As far as I can tell, FreeBSD 8 tickled something in the driver for my ethernet card, and caused it to behave unreliably. Rather than muck around with half-tested kernel patches or ifconfig settings, I slapped a $30 Whatevertheyhadontheshelf-3000 (read: common chipset that’s been debugged by a lot of people), and as far as I [...]
I’ve just upgraded the OS on the machine that hosts this site, and I’ve developed networking problems. If you see corrupted images or pages, that’s why. I’m working on it, but so far it looks nontrivial. Sorry for any inconvenience.
And happy 2010 to you too.
I just happened to notice that that last post was #666, a milestone of sorts. I’d meant to commemorate it with something suitably satanic, but missed it.
Anyway, enjoy post #667, the Neighbor of the Beast.
As I mentioned earlier, I asked commenter Flabberghasted for money, and he came through. Which left me with a not-terribly-fungible Amazon gift card, and the question of what to do with it.
I wound up taking Shelley’s advice: used the card to knock $50 off my Christmas shopping, and then made a $50 donation to the [...]
Luke 6:27-31 (NIV):
27“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your [...]
Those links at the bottom of posts that say “Tags: foo, bar, baz” should now be working.
Back when I started this weblog, WordPress didn’t have keyword support, so I installed a plugin to implement them. Then at some point keywords became a core feature of WP. I think that having tags in the core and [...]
Character encoding schemes (UTF-8, ASCII, ISO-8859-1/-15,
Windows-1252, etc.) are an incredible source of headaches. Stay away
from them.
(Oh, and if you tell me I mean “raw character encoding” or “codepoint
set” some such, I’ll whack you upside the head with a thick Unicode
reference.)
In case you hadn’t noticed, I upgraded WordPress not too long ago.
Being the cautious sort, I [...]
What with the new year, I’ve changed the name of this weblog from “Ooblog” to “Epsilon Clue”, which I like better.
All of the URLs, RSS feeds, and so on should stay the same, so no need to update your bookmarks.
Update, Mar. 25, 2008: In case anyone’s wondering, the name comes from this comment at The [...]
I didn’t notice it at the time, but last week was ooblick.com’s tenth anniversary. Woot!
If you have time to waste, you can browse the Wayback Machine’s archive of crap I used to have.
I’ve disabled comments in the photo gallery. I’m sorry to do this, but the spammers were just getting too obnoxious, and Gallery’s crappy captcha just wasn’t keeping them out.
I’m not happy about this, but it was just too much work deleting spam.