So, I’ve switched my terminal and editors to using a rather nifty new(ish) font from Microsoft called Consolas.
It’s a monospaced font designed specifically to look good with ClearType on, for code or terminals.
To be honest, I really quite like it.
My On Christmas Eve of 1994 my parents gave me a HP LaserJet 5L. At the time it cost somewhere around $400 – $500, but was one of the most affordable laser printers for home use. Over the years it’s been particularly helpful to have a laser printer around home. With the wonders of toner (over ink) it’s been a great, reliable printer, except for back in 2001-2002 when I had to replace the rollers because they were no longer picking up paper. Tonight the pickup rollers stopped picking up paper again. I haven’t investigated if it is possibly something more than the rubber on the rollers, but I hope not.
I’ll probably first try to clean the rollers with alcohol, but I may just have to buy a kit like this one and replace them. I’m tempted to give the printer up to the gods, but that’d be a bit wasteful, so even if I give it away I’ll probably get it into a working state first.
It’s a great PCL printer and works great with Windows, but as OS X uses Gimp-Print / Gutenprint for its generic drivers, dithered images tend to look like poo. That all makes me want a PostScript printer, but one of those won’t be very cheap. It would be really nice to have one with a built in print server so that I could finally stop using the (as old as the printer) 10baseT / 10base2 JetDirect EX Plus. Although that thing works great too, and any OS which can do any sort of network printing at all can find a way to send data to it…
So, I’m not sure what I want to do yet, but I do know that I can’t quite afford a new printer. Ah well, at least it’s had a good run.
So, those Bootie comps that I rather like? Well, the Best of Bootie 2007 one is out too.
For your (and my) convenience, I have put all the normal and bonus tracks together, applied the artwork to them all, cleaned up the artist/album/track number/whatever stuff on the bonus bits, made the bonus stuff disc 2, and uploaded it all.
Want this version with the more useful metadata? Grab it here: Best_of_Bootie_2007_iTunes_Bonus.zip
It’s all ready to drop into iTunes and sync over to an iPod or whatnot.
UPDATE: Sorry, I had to pull this as it was consuming too much bandwidth.
Well, there goes my working MAME machine. Things were going well, with Windows 2000 having been installed so that I could use the win32 binary of a new version of MAME. I wanted to change the BIOS logo, so I first ran the BIOS updater from MSI to get the latest BIOS on there (the version I was going to add a new image to), and things just stopped.
The damned MSI bios updater has killed this board. The on-board diagnostic LEDs simply light as all red, which is (supposedly) indicative of a defective CPU. Bah.
Also, I’ve noticed that for the last few days the power at my house has been running at 59.9 MHz lately, not 60. I find that odd.
UPDATE: I just remembered that I had another one of these boards here, but a bad one. I just swapped BIOS chips and poof, things work again. Damned MSI.
Wow, I just received this piece of email:
Added the following hosts to /etc/hosts.deniedssh:
72.44.44.9 (ec2-72-44-44-9.z-2.compute-1.amazonaws.com)
Looking through auth.log shows 18 attempts before things were blocked. Looks like people have taken to using AWS for scanning. Great.
After not receiving the shipping notification for something I received last night, I have decided to try disabling Postfix’s HELO validations on my server. This will likely lead to far more spam being delivered, but it should eliminate odd rejections from non-compliant servers.
I had smtpd_helo_restrictions = reject_invalid_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_hostname set, which can be referenced here. The problem was some sites wouldn’t send a proper HELO, leading to mail not being delivered as it should have been. Maybe it’d be best to have a SA rule which marks down improper HELOs instead of simply blocking them.
If spam levels get too high again, maybe I’ll go back to the old restrictions. They generally work fine.
Do any of you happen to have an old motherboard + RAM + CPU which you don’t need any more?
I need something reasonably fast, Intel or AMD, with PCI slots. It is going to go in my MAME Cabinet and hold an AudioPCI running the fabulous DOS driver (thanks,
Really, I’m not too picky as to what it all is, so long as its reasonably quick and free. :D
Before I shipped off my 360, I decided to make up a video of it having the problem it has.
The first video shows the problem occuring once. The second shows me unable to turn on my 360, but the Wii’s video cable just happens to hang in front of the power light, so it’s hard to see things:
· c0nsumer_xbox360_failure.mp4 (2.3 MB)
· c0nsumer_xbox360_failure_2.mp4 (5.5 MB)
Ever written a bit of software, looked at it the next day, then not been able to figure out what the hell you were doing?
If I didn’t somehow forget to save after the last compile, it looks to me as if the odd captured data from last night is complete garbage, because I was feeding the SPI data straight into the MAX232. That… I don’t know how I could have gotten that wrong.
Anyone else noticing a lot of SSH scanning going on?
There just seems to be a whole bunch more lately, with most of it happening overnight. That is, 9pm – 3am EDT, 12am – 7am EDT, etc.
Now that I finally got DenyHosts working properly things seem to be a bit better. (I’d stupidly bolted on to a default hosts.allow which had an ALL : ALL : allow up near the top in the comments, which I didn’t read.)
I’m up to 650-some blocked hosts, and I’m fairly sure there will be another 10 or so today.