This morning I sat down to get my e-mail, which includes server logs mailed to me daily from most of my machines around the ‘net. I found that some fugnut had been trying to SSH into one of my servers from the University of Geneva (yes, Switzerland). At least that …
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Annoying telemarketer call of the week: My wife and I give to a number of state and federal charitable organizations. Typically the process begins several times a year with a call from a fundraising telemarketer with a request. If the organization is one whose cause we support, has good standing …
Had a great gig with Leah on Saturday at Andy’s in Chestertown, MD. Our audience was fantastic and this is a wonderful venue for quality original music from around the region. I’m still a little exhausted since I started on a sleep deficit Saturday morning and never really caught up …
Woo-hoo! Tonight I set up a Subversion server. It is available for read-only access at svn://svn.frields.org. Eventually I will be migrating this to using Apache and mod_dav_svn, but that will come later. Too much recompiling and installing to do on my trusty RHL 9 server for this late at night. …
On a whim I bought Anthony Minghella’s film of Charles Frazier’s Civil War romantic epic Cold Mountain. After the first viewing I have to admit I was a bit nonplussed. As I thought back over the film, though, I realized my disappointment was due in large part to its steadfast …
It’s interesting to me that for you folks using Microsoft Windows, being able to “talk” to your office computer from home or on the road is a big deal. You buy all sorts of geegaws like “GoToMyPC” or “PCanywhere,” which gives you the ability to use your applications and documents …
Memo to Mr. Moore: Intellectual laziness, even when disguised as art, is just as shallow.
I don’t care how much of a jerk Warren Lieberfarb may be. I’d still like to shake his hand. Because of him, I have a large library of my favorite films in an easily-totable format, which can accompany me on business trips (by plain, train or automobile) or play on …
I’ve decided to pursue the new Red Hat Certified Architect course track. I’m going to my first class at the end of July, and hopefully I’ll be able to complete the courses by next spring. Between work, family, and the band, I can’t go away too often, so I have …
The definition of “fat ‘n’ happy”…