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Shoot It In The Head!

Adam Stovicek — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:15:37 +0000

From the dmsetup changelog, Scott James Remnant adds the following:

Version 2.02.54-1ubuntu4:

* Some idiot thought it’d be a good idea if device mapper didn’t respond
to “add” events, like those during boot. Take their change out back
and shoot it in the head. LP: #561390.

Tell it like it is, Scott.

LICD: Lo Tho I Walk Through The Silicon Valley

Adam Stovicek — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:46:31 +0000

Least I Could Do made me laugh. It reminded me about how much of a cult-following Steve Jobs has been able to create through Apple and its line of gotta-have-devices. People will be clamoring for the iPad when it officially releases on April 3, much like the past iPhones.

I was then reminded about how we’re all fanboys (or fangirls if applicable) of our respective interests. As an emphatic Ubuntu user, I take strides to go above and beyond most others. I manage RebelZero.com, ultimately to promote Linux as a whole but mostly for Ubuntu. I remove the Windows case badges on my laptops and replace them with “Powered by Ubuntu” badges. I don’t shy away from talking about Ubuntu or my decisions for choosing it as my operating system. I try to take part in testing new distributions by installing pre-release versions in order to hunt down problems.

So when I take all of that into account, I guess I can’t laugh at the Apple fans for herding to the stores on release day. But I can still laugh when others poke fun at the stereotype.

openDNS: Use Exit, Moron!

Adam Stovicek — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:41:42 +0000

It’s hard for me to keep track of whether “quit” or “exit” is used to actually stop using a particular command line application. While using nslookup to check on IPs for someone, I used “quit”. The response was rather interesting.

adam@obsidian:~$ nslookup
> quit
Server: 208.67.220.220
Address: 208.67.220.220#53

Non-authoritative answer:
quit.neo.rr.com canonical name = use-exit-moron.neo.rr.com.
Name: use-exit-moron.neo.rr.com
Address: 208.67.217.132
>

My apologies to openDNS. I’ll try to remember to use “exit” from now on.

xkcd #627: Tech Support Cheat Sheet

Adam Stovicek — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:43:11 +0000

Source: xkcd #627 – Tech Support Cheat Sheet

This was a great way to end an evening spent in Ubuntu’s support chat room helping a user with trying to get rid of a persistent proxy setting which was preventing him from upgrading his installed packages.