I run pacman -Syu about once a week on my Arch Linux
machines, to stay up-to-date,
avoid security problems and generally stay at the bleeding edge
of software revisions.
Today, I ran pacman -Syu on my Dell R530 server
and it updated the PPP package.
Trouble ensued.
I used to try to do one dumb/weird hardware thing every year. One year, I used a Palm Pilot as a serial terminal for a Sun SPARCStation-10. Multiple serial cable adapters and gender changers involved.
My dumb hardware stunt for October 2024: 10 USB WiFi adapters on the same laptop.
I bought a TP-Link powerline ethernet starter kit.
I’ve used Internet Software Consortium’s dhcpd for a while.
When I was setting up my new server
I found out that dhcpd was past end-of-life.
ISC wanted me to use kea instead.
John Levine, one of the OG Morlocks of the internet, notes that he has the world’s lamest content farm.
Adriana Porter Felt is a Director of Engineering at Google. She knows what she’s talking about.
Google notified me that 1,000 cellphones have viewed my review of a parking lot!
I have a grudge against spammers, SEO, and similar low-lifes. When and where I run Internet-facing web servers, I send “SEO search engines” down an infinite rabbit hole of web pages and images.
I keep noticing articles or posts with titles like “N lessons from Napoleon on X”, where N is usually 10, and X has values of “productivity”, “life”, “career”, “management”, vague things like that.
I was so inspired by seeing these valuable lessons, that I wrote Career and life lessons from meatloaf as an homage.
Here’s 10 “Lessons from Napoleon” posts to prove that taking lessons from meatloaf isn’t all that odd.
