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GRAFFITI -- October 18, 2004 thru October 24, 2004 >> Link to the Current Week << Last Week << Mon   Tues   Wed   Thu   Fri   Sat   Sun >> Next Week Search this site : Welcome to Orb Graffiti, a place for me to write daily about life and computers. Contrary to popular belief, the two are not interchangeable.     About eMail - I publish email sometimes. If you send me an email and you want privacy or anonymity, please say so clearly at the beginning of your message.

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October 18, 2004

1031 - Good morning. It goes something like this:

The sound of a phone being picked up, there's dialtone, a ten digit number dialed, a couple of rings, then the far end of the line is picked up...

her: Hello?

him: Hi, baby. Did you spill coffee in the garage?

her: Yes, and it's a good thing, too, otherwise I would have run into the garage door because you moved the mirror to night vision when you were driving yesterday.

him: (realizing that he's already substantially the loser, somehow) What?

her: I spilled the coffee, so I stopped to get out and get the cup, and I noticed the garage door was still closed. I would have seen it if the mirror hadn't been wrong.

him: (deeply lost) What?

It just went downhill from there. I always adjust the mirrors so that I CAN SEE when I drive the car. But perhaps I shouldn't. Is Marcia morphing into Margret? You remember Margret, don't you?

Margret jack-knifes from argument to argument, jigs direction randomly and erratically like a shoal of Argument Fish being followed by a Truth Shark.

If you follow that Margret link up there, you can pretty much kiss the rest of your day goodbye, and whatever you do, stop reading and minimize the browser before attemting to ingest either food or liquid. I'll not be held responsible for your imminent death if you don't. While I personally know the Heimlich Maneuver from having watched it done on TV (don't laugh, I've done major home remodels based upon watching Norm and Bob work on TV, from moving trusses to cutting in multiple skylights) ... where was I? Oh, while I personally know the Heimlich Maneuver, I won't be close enough to help you in time. Got it?!?

The hall closet reorganization is done. Somehow two full shelves with everything pulled off and put back on in a semblance of order, including stuff that used to be on the floor of the closet, only takes up about 2/3 of each shelf. Wowser, the joys of a compulsive obsession. Well, it would be if I hadn't the offsetting hangup of procrastination. Between the two, I can emulate approximate normality. So that hall project sat with the pre-cut shelf liners waiting for attention for the better part of nine months. Speaking of normality, my joke to clients over the last two weeks as I said my goodbyes was this:

Don't forget, you really just liked having me around because it lets everyone have a look and realize, "I'm more normal than that bloke!"

On that note, I'll leave you to your day. There's more to be said and shown, but either later or tomorrow, depending on how lazy I get. Have a great Monday!

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October 19, 2004

0837 - Good morning. It seems that there are more Margret's in the world than we knew...

Last month one of the young men with whom I work picked up his brother-in-laws' car at the airport at his wife's request. This in order to save his brother-in-law the parking fees. He returned his brother-in-laws car to his home and parked it in the "turn-around" in his driveway.

This caused his wife to drive her car off a 4 foot wall located some 16 feet off the driveway. The car hung up on the wall. He then had to dig out the rock wall to lower the car to the ground. He then had to rebuild the wall, have the car towed and replace the exhaust system and driveshaft of his wifes car.

It was, of course, his fault because he parked the car in the "turn-around" and she had to back the car down the driveway to the street. This resulted in her veering some 16 feet off the driveway and over the wall.

He did save his brother-in-law the cost of parking at the airport for 4 days.

Yow! Are there any more stories out there? Attributable or not (as above), I'll be happy to post them here.

Here's a recursive pair of photos (or are they re-entrant?):

A headline from the New York Times this morning was momentarily confusing to me: Blast Kills 5 in Jeep Used by Vote Board. I read carefully to be sure we weren't talking about Florida. Then, a little further down the headline email, there's a blurb for this story: Complaints Grow Wider on Flu Vaccine Supplies. The one sentence followup in the email says:

Complaints are building across the country that health officials are failing to distribute the remaining flu vaccine supply quickly or equitably.

