As mentioned earlier, I’ve been using the ZFS file system on my network backup drive for the last couple weeks. Last night, I decided to run a “scrub” operation on it (a file-check, similar to fsck or chkdsk): $ sudo zpool status pool: zfs state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable …
He-LLO, Steve! Security through obscurity doesn’t work! How many times do we have to be burned by your software before you learn that?
Courtesy of my sister, whose sick sense of humor matches the rest of our family: 1. If you’re choking on an ice cube simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat. Presto! The blockage will instantly remove itself. 2. Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold while you …
In 1997 I set up an e-mail account to support several software products I’d written for my (now-former) company. Because customers and potential customers needed to be able to find it easily, I put it on the company web page too. Predictably, it became an instant spam magnet. I couldn’t trust automated spam filters (when …
“42nd Avenue, of course.”
As the saying goes, you can find absolutely anything on the ‘net. I’d say that this site, featuring nothing but the sounds of cats purring and pictures and biographies of the “actors” (purr-tors?), pretty much proves it.
The full text of the news can be found here.
Baby may be feeling secure, but I’m feeling a bit creeped-out by them.
Why? Because the “traditional phrase ‘may be offensive to women’.” I agree with the (voluntarily-former) Santa trainee quoted there: it’s “political correctness gone mad.”
Oh, the irony!