Tollef Fog Heen's blog

(ok, this isn't really tech related, but it's about penguins, so.) CNN reports that

"The gentoos come up on Kidney Cove and can rest there because it is in a minefield,"

I knew it all along. Gentoos like to rest in mine fields. Insane penguins.

Which File Extension are You?

So, I'm a container format. How should that be interpreted?

Gunnar wonders what the strangely-marked ⊼ on apple keyboards is. It's the enter key, not to be confused with the return key. (On most systems, those are used the wrong way around with (carriage) return key actually completing the dialog and enter adding a line feed in a multi-line input field.

I got my scanner working today by using the experimental genesys backend for SANE. Now I just need a good system for storing stuff I scan together with some metadata so I can find it again later.

Web-based would be good, but not PHP and not MySQL (though I could fix the latter of those if the system as such is good). I've skimmed through what's on freshmeat, but didn't find anything which seemed to work well enough, so I guess I might end up writing my own..

If anybody has any suggestions, please drop me a mail.

• 10.0.0.0/24 is something very different from 10.0.0.0/8 and it appears Linux doesn't really like to masquerade itself, as it then sends RST to the originating host. Of course, ssh doesn't care about getting an RST and just hangs.

• OpenWRT is quite neat, and my wlan is now separated from the wired network, which means we can run services such as cups on the wired network without having to require authentication. It would be cool to play around with VLAN tagging, but I think that's for another day.

• I need to investigate how to get the internal DNS working properly; I kinda want to have sensible reverse-DNS for 10.x.x.x addresses.

• The whole infrastructure which goes on top of the physical and first layer of the network is still missing (Kerberos, LDAP, cups, openvpn, nocatauth or similar).

Do not ever get cooling liquid into your PCI and AGP slots.

I hate those pages which try to set a cookie just because I GET them.

On Friday, Karianne's sister and her fiance arrived. I also got my new computer. Really nice setup, which is very, very quiet and sweet, with two nice and shiny LCDs.

Saturday, we got a lot of stuff from Molde, by way of Karianne's parents. Lots and lots and lots of boxes. We also bought some more shelves at IKEA, which I put up the same day and on Sunday. Karianne's family (aunts and so on) dropped by to look at the apartment and say hi, which was nice, but luckily they left fairly quickly to avoid complete overcrowdedness in here.

Sunday was spent in Tonje's (who I think is Karianne's cousin once removed) confirmation. Nice ceremony (even though I'm not a fan of church rituals at all), and very nice party afterwards. I unpacked a few more boxes and put the doors onto one of the shelves when we got home, before catching a bit of relaxation and going to bed, just about now.