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April 5, 2006
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Oh No…
March 27, 2006
This is really bad. I think I somehow screwed up and never saved the artwork I drew for making the above drilling template. I think that I thought it was saved, made some other experimental (post-drilling) changes, then said not to save.
Uggh. This is really, really bad. Now I’m not completely sure where everything is drilled at, and because the drilling was without a jig, I can’t just measure to see.
Fortunately I still have my notes at home… I hope I can remember which number was which, and I can re-figure the hole spacing and such and re-draw it all.
Guh. I feel really, really bad about this.
I would have sworn that I saved it somewhere…
UPDATE: Found it! So I didn’t screw up as bad as I had thought. I had forgotten that I did a ‘Save As…’ with the file over to my G5 at one point. I must have kept working on that file, so I was saving my changes all along, just as I thought. It’s just that the file was being saved over to my G5 and not to this laptop. Thusly it didn’t show up in ‘Open Recent Files…’ or anywhere on this machine.
I SSH’d home, WOL’d the G5, SSH’d over there, FTP’d the files up to nuxx.net and poof. There they are. I feel amazingly relieved.
Waveform
March 9, 2006
This sort of response to my earlier inquiry about a possible power failure is why I like my colo provider:
The contractor doing the inspection of the halon fire suppression system
(fire codes require an inspection every 6 months) managed to trip the EPO
(Emergency Power Off) for our Troy facility and shut down all power. Total
outage was about 5-10 minutes, at which time we began the process of
restoring everything. Most all services were back by 3pm, most customers
before that -- we restored our own equipment (that not needed to serve
customers like our webserver and the like) last.
Not a fun day.
-Bill
rez.nuxx.net
March 9, 2006
Well, it looks like my colo provider suffered some sort of power failure, causing rez.nuxx.net to reboot. It’s back up now…
Illustrator Question
February 28, 2006
Could any of you who are good with Adobe Illustrator help me out with something?
First, I download the Illustrator template (Mac or Windows) from the bottom of Maverick Label’s page about Control Panels. Then I open it in Illustrator and use Page Setup to change the artboard to 8.5″ high and 11″ wide. Then I get the dotted line seen here seen here in place of the original borders of the artboard (page?) which appears to be a Page Tiling mark. I can hide it, but I can’t figure out how to make it right.
Can any of you tell me what I need to do in order to get everything rotated properly so I can lay out my label on a landscape page? I’m not sure if this is something I need to worry about or not, but it really doesn’t seem right to me…
Or, if you can point me to an appropriate resource which explains this, that’d be great too. I just don’t understand what’s going on.
Thanks!
PowerMac G5
February 27, 2006
Hmm, so I’m thinking about selling my PowerMac G5, then going to using just my PowerBook G4 (w/ external monitor) until an Intel-based something (and all the apps I need) are available…
eBay Phishing Scheme
February 9, 2006
Upon sitting down at my desk just now it appeared that I had email from an eBay user named ‘yuki668’ asking simply “Hello,do you accept PayPal?”. This seemed a bit fishy, so I decided to dig into it a little bit.
Come to find out, it’s the best made phishing scheme that I’d not yet seen. It appears to look like valid email from eBay, takes you to a look-alike login page, allows one to compose a reply, and even appears to send the message, then offering to redirect the user to My eBay and various other pages.
Here are some screenshots of this message and the hosted false pages:
· Original email from ‘yuki668’ asking a ‘question’.
· Fake eBay login page.
· Fake message composition page.
· Fake sent message confirmation.
I have to say, with my actively selling something on eBay, this almost fooled me. The way I knew it not to be right, is the original email message was sent, it didn’t say that it was a question about a particular item…
Anyway, here is the full header if the email, if you are curious: Continue reading: Clicky Clicky
MovableType
February 7, 2006
Movable Type is pretty nifty once you get past the hurdles of getting the damn thing installed. It’s poorly documented and requires a lot of CPAN modules.
Ah well, at least it’s working. (No, not for me, although I may start to use it at some point.)
Also, I wish whoever was working on the AdSense module for Gallery 2.0 would finish it. I’d love to be able to allow people to add banners there. It might also finally prompt me to caption my photos properly and with keywords and such.
qmail-pop3d Problems
January 26, 2006
Note to self:
My mom’s computer was unable to check her email with Mail.app. IMAP worked fine. When logging in by telnetting to port 110, the following error about being unable to read the home directory was received, yet the proper permissions was there:
-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir
My mom also reported that occasionally she was able to check her email just fine.
The problem ended up being that Mail.app was set to leave all mail on the server. By the time there were around 1400 messages in her inbox (stacked up over the past eight months or so) it seems that these messages were simply too much for qmail-pop3d to parse upon login, and the error was received.
It should be noted that the log for qmail-pop3d showed a successful login with an unsuccessful one immediately following.
The solution was to ensure that she had all her mail, then clear out the POP3 server. Now everything works fine.
rez.nuxx.net
January 25, 2006
rez.nuxx.net (on the right) in the colo facility.
Just FYI, rez.nuxx.net is back up. Everything was done as of just before noon…
I just had the problem which normally happens when I visit the Waveform offices. That is, I get to talking with Bill there, and next thing I know a few hours have passed.
Well, I’m back home, the server is back up, and everything seems good.