Month: January 2007

Albert Einsten: "Global warming will kill us all"

I was checking out the website of self-proclaimed global warming activist Laurie David today, when I noticed a quote in the header of the site:

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

"Wow" I thought. Did Albert Einstein really forsee some catastrophic fate for our very existence if we were to not buy into the theory of global warming? I'd heard/seen that quote somewhere before, and I didn't recall anything about global warming in its context. Could it be that such an anchor statement was being used to mislead people into thinking that Albert Einstein supported the theory of Global Warming? I had to look up the context of this statement. This is what I found:

"The splitting of the atom has changed everything except the way we think. Thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

This statement, in fact, has no application to Global Warming, other than to claim that we who do not believe the global warming theory are stuck in some age-old paradigm that will doom us all.

Server Migration

The era of Devnull is coming to a close as we usher in the era of "Courage".

My new server, Courage, has been up and running for about 4 weeks, however with limited usefulness. It had just been sitting there for some time waiting for a greater purpose. My home workstation, Integrity, was originally going to be the successor to Devnull, but after waiting for many months to get a new installation and start the migration process, newer hardware came into my possession that gave birth to Courage. Now I'm not quite sure what to do with Integrity. Another MythTV frontend maybe?

In any case, migration has started to Courage, and I believe that most of the essential services have been moved (http, mysql, ftp, named, and ssh). I have yet to move the mail-related services (smtp, imap, pop, etc.) as I am migrating to postfix over sendmail and am working around some configuration conversion issues. I expect that to be done in the coming days.

5 Voice Actors In A Limo

I don't know why or for how long exactly, but I've been interested in voice acting for some time. I just think it's cool how these guys sound. Check this out: 5 Guys in a Limo

MuchTallWare: Cron Runonce

I wrote up a small perl script that will run any executable file in /etc/cron.runonce once and remove that file. It's handy when we need to remotely deploy a change to multiple servers and make sure that we don't leave remnants of those scripts in cron. Download it and evaluate the variables for your needs. Currenly it assumes you have set up a cron.1min directory.

cron-runonce