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Best of Bootie 2007

January 2, 2008

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.

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!!!

December 23, 2007

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.

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AWS?!?

December 11, 2007

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.

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HELO

December 5, 2007

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.

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Motherboard + RAM

December 5, 2007

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, !) and some flavor of MAME.

Really, I’m not too picky as to what it all is, so long as its reasonably quick and free. :D

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WTF?

November 21, 2007

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.

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SSH Scanning

November 16, 2007

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.

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On The Edge

October 29, 2007

Well, after a few months of on again, off again, waiting for carryout, eating lunch, toilet, and bathtub reading I finished On The Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore.

It’s quite worth reading if you have an interest in the history of Commodore / Amiga and are curious about where things went wrong. It assumes a fair bit about ones’ technical knowledge, just diving in and occasionally talking about how / why some decision or another was bad, but it’s pretty easy to read.

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OS X 10.5

October 26, 2007

So… 10.5.

To start: Finder no longer sucks. I’m copying 85,000 files (old maildir archive) and it’s behaving as one would expect.

I’m having some weirdness sending photos over from my phone via Bluetooth. Not sure what is to blame yet.

New Terminal is interesting. Not sure if I prefer it or iTerm more, but the concept of building profiles which affect everything the old terminal could do is great.

Mail.app 3.0 seems nice. We’ll see how it does incorporating my old mail.

Stacks are excellent, particularly when /Applications is added as one.

Uhm… More later. Right now I’m particularly waiting for my music library to start copying back so I have stuff to listen to.

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