DNSstuff is now charging for DNSreports…
So, in the quest for Free DNS Report alternatives, they found intoDNS: checks DNS and mail servers health. They like it. Mmmmm. AJAXy.
Newish look.
They were tired of the old, non-wordpress-2.5-compatable theme. In honor of the new system, they have now selected Cordobo Green Park. They are not displeased.
Why gentoo? Why debian?
How did these distibutions choose their names?
Etymology of a Linux distro | Royal HeHe2-ness!
They now prefer gentoo for servers, and ubuntu for desktops, for what that is worth…
Long time coming…
they.com is now running on new hardware!
There was a happy congruence of tax refund check and Dell having a sale of 45% off servers, so the 8+ year old system (a sun netra t1 with a 900MHz ultrasparc IIi, 1G RAM and an external 30G drive) has been replaced (by a poweredge 2750, with 2 2GHz AMD processors, 8G RAM, and 6 160G drives with hardware RAID). After running for 7 hours, the new system has yet to swap memory to disk!
They have also made the switch from Debian GNU/Linux to Gentoo.
There will still be a few things to work out — for example, they have not decided whether or not to re-export the /docs/ directory (which they don’t think they will do again), and some wordpress upgrading differences have yet to be fully resolved. Also the installation of gallery2 seems to not want to display .3gp videos, so they need to figure out how to hack that back in again.
For now, though, they are just glad to have made the switch, because they can now re-enable spam filtering on the server, and now have virtual mail delivery (so that there are fewer hackable login accounts).
Oh, and since it doesn’t take over a minute to make a post on wordpress anymore, you can expect more frequent posting!
Here is the new server last weekend, while they copied over the gallery images to save bandwidth:
Catchup blogging for the new year…
(This is a big list)
All things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | With New Yorkers, That’s a Safe Bet
- Overheard in New York | How Seacrest Saved Britney
- Overheard in the Office | Have We Learned Nothing from the “Cock Diagram” Incident?
- Overheard Everywhere | Is There a Polite Response That Doesn’t Sound Gay?
- Overheard in New York | Your Ad Said You Were Docile and Stupid! I Demand a Refund!
- Overheard in New York | It Looks Like Goodwill, Honey, but I Wanted to Give You the Benefit of the Doubt
- Overheard in the Office | Sacrilicious!
- Overheard in the Office | And I’d Like the Singing Version of All Three
- Overheard in the Office | All Right, All Right, I’ll Like It.
- Overheard in the Office | Regardless, Could You Put Yours On?
- Overheard in the Office | President Bush Defines “Democracy”
- Overheard in the Office | Chewbacca’s Agent Finally Snaps
- Overheard Everywhere | … Bitch
- Overheard Everywhere | And Leave Wet Spots Wherever They Go
- Overheard Everywhere | If Only the UN Were This Tolerant
- Overheard Everywhere | Don’t Make Me Come Down There and Rescue You
- Overheard in the Office | Like You’ve Never Wondered?
Now that you are in a good mood, here come the geeky things:
- DNS poisoning used to redirect unwitting surfers
- Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Documentation | Tux Deluxe
- Geek About » The Ultimate Rollercoasters On Earth
- 10officegadgets
- DVICE: 12 Great Geek Gifts for Under $30
- Tiling
- AskMen.com - 5 things you didn’t know about Star Trek
- Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians
- Chandler Wiki : Cosmo Home
Now, let’s explore what grabbed my attention politically:
- America’s atheists | Believe it or not | Economist.com
- Rednecks vs. gay marriage | The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
- Straight Dope Message Board - I waterboard!
- Dickheads of the Year : Photos : Rolling Stone
- ABC News: Match-O-Matic
- FOXNews.com - Lakota Indians Withdraw Treaties Signed With U.S. 150 Years Ago - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
- Three Charged In Attacks On North Carolina Football Players - Local News Story - WXII Winston-Salem
- The Atheist Experience: TEA’s science curriculum director forced to resign for promoting science
- Duelity
- occamsrazorbu0.jpg (JPEG Image, 750×600 pixels)
Parenting stuff:
- The McSweeney’s Store
- Most Controversial Films of All Time
- The Delicate Matter of the Truth About Santa | LiveScience
- Index of secret recipies?
- How to Free Yourself from Guilt | ThinkSimpleNow.com
Funny things:
- Standard Disclaimer [rec.humor.funny]
- Rampaging Santas strike again in N.Z. - Weird news- msnbc.com
- Rob’s SketchBlog: Happy Holidays!
- Simpsons House In Real World | thecontaminated.com
- IKE ‘BEATS’ TINA TO DEATH
- Tiger Woods Putts Baby Into Diaper | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source (thanks to Robert)
- Motivational Posters
- Parody Motivator Generator
And finally, just a few things that are interesting:
- How do I save my expiring frequent-flier miles? - CNN.com
- Magic Uproar - Magic Tricks: Top 30 Magic Trick Tutorials Of All Time - Part One
- Ford Offers Glass Roof For 2009 Mustang
- Innovation Canada | i2eye with neuroscientist Daniel Levitin | Graeme Stemp-Morlock
- Resistentialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More catchup blogging…
Once again, we start with things overheard:
- Overheard in the Office | Now Hop on One Foot While I Take Your Wallets
- Overheard Everywhere | More Likely He’d Giggle and Start Talking about Threesomes
- Overheard Everywhere | Maybe I Should Find a Nice Lesbian and Settle Down
- Overheard Everywhere | Why Children Should Not Be Taught New Words
- Overheard in New York | How Could You Not Love This Town?
- Overheard in the Office | You Call Your Mom by Her First Name?