Translation: I want mine NOW! Has no one paid attention to the fact that British regulators decertified the Chiron plant that was to supply 50% of the US vaccine supply? My question is this: Why did they decertify the plant that was manufacturing the vaccine? The stories talk about "contamination" but only of a relatively small percentage of production - is there something else going on? Conspiracy theorists want to know! After all, Chiron had isolated the Serratia contamination down to a small number of batches, and had held back 4 million doses on that basis. But still British regulators shut down the plant's production and prevented any of the other 46 million doses from being made available. Why not test by batch and get the vaccine over here?

Time to get on with my day. Much was done yesterday from mowing to laundry, and I have only a couple of smallish projects in mind for this rainy day. I'm being restful as well, if I start coming down with the cold that Marli and then Marcia got, I won't be able to go hiking this weekend. That'd be a bummer. Have a great day!

1536 - Ask and ye shall receive. James Boatright jumped in with an email giving the lowdown bits about the Chiron vaccines that I seem unable to have found on my own:

The FDA has completed testing of ALL the batches of the Chiron vaccine. The sterility failure was in the final packaging stage, and they're ALL contaminated.

Even the ones already shipped to the US are suspect, being tested, and probably unusable.

See: this link.

Cool, thanks, James! Of course, now I have to find another wagon to hitch my conspiracy horse to ... hmmmm, how about this one? The bacteria that the flu shots was contaminated with would have made every child between the ages of 2-1/2 and 16 able to read, write and speak English, and have the evil side effect of giving all of them good study habits. That would have forced a dismantling of the No Child Left Behind bureaucracy and taken a wheel out from under the Bush campaign unicycyle. Neither thing being acceptable, the vaccine had to be declared too dangerous to use. What? Too far fetched? Sigh, okay, I'll keep trying.

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October 20, 2004

0758 - Good morning. Aside from a cleaning and minor re-arranging of my office space yesterday, I took it upon myself to load OpenBSD onto real hardware instead of VMware. The once and future Grendel, the Gateway P2-266 is once more thrust into action, this time as an OpenBSD box. His name for this purpose is Vimes. The install went smoothly, then I went to install Vim...

vimes# pkg_add -v
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.5/packages/i386/vim-6.2.318-gtk.tgz
Adding ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.5/packages/i386/vim-6.2.318-gtk.tgz
Dependencies for vim-6.2.318-gtk resolve to:
gettext-0.10.40p1,libiconv-1.9.1,gtk+-1.2.10p1,libiconv-1.9.1,gettext-0.10.40p1
(todo: gettext-0.10.40p1,libiconv-1.9.1,gtk+-1.2.10p1,libiconv-1.9.1,gettext-0.10.40p1)
Adding gettext-0.10.40p1
Dependencies for gettext-0.10.40p1 resolve to:
libiconv-1.9.1,libiconv-1.9.1 (todo: libiconv-1.9.1,libiconv-1.9.1)
Adding libiconv-1.9.1
extracting /usr/local/bin/iconv
extracting /usr/local/include/iconv.h
 . . .

And so on through all of the packages and files needed to get vim running. That's so that I can use my favorite editor to modify, for starters, the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file, turning off root login privs.

One of the downsides of using the once and future Grendel as a test box is that it's so bloody slow by comparison with everything else around here. I may have to scrape up $400 to get a case, mobo, cpu and memory. I've got everything else I need to build a system. I checked out ... ah, well. After tax it'll be around $500. I could go cheaper, but then I'd be building a system significantly less capable than my current workstation and laptop. That doesn't make any sense. That money's better put towards the mortgage.

Next up, I'm going to set my shell to ksh (the Korn Shell). So I'll change the shell field in the password file from /bin/csh to /bin/ksh. Then I can muck around with that a bit. I've read that ksh isn't drastically different from Bash. We'll see.

