August 2006 Archives

You've all probably read this by now, but if not, take a look at this. Hannum, one of the original founders of NetBSD, has basically denounced the project as it currently stands. NetBSD hasn't seen this much drama since they kicked out Theo.

My take on it is this: NetBSD reminds me of like the antisocial stepchild of the BSD family. They were so nice, popular, and peppy in the beginning, but then their siblings started dominating for attention. After a while of being mostly ignored, they started wearing all black, shaving off their eyebrows, talking about being non-conformists, and now they just kind of sit in the corner, quiet and abused, cutting themselves. :(

R.I.P., NetBSD.

For what it's worth, I hope they get their shit together. Hannum had some very good points, although I'll admit I've never paid that close attention to the politics of the NetBSD Project/Foundation. Come on, NetBSD. I would hate to see you die. What OS would my toaster run without you?

I want to redesign freebsdgirl.com (again). I liked the old pink design better. I'm going to start working on new WP templates tonight, or I may switch to movable type and work on templates for it, instead. If anyone is interested in helping me out in return for a blurb/link on the main page, let me know. randi@.

It's here.

Thank you for the birthday present. ;)

In response to two emails, several strange looks, and three people flat out asking me if I'm the FreeBSDGirl - yes, I was at FlightPath and Epoch last night, sitting with dez from swicked.net. It was me, I was the crazy looking redhead in the weird black skirt cursing at her macbook pro as she got her ass kicked by spiders in WoW. Fuck you, spiders.

Before, you may remember me bitching about the blatant sexist views displayed on the EuroBSDCon webpage. A correction has been posted.

One of my coworkers pointed out this snippet of code from ns4xPlugin.cpp in the firefox source tree. I got a kick out of it. The comments crack me up.

#ifdef BROKEN_PLUGIN_HACK
// The broken plugin has wrapped NPN callback function pointers in PPC
// TVector glue as though they were pointers to CFM TVectors. When the
// x86 attempts to execute the PPC glue, it will of course fail.
//
// What's done here is a bit unorthodox. I'm going to locate the
// TVector glue that the plugin created from ns4xPlugin::CALLBACKS by
// peeking into its symbol table, then I'm going to dissect the PPC
// machine code to get the target addresses and produce x86 machine code.
// The x86 code overwrites the PPC code in the plugin's jump table.
// The replacement code is of course executable. I know I can do this,
// because the broken plugin builds its table of TVector glue based on
// what the sample NPAPI plugin does.
//
// Watch this.

What the fuck is wrong with these people and who the fuck gave them a keyboard?

how areu doing.tel lmem ore about you.pls answer me.what udo. if ulike to hang out or go some other place tell me.

You are FIRED from the Internet.

You would think that the act of breathing would use all 3 braincells that he has left. It's sweet to think that he held his breath so he could send me that email. Good Job.

Normally I wouldn't post emails here, regardless of how bad they are. However, I seriously doubt he'll ever find my site as that would require at least 4 brain cells.

If you're going to email me, you need to understand that there are a few things that are immediate red flags.

• Lack of Spell Check. I will not bother trying to parse through an email that has a typo every 4 words. If you're not willing to spend the time backspacing or learning to type properly, then I'm not going to bother finishing reading your email.
• AOLisms. This goes hand in hand with spellcheck. If you say 'u', 'lol', '2' (as a word, not a number), or 'rofl', I will not respond. This isn't some third world country where you're having to pay per MB. Put in the extra letters. Thanks.
• Naked pictures. I do not want to see your penis. I do not want to see your ex girlfriend naked. I don't want to see any genitals at all. What the hell kind of girl are you trying to attract? Get clue.
• Too Much Information. I don't need to know about your sexual experiences (or lack thereof) when we haven't even gotten to the "hey, here's my AIM name" part of an introduction. Why not just paint EMOTIONAL FUCKTARD on your forehead and go stand in traffic.
• No information. "Hey, you're cute." may work on some chick in your local frat bar, but I require something other than large quantities of alcohol to find you interesting. Strike up a conversation, but don't expect me to do all the effort if you're the one emailing me in the first place.
• Your/You're/To/Too/Two. If you need an explanation, fucking kill yourself.

I realize that I sound like a bitch right now, but if y'all even saw what my inbox looks like, you'd understand my frustration. I'm not nearly this uptight if I'm meeting someone randomly in real life. It's just meeting people on the internet that pisses me off. I have higher standards from internet people. Yes. I know that's all sorts of fucked up and backwards.

I met Irvine Welsh tonight. He is a sexy beast, even if he is old enough to be my dad.

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
fault virtual address = 0x58
fault code = supervisor write, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc06ee9fd
stack pointer = 0x28:0xe8ef5b18
frame pointer = 0x28:0xe8ef5b34
code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process = 9982 (rtorrent)
trap number = 12
panic: page fault
cpuid = 0
Uptime: 2d6h21m31s

I'm getting that anytime rtorrent's been pushing really hard for a while. I know why though. I've 'optimized' rtorrent to go really fuqn fast - but made the machine extremely unstable in the process. Go rtorrent. Go me!

