EmbarqCenturyLink goes down so often, I finally had to hack together a lame heartbeat script to bounce the connection if it’s down. I run the script below via cron every 5 minutes. The target IP is this blog host, because it ought to be up and reachable. I later considered using the [...]
I finally managed to secure a copy of Race for the Galaxy (R4TG). Of course, outside of Cool Stuff Games on Wednesday, I have no one to play with. If anyone happens upon this post and wants to play, let me know.
Finally, there’s a way to convert DocBook XML to PDF. Petter Reinholdtsen describes the tool he used and the simple process involved. I pulled dblatex from Debian Unstable and it essentially just worked. The PDF output looks quite professional and the DocBook XML conventions are followed as you’d expect. Nice.
I almost missed it, but 2.6.16 shipped with an NFS update that makes me happy. It’s now possible to kill those nasty processes hung on RPC calls when your NFS mount point goes away. Previously, you could umount -l with some success, but this is better.
Additionally, there is now support for the IFB [...]
Now, this is just simply cool. It’s a Solar Cooker.
The BYU Funnel Cooker/Cooler can:
* Cook food without the need for electricity or wood or petroleum or other fuels.
* Pasteurize water for safe drinking, preventing many diseases.
* Save trees and other resources.
[...]
That’s what I was reminded of, this morning, hungry and tired from arising early to park on campus, when I went up stairs and discovered a plentiful bounty of fruit, orange juice, and doughnuts for waiting students seeking guidance from the building’s only counselor. I snagged some cool, fresh orange juice, then some pineapple [...]
This is just too good to pass up.
Have fun!
If you have a particularly amusing conversation, feel free to tape it and send me an MP3.
Thanks!
Still undergoing playtesting, my recent Perl foo on parsing Silent Hunter III’s random campaign mission layer has resulted in the ImprovedConvoys mod. With a few more changes, I’ll move on to modify the few task forces represented in the random layer such that they’re seemingly more realistic, or at least less boring. Task [...]
Trying to ssh into a box with dropbear I am finding no joy:
ssh: connection to root@10.8.0.6:22 exited: No auth methods could be used.
You need to change the following to true in /etc/ssh/sshd_config for joy again.
PasswordAuthentication yes
This seems new. I had no problem with an older version of dropbear from earlier this year sometime.
How cute. The Gregg Reference Manual contains a decoder for the basic online acronyms.