General Blather

Recently my system's been getting bothered by evildoers around the world. Probably nothing personal, but just a bunch of port-scanning password-guessing bots. more »

The wife let me know she doesn't believe she's ever gotten one of the "Nigerian scam" (also known as a 419-scam, due to the country code) e-mails. An offer, usually from some lawyer, bank executive or employee, prince, or even a persecuted person to… more »

During the recent recovery of my ill-timed mail/web/database server (which upon nearly completing the recovery decided to pop back on just fine), I found that a few of the upgraded packages caused conflicts in some of the previously used software. I've… more »

It wasn't quite 16GB, but I discovered today that my 16GB USB drive doesn't have any of the data on it that I expected. It seems I must have grabbed it by mistake and formatted it with the new Ubuntu, making it useful as a bootable drive. I crossed my… more »