http://lonnieolson.com/blog Words from the geeky sysadmin Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:58:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last Sunday I had the chance to go to the Wyoming Downs. I've never been to a horse race before. My only experience was that of dramatized scenes in movies. It was quite interesting to see how accurate horse racing's depiction in movies really is. Besides getting a bit sunburned, ... http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2008/07/29/a-day-at-the-races/ After reading all the details about the "new" DNS exploit I feel quite annoyed. These types of attacks have always been possible. This isn't new. Cache Poisoning has always been on every DNS server administrator's check list of things to carefully plan to prevent. I compare ... http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2008/07/11/dns-exploit-news/ After reading through CrackBerry's Top 10 Reasons Why the iPhone is NO BlackBerry I thought I should compare it to my situation. I really like my AT&T BlackBerry 8820 a whole lot. I really hate Windows Mobile devices, and dislike the Treo line. But I still want an iPhone ... http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2008/05/06/im-a-wannabe-iphone-switcher/ Due to the comments I recrived on the last post on this topic, I decided to make a few changes. First I want to say thank you to everyone that showed interest. Apparently this type of plugin is desperately needed. My initial version was just a quick hack to ... http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2008/04/22/updated-rhythmbox-ipod-sync-plugin/ Standing in line for My Chemical Romance # Opening band kind of sucked. Still waiting for MCR # Dude. MCR puts on an awesome show. # Powered by Twitter Tools. http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2008/04/12/twitter-updates-for-2008-04-12/ Catching up on past Tekzilla shows # Powered by Twitter Tools. http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2008/04/10/twitter-updates-for-2008-04-10/ Watching Star Wars Episode 1. Thank goodness for Tivo. # Ubuntu Hardy bug report http://tinyurl.com/5qxy7p # Powered by Twitter Tools. http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2008/04/08/twitter-updates-for-2008-04-08/ Finally got the bugs squashed after the Hardy upgrade. # It seems every new version of the Linux kernel breaks VMware modules ability to actually compile. Is this a failure on Linux or VMware? # @mollywood It's better too look good dead, than to be alive and ugly. :P # Powered ... http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2008/04/07/twitter-updates-for-2008-04-07/ There was a very long thread on the misc@openbsd.org mailing list of the last week. It all started with some comments from Richard Stallman responding to complaints to him about his past remarks on BSDTalk. Lots of flaming and other arguments ensued. Including this snippet. Theo: "Since ... http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2007/12/20/free-software-smackdown-rms-vs-theo/ A recent New York Times article very clearly and rationally explained my stance on marriage. As long as the government recognizes and assigns rights/privileges to those with a marriage licenses, it is an infringement of the civil rights of those denied licenses. Those opposed to granting marriage licenses to others ... http://lonnieolson.com/blog/2007/11/27/marriage-is-a-civil-right/