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I’ve been running an NTP server on this host for quite some time now. But as of yesterday, I’m a member of the pool.ntp.org group. pool.ntp.org is a round-robin-ish DNS service where requests for pool.ntp.org are given IPs from a huge block of listed nameservers, balancing the load across a pool of about 1,500 NTP [...]
John Edwards has dropped out, leaving the Democratic race between Obama and Hillary. The news from today that really shocks me, though, is that Giuliani: Dropped out of the race, and Endorsed McCain (!) Giuliani scared me the most, but I think McCain is the one Republican that stands a chance of winning in 2008, [...]
This is pretty funny. I can’t really fault them for their speech recognition not recognizing Perl scripts all that well, though (although this isn’t the first time it’s happened.).
In: Cool Links|Obama|Politics
28 Jan 2008The XKCD guy just came out in support of Obama. Why should we listen to a guy who writes funny geek comics? Well, because he’s right, and because he says it particularly well.
In: Interesting|Obama|Politics
28 Jan 2008Tonight is the State of the Union address. As an aside, if I’m ever President, I think I’m going to direct those familiar with the speech to keep mum. I know that the State of the Union isn’t exactly the place for suspense and drama, but it’s kind of upsetting, in some way, to know [...]
In: Computers|Cool Links|Linux Tips|Living|OCD|Performance|Programming|Rants & Raves
27 Jan 2008I’ve redone ttwagner.com. It’s no longer a random integer between 0 and 255, but instead, a decent-looking site. I’ve integrated some of the cool things I’m hosting there as well. I came across a few interesting things I wanted to point out. The world DNS page is incredibly intensive, and, since it’s not dynamic, there’s [...]
Gnome (the desktop environment, not the creepy garden fixtures) has a “Trash Folder,” which is the functional equivalent of the Windows Recycle Bin. This is slightly problematic for those of us who are used to file “deletion” on Linux instantly unlinking the file, who don’t expect that the files are being moved somewhere. Especially as [...]
In the hopes of helping someone else… Ubuntu has two options for a plugin for Firefox to play Flash. There’s the open-source Gnash and “the real thing” from Adobe. Of course what Adobe provides is closed-source, so there seems to be a tendency to push Gnash. But having used Gnash, it’s awful. I give them [...]
An awesome comment on Ask MetaFilter gives some incredibly well-worded advice: The camera matters not a whit. The lens matters quite a bit. The flash matters most in the kit… …if you expect your models to be well-lit. Of course, I have a good camera and a pretty good lens, but just the on-camera flash. [...]
In the local newspaper that mysteriously appeared on our kitchen counter, there are two letters to the editor in a row. (Actually, the second reads more like an article and has no name signed, but is under the “Letters to the Editor” section.) The first starts off, “Granite Staters have always been among the first [...]