The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey September 29, 2015

About daynotes.com

Carl Sanders wrote: Was wondering why www.daynotes.com was down. The registration for the site expired on 23 September 2015. It's in limbo for a while, then it'll go on the block. Daynotes.com was a domain purchased by, and leading to a website designed by, and originally maintained by Tom Syroid, back in September 1999. By sometime around the mid-naught'ies, Tom dropped off the Internet, and with few exceptions, has not resurfaced. A few times we tried to get the site registration transferred from his name (and with difficulty, since the email address he registered with exists no more), so that…

Brian Bilbrey September 27, 2015

Lexi at work

My work and week was relatively uneventful: just computers, patching, rebooting, yardwork, and shopping, so I'll share Lexi's work week with you instead. Before I get onto the elliptical, I'll generally do a repeating series of stretches, alternating with exercises like squats, sit ups, and push ups. Above, you can see how helpful and encouraging Lexi is during this phase of my workout. Her prone position, her near-perfect lack of motion is extraordinarily motivational. Frankly, I couldn't do it all without her. * * * When she's not "helping" me exercise, or outright sleeping, Lexi likes to guard the house.

Brian Bilbrey September 20, 2015

Ch-ch-changes

Computational changes, at least... During the past week, I migrated all of the public sites (including this one) from a machine running Scientific Linux (SL) 6 (an RHEL respin out of CERN), and onto a different box running FreeBSD 10.2. I did this for a couple of reasons. First, SL6 was pretty slow to get updates from Red Hat and rebrand them, and release them to the world. I'd initially gone with SL because CentOS was suffering that problem. Then CentOS was picked up directly by Red Hat, and has become much more responsive. But I was ready for something…

Brian Bilbrey September 13, 2015

Quiet times

It's going to be busy soon, what with Capclave, and LISA15 ... but this weekend was quiet. We went to supper and played Trival Pursuit with Mike and Linda last night. The rest of the time? Chores, a spot of shopping, a bit of telly, a dash of early morning system administration for work. Boring, really. But necessary. Oh, and I'm working on migrating the underpinnings of this site to FreeBSD. But not tonight. * * * DoD reported no new casualties in the last week. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey September 9, 2015

Mailing list etiquette, updated

I am pleased to report that the Contact Conference mailing list owner got back to me, pleasantly and quickly, apologetically acknowledging the faux pas. One can merely hope that others will pay heed. Mailing list membership should always be recipient-instigated, and double-opt-in. If you're going to Contact, btw, I'm jealous. Just sayin' ...