I managed to convince work to lend me one of their unused tape
libraries, and I am now the proud borrower of a Digital TZ875
5 DLT library and DLT2k drive.
I grabbed a SCSI-2 cable (HD50) for it, but now I’m wondering
what to plug the other end into. On one hand, I’ve got a
Sparcstatin 10SX sitting around [...]
I have fish!
Candice brought her 10-gallon aquarium over from her old
place yesterday. It’s the perfect size for the kitchen counter,
although I imagine we’ll move it out into the living room once it gets
a bit better furnished. (Augh, furniture. Still no progress, sigh.
Bedroom might come first anyhow.)
We need more fish, though — planning maybe a couple [...]
Via Q_skud_:
Hipster
Bingo.
I was pleased to discover that I did not complete a row myself.
The Mitel firewall and joshu.mati.ca are a ten-minute drive from each
other along a single road, but my route there seems to be
taking a bit of a… vacation.
traceroute to joshu.mati.ca (66.11.173.170), 40 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 134.199.17.251 (134.199.17.251) 55.130 ms 0.859 ms 1.852 ms
2 134.199.251.2 (134.199.251.2) 0.408 [...]
Best. Blond. Joke. Evar.
I’ve complained here in the past about my ISP,
IStop, and how well they tend
to live up to their name. Lately, though, they’ve been improving
in reliability quite a bit. I’m still not sure if I’d recommend them
for everybody, but I think I’m going to stick around for a while.
Today, all IStop DSL subscribers got mail from [...]
Showed up in root’s inbox today, sent by another admin:
> allspice : Jul 4 15:33:10 : root : user NOT in sudoers [...]
Was me. Who’d have thought one litre of beer could affec,mb bnjeat
Maybe I’ll take the rest of the afternoon off.
Why I want to move to Vancouver, reason #314: Vij’s.
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