- Overheard in the Office | Relax — That’s Just Canadian for “Good Morning”
- Overheard in New York | The Two Main Options for Young Gentlemen These Days
- Overheard in the Office | Except for Larry, Who Can Keep the Tutu
- Overheard in New York | Someone’s Been Listening to the President’s Speeches
- Overheard in the Office | It’s Quite Possible That Women Have Dirtier Minds Than Men
- Overheard in New York | Is a Goddamn Miniature Jack Too Much to Fucking Ask?
- Overheard Everywhere | Stop Poking at My Fishnets, Please
- Overheard Everywhere | Why His Family Has Stopped Drinking at Christmas
And continue with geeky things:
- Re: Sending Fax through CUPS
- Zimbra offers Open Source email server software and shared calendar for Linux and the Mac
- Direct2Dell - Dell’s Blog
- The Programmer Dress Code
- 9 BitTorrent how-to’s | TorrentFreak
- Stop Downloading Fakes and Junk From BitTorrent | TorrentFreak
- SourceForge.net: hylafax-users
- chumby
- Linux: Rip DVDs in Linux the (Semi-)Easy Way
- Gentoo-Portage - News
- Journal of toby (759)
- SNPP Information for Paging Carriers
- Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
General interest:
- 2010 Ford Mustang: 2010 Ford Mustang
- 50 Things You’re Not Supposed To Know
- YouTube - TERMINUS
- TheMishMash.com: 9 Telltale Signs You’re Probably an Asshole
- 10 Most Unusual ‘Top 10′ Lists | NicheGeek.com
- The Best of RHF
- How to make exercise more fun than sex | Jonathan Fields | Awake At The Wheel
- What the police can learn when they run a background check on your name. - By Brad Flora - Slate Magazine
- Anecdotes [rec.humor.funny]
- Witzelsucht [rec.humor.funny]
- Pranks: Google Maps Catches Sophisticated High School Football Field Prank
- What various awards on The Daily Dish mean
- Good Question (leads to Islam’s Silent Moderates - New York Times)
- Why am I not listed here?
Catching up more often, lately…
- HOWTO create a logserver with syslog-ng - Gentoo Linux Wiki
- AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries | TechnoTarget
- AKSN1P3R: Firefox Asterisk Revealer
- Openfiler — Friendly enterprise storage management platform
- Five Desktop Blog Editors for GNU/Linux Users
- 5min - How to make a wi-fi booster - Video
- 15 cool word illusions
- Damon likes his Guitar lessons
- WikiCharts — Top 100
- 2blowhards.com
- CIA agent alleged to have met Bin Laden in July | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
- » 5 yo boy dressed as Spiderman saves baby from blaze
- Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything - Telegraph
- [0711.0770] An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
- Religious scholars mull Flying Spaghetti Monster - CNN.com
- TheMishMash.com: [Please Don't] Send in the Clowns: 11 Clowns You Hope Never Work Your Child’s Birthday Party
- Pigeon Point Lighthouse on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- The Hardware Aisle: Turkey tools moisten meat, resemble weapons
Blog catchup, yet again
- What TOP GUN is really about by Quentin Tarantino - Video - transcript
- Post to WordPress Blogs from Nokia Lifeblog
- WordPress Theme Hacks
- 40 Tips for optimizing your php Code
- GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - Mark Peters on the Colbert Suffix
- 10 Ways To Improve Your Financial Situation In Just 15 Minutes | zen habits | simple productivity
- Military inadvertently recruits gays - USATODAY.com
- Hot Homework Tips for Parents
- UnSecureFlight.com :: Read Your Own DHS Travel Dossier
- Roller coasters: 56 American scream machines : Kathika.com
- 25 Skills Every Man Should Know - Essential DIY - Popular Mechanics
- men who look like old lesbians
- YouTube - Commercial - Homocil
- USB Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon install | Pen Drive Linux
- The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Fathers at Ririan Project
- What to Save From a Fire - TIME
- Drinking stories that put yours to shame - CNN.com
- Overheard Everywhere | Like a Scat Burglar?
- Mike’s Blog » Best security sign ever!
- YouTube - Cheerleader Gets Run Over By Football Team
- Small World ride revamped for bigger passengers (CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)
- Happy Linux Thoughts: Cracking Windows passwords with Linux
- Polycom reboot hardphone script - voip-info.org
- Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters
- WallStreetFighter: How to Get Laid in 1977 and Your Ass Kicked in 2007
- Phelps Phucked | Slog | The Stranger | Seattle’s Only Newspaper
- Arjewtino » Blog Archive » I shaved it off for Movember
- Overheard in New York | Isn’t “Creepy Clown” Redundant?
- HOWTO Install HylaFax with iaxmodem on a running CentOS 4.3 + Asterisk 1.2.7.1 system with FreePBX 2.1 | FreePBX
- Why They Called It the Manhattan Project - New York Times
- Overheard Everywhere | The Cardinal of Contempt? The Deacon of Disdain?
- WordPress Super Cache 0.1 at Holy Shmoly!
- Identity Theft: How To Freeze Your Credit Report
- How to Win at Monopoly ® - a Surefire Strategy
- Bullet Points: 10 Really Weird Fetishes
- Overheard in the Office | Do You Need an Epipen?
- Overheard in the Office | Measuring Out My Life with Coffee Spoons
- Overheard in the Office | But the Horrified Looks on My Kids’ Faces Always Set Me Straight
- Overheard in the Office | Then He’d Play with Them in His Crib
- Overheard in the Office | They’re Considering Sacking Us
- Overheard in the Office | We’ll Be Married 10 Years This April
- Overheard Everywhere | … Bob
- Phelps hearts Bill Oreilly