I had the gastroscopy performed this morning. It was done using a fibre-optic camera about the thickness of a finger. By definition, having such an object inserted into your bowels is not a plesant experience. I was offered a local anaesthetic but declined as it would make it difficult for me to swallow for up to an hour after the procedure. I do not particularly like the idea of choking on my own saliva. The examination took about 5 to 10 minutes. I puked constantly from the moment the camera passed the back of my throat until the camera was removed. My gut was sore from the cramps, I had broken a heavy sweat and my eyes were running with water. The endoscopist said he had never seen anyone react as strongly as I did. The nurse just looked at me funny. There you go. I am special! (At this point you might feel tempted to mail me the lyrics for "Creep" by Radiohead. I urge you to resist).
Actually, just looking at someone puking is enough to make me spew my guts everywhere. Same thing happens when I look at cigarette ashes in water. I can handle anything else, including gunshot wounds and train accidents, just spare me human vomit and cigarettes in water.
I am to drop heavy intake of spicy food, alcohol, red wine, coke and more from my diet. I will also need to further reduce my weight. Other than that there is little anyone can do. I can get pills to take the worst pain but they are a short term solution during bad times. I will be getting the pills, because if you think I am entirely dropping spicy food from my diet you are on drugs.
I returned today. The jobinterviews did not go well. 20 minutes into the first interview the HR person and I discovered how different our idea of an "acceptable salary" was so we aborted negotiations.
The second interview did not get to take place due to a non-shortage of staff.
I will be away tomorrow, possibly not returning until Wednesday. Thanks to the wonders of S/Key, I will have email access during this period. I will need to contact some people with regard to the time of one of the interviews which has not been finalised yet.
See you on the other side. (Oh, none of my friends contacted me to meet up. I am starting to see a pattern here).
I have found it necessary to make a date on the 29th with some doctors to have a camera and a flashlight forced down my throat. There is something wrong with my stomach. Wish me luck.
Monday, and possibly Tuesday, I am going to be in Copenhagen for job interviews. If anyone wants to meet up, give me a hollar.
My DCF77 receiver has been dead for weeks. It started receiving a timesignal two days ago without provocation, and this evening it stopped again. I have no idea why.
I was kicked from #openbsd on efnet for being too rude. Imagine that.
[01:28] <Muertos> Can anyone help me with putting a NIC into Promisc mode?
(I'm new to OpenBSD, I have been a Linux user for 6 years)
[01:28] <holsta> Muertos, run tcpdump.
[01:28] <Muertos> it will stay in Promisc after?
[01:28] <holsta> Of course not.
[01:28] <Muertos> then it's not an option :(
[01:29] <holsta> Why would you need promiscious mode if there's no sniffer
looking at your interface?
[01:30] <Muertos> IDS
[01:30] <Muertos> Want to run OpenBSD with Snort
[01:30] *** Muertos has been kicked from #openbsd by john [john@sugar.
makintosh.com] (Learn to swim.)
[01:30] *** Joins: Muertos [~muertos@CPE0000c0949c7f.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com]
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[01:30] <holsta> Christ all mighty.
[01:30] <Muertos> WTF?
[01:31] <holsta> Muertos, would you *think* for a second?
[01:31] <holsta> Muertos, come on. Engage your brain.
[01:31] <Muertos> ummmm
[01:31] <john> Whats theat?
[01:32] <Fetch> Muertos: unfortunately, you aren't capable of running Snort on
OpenBSD. I would suggest that you look to Redhat 7.3 for the answer.
[01:32] <Muertos> www.snort.org sais it's possible
[01:32] <holsta> Muertos, you're a fucking idiot.
[01:33] <holsta> Muertos, leave now.
[01:33] <Muertos> HAHAHAHAHAHAA
[01:33] <holsta> Muertos, did you hear me? Type /quit
[01:33] <Fetch> Muertos: you're seriously weak in your networking knowledge.