I don't have much else on for today. A few bits of paperwork to do that turned up in the office cleanup (surprisingly few, if you ask me), and I'll figure something out from there. Have a great day!

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October 21, 2004

1157 - Good morning. Here's a quiz: How do you know that your home warrantee expired two days ago? I'll tell you ... last night, the furnace wouldn't run. This morning, the refrigerator made water on the floor. BAD refrigerator!!! I'd pick it up and rub it's nose in the mess but for two reasons. First, I can't find the nose. Second, I value my lower back more than a little appliance discipline.

The latter problem was relatively easy to diagnose and fix. The water feedline for the icemaker had a pinhole leak. So I turned off the house water cut the line near the floor, and headed out to the hardware store (there's an Ace a few miles away). I picked up a union, 4 feet of 1/4" PVC tubing, and some ferrules for the tubing. The work itself took a lot less time than the cleanup did.

The furnace is another issue. I'm hopeful for a "right place to tap it with the hammer" solution, but worried about solenoids, thermostats and the like. We were waiting for the home warrantee to expire before putting it under a maintenance contract, as there's no use paying double retainer against possible problems ... unless the damned thing dies in between ... as this did. Anyway, the people we have experience with are coming out this afternoon to have a look at it, then shake my wallet out and see how much it'll cost to fix the issue.

For now, though, I can grab a shower, and then get on to the next thing, whatever that may be. More here later, count on it...

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October 22, 2004

1115 - Good morning. And here it is ... the much-promised later. Yesterday was more exciting than I expected, and therein lies the tale. Many changes happened in the computing environment here over the last couple of days. First off, there's the new hardware: I'd forgotten about a bit of a windfall coming in from two different directions. So I decided to go shopping anyway.

The new workstation is named Vimes. He's built into an Antec Sonata case, with an Asus K8N (not the -E model, no need for firewire or Gig-E here) carrying an AMD Sempron 3100+ and 512M of DDR400 Crucial RAM. Also installed are a NEC 3500A DVD+RW, as well as the Leadtek ATI 9700 board and Creative SBLive! I salvaged from Goldfinger. Vimes is happy running Gentoo, but that was only after several attempts to get Xandros working with the new hardware. The mobo has an nForce3 chip (I can't call it a set, unless there's multiple cores under that hood) that provides darn near every function except the actual CPU.

(modified at 1652) -And here are the promised pictures: At left, what the office looked like after the cleanup from the other day, and the barren landscape of the Asus K8N at right ...

There's nothing on the board it seems, except the CPU, nForce3 and boodles of capacitors and connectors. Anyway, Xandros 2.X is based upon a blended Debian Testing/Unstable snapshot from about 18 months ago, and on the 2.4.24 kernel. That's too old for supporting this new chipset. There was the possibility of using the proprietary nVidia Linux drivers. I was able to get the nvnet driver working fine, but nvsound kills Xandros dead. And of course, much to my chagrin, the nForce3 chip(set) isn't supported under OpenBSD at all. Their attitude is "the manufacturer isn't supporting us by providing the tools and docs to write drivers, so fuck'm." I can understand that viewpoint. Moving along, the 2.6.x (and late model 2.4.x) kernels do have the networking functionality successfully reverse engineered and then contributed to afterwards by nVidia, so that's alright for newer Linuxen (including FC2 and after, I think).

So the restructuring is as follows: the main workstation/gaming station is now Vimes. Vimes will have the GamingOS installed, and I've left room for a Xandros installation when the 3.0 Beta gets here. Main working OS for now is Gentoo LInux. Goldfinger lives on in yet another new Sonata case (because they're so damn quiet by comparision with the server chassis he was previously built into. Goldfinger's role going forward is that of experiment box. He'll have OpenBSD, plus whatever I want to build on him so as not to put my main working environments at risk. With a fanless older Radeon card in him, and no audio, he's fine. Garcia (the P3-933 house fileserver) was making a light moaning noice, because his decrepit old GeForce2 board's fan was almost a goner. That board is toast and I've got another old Diamond card doing service there. Finally there's Tserve, the other P3-933. He's a test and backup box for the production environment on our webserver, Zidane. Tserve had old, slow, noisily whinging drives in him. My final work late last night was using Knoppix and tar to transfer all of Tserve to a new 120G Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 drive. While that was going on, I used rsync over ssh to transfer all 42 Gig of my ~home over to Vimes.

