SkyDaemon

if you want to be truly evil... go to the grocery store purchase a massive amount (maybe 10) habenero peppers. wear gloves, cut the peppers in half and smear the inside of the pepper on every doorknob, toilet seat, toothbruth, sex toy, refridgerator handle, contact lens holder/washer, toilet paper, zippers of pants, underpants... pepper spray works as well, but it's more obvious and apparent to the victim. This is a pretty evil thing to do to people, if they aren't aware of what you've done they may end up in the emergency room wondering if they received some vile disease... Almost as evil is to slip a healthy dose of LSD into the soda cans, water filter, dinner, whatever you can.. they'll truly believe they've gone insane, and may well think they've lost their mind, and if they're able may end up in the emergency room... Revenge is a dish best served cold... -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

These guys seem to do pretty well...http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=321729;search_string=cocoa;#321729 Fortunately for me.. I know at least one of them ;-) -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

It's a cool thing, but it does tend to attract undesirable attention while entering Yosemite, parked at the bottom of a bridge, or the base of an antenna... ;-) -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

He'll always be a part of us... "Darts? Sure, I'm game to try something new. Ever played cricket?" Here's to you my friend. -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Right on brother! :-) I think they did migrate back... we could figure this out with a little bit more research... but in the end I don't actually care. ;-) find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

My understanding is that the port to NT was an abysmal failure so they reverted back to FreeBSD... so a little birdy told me... ;-) Like I said, there are a few exceptions, but they're few and far between. You must be one of the good guys :-) So why are you writing windows drivers? -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

If Cochran is dead, we must be ahead If Cochran has died, his ashes will be fried ... This could get ugly... find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

You know... being an MS person is -almost- reason enough for me not want to have anything to do someone. I have a few friends who can step back from their jargon and insulated little closed source GUI prisons, and discuss the concepts of programming, networking, and system administration, but they are few and far between. Sort of like Hotmail runs on FreeBSD... and MacOS is based on FreeBSD... You should get something nerdy on your rig... I identify more with the command line, and those who love it, than those who fall out of airplanes. The pressures, consequences, and successes of system administration seem far more real and important than in skydiving. In skydiving the system is pretty simple versus trying to figure out a problem with a production server at god knows what hour, when you're in the middle of nowhere, trying to fight a security nightmare, from some script kiddie in outer-mongolia... or more likely some obnixous DoS aimed at MS servers... a few firewall rules later and it's all fine... find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

ChrisL, I have most people beat in the geek department... well except for those who are more hard core than me. Those are the people I go to for help... Fortunately they're mostly nice to me (well Poul Henningkamp doesn't like me very much, but Kirk McKusik smiled when I showed him my avatar. He gave me permission to use it. I had it embroidered on my skydiving rig.) Finding geeks who are more hardcore than I, (in the unix world) is pretty difficult. I can't figure out the MS people, everything they say sounds like business babble jargon from the pointy haired boss from Dilbert, or some nutty professor from college who hasn't ever programmed professionally. And besies... they're all inferior for supporting the evil empire! -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Lummy, I've checked out 5.4, but again it's that "supposedly" I know what I'm dealing with in 5.3 so I'll start with that and see how the upgrade goes. You're running on dual opterons as well... ahh the glory of having the FSB issue fixed via a new interconnect scheme. I really admire those guys over at AMD for investing so heavily in this new approach, I think it's a great direction. I've done FreeBSD installed on RAID systems of more than a terabyte... What kind of RAID controller are you using? Mine is a really cool self contained unit that has 4 SCSI channels... It appears to the OS as a single drive. I love it! -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

I am -NOT- going down that path... ;-) Planes are scary, they can crash, things can get caught on exit, the landing areas can get crowded, it's really high up, those complicated two canopy systems have electronic devices, and all sorts of new fangled stuff, I can't figure it all out. :-( I'll stick to simpler solutions... "less is more" right? -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

:-P That was the P166 I was talking about :P I'm running 4.11-Stable for all production servers, although I'm about to try out 5.3 to take advantage of the native 64 mode for my AMD Opterons (muh hahahah) Actually do I nightly cvsups to freebsd.org from one box and then have all the others cvsup from there. Although lately it seems the ports I'm interestedi n are broken... oh well, building from source seems more organic anyways. (although the ports tree is just -too- cool!) A Pentium 75? You win the old computer/nerd contest. Using it for a firewall/router is perfect too. My friend did some benchmarking and found his P166 running FreeBSD could out-route a Cisco 2600. I laughed when I watched it... -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

