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Building Subversion 1.85
(2014-01-16) Problem I want to run Subversion v1.85, client and server, on CentOS 5 (today's vict...
A Pox On Your Freedom
(2011-12-04) Jonathan Zittrain explains that the personal computer is dead because our computing ...
Label Maker
(2014-ish) What has been my best moment in IT? There have been several moments -- how about the o...
Too Clever For My Own Good
(2018 sometime) 15 years ago, I accidentally ran a complicated shell command that muffed a couple...
Unclean
Why the fuck do PC guys think that they can "clean" infected PCs? I'm old-school unix -- if there...
Why Do Blackberry Apps Suck So Much?
(21 September 2011) The Problem The problem with the Blackberry App (or AppStore App (or whatever...
Why Build From Source?
Question: Why would anyone in their right mind build and install software from source code? (orig...
When Tools Just Work
(12 January 2007) This is just a little story illustrating what happens when you use the best too...
User Environment Churn
or, It Will Happen To You Too, Kid (15 November 2011) I had to laugh the other week. Some Ubuntu ...
The Tennents Of Buellerism
Get along with everyone. Strive to be welcomed by all: the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bl...
The War On Email
(11 January 2012) There seems to be an almost-declared war on email going these days. I have read...
Superstitions
(2013-08-15) 11:03:49 < xdroop> I just pulled another private /24 out of my ass for overlapping u...
Seriously, Oracle?
(May 6, 2010) Recent History At one of my customer sites, I have a pile of Sun X2200-M2 systems. ...
Networking 10 Commandments
Thou shalt above all, maintain the integrity of the network. Thou shalt have a long term strateg...
Dave's Tao of Network Documentation
This is a page which includes my thoughts on documenting a live, running network. It will be perp...
Notes About Network Attached Storage
You have multiple places for problems to occur. Performance areas are: how fast can your disks (...
Mixed-Mode Filesystems Still Suck
Problem Doing an rsync to a filer, the user gets gratuitous errors: rsync: mkstemp "$LONGPATH/$FI...
Mixed-Mode Filesystems Suck
Problem Mixed-mode file systems suck. You'll have to be a bit more specific. Someone applied a CI...
Know who you are paging
(5 October 2011) So a long time ago, the company I worked for at the time decided that the head o...
IT Will Be A Utility
(written back in 2005) IT Is A Utility For most companies, IT is just as much a utility as HVAC, ...