June 2008
110 posts
“national sacrifice zone”
May 2008
157 posts
Puppet not working?
So, I was trying to setup Puppet on two debian virtual machines running in VirtualBox the other day, and I kept getting the following error message while trying to verify the installation:
Certificates were not trusted: hostname was not match with the server certificate
Are you having this problem, and you’re sure it has nothing to do with this Ruby SSL patch? This is very silly, but...
I find it real bothersome that categorically refusing to dialogue with people we don’t like is a credible, mainstream foreign policy tenet.
Ugh x 1000. Sites asking people for passwords to other sites is a terrible idea! You’re undoing years of educating my phishing-prone father.
The browser based collaborative source code editor →
Actually, I’d use it more like a better paste-bin kind of website. (I really dig the ajax auto-save.)
“It’s not easy to work with Gypsies… . They have no structure in their...”
– Drawn to Gypsies: The New Yorker
I don’t know about you, but when I think about Kim Cattrall I’m only reminded of her role in Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country.
Dangerous Ground Project →
Cool concept, for a good cause (anti-landmines!). Pop-up flash window.
The shortest way out of Manchester is a bottle of Gordon’s gin.
“Both Gates and Ballmer remained almost pathologically unable to utter the...”
– Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Gates and Ballmer at D: Lament for lost youth
When I tried my stab at interviewing at MS, my recruiter practically sneered when the guy in front of me told him he was still waiting on his results from his interview at Google, then proceeded to...
Oh wow. I can’t even use websites without feeds anymore. What, you actually want me to check back from time to time? http://www.x.se/j6x
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine →
Watcheveryday on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
I consider myself to be pretty up to date on these memes as they say, but this guy was totally the rage a couple years back. The simpsons even did a parody (it’s so weird to me that TV often reacts to the internet nowadays).
Anyways, I think it’s pretty spectacular. I love watching the background change, and his immutable expression, and how his hair...
thicken, you son of a bitch sauce.
Cooking: I can start to see how people appreciate making things other than sandwiches.
Today I did something I haven’t done ever since I became single: I bought pasta.
Watch“Reflow is the process by which the geometry of the layout engine’s formatting objects are computed.” (via)
“It’s easier to port a million lines of Fortran to a
GPU than to get an Emacs...”
– The seemingly inimitable Greg Wilson, hpc-considered-harmful . Based on solely on the press this guy keeps getting from the Stalwarts of Industry that link to him, and my own superficial research into just what he’s up to, he’s quickly becoming a very good role model for the ideal...
“If such a planet actually existed in our current scientific cosmology, as a...”
– Counter-Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh my, that cat’s been doing a lot of throwing up while I was away.
Crappy part about biking in the city: getting door’ed sounds so damn unpleasant.
You know, it occurs to me that, conceptually, your debugging environment ought to be indistinguishable from your development environment.
Line forms spontaneously at NYC Apple Store →
I totally agree, the Onion just writes itself nowadays.
I want to hurt whoever decided that search windows should be modal. It’s the editor equivalent of a paper cut, and it’s annoying as hell.
Forgive us our WTFs as we forgive those upstream who sin against us. Save us from our debuggers and deliver us from NullPointerExceptions.
My kingdom for a ‘change perspective’ keyboard shortcut in eclipse. I’d settle for a button on the toolbar, though.
Added Google Reader to my hosts file, ‘cos, well, I need to accomplish things already. http://tinyurl.com/6c7u7q
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo... →
I need to get business cards, if only ‘cause I’m tired of spelling my last name to everyone. It would totally save me 5 minutes everyday.