Instead of the substandard d.revinc.org. My original idea was to put up a generic revinc website at www.revinc.org, and keep d.revinc.org (d short for diablo) for my own stuff. But it never worked like that, so when I moved to the new server, I decided just to go with a more standard hostname ( Read more... )

I have resisted the urge to post political rants on my blog before, but in this case I can't help but link to a blog post about the New Orleans debacle ( Read more... )

Yes I am.

We needed to set up a point-to-point wireless bridge between two locations at a site for work. The two locations were separated by slightly more than 1/4 mile. There were no geographical features in the way, but there was a large hangar building blocking direct line of sight, so we had to use a 3-point layout. They were arranged in a rough L ( Read more... )

As Jason noted, we installed OpenWRT on his WRT54G. It was a lot smoother than we expected, and our style of tag-team configuration -- closely resembling pair programming, as Jason pointed out -- really shone. As one person would run into a roadblock, another would swoop in and bang on it a bit. It's really quite a fun environment to get things ( Read more... )

I have some ideas for commingler. To be truthful, they're not all my ideas, but they're things I want to do nonetheless.

• Fetcher stores posts in db
• Posts get assigned unique post_id
• Original permalink used to uniquely identify post, but a simple integer post_id is assigned
• post_id starts at 1000 and counts up
• Main page built statically after ( Read more... )

Saturday and Sunday we went to Laughlin. I gambled at the penny slots at an extremely slow pace. This turned out to be a winning strategy. All in all, I got 3 free drinks, and walked away with $3.05 after putting in $2. So I made $1.05, though I gave a $1 tip to the waitress who brought me the drinks. So I guess that puts me up $0.05. Good times.

Instead of a long narrative, I'm going to describe my trip with an outline.

• Basic facts
• I thought Playa was near LA, but it turned out to be only 5 minutes from LAX
• Hotel is nice, being an Embassy Suites
• Free happy hour from 5:30 to 7:30
• Free breakfast from 6:00 to 9:30

Planet is nice, but there have always been a few things about it that bothered me. Finally it reached a tipping point when it absolutely mangled Justin's feed. So I spent a few hours and wrote my own. Thanks to the plethora of modules I used (check out all those use lines!), this code was pretty fast to write, and seems to work pretty darned well. ( Read more... )

Yet another example of Slashdot's egregious sensationalism. The Slashdot title sets the tone of the post, "NRLB [sic] Redefines 'Your Own Time'." The meat of the submission goes on to say, "The U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled to ban off-duty worker 'fraternization,' at the employer's discretion. So getting together for a beer ( Read more... )