I just finished the Bill Bryson book, A Short History Of Nearly Everything: a fun, fascinating review of all the science you never paid attention to in school. Bryson has a lot of ground to cover, bringing to life discoveries in the atomic world, genetics, geology, physics, astrophysics, and many, many others. He whittles these complicated subjects down to their human stories, while keeping the science real. I found it very entertaining, as I mentioned here before.
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August 31, 2007
MT.Net DNS Changes
MT.Net may disappear from the Internets momentarily over the holiday weekend. Have no fear, I’m migrating DNS servers.
If you lose us, check back in a day or two and all should be well again.
More Phishiness
I had a call come in from “Tuscany Industries” this morning, number 702-520-1117. I answered and decided to play their little game. A recorded female voice warned about my car’s warranty expiring. If I was not interested in renewing it, she said, press 2, otherwise press 1.
I pressed 1 and their phone switch said “transferring to the operator.”
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Cheap Thoughts: Doctor Auditions
I’ve finally decided its stupid to drive nearly to Apex from North Raleigh when I want to see my doctor. The cost in gas and time don’t justify it. I work from home 90% of the time so why schlep across town and back if I don’t have to?
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Brief MT.Net Outage
There was a brief MT.Net outage yesterday when my Xen VM ran out of virtual memory. It seems the pre-built CentOS image I began using did not mount a swap partition, nor did I think to check it for one. Thirty seconds of sysadmin work later and the problem was solved.
So far I’m digging the service. Like I said previously, the days of the absolute need to run on bare hardware are now over. Funny how the early days of computing revolved around time-sharing and the promise of the PC was to free you from such sharing. We’ve almost come full circle, eh?