It made NPR talk about Quarter Life, which NBC may pick up, since they aren't members of the Union, and it kind of smells like My So-called Life. The content is... a lot like the kind of crap that led me to my seriously considering (but discarding because it was self-gratifying bullshit) purchasing the domain ihaveno.tv (still available, BUY NOW, I ( Read more... )

It's either a blessing or a curse that I've never had cause to build an RPM down to the spec file until this evening. Well, really, I theoretically should have done this back during the summer, but it's the side job, and there was a faster way to get the new servers running (build a few things like PHP by hand and install, rather than package, them ( Read more... )

While Time Machine has been much-ballyhooed, it is not exactly a backup product (it provides continuous data protection-provided you keep the extra hard drive that you MUST use for Time Machine to work at all connected at all times), nor is it a host imaging product. It's good for "damn, I didn't mean to change that file that way", but it's not ( Read more... )

The Flash font? Completely fucked. Unreadable ( Read more... )

On Hallowe'en or the day before (I don't quite recall, and I'm not positive I sync'ed the photos--only one is necessary to show everything here, really--off the iPhone the same day), I saw this parked outside my employer's office building:


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Today, I received Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse: Death Proof from Netflix. Unlike Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse: Planet Terror (which I received yesterday), this DVD floats the above-quoted phrase on the screen after the usual copyright warning ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago I asked, in a rather aggressive fashion, whether any of you had done backups for Lucene, especially SolrNone of you had, but at least a couple of you were concerned, for your own reasons, that I was concerned about the safe way to do that ( Read more... )