On the former employer front, while they've talked to a couple of candidates to replace me, NERDS is still looking for the right person. So if you read this page and you live in decent driving range of Silver Spring, MD, then give Larry a shout at 301-622-7995. Here's the job description:

JOB DESCRIPTION:  Senior Systems and Network Engineer

SUMMARY:

Under limited supervision, integrates computer servers, workstations and network
systems into the customer's network. Provides complex, high-level technical support
for computer and network systems, and independently carries out complex 
assignments requiring the development of new and/or improved techniques and 
procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

The successful candidate will have a Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience and/
or at least 5 years career experience in system and/or network administration. 
Experience with Linux and Windows 2000/2003 servers is required.  Experience with MS 
Exchange and Active Directory is highly desirable. Solaris system administration 
experience a big plus. Solid background with the Linux Operating System is essential.  
Strong interpersonal, communications and customer service skills and the ability to 
work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in diverse businesses and 
government installations.  Frequent local travel to customer sites is required.  
Candidate must be eligible to work in the United States.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: 

1.  Install, maintain and troubleshoot servers for customers and corporate systems.  
Server operating systems (OS) include Linux (RedHat 8, 9, Enterprise; Debian and 
Gentoo distributions) and Windows NT/2000/2003. 

Duties include: 
* design and implement infrastructure solutions based on the Linux Platform.
* design and implement infrastructure solutions based on the Windows platform and 
Microsoft Servers software.
* specification of hardware, OS and software, system generation and configuration.
* evaluate vendor updates, upgrades and hotfixes; apply and test.
* establish and maintain regular backup schedules for all systems.
* troubleshoot and correct problems with OS and applications.
* work with vendor technical support to resolve problems and install bug fixes.

Skills needed:
* Linux Administration
* Linux server and workstation setup.
* Understanding of  update procedures for specific distributions. 
* Ability to configure, operate and troubleshoot specific services: Apache, Bind, 
Postfix (or sendmail), MySQL, PHP, Tomcat, Rsync.
* Windows Server administration. 

Applicable certifications (optional):
* RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
* Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE)
* Microsoft Certifications (MCSE)

2.  Design, install and maintain Networks for customers and corporate needs.

Duties include:
* Formulate, develop, and implement integrated network architectures for small to 
medium computer networking systems.
* Utilize customer budget requirements, current computer and network systems 
technology, and available vendor offerings to establish optimum computer and 
network architecture solutions.
* Develops standards for computer and network systems, to include standards for 
wiring, equipment, system security, and routing protocol.
* Implementation, installation, configuration, and technical support of computer and 
network architecture.
* Liaison with vendors; review vendor products, and coordinate and facilitate vendor 
interviews and presentations.
* Install, configure, and maintain computer and network operating system and 
application software.
* provide on-call support for computer/network systems as required.
* Assist customers in developing security policies and procedures.
* Design and implement security solutions using firewalls, intrusion detection, network 
based anti-spam and anti-virus solutions.
* Establish and maintain an enterprise or network wide backup scheme.

Skills needed:
* Advanced knowledge and understanding of a range of computer and networking 
software and hardware systems and related technologies.
* technical expertise regarding computer and network services for both local and 
wide area networks and the Internet.
* high-level technical expertise in regards to computer/network systems.
* broad knowledge of current and emerging state-of-the-art computer/network 
systems technologies, architectures, and products.
* ability to effectively communicate highly technical concepts to non-technical 
customers.
* knowledge of computer/network systems infrastructure requirements & standards.
* knowledge of computer security systems, applications, procedures & techniques.
* ability to plan, develop, and coordinate multiple projects.


