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Comcast does not support use of firefox with their chat client.
user C.J. has entered room C.J.(Mon Oct 08 2007 00:36:24 GMT-0700 (PDT))> I want a copy of my billing history. analyst Michael has entered room Michael(Mon Oct 08 2007 00:39:15 GMT-0700 (PDT))> Hello C.J., Thank you for contacting Comcast Live Chat Support. My name is Michael. Please give me one moment to review your information.…
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gcc CLI front- and back-ends in svn
Look ma! gcc is preparing to play nice with ECMA-335! http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cli.html I should really read more about it… my computer is compiling the branch right now while I work. The bit I’m most excited about is the potential to call into c++ libraries. Do the libraries all need to be compiled to IL, or can…
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Producing relocatable packages with the GNU build system
I’ve recently found a need to create relocatable versions of some of my favorite libraries (produced, not-so-coincidentally by the GNU build system). You might find yourself asking “What is relocatable software, and why should I care?” Maybe I can help. A piece of software is said to be “relocatable” when it does not rely on…
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Holy pull-my-pants-down, Batman!
It looks like Adobe Creative Suite 3 kicks your security in the nuts while it installs its call home software. It sounds as if it a) doesn’t ask for permission to shut your firewall down, b) doesn’t inform you that it is shutting your firewall down and c) doesn’t bring your firewall back up when…
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Moved groups at AMZN
I moved to the “Merchendising Applications” group at Amazon. I’m ramping up, but it looks like this group has the potential to make a very large positive impact on the quality of the site. I’m doped up on pain meds, so I’m going to stop now before I start breaking things…
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Invested in CTXS
I just had my first vesting in work stocks. I sold a few and re-invested some of the proceeds in Citrix, who plans to purchase XenSource, the employer of Keir Fraser, Tim Deegan, James Bulpin and Ian Campbell, the primary contributors to the development branch of the xen source tree for the last month, and…
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Setting up a cluster
So… I guess at this point, the hosts on colliertech.org could be considered a cluster. We have all of the services you would expect from a real ISP running on the network at this point. I think. I’m learning more and more as I go along. I set up autofs for the first time this…
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Mediawiki, Mozilla, and remote pages linking to local files
So I’ve got mediawiki running on an intranet web server, and I use it to store notes about the things I’m working on. I downloaded a bunch of docs and started making links to the local copies of the manuals using the standard mediawiki notation, [url alias]. However, in its default configuration, for security reasons,…
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autotools build error – resolved!
I googled all over for this error with no results: autom4te: unknown language: Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4 aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 It turns out that I had built an obsolete version of autoconf (2.53) and it was in my $PATH ahead of everything sane. Building and installing 2.61 (the latest version as of 2007/08/15) fixes…
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Back online…
Sorry for the outage, folks. We’re back up now. This time with a firewall. Ain’t that fun? Someone broke in to the machine in February and was using the un-throttled bandwidth to spam the world. I’ve added a throttle and firewall, much stricter access to the internal network, monitoring tools and an alert infrastructure. Hopefully…