Sean’s Obsessions

After watching the Waffle Truth I wanted to try Alton Brown’s Waffle recipe. Previously I’ve been using the one from the Joy of Cooking which is excellent, but having to use cake flour, sift it, and separate the eggs makes waffle making a pain.
AB’s recipe calls for a mix of all purpose and whole [...]

People who have been here before might recognize a change — I’ve moved to WordPress 2.0 as I threatened to do earlier.

The change wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t without its fun.

3:01 am, healthy baby boy! More details to come, I’ll make calls tomorrow.

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I was reading a funny article called SCO Group to Shoot Babies, when I glanced at the “Ads from Google” off to the right. According to the Google AdSense information page, the ads are based on keywords in the page on which they’re being displayed. Unfortunately, in this case, I think the code [...]

It looks like W32/Blaster is making its rounds. For interests sakes, I’ve started collecting connection attempts to port 135 and 445:

Not sure if the flatline last night was because I lost data when I changed the collection program, or if there was just no attempts (doubtful)
Also updated the extended entry to show a pie [...]

I’ve finally got into aggregating RSS feeds of my favourite news sites into one page. Rnews is what I’m using, it’s a PHP based system that puts all the rss feeds onto one page: .
Small problem with RootPrompt.org, but other than that, it’s pretty good. Trivial setup, just untar, create a database, edit [...]

I’ve posted an article on Uptime about automating routine tasks with some shell scripting. Take a few minutes to read it here.
Sean

Sometimes, if an RPM operation is interrupted, the RPM database gets corrupted, and any subsequent RPM operation hangs the process. You can’t even ^C it. If you strace the process you’ll see the same system call getting invoked in an infinite loop.
How to fix?

[root@bob root]# cd /var/lib/rpm/
[root@bob rpm]# ls
Basenames [...]

Before you truck off to buy your Linux Licence, you need an “I’m stupid enough to fall for the SCO IP license” license.
Damn!