Author: Dag-Erling Smørgrav

VirtualFix

It seems that over the last few months, SunOracle have finally fixed some of the most annoying bugs in VirtualBox:

  • Stale DNS info: fixed in 3.2.2, which was released a few days ago.
  • Keyboard: fixed, but I don’t know when. I just suddenly realized I hadn’t encountered that bug in a long time. Possibly related to this bug, which was fixed in 3.1.8.
  • Clock: fixed; not sure when, but probably in 3.1.4. There is a changelog entry that sounds about right, but no ticket.

Is “baidu” Japanese for “WTF”?

Several months ago, I virtualized most of the services running on tim.des.no, so www.des.no now runs in a jail and has its own IP.

This morning, I discovered that I had forgotten to stop the Varnish instance that ran on tim.des.no, and that it was still getting traffic. I looked at the logs, and most of it was what you’d expect (attack bots looking for known vulnerabilities in various web servers or apps which I don’t run), but I certainly did not expect this: Continue reading “Is “baidu” Japanese for “WTF”?”

En helt alminnelig dag i Bergen

Dagbladet er opptatt av at Google Street View-bilene kjører på rådyr og fotograferer kløften til passerende kvinner. Her er en litt mer positiv Google Street View-opplevelse:

  1. Finn fram til Markeveien 4C i Bergen på Google Maps.
  2. Klikk «more» og velg Street View.
  3. Vend deg mot øst (i retning Torgallmenningen).
  4. Juster kameravinkelen slik at du ser mot den gule bygning merket «Suitell Ole Bull».
  5. Klikk deg videre mot Torgallmenningen, og følg med på den lille hverdagshistorien som utfolder seg på fortauet foran 4B og 4A. Du vil etterhvert måtte snu kameraet til siden og bakover for å få med deg hele handlingen.