Of course, as deadlines approach, I start thinking about all
the other stuff I need to update. The Japan Air website,
my
system tuning page (and http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org/
too for that matter).

I don’t really have as much interesting info for the system tuning
stuff anymore though, since I haven’t done tech support
in a long time. There does seem to be some increasingly
common “scaling” questions that come up I should probabaly
write good answers for (increasing available mount points seems
to be coming up a lot these days). Maybe later.

blippy.

Looks like I’m rerewriting large chunks of the up2date code base
again. It probabaly needs it, but still.

From trianglerock.com

Japan Air are from Winston-Salem, and the various samples I just
listened to on the internet veered between a heavy dubby Krautrock
vibe & a more contemporary trip-hop thing. I have
no idea what they look, smell or sound like live, however.

Hmm, interesting.

More progress on the back port. Find a weird little dep solving
bug that should never get triggered in the wild (a weird chroot
install hit it). Fix it anyway.

It’s a great day Go the Japan Air Show dont you
think? It is Friday Go the the Japan Air Show after all.

More deadlines. Yay.

Oh yeah, everyone should go to the Japan Air show at
Humble Pie saturday night.

think I griped and bitched and complained enough that the former
webhoster is going to give me a full refund. Lets see, didnt
meet the 99.9% uptime promise for the year in a little under
three weeks. Lost all the daily backups. Never made a tape
backup. Had a server compromised because the machine
was out of date (probably pisses me off slightly more than
most folks…). No notification of the outage. Whined like
a 5 year old when I asked about the server status. I
think that adds up to a full refund.

Code backport hit a few snags.

Japan Air show on Saturday at Humble Pie. Everyone
should go. All the cool kids are doing it. Theres going
to be balloons and face painting. And cranes. And
all the fruit rollups you can eat before you vomit.

Argh, I cant belive I’ve got to write that content
for the third time.

attempting to move www.japanairband.com to the third web host now.
This is such fun. Currently signed up for a month at three different
web hosters. Playing the field so to speak.

More weird code merges. This time backporting new features to
old code bases. I think I got lucky and was able to move
to an almost up to date code base for the backport. So at least
it’s not weird chunks of new code kluged into the old ugly
code base.

grumble. The webhosters are still being
dumbasses. Awesome.

And I need to find a new apartment and move. In
the next three months or so. Kind of tired
of apartment complexes, and dont really want to
go though the hassle of a condo/townhouse/house.

Somewhere relatively close to NCSU would be
preferred, but far enough away to be away from
students ;-> Any one know of a cool place to
live?

ARGGGH.

In two months time, I’ve had two different servers I was using to web
host die on me, and lose weeks of work and site updates.

First a drive on www.gimp.org died, taking 2 months worth
of updates with it (www.japanairband.com was vhosted on
that box).

So then I decide to move to a commercial web provider.
(www.alwayswebhosting.com if you want to know who
to avoid).

Un fucking beliveable. Apparently the
guys running the site were complete fucking morons,
and the box got compromised. And the last good backup
was a month ago aka, before I moved the site there.
Un fucking beliveable. So, basically, all those
changes I made in the last month are gone. The
daily backups arent available because the server
was compromised and the colo want allow
the box to be brought backup (which is
relatively sane, but still… mount the disk
read-only on an admin box somewhere and let
me try to rescue my content off of it)

So, basically, expect the site to be
down for a week or so, as I move to different
providers, and wait for DNS to propagate again.
The fucking morons running the site were running
a known exploitable printer server on that machine.
Why the fuck they were running a print server on
a fucking dedicated webhosting box I have no idea.
And to make it even more annoying, if they had
just used the damn software I work on every
fucking day to keep the box up to date, it wouldnt
of happened.

And of course, I’m a huge fucking moron
and didnt have local backups of the updated
content and web apps. Not to mention not
thinking about checking to see if they
were complete fucking retards and were running
LPR with a fucking year old known exploit.

I cant belive I’m going to have to go and recreate
that fucking mess again. Argh.

List of open source debuggers, decompilers,
executable viewers, etc

I have fairly limited understanding of binary formats and the like, but find
the concept of tools to aid reverse engineering fascinating. Tools to
do it well have to do several interesting things, not the least of which
is presenting a huge amount of information in a useful and meaningful
fashion. There is also a certain amount of “magic” in creating something
from nothing (in these cases, source code from bins, or creating symbol
tables from stripped binaries, etc).

I’ve been using a new hosting provider for all of about three weeks now,
and they have already been down for most of today. So much for
4 9’s. Awesome.

Started reading “Neverwhere” last night. Suppose I need to finish
it tonight, otherwise I’ll lose interest and never finish it. First
Neil Gaiman I’ve read, but after having approximately everyone
I know suggest I read something of his, I finally caved.

Got to go up to Viginia to help my sister move this weekend.
If history repeats itself it will be 90-100F outside like the last
5 or 6 times. Should be um, fun.