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Just Plain Bad Service

I almost lost two of my domains this week – a registrar / hosting company that will not be named decided to close them off without any notice – no email, letter or even a phone call. 15 minutes in … Continue reading

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Too Fscking Clever

If you have six discrete crontabs for a relatively small set of tasks instead of two (or even just one) you may be Too Fscking Clever. If your SQL statement has five or more JOINS in it, you may be … Continue reading

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Can sanity prevail? Here’s hoping.

Christian lobby upset about Australian government backtracking on Internet Censorship I’ve one word to say about this: good. The whole sorry mess that is the Australian net censorship debate has become an international embarrassment. It is not or will be … Continue reading

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The Sir Humphrey Appleby Award goes to…

ObFedoraContent: I have now permanently retired the Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 sections of my repository. As I mentioned a few nights ago, those with older releases should really consider upgrading to a supported release or move to RHEL/CentOS. Cheers. … Continue reading

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Smallish things.

Well, one thing is fairly important if you’re a long time user. “enlartenment.com” is gradually going away. I’ve had the domain for what seems like forever and no one seems to understand the etymology. In essence it’s a bit hackish … Continue reading

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Tourists…

Inquiring minds want to know how the following didn’t turn into a Darwin Awards nomination: Coming home from drinks with my good friend Steven, I was stopped and asked for directions by a middle aged couple in a reasonably priced … Continue reading

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