Category Archives: Administrative

Blogging Break

Or at least big slowdown. If anyone is wondering why I’m not in the fray this weekend (or moderating comments), Patricia and I are having a romantic Valentine’s weekend in Colorado. Continuing to renovate the house. Today we finished painting, tomorrow is flooring day.

From 28,000 Feet

I’m blogging. American has wireless, at last, at last. Now I’ll never get away…

In the airport book store, I saw an intriguing title: “Five Secrets To Discover Before You Die.”

So, what happens if you don’t discover them allby then? You die?

That sucks. I guess. But how is it worse than not discovering them?

How about if you get the fifth one just a few minutes before you die? What do you win?

Brief Vacation

Light blogging due to a weekend trip to the Central Coast. We stayed in Cambria last night, then back to LA later. And Monday, we’ll have a better idea of what the new space policy is, though I suspect that many questions will remain.

NMB Problem

Samba seems to be broken on my server, and I can’t figure out what’s wrong. But at a minimum, this is:

# nmblookup -B 192.168.0.100 _SAMBA_
querying _SAMBA_ on 192.168.0.100
name_query failed to find name _SAMBA_
#

The only things I can find on line are that it means that nmbd isn’t running. But:

# ps -e | grep nmbd
8176 ? 00:00:00 nmbd
#

Does anyone have any ideas for how to troubleshoot this? Everything I find on line is distinctly unhelpful.

Yeah, I Know

Posting is light because I’m both busy and have a head cold, which makes it hard to think seriously about anything (and spare me the “how can you tell the difference?” joke attempts).

This is the second day, and I hope I’ll be on the mend tomorrow.

Yo, Comments Spammers

If you’re going to try to slip through a generic comments post saying that “I never expected to see this on a Friday night,” or “Wednesday,” it would behoove you to actually post it at the time that you didn’t expect to see it. Not that the very premise isn’t stupid.

I mean, what does the day (or night) of the week have to to with the contents of the post?

Idiots.

Thankfully, it makes filtering the morons easier.

Almost Home

I’ve been driving all day, but am taking a break for the final leg. We’re climbing up the Cajon Pass from Victorville, and are on the home stretch. And I’m using my new Verizon AirCard, which works great here, but there was no signal in the outback of Utah.