My .rtorrent.rc:

max_peers = 150
min_peers = 40
max_uploads = 5
upload_rate = 200
check_hash = no
directory = /exports/hd4/torrent
session = /exports/hd4/torrent/.cache/
hash_read_ahead = 8
hash_interval = 10
hash_max_tries = 1
max_open_files = 2048
max_open_sockets = 2048
use_udp_trackers = yes
schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=/exports/hd4/torrent/watch/*.torrent
schedule = untied_directory,5,5,stop_untied=
schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=100M

Just saw it. It didn't suck.

The people at macslash are clearly idiots.

Lolercoaster.

I started my new job yesterday. Operations Engineer - which really doesn't say much about what I do. I'm not even entirely certain what I do yet, but I'm sure I'll figure it out as the week progresses. We're not a BSD shop, so I spent most of my day watching things compile on Gentoo. Yes, I know. Gentoo is for ricers.

We celebrated the end of my first day with a trip to Benihanas for sushi. I've got to say, I'm not too impressed with their sushi bar. The edamame wasn't cooked for long enough. Even so, I hadn't had sushi in almost a year, so I still enjoyed myself. :)

Nathan's 5th birthday is tomorrow, but I'll be here in Austin. I miss my kiddo. I'll be flying back to Atlanta the second week of September, so I'll be able to successfully avoid any attempts to spring a birthday party on me on Friday night. Screw birthdays. We all remember how Mike screwed up last year. They are best avoided.

I am getting at least one present that I know of. Someone that wishes to remain anonymous (probably so he doesn't get tormented by his internet friends) bought me an OhMiBod. It should be here soon. Oh, and I'm supposedly considered media now - OhMiBod put me on their media coverage page. Go me!

In other news, Juniper fucked up. SEC doesn't fuck around.

Dru Lavigne made an interesting blog post entitled Why Certification Exams Suck: Introduction. If you haven't kept up with the current state of certifications in the BSD community, it's a must-read.

Is anyone having problems accessing parts of the site, such as categories and posts by date? I'm getting some reports of some funky stuff on IRC, and I'm wondering if analytics isn't causing problems.

Report issues here.

No more hugs.

Those bitches dropped tart. The motherboard is unseated, both of the video cards now have bent brackets. Even if everything appears ok, I can't trust the integrity of those hard drives now. 800G of hard drives in that fucking box. I had it securely packed in it's original packing material, as well. I had to disassemble the entire rig, and I hate hardware. I just broke a fucking nail putting a bracket in place. Luckily, I paid for insurance. Those fuckers are going to pay.

So, fuck you Fedex for dropping my box. Fuck you, Antec, for making me break a nail. Fuck you, airlines, for being so notoriously rough on checked baggage that I couldn't take my computer with me then. Fuck you, Greg, for not screwing my power supply in completely when you originally put my computer together (but thank you for the pretty RAM). Fuck you, Hard Drive companies, for being so goddamn expensive that I'll have to spend such a large chunk of the insurance buying replacement drives.

I fucking hate hardware.

I think I just scared our local Fedex dude by hugging him. I couldn't control myself. He brought me my tart! I missed tart. <3 <3 <3

I can't figure out why (or even how I managed to fix it), but sometimes my / key stops working in iTerm. It works in other applications - just not iTerm. Weird. Anyone else having this problem?

I'll be at ALUG tonight; HCoyote is bringing me. I've heard it's a small group. Show up if you're local.

I understand that my posts lately are following a bit of a theme. I don't have a boyfriend anymore. Give me a break.

To the guys that I have been talking to from Craigslist,

Stop freaking me out.

I've seen a few guys so far. This post applies to almost all of them. They seem nice enough, but everyone keeps making the same mistakes.

I try to explain that I'm a shy girl. I'm made nervous easily. I'm not very forward. I'm actually somewhat old-fashioned, as it turns out. Who would have guessed?

I'm not looking for a boyfriend. Flirting weirds me out, especially if I've only met you once - or even worse, haven't met you yet at all. I just got out of a really bad relationship, the last thing I want to do is hop into another one. I'm looking for people to chill with. All the people I've hung out with so far have seemed pretty ok. Maybe eventually it will go somewhere. Maybe it won't.

BUT STOP FLIRTING WITH ME. IT'S REALLY FUCKING WITH MY HEAD.

I realize that if you're one of the guys I've been talking to, then this may seem a bit harsh. Not all of this may be targeted at you. I still like you; I still want to talk to you. But only if you stop making me feel so uncomfortable. We don't have a history together, and a false sense of security can't be created by rushing into something.

I'm not going to sleep with you. I barely know you. I feel squeamish even holding hands with someone I barely know. Do not call me "hot" - that's just strange. Don't tell me about your sexual history. We've got time, you don't have to tell me about how many girlfriends you've had or what you haven't explored yet or how long it's been since you last had sex. Do not touch my boob. Even if you're trying to pretend it was an accident, we both know better. NONE of this is appropriate. What is WRONG with you people? Did I warp into some other reality when I hopped the plane into Austin, somehow landing on planet What the Fuck?

Thanks in advance,

Randi

P.S. - I blame Colin.

OhMiBod ftw.

Go to this website and vote for Chuck Norris. From what I understand, the Hungarian government is taking votes online for what to name their new bridge. At the time that I am writing this, Chuck Norris is in second place with 12% of the vote. First place has 14%.