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golden slumbers

i wrote this entry this morning, but blogger was a bit ‘blogged up, so to speak… woah… i haven’t written here in weeks, but not for lack of things to write. rather, it was lack of time to write them down, especially as they stack up… well, here’s a start, at least. random...

marvel hill

in my last post i mentioned that my class had been moved due to a fire on the campus. well, now i have proof. the first picture is a great shot of toasted computers. hope they had good insurance! freebsd 4.5 has been released. i just finished a mini-install and locked it down a bit—it’s so refreshing...

terra firma

this book, hacker’s challenge, looks like the perfect read—informative and interesting. amazon even calls it encylopedia brown for network security admins. these headaches are driving me crazy. and when they’re not driving me crazy, the drugs are. i’m especially enjoying the...

the rolling people

so i’m finally getting down to putting this whole website thing together, at least in a reasonable, publishable albeit temporary form. my problem is self-criticism—i’m too picky to let myself publish a site that doesn’t look perfect from the start. but i’ve been learning to supress...

par for the course

here’s a little hint: if during your installation of freebsd 4.0, it freezes during a package install—don’t press CTRL-C unless you really, really wanted to start the whole process over again. i finally opened up the cheapie compaq presario 7594 that i bought to be an apache web server. i...

slide

it’s wednesday night, going into thursday morning now, and i didn’t get to go to prison tonight… i couldn’t escape from work in time. (in case you didn’t know, i visit the state prison in nearby windham every wednesday night—don’t worry, they usually let me out.) also,...

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