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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Enjoying freedom that you choose not to defend
There is an interesting snippet in The Blood of the Fold book I am reading. When asked if other kingdoms will join in a fight against an oppressive regime someone in the audience asks: What if we choose neither? It … Continue reading
Posted in politics
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C25K Week 9 Day 3
Well friends and neighbors, that is it. I just completed the last day of the 9 week Couch To 5 K program. As luck would have it, I can’t find my watch. However, my running buddy these last 9 weeks … Continue reading
Posted in running
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Upcoming 5K
Against my better judgment, I am entering a 5K race in Lancaster. I really don’t like races, I have participated in a couple, years ago, and I don’t find the experience particularly enjoyable. However, a bunch of coworkers are entering … Continue reading
Posted in running
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Stone of Tears
Just finished the second novel in the Sword of Truth series. Again, great book. This is the follow up to Wizard’s First Rule (which I blogged about a week or two ago). Recommended. I am reading the third now, Blood … Continue reading
Posted in books
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Fun with interactions
If you use Monit and DenyHosts together…make sure you put ‘ALL: 127.0.0.1′ in your /etc/hosts.allow…DenyHosts sees monits checks and thinks it’s a ssh attack.
Posted in sysadmin
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Stupid people
At work we launched the new colo over last weekend. In the aftermath it was time to get pam_abl installed. However for some reason it wouldn’t work. I found one blog post that suggested that the OpenSSH server that is … Continue reading
Posted in sysadmin
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Ruby and Fixnum
Lon found this snippet this morning. It’s cool in a number of ways. class Fixnum def prime? (’1′ * self) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ end end First, it’s cool because it uses a regex to determine weather or not a number is … Continue reading
Posted in programming
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Steal this post!
Just kidding. I wanted to leave myself a note that I have been reorganizing some of the categories for the posts. It seems that the default ‘computers’ gets left on posts I didn’t mean it to, and I added running … Continue reading
Posted in housekeeping
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253 posts
Somehow I made it to 253 posts with this one. I switched to wordpress in late 2005, from blosxom. Blosxom was pretty cool. It’s written in Perl and there is a decent community around it, but ultimately, wordpress had the … Continue reading
Posted in housekeeping
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