2nd Cousins Twice Removed of Anarchy
Posted On Thursday, October 27th, 2011 By dvicci
There’s some irony in a customer coming into the bank to execute line of credit transfers from his business account… while wearing a Sons of Anarchy sweatshirt (Missouri chapter, for what it's worth).
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Da plane! Da plane!!
Posted On Monday, October 17th, 2011 By dvicci
It’s now a lot quicker (if also a lot more expensive) for the parents to come visit us. This is their Comanche on the ground at home base, and then Mom and Dad getting ready to head back to home base from New Century Air Service… a mere four minutes from our front door.
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Straight Pool & Equal Offense Scoresheet/Spreadsheet Update
Posted On Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 By David Veatch
I’ve made some updates to the score sheets. I’ve uploaded all of them now to GoogleDocs for one. That’s the big change. Other small changes, currently exclusive to the GoogleDocs versions, are minor formatting changes, formulaic changes to rid the sheets of #DIV/0 errors, and the removal of some extraneous columns to help with formula drag filling. Furthermore, I’ve shared all the GoogleDocs versions so they’re public for the finding, though I’ve retained exclusive editing rights. As always, suggestions and tweaks, especially those that stem from trial-by-fire experience, are always welcome. Straight Pool & Equal Offense Scores and Stats Sheets
Update to Malware Protecting Script
Posted On Saturday, October 1st, 2011 By David Veatch
In an attempt to be a little more friendly in terms of bandwidth to the strapped folk over at Malware Domains, I’ve retooled the script I wrote about in the post To Be Protecting Against the Malware. I’ve added some lines to take advantage of remote zipped files (.zip), which will help them by reducing the number of bits we’re pulling from them. I’ve added some lines to copy the downloaded malware zones file to other servers behind my firewall, which will help them by not making individual connections from each server to pull the files. I just set up a cron job on each internal “slave” server to bounce named every morning timed for after this process is complete. Here’s the updated code. It is, as is my wont, rather verbose. It is considerably more verbose than other examples out there that take care of this same problem, but as I said, such is my wont. The URLS array is filled with fake hosts right now b/c the zipped format is still in testing. When the folk at malwaredomains.com think it’s ready for public consumption, I’ll put the real hosts back in. Also, it’s relatively untested, and I expect more »
Moving the Home Network
Posted On Friday, June 3rd, 2011 By David Veatch
Even simple changes can introduce nigh inscrutable problems.
New Homes are Heavy
Posted On Friday, June 3rd, 2011 By David Veatch
The wife and I have been very busy lately. It’s not yet over, but this past weekend was perhaps the busiest, not to mention heaviest, part of the process. That process is moving. The whole thing started last spring, when we put our two houses on the market. This past spring, a year later almost to the day, her house finally sold and we had the wherewithal to purchase a new house. We packed her house into two POD units and moved them into storage until we had a place to put them. At the same time, we took mine off the market because it hadn’t sold yet, and we didn’t want to take the chance of it selling and us having no place to go. Turns out it wasn’t a concern, because we found the house we wanted to buy within days. We made an offer, they countered, we met in the middle, and two long months later, we took possession. When that day finally arrived, we couldn’t move in immediately because we had too many other family obligations (Jami’s sister graduated with her doctorate! We couldn’t miss that graduation day…). So, exactly one week after we took possession, more »
Back to the Gate
Posted On Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 By David Veatch
So, I started playing
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DiscoverCard.com & Password Length Restrictions
Posted On Thursday, May 5th, 2011 By David Veatch
Wherein I ask DiscoverCard why, of all times now, I can’t use more than 11 characters in my password to access my discovercard account.
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To Be Protecting Against The Malware
Posted On Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 By David Veatch
Last night, my wife called me into the office with an alarming “It says it’s infected with malware!” Needless to say (and yet I’m going to say it anyway) I hurried into the room to see what the hullabaloo was all about. Sure enough, there was a window exclaiming the existence of not one or two, but quite a few malware infections. It fooled her, and damn if that stupid pop-up didn’t nearly fool me too! Truth be told, it did, if only for a second. Those malware serving fake malware pop-up warnings are clever. It got me to thinking. Then Osama bin Laden was shot in the head, and malware peddlers started leveraging our insatiable appetite for news about it (the sick bastards). That got me thinking more. It reminded me of the malware peddlers that took advantage of the quake in Japan recently. Now those are some seriously sick bastards. Those events all in quick succession and all that thinking led me to this. A little ditty that downloads the bind formatted zone file from MalwareDomains.com, moves it to where Named can see it, and reloads Named zone files if the download is complete. I’d verify the file more »
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Gas Mileage TinyApp
Posted On Monday, April 11th, 2011 By David Veatch
If this keeps up, I’m going to have to put together a dedicated page for web projects. I hope it does keep up. I really love doing it… My latest project following the FreeBSD backup script (bash), a host of system admin scripts too small to bear mentioning (bash, tcsh, perl), and the twice-built RAID crash victimized wine database (PHP, Smarty & MySQL) (in addition to the many projects no longer online), is a gas mileage tracker. It’s also written in PHP, delivered through Smarty, and backed by MySQL, but now with delicious pChart. I originally used GoogleDocs and a GoogleForm to record the data, and I have data going back a few years. That worked well enough and did most of what I wanted it to do, but it didn’t do everything. Now that I have my own server(s) up and running again, I have the luxury of being dissatisfied. What it Didn’t Do Provide meaningful feedback after submitting the form. I want to know what was submitted immediately on the “Form Submission Successful” screen, and if applicable, how it relates to information previously submitted. That’s just good UI feedback that it’s missing. Allow me to maintain and build more »
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