded your Vista client to SP1, you’ve found that installing Windows Vista SP1 removes GPMC; installing RSAT will put GPMC back on your client.  You can install RSAT from the following locations:
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with SP1 (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9FF6E897-23CE-4A36-B7FC-D52065DE9960
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with SP1(x64)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D647A60B-63FD-4AC5-9243-BD3C497D2BC5
via Group Policy [...]

Making the world’s knowledge computable
Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone
via Wolfram|Alpha.
I am a huge fan of Google, partially because it is so fast and usually gives me what I am looking for; but also because I can use it for unit [...]

This category contains articles related to the Global Positioning System (GPS).
via Category:GPS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
I was reading a site on building a GPS data logger with a wireless trigger for camera location tracking (via Hack a Day) and they made reference to WAAS so of course I had to look it up.
GPS is [...]

I had gotten everything else back up and running, but I wasn’t getting the favicon on my tabs in Firefox and I was like, what the hell could be broken?
Turns out I just had Firefox open for too long, I never close it.  It had 340MB of ram when I finally restarted it.  Probably had [...]

Tin Foil Soldier is back in business lol.
I guess the OS hard drive in the server died.  Tinfoilsoldier runs on a Dell Powervault 715n that doesn’t have a keyboard/mouse/monitor port or a cd-rom drive, its a 1U headless server.  It can be netbooted but that takes effort to install a linux OS so I just [...]

The Google server was 3.5 inches thick–2U, or 2 rack units, in data center parlance. It had two processors, two hard drives, and eight memory slots mounted on a motherboard built by Gigabyte. Google uses x86 processors from both AMD and Intel, Jai said, and Google uses the battery design on its network equipment, too.
via [...]

HP Products? I like them.  Their LaserJet line of printers? Love em!
We have a bunch of HP laptops at work.  We always buy the extended warranties because well, it just make sense to on heavily used laptops.
HP always manages to find a way to screw up the warranties.  We bought the most recent batch of [...]