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Life’s difficult choices

10:04  geez
10:04  parking's a bitch
10:04  every morning
10:04  I arrive at work
10:04  and I turn into the parking lot
10:04  and I'm like
10:04  shit
10:05  between which of these Audis do I want to park my Audi today?
10:05  I swear, there are so many rings on that lot it's like Sauron held
                 a convention for Nazgul and the dwarves and elves crashed the party
10:06  annnnyway
10:06  meeting
10:07  * EvilDES &

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”?”