More Christmas gift ideas for those of you with mushy heads: Skulls Unlimited!

Looking at the management interfaces on some of the Switches at the Client site today I saw an interface that was reporting errors. I needed to know who the manufacturer was for the Mac Address that was being reported. I found a Vendor Code Table on the net that might prove useful to some of us.

Finally someone has invented food for people like me.

Sorry for the downtime, folks — yesterday I rebuilt the box that serves unxmaal.com, and this morning I put php+mysql support back into apache. Mailservice is still on its way back, so hold off on the “we missed you, unx” and “how’s atlanta, unx?” and “let’s spawn monkeys, unx” emails for now. This is the first time in over 368 days this server has been rebooted, so whining will only conjure the bofh.

We now return to your regularly scheduled mindbending; have a nice day!

Freaktasticular Optasmal Illusionary. Your mother said doing certain things would make you go blind. I figured ONE of those things would get me sooner or later. But this just destroyed my optic nerves.

Freaktasticular Optasmal Illusionary is now (c) ClusterSnarf — cause I made it up 😉

Yay! I made it to Atlanta, and have mostly settled in, although I can’t find my microwave.

Email and posts will be spotty for the next few days. The whole apartment complex gets its cablemodem service through Charter Cable. “Charter” is a Latin word that means “festering goat feces.”

Ryder Truck Rental Services sucks, too. Not in a mild, breezy way, but in a chaotic vortex of doom way. It was ok that the truck was filthy, late, and the wrong size. It was ok that it was missing a mudflap and the reverse-beepy-thing. It was, however, not ok that the truck was overdue for maintenance, or that the truck’s tires were so worn that it constantly vibrated and veered left.

And thus ended my employment for NASA: not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with the shuffling of paperwork, and the clicking of lacquered nails against a keyboard.

It is sad, in a way. I will miss the great group of people I worked with. However, I’m really looking forward to Atlanta, and to working at Sprint.

Great news for those of us (me) who have been holding off buying an AMD Athlon-based system until the platform was dual processor-capable: it seems VA Linux yesterday demoed a machine with dual 900MHz Athlons using the new Palomino core at the ceBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany. More information at tecChannel.de… Babelfish seems to choke on this URL, but it does an OK translation if you paste the text.

I’m glad we have scientists working diligently to make amazing new discoveries for the betterment of humanity.

My question: where would they find bondage gear for insects?

Since all I got Kevin for his birthday was a shoddy Wal-Mart cake, I could probably make it up to him with a tubful of medicinal leeches.