Orddeling

«Er det så farlig, da?»

I går så jeg et perfekt (det vil si ikke oppkonstruert) eksempel på at det er så farlig: jeg kjørte forbi et vogntog som fraktet et par enorme stålbjelker. Bak vogntoget var det en følgebil med blinkenlights og et skilt der det stod «LANG TRANSPORT».

Helt riktig. Det var en lang transport (selv om det kanskje strengt tatt skulle stått «langt vogntog»). Og det er noe helt annet enn langtransport.

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”?”