Daily Archives: November 13, 2007

Dude, Where’s my Robe?

November 13, 2007 – 9:13 pm

In the all’s well that’s finally over department, DC Administrative Judge Roy Pearson, who gained brief notoriety and a gold star in my nitwit class, has lost his job as an administrative law judge. His appointment expired on May 2, and the Commission overseeing the appointment of administrative law judges has voted not to reappoint [...]

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Boredom

November 13, 2007 – 9:01 pm

An excuse given by someone at work, on the occasion of his submitting his resignation today. With the variety of technologies, and opportunities to learn and/or excel at same under our workplace roof, it’s hard for me to imagine anyone using boredom as an excuse for leaving.
So, departing colleague, rock on, enjoy your [...]

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Syslog needs a New Priority

November 13, 2007 – 8:55 pm

I’d propose adding a new priority to the syslog service in *nix systems: dumbass, which would blare forth rock-stupid mistakes into /var/log/messages in an impossible to overlook manner.
This proposal stems from a far-too-long tail-chasing session during one of the classroom labs today, wherein yours truly entered an IP address of 1921.168.0.X into named.conf.  I’m not [...]

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