teh lol

dear diary
i just read some of the early posts. what a bunch of crap. most of it doesn’t even make sense. ive slept about eight hours the last thee days, but i sure as hell want to write a new post right now.

Spliff Politics

1. pass it to the right
2. puff, puff, pass
3. don’t moisture the filter

smash their brains in

Linton Kwesi Johnson – Fite Dem Back lyrics
we gonna smash their brains in
cause they ain´t got nofink in ´em
we gonna smash their brains in
cause they ain´t got nofink in ´em
some a dem say dem a niggah haytah
an´ some a dem say dem a black beatah
some a dem say dem a black stabbah
an´ some a dem [...]

bussorakelet (team-trafikk, trondheim)

http://www.team-trafikk.no/ har et web-app der man kan få svar på spørsmål slik som `når går neste buss fra åsveien til sentrum’ (n g n b f åsveien t sentrum) eller `når går siste buss fra kattem til sentrum’. Web-skriptet heter Bussorakelet og de som skrev det fortjener et stort takk, blant annet fordi det finner [...]

WORDPRESS SECURITY

alternative title: shit man, wtf did i install on my server?
after neglecting the wordpress-admin panel notifications about an upgrade availability for aproximately two years in fear of corrupting the database, i finally manned up to do it. emerge told me this:
=================================================================
POST-UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS
=================================================================
————————————————————————
UPGRADE
If you are upgrading from a previous version BACK UP your database.
Once you are [...]

a problem never comes alone

id like to modify this proverb:
problems manifest in clusters.
…perhaps not as nice as the original one, let me try again:
a problem always calls for backup
…thats just weak (perhaps more in tone with the current domain (genja.org)). lets try sth a bit more to the point:

tryggve ~ # cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid0]
md5 [...]

The power of doubt

Three people named Yes, No and Dunno are having a dicussion.  The discussion is about a very fundamental belief which plays a great role in these individuals’ lives. Their names reflect their subjective opinions on the matter at hand and will be their final answer or opinion. Alas, from the standpoint of Yes or No [...]

new driveZZZZ

2 x western digital re3 (half tb each)
1 x velociraptor 150gb (in exchange for raptor the broken 74gb) .

Raptor finally failed

WDC WD740ADFD-00NLR1  (2007-02-27 – 2009-03-06)
It used to do everything faster than lightning, but now it’s crippled and fails even to initiate a filesystem.
Thank you for the service.
RIP
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months prior to this it was obvious to me that a backup policy of sorts is needed. I did copy my gentoo partitions to safe storage, but not the [...]

hda on genja failing

I’m noticing that my /R/tmp is not what it used to be.
genja ~ # mount |grep /R/tmp
/dev/mapper/wdc-tmp on /R/tmp type reiserfs (rw)
genja ~ # pvdisplay /dev/md0
— Physical volume —
PV Name /dev/md0
VG Name [...]

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