Author Archives: ianmacd

Scary. Hmm, spontaneous reboots on one of my boxes using the 2.4.17 kernel and the grsecurity patch. This is not cool, and caused a Web server outage of some 5 hours early this morning. The box is seeing quite a … Continue reading →

At work this morning, I was having trouble reaching one of my servers at home. A little investigation revealed that my upstream DSL bandwidth was full to capacity. What had happened? It turns out that Linux Today had put a … Continue reading →

I’ve been playing with Ruby this week. It’s like a next-generation Perl, with most of Perl’s standard modules and functions converted to classes and methods, giving a truly object-oriented scripting language; much more true to the notion than Python. It’s … Continue reading →

Just got back from two weeks on the east coast, celebrating Christmas and New Year with Sarah and her folks. What bliss. Our two nights out at Fire & Ice were fun, as were the positively stupendous desserts at Finale … Continue reading →

So, I’m at LISA 2001 in San Diego this week. The downloads of my bash completion code have been very encouraging. Expect to see a new release at the weekend to fix a few silly bugs. Highlights of LISA so … Continue reading →