3.  Install and maintain workstations in Windows-only and mixed Windows/Linux 
environments.  Candidate must possess the technical and customer service skills to 
troubleshoot hardware and software operation issues in Microsoft Windows, Linux, and 
mixed environments.

Duties include:
* Specify workstation configurations to meet customer needs.
* Install and configure preconfigured systems at customer sites.
* Configure, install OS on custom workstation (White Box) systems
* Install, configure and maintain support software (e.g. anti-virus, anti-spam, utilities).
* Administer network and systems environments based on the Microsoft Windows 
platforms.
* Install, configure and test off the shelf applications software
* Train users in the proper use of OS and applications software

Skills needed:
* Ability to install, configure, and maintain personal computers, networks, and/or 
related hardware and software.
* ability to effectively troubleshoot workstation problems in complex network 
environments. 

Applicable certifications (optional):
* Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technicians (MCDST)
* Microsoft Certified Systems Administrators (MCSA)

We are an Equal Opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the bases of race, 
sex, creed, or national origin.

That's it for now. The furnace guy is due back here by about 15 minutes ago with the rather expensive valve we need to make this Trane work again. Then I'm off to get the 30K service done on the Elantra - I'm within a couple hundred miles of right-on, and now's better than the next few weeks are likely to be. Have a great Friday!

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October 23, 2004

1607 - Good day! I've been working, trying to replace some of the money that poured out of my wallet this week. Larry and I did a little weekend job installing a couple of machines and applying updates, etc. Last night, though, while I was installing, updating and fettling the GamingOS here on Vimes (and doing the multi-reboot tango, Olé!), I made myself useful. To give you some context on this, let me quote you from HG², Chapter One:

Mr. Prosser said, "You were quite entitled to make any suggestions or protests at the appropriate time, you know."

"Appropriate time?" hooted Arthur. "Appropriate time? The first I knew about it was when a workman arrived at my home yesterday. I asked him if he'd come to clean the windows and he said no, he'd come to demolish the house. He didn't tell me straight away of course. Oh no. First he wiped a couple of windows and charged me a fiver. Then he told me."

"But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."

"Oh, yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."

"But the plans were on display..."

"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

"That's the display department."

"With a flashlight."

"Ah, well, the lights had probably gone."

"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"

"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.' "

Hmmm. And so it is with elections around these parts. I have a sample ballot in my hands, with choices (such as they are) for President, Congress, Senate, a couple of Judgeships, and 10 "Questions", aka ballot referendums. They all read like this one:

Question A
Charter Required Referendum
Public Works and Transportation
Facilities Bonds

An Act enabling the County to borrow ... [insert short description of beneficiaries from future tax revenues here] ..., as defined therein.

"as defined therein" Therein WHAT?!? There's no full body of the Act/Question/Referendum in the sample ballot. There's no sign of the bloody stuff anywere on the Prince George's County website that I could find. Their search tool comes up blank with every useful single word search I could come up with. Hell, they ought to have 36 point type, front and center on the home page of the County, saying "Here's what's on the ballot, and links to the full text of everything pertinent to your voting decision." Oh, no!

It took me nearly 25 minutes to come up with a page put up by the League of Women Voters, where they talked about the "Questions", and how to find them on the County site. Hint: it's in the Legislative Information System (LIS) part of the County site, something that's not linked to or searchable from the main County site. Then, also on the LWV page, a correspondence between the questions that appear on the ballot, and their County legislative document codes. Put THAT into your LIS and smoke it. When you do, out comes ... a MS Word document. That pretty well covers the beware of leopard part. It's a proprietary document served by an unsearchable ASP interface that isn't linked from the obvious main County websites, and uncorrelated with the measures that are actually on the freaking ballots.

So, forthwith, voters of Prince George's County, Maryland: For the General Election of 2004, to be held on November 2, 2004, there are Questions (also known as Acts and/or Referendums), 10 in number (but lettered from A through J), on your ballot. I've taken the virtually unfindable data off of the PG county site, used OpenOffice.org to translate those documents into readable, searchable HTML, and I post them here, for your information and education. PG County officials, take note: this is a democracy, composed of an informed citizenry. By hiding information from us, even hiding it in plain sight, you violate your bond of trust with the citizens of this county. This one, at least, will remember, when you come up for election next time around!

