The new mail server for work went into production last week. Here are some notes/gotchas in putting it together:
RH9/package notes in general:
Be careful when doing updates with the glibc. For any reasonable box, RH9’s installer will use the i686 version instead of the i386 one. If you “downgrade” accidentally when updating the [...]
Vaguely based on this Israeli Wheat Berry Stew, but bacon-y and with on-hand vegetables. I also had frozen collard greens, but didn’t get around to adding them towards the end.
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1 pkg turkey bacon, chopped
1 c wheat berries
1-1/2 c Assorted beans, soaked overnight
1/4 c brown rice
2 zucchini, chopped
26 oz can [...]
Taken from http://www.lacabe.com/marga/food/recipes/ropa.html. Presumably we can just drop the wine part, since the stewing isn’t going to boil off the alcohol in any reasonable amount:
This is an extremely delicious, and rather simple, if time consuming Cuban dish. A favorite at my house. It’s adapted form The Frugal Gourmet on our Immigrant Ancestors
-about 3 [...]
I’ve been bombarded by search engine referrals from people looking, desperately looking, for Tuesday Morning Quarterback.
Sadly, I have nowhere to direct you to. ESPN dropped TMQB, scrubbed it out of existence, after the Easterbrook anti-semitism/Michael Eisner insult flap. He’s had his defenders and explainers. I personally can’t believe anyone who works at [...]
The Times’s World Business section is a marvel of design: filled with some of the cruft that makes the regular Business section just a bit bulkier, it can be tossed in the trash without more than a glance through the headlines. Every six months or so, there might be a sufficiently interesting article in [...]
Apparently, the Oracle Listener works differently on Windows compared to Unix. All the times I’ve done ssh port forwarding has been with Solaris boxes, and forwarding just 1521 has worked fine. Various users have reported problems with this, and it turns out that the Oracle Listener on Windows works like FTP, where the [...]
I was surprised when they brought Pedro back out to pitch the 8th. He had started to look vulnerable at the bottom of the 7th, with the Yankees nicking a run and putting men on base. And wasn’t his pitch count already over 100 at that point? The Sox have a bullpen [...]
Is a movie shaped to look just like a 1970s martial arts exploitation film itself a 1970s-style martial arts exploitation film? If so, Kill Bill may be the best 1970s-style martial arts exploitation film ever made. If not, Kill Bill may be the best homage to 1970s-style martial arts exploitation films ever made. [...]
Some notes on the kata:
In terms of stance, the weight is shifted forward, knees bent, on balls of feet. This is different from open-hand, where the weight tends to be 50-50 on each feet.
For shomen, the wrists should break on the cut. The leading hand is actually the pommel hand. When chambered, [...]
I found the Shadow Illuminator through Metafilter.
From the comments to the Metafilter posting, the Shadow Illuminator apparently implements a simple to use web-based contrast mask: quite possible in Photoshop, and probably not as good looking compared to what a Photoshop guru can do.
Of course, I’m not a Photoshop guru — I don’t know much more [...]