Random connection for the night
May 17, 2008
Drivin’ n Cryin’ are still a band and you can still see their videos on their website or on youtube.
Come with me I’ll show you where the dogwoods bloom, it’s true.
Have you ever seen the blue ridge mountains, boy?
Or the Chattahoochee?
Or the Honeysuckle Blue?
OpenSSL Fiasco
May 15, 2008
Hey folks,
Here’s my unofficial take on the OpenSSL/Debian mess:
If you do not understand the implications of which kind of keys are threatened then create new keys on a known-patched system(Any and All Fedora/RHEL/CentOS systems are known safe) and replace all of your old ones.
Good.
Update: Just in case someone is misunderstanding what I’m saying here. I’m not bad mouthing debian, I’m not saying that fedora is invulnerable to bugs. I am saying that if you’re worried about whether or not the system you’re running can safely generate a new ssh key you should know that to the best knowledge at this time Fedora/Centos/RHEL are known to be safe for generating new keys with sufficient randomness.
That is all.
fedora 9 for me so far
May 15, 2008
Here’s what I’ve seen that’s irked me in f9 thus far:
1. bug in yum which is now fixed upstream keeping yum from doing the right thing about conditionally installed pkgs in groups already being installed (silly). It’ll be in an update in testing tomorrow.
2. PK ignoring my preferences and annoying me about updates that I don’t care about.
3. _something_ makes firefox and liferea stall out for a long time. This may not be a bug - it may actually be my hard drive trying to die on me.
Things I’m quite happy with:
1. usb persistence may actually save my butt
2. pybackpack works still. (If you think this is not a big deal please see #3 in the above list)
3. We’re seeing some pretty phenomenal numbers of downloads and a lot of overall excitement about this release.
That’s what I have, thus far.
good rule
May 15, 2008
If you fail to make even the slightest effort to save gas, you are not allowed to complain about gas prices, no matter how high they get.
From here.
If you’re looking for an rpm of preupgrade wit Fedora 9 as an upgrade target then look no further than here:
Enjoy.
Overheard in a bar
May 12, 2008
Customer: Do you have PBR?
Bartender: No, but if you’d like I can piss in a glass of water and sell you that for $4.
weekend update
May 12, 2008
Drove to my parents’ house on friday. Reassembled bikes (a beater for the little brother(logan) for college next year and my bike). Went out to dinner. Came home, worked on logan’s road bike to fix the brake and marvel at the oddness of the downtube cable routing (apparently there is a method to the madness but it sure seems hooky to me). Loaded bikes in car. Crashed.
Got up at a ridiculous time of the day, showered, got in car, drove to dorey park.
Checked in for 50 miles of the cap-to-cap ride - from Richmond to Jamestown. It’s a full century from richmond to jamestown and back, but I only rode half of it. Rode the first 25 w/o any problems at all. Comfortable, wet outside but not slick and not actively raining. Parted ways with my brother so he could do the next 75 and I could do the return 25. Started really feeling it at about mile 42 or so. Finished out the rest of the 50, had some oranges that tasted much better than they should have back where we started from. It was a lot of fun and it was also funny to me seeing some of the bikes. I was the only one there that I saw with fenders. The fenders were great considering how wet things were. They kept a lot of mud/water off of my legs.
Came home. Crashed into a nap. Had some dinner, stretched a bit, but generally felt really good.
The disk on my laptop half-way crashed. I was able to get around the problem using a bit of sneakiness which may or may not end up lasting. I need to start thinking about a replacement for it sooner than later, I think. I’m debating one of the dell outlet 420 or 430 latitudes at this point. Worried that the keyboard will drive me nutty, though.
Got up on sunday, showed Logan a few things about maintaining his bike and we cleaned his gears/chain and cleaned up his bike in general.
Dinner at my grandparent’s house for mother’s day full of good things: Kale, butterbeans, sweet potatoes, yeast rolls, potato salad, deviled eggs. A very nice meal.
That was the long and short of my weekend.
greenindex
May 9, 2008
taking a look at tim’s blog. I took the survey. My greenindex comes out to be 66.
Why Librarians rock
May 9, 2008
In case it was unclear: this is why librarians rock:
This goes out to Heather and Molly and Thelma (a librarian friend of old):
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/internet-archiv.html
and of course:
industrial retooling
May 7, 2008
As I think about the need to come up with other plans for US transportation infrastructure to get us away from cars, I immediately think of pushing better rail infrastructure. With that in mind, what would be the complexities with getting the automotive industry to begin retooling their production lines and retraining their workers to produce train engines/train cars/etc? It seems like the skill set to construct a large metal box with many living-room-like accoutrement internally would be similar between automobile manufacturing and rail-car manufacturing. Additionally, in order to provide a large-scale rail infrastructure the US would require a simple MASSIVE number of engines and rail-cars in the next decade.
I’m sure there are difficult things with this idea, but it makes sense, conceptually, at least, to me.