On the Prince George's County Ballot
2004 General Election
November 2, 2004

Whew. That was a PITA. I sure wish some of my tax dollars went to making that data available on the County website, eh?

Amateur analysis of some items above is just around the corner. There is considerable "if this, then that" commentary on the LWV page on the topic, but here's my take:

These council members: Dernoga, Knotts, Dean, Harrington and Peters, ably assisted by Exum and Shapiro (yes, that's 7 out of the 9) wrote and introduced three of these referendums to effectively gut the provisions of the Petition Referendum on the ballot. If F, G and I pass, along with H, then term limits stay in place, the council will continue to elect their own Chairman, and the two at-large members will have non-voting seats on the Council. All three of those conflicting proposals just go away if H fails.

So, if you are for Question H, providing for two at-large voting members, at-large membership not counting against district membership term limits and vice-versa, and for a Chairman being the at-large member with the greatest vote count, then VOTE FOR QUESTION H and VOTE AGAINST QUESTIONS F, G and I.

If you are against H, then by all means vote against H, but still, don't vote for F, G and I. I recommend this for two reasons: First, because the politicians apparently put this stuff on the ballot to contradict the petition referendum and confuse the electorate. That reason alone should suffice. But even if you don't care about that, vote your wallet. After all, if all four pass, then you're paying two people to sit on their asses in County Council, with no authority. What's the point?

But please, don't take my word for it. I made it easy for you to read the text of these amendments by clicking on the links in the above table, read and judge for yourself. Have a great day!

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October 24, 2004

1428 - Hullo. We slept in today, 'til almost 0900. By the time shopping was done and packed away on the shelves, it was past noon. Since then I've been busy re-purposing a piece I wrote this summer to fit the bill as an article in the next issue of LinuxGazette.net. Now I've got a small stack of leftover paperwork to do from my office cleaning routine, some bills to pay, then a review or two of articles (from other people) for the next LG. Tomorow I start the new gig at (nfr)(security) - wish me luck!

With all that, I still have a few items to drop in your basket since you wandered in here on a Sunday. First, here's the right site to look at if you were searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction. Next up, have you ever wanted to generate screen movies (Flash, etc) for documentation purposes? Yeah, me, too. But Camstasia Studio only runs on Windows. Now for UN*X and MacOS-X hosts, there's vnc2swf, which captures VNC streams and converts the data to Flash format for later streaming/download via many routes, including the web. I've tried this once and gotten it to work. I'll be trying it again one day soon, more when that goes down.

Writing Unmaintainable Code is a thing I may have linked to before, but it's always good for a geeky chuckle or three. Not for the Liberal Arts majors among us. Next, a joke from Jack:

Blonde enters a store that sell curtains

She tells the salesman, "I would like to buy a pair of pink curtains. The salesman assured her that they had a large selection of pink curtains.

He showed her several patterns, but the blond seemed to be having a hard time choosing. Finally she selects a lovely pink floral print. The salesman asked what size curtains she needed.

The blond replies, "fifteen inches."

"Fifteen inches?" asked the salesman. "That sounds very small, what room are they for?"

The blond tells him that they aren't for a room, they are for her computer monitor.

The surprised salesman replies, "but, Miss, computers do not have curtains!"

The blond come back with, "Hellllooooooooo........ I've got Windows!!!"

Sigh. I know... But I had to. It's a law, someplace. How about this one, instead:

Who said His Shrubness can't read!

Okay, back on the technical side, among other great gobs of information, Rick Moen's KnowledgeBase has a great section on Apps. Look there for many tools that you might need, along with helpful hints and recommendations.

Okay, time to get back to work on whatever it was I was going to do next. Once I post this, I can read it to remember... Have a great day!

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