Nitsuj.net

This machine was initially setup using the Debian 2.2 potato release and was upgraded using the dist-upgrade method and changing the sources to point to the current release at the time. This method was used to upgrade from 2.2 (potato) to 3.0 (woody) then to 3.1 (sarge). Then the server was left to it’s own devices with updates run every week or two until sarge was no longer supported. I just didn’t have the time nor inclination to fix it. I turned it off in October 2010 when I heard the hard drive whining.

I was experiencing networking issues with distributed.net updating on my ubuntu 10.10 server.

GLBLguy hit upon a pet peeve of mine. For work I often need to do a lot of research on errors that crop up. A lot of the time error resolution can come from a mailing list or a newsgroup or forum posting. Unfortunately, in their infinite wisdom and complete lack of trust in their employees, mailing lists, newsgroups and forums are often blocked under the heading "mailing list" or "blogs" or some other silly excuse. How can they seriously expect people to get work done like that?

You know how it is, you see something on ebay that strikes your interest and bid. Then you research the item elsewhere or even on ebay and find it quite a bit cheaper and hold your breath while until the end of your auction waiting and hoping to be outbid. Checking your new email hoping you get an outbid notice, checking the auction page every once in a while.

Often you'll still be high bidder when there's under an hour to go, then 30 minutes, then 10. You keep hitting reload seeing if someone has outbid you and then, if you're lucky, you'll be outbid. Then for a few minutes you wonder what to do, as you no longer have the auction to check.