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I put up a couple complaints on SeeClickFix back in late 2009, and left the most fixable one up, and it still hadn't been fixed in late 2012 when I moved away. What's the deal? SCF boasts that 125,000 issues have been fixed, but it seems like some issues get fixed, while other issues don't. Broken curbs in a working class neighborhood do not.

In the time I lived there, I saw residents fix the curbs twice - once was (probably illegal) modification to smooth over a cut so they could drive over it, and another to just have a curb. I don't recall seeing a City of LA crew fixing the sidewalks.

In contrast, reports of potholes to the City of LA's website were fixed in a week or two.

I've been bitten by this Gmail STARTTLS problem, oh, at least twice, maybe more. Deliverability is affected; gmail.com says there's a delay. This time, it was at work, where I have a server to accept incoming mail. We use EXIM4.

I learned a new command: tree.

% tree Album
Album
├── config
├── src
│   └── Album
│       ├── Controller
│       ├── Form
│       └── Model
└── view
    └── album

enum Pet {
    DOG, CAT, PIG, RAT, FISH, COW, CHICKEN
}

enum Meat {
    DOG, CAT, PIG, RAT, FISH, COW, CHICKEN
}

class animals {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

This is easy to find anywhere, and it's here too. This one includes the dns-* lines that will be read by resolvconf(8).

root@server:/etc/network# cat interfaces

I've done this three times now, and it's pretty simple. If you're using a VM environment, 1GB RAM and 5GB of disk are enough.

On the spamassassin box, set up Samba and create two shares spamassassin-spam and spamassassin-ham. I created them in /home/Spamassassin/

We got one of these at work years ago as a backup unit, and it's been working well. Exactly one disk error in years and it fixed itself, basically. However, as disks age you know they are going to fail, taking your data with it. So the only fix is to proactively replace them, and also run backups. I thought that it would be easy to add a backup disk, because there are USB ports on the terastation. That was not the case.

I've always been a huge proponent of washing machines as a way to save money. Unfortunately, many apartments don't have laundry rooms, so lower-income families have to wash at a laundromat.

There are basically five types of drinking water filters to get slightly cleaner tasting drinking water.

Slaptech framework was a PHP 4 based framework that never got released into the public, that we built to do projects.

The latest Ubuntu comes with drivers for the Microsoft Hyper-V virtual devices. Installing it is pretty simple.

Download the Ubuntu Server ISO.

Skim this.

I recently had a RAID5 array fail, and learned something about backup: it's not just about the data, but also the recovery time.