April 2011
1 post
“I went. I didn’t have to go. I volunteered. I was after a medal? I wanted...”
– Paris Review - Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich
February 2011
1 post
You know, *that* guy.
artbikes: Why do I always forget Dave Grohl's name?
erunion: is it not Dave Grohl?
artbikes: it is. yet, I always forget it.
December 2010
1 post
How fast geek conversations devolve...
artbikes: I run passenger as a module of nginx
thwarted: but it still spwans a subprocess
thwarted: so more context switches!
artbikes: but nginx is so fast it doesn't matter
artbikes: (heh)
thwarted: it can finish an infinite loop in less than 6 seconds?
artbikes: That's how fast it makes the Kessel Run
November 2010
1 post
August 2010
2 posts
my.cnf
thwarted: ernion: what's your deal with my.cnf?
erunion: mein kampf?
dotEvan: really? that's your objection?
erunion: they couldnt have just named it mysql.conf?
erunion: mysql is the only program that i know of that has a .cnf file, everything else has .conf
thwarted: I think we'd be hard pressed to find any other occurance of that interpretation of my.cnf on the internet
thwarted: so you win the internets
thwarted: it's not myn.cnf... if it was, then I could maybe, possibly see "mein"
dotEvan: this must be some corollary to godwin's law.
Black Is A Stallion: Last Night I Kind of Lost My... →
It’s the late show on a Saturday night in Columbus, Ohio. I’m halfway through my set and I mention Barack Obama. Some scattered boos. Which is normal. Somebody always hates the president, no matter who that president might be. In this case, the president is Obama and I am a fan, so I always ask…
July 2010
1 post
dotEvan: so, you have a two bedroom apartment, and you can't muster up enough energy to get to the kitchen for a drink?
bap: there's stairs between me and the kitchen
dotEvan: booo
bap: actually it's good exercise.
erunion: stairs?
bap: they're like shelves that you walk on to get from one floor to another.
May 2010
2 posts
April 2010
4 posts
“remember, “chmod” is pronounced not with “ch” as in...”
– Twitter / Maggie Nelson: @brandonsavage remember, ” …
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tophmiller:
Straight Talk
Evan: eric — did you kill the route to san jose from the staging servers?
Evan: rsync: failed to connect to web1: No route to host (113)
Evan: (on staging-1)
Eric: i disabled the static route
Eric: which does break rsync
Evan: it can't be routed through the dsl in teh mean time?
Eric: it is
Evan: then why do i get no route to host?
Eric: that doesn't actually mean what it says
VK: LOL
Evan: just like a fucking woman
VK: it's lying
Eric: it means the port's not open
Evan: ah, due to ip restrictions?
Eric: blocked by firewall on web1