I'm afraid of heights. find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Until about a month ago, I had a P166 that had been running FreeBSD 4.5 for almost 6 years non-stop. It was a little server that I loved dearly. I'll hand it to those quantum disks... they could just keep going. As well as the P166. It was a cute little system with 64M of EDO RAM in SIMM format. It had a dual speed CD Rom, a 5-1/4" disk, and a 3.5" disk combination drive (pretty fancy eh?). It just kept on humming along though. I finally retired it, and replaced it's functions, but damn it was a great little box. -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Hehe, I love what I do :-) Regexs are my friend ;-) I think it's part of why I like psychology... pattern matching and identification is fun ;-) -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

It's all over the map, and mostly in hacking all sorts of different modules to get along with one another. Although a part of the project that was rather cool and did involve regexs was this apache virtualhost config. This is a pretty cool apache config, when combined with a wildcard DNS entry in BIND specified with: ########BIND Entry################## *.domain.tld. IN A 10.0.0.1 ########BIND Entry################## will accept connections to wildcard subdomains, and parse the correct document root based on the subdomain. Thus if you setup a document root, it's immediately accessible via the web through a tertiary domain. While the following isn't ultra elegant it's pretty darn good. ########Apache Config################ LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon CustomLog "| /usr/local/bin/whw/advxsplitlogfile" vcommon RewriteEngine On RewriteLogLevel 2 ErrorDocument 500 /cgi-bin/error_document.pl ErrorDocument 404 /cgi-bin/error_document.pl ServerName vhost.webhostworks.net RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ RewriteRule ^(.+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1 [C] RewriteRule ^(.*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)/(.*) /home/www/$1\.$2\.$3/$4 [L] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.([^.]*)$ RewriteRule ^(.+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1 [C] RewriteRule ^(.*)\.([^.]*)/(.*) /home/www/$1\.$2/$3 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/cgi-bin/ RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/(.*)$ /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^(.*) %{SERVER_NAME}$1 RewriteRule ^(www|ftp)\.(.*) $2 RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} ^(.*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)$ RewriteRule ^(.*)\.([^.]*)\.([^.]*)/(.*) /home/www/$2\.$3/$1/$4 [L] RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/(.*)$ /home/www/$1/$2 RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/rewrite_log.vhost RewriteLogLevel 9 AllowOverride All Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Includes AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl AddHandler server-parsed .html #######/Apache Config################ This, when combined with a bunch of additional configs to my e-commerce engine, will allow me to create new websites at temporary tertiary URLs almost immediately. Whlie that particularly technology isn't new and extra special, the fact that I can do it with tertiaries makes for an elegant naming convention and UI for customers. The cool perl code comes into play as the underlying e-commerce engine which is abstract and clever enough to adapt to the tertiary convention and then switch over to FQDN when one becomes available (i.e the customer purchases on, or transfers their existing one to our hosting service, or just sticks with the tertiary setup.). It's pretty cool stuff. :-) -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

The geek code! Now that's nice :-) I haven't posted one of those in years. I think I can even read yours... ;-) My workstations are almost all OSes, (including an old version of SunOS (prior to solaris), but most of my time is spent in bash or csh (zsh never was my thing... I'm still an original vi guy too, none of this fru-fru vim stuff.) -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

ChrisL, :-) Here's to you bro! May we meet at the wizards party! -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

That's awesome! Perl makes system administration something that can be accomplished. Doing everything in shell scripts or C got really old, really fast. It's nice to be able to automate so many things with PERL. What did you have to do move everything (cue Mark to talk about rsync) -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

The funny thing is... I've never jumped at Snohomish... in fact I haven't skydived for a long time... -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Painful Excrutiating Retarded Language ;-) -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Randal Schwartz would ;-) -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

I'm the network/system/security -all- admin... but I get to do it on FreeBSD, so by and large it's as good as it gets ;-) What's your worst admin horror story? -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

Are you a system (or network)administrator? -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;

I'm your friend... just remember that :-) I owe you a few drinks anyways... you were a damn good friend to a depressed, and grief stricken programmer at Josh's memorial. -=Raistlin find / -name jumpers -print; cat jumpers $USER > manifest; cd /dev/airplane; more altitude; make jump; cd /pub; more beer;