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Brian Bilbrey November 15, 2015

2015 Nov 15

This last week was a blast at LISA 15, the annual USENIX all things system administration conference. I averaged 12 hour days over the 6 day run, so I'm still decompressing a bit. More of a report on that in a day or few. Nothing else of particular importance going on in our part of the world just now. Terrorists killing random innocents for kicks seems to be increasing the world suck factor by a billion elsewhere at the moment, though. That makes me sad. Condolences to those who suffered loss in Paris, Beruit, and everywhere else in the world…

Brian Bilbrey October 18, 2015

Suicide by BMW

At 0635 EDT (pre-dawn at this time of year), a deer tried to commit BMW-assisted suicide while I was driving to work. I'd have to say, that deer is a failure. It got up and ran off, and my car is in the body shop for the next few days. Bummer, I know. It jumped out of the bushes ten feet in front of my car or less. I barely got to the brakes before the deer was in my grill. Torso to the grill, neck took out the headlight, and the head dented the driver-side front quarter panel. And…

Brian Bilbrey October 11, 2015

I'd better not get the flu...

I'd better not get the flu this season, because I've already paid the cover charge and over-tipped all the bouncers. Seriously. Thursday I got the regular dose (as opposed to high dose) quadrivalent flu vaccine for the season. Friday, I had the day off. I was taking the day to handle a couple of chores, and then attend Capclave for the two and a half days of programming, Friday through today. Yeah, that didn't happen. By midnight Thursday, I had aches and pains in the large muscles and joints, and a mild fever afflicted me. I was "fine" by Saturday…

Brian Bilbrey October 1, 2015

Oddly Low-key Introduction

If you play in Apple's sandbox, you'll know that today was release day for the latest version of OS X: El Capitan. For a variety of reasons, I decided to upgrade on release day (admittedly after pulling a full, bootable, copy of my system using my favorite tool for the purpose, SuperDuper! Highly Recommended!). An hour or so to pull down the 6 GB download, another 30 minutes or so to apply the new OS, and my Mac Air was rebooting! Happily, I got a login prompt at the far end. That's always a good start. I typed in the…

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…