I'd suggest building on the basics before engaging in Snortism
[01:33] <Muertos> you ppl make me laugh too
[01:34] *** Mode change for #openbsd by john: +o rajak
[01:34] *** holsta has been kicked from #OpenBSD by rajak [raj@pandemonium.
cerias.purdue.edu] (You are excessively rude.)
[01:35] *** Joins: holsta [~a@miracle.mongers.org] has joined #openbsd
[01:35] [#openbsd] Channel created on Tue Feb 5 10:06:56 2002
[01:35] <holsta> I am?
[01:35] <Fetch> holsta: yeah, kinda
[01:36] *** Joins: cgm [cgm@reticent.dissemble.net] has joined #openbsd
[01:36] <Fetch> I mean, I can stand john, and you were going a bit over the
edge
[01:36] <Fetch> might wanna tone it down a lil
[01:36] <Fetch> :)
[01:36] <holsta> Hm, I'm not geared for timesinks.
[01:37] *** Parts: holsta [~a@miracle.mongers.org] has left #openbsd
No retreat, baby, no surrender.
The other things I discovered about OpenBSD is that Dug Song got married a few months ago, and that Angelos is no longer with the project.
I discovered a number of things about OpenBSD today. First off, Art Grabowski is now working full time on OpenBSD. His dayjob used to be kernel development. I am probably months behind on that little news item. I forget what the other things I discovered were. You do not care anyway.
I meant to write a rant on broken disks, VMWare and RequestTracker but I cannot be arsed. I'll take any 6-10GB IDE disks off your hands, though. I think I have given up on RequestTracker -- it simply sucks too much.
This made me laugh:
[04:43] *** Joins: ssh_ [~ssh@r2d2.eagle.y.se] has joined #openbsd [04:43] <ssh_> wtf [04:44] <ssh_> this is the weirdest fucking dumb-terminal Ive ever seen! [04:44] <jaiden> you got the REALLY dumb terminal [04:45] <ssh_> shush
I seem to have lost contact with Mick. It has been weeks without email response and I sent another email yesterday to which there is still no reply.
I wanted to listen to some of the blackhat.com media stuff only to find their media server is done and gone. Mail to the site bounces. Mailed jeff at his defcon account.
I discovered a free IDE for Windows which works with the mingw compiler. It's Dev-CPP.
If you do not already know "Landslide" by Stevie Nicks (and covered by Tori Amos and Smashing Pumpkins) get to know it.
I had a dream last night that I was at the interview for the position with my previous employer. In the dream, I turned down the joboffer.
Also, it appears I will not be making a trip back to Ireland for at least a few months. Time and money is not on my side at the moment.
My ISP (Stofanet.dk) sucks donkey balls. Pinging my first hop:
7639 packets transmitted, 222 packets received, 97% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 180.088/14245.169/23082.695/5951.161 ms 73 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 86% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 8.552/24.137/69.435/20.299 ms
The idiots at Sourceforge broke the CVS email notification for Dancer a while ago, so I fixed that today. Jakob said he started working on making Dancer -Wall and lint clean; I started eliminating security problems in the code. 4.17 is going to be one huge bugfix.
I am heading off in a few hours for another long weekend of playing Operation Flashpoint, et al. Back Sunday.
On the topic of trustworthy computing: http://security.tombom.co.uk/shatter.html. Yay. Any type of remote access to Windows equals total ownership. These are the people who want to us all to run their software, and nothing else?
People have asked me why I no longer carry on arguments on mailinglists or Usenet, or generally try to convince people they're wrong. I found a quote by theboz@Kuro5hin that explains my reasons better than I ever could:
Winning an argument on the internet is like winning a gold medal at the Special Olympics -- even though you're the champ, you're still a retard.
I am badly in need of a 2.5" IDE disk, 6-10GB in size. The disk in my laptop is dying. Contact me if you have anything to donate. I also added my hardware needs to my Needful things page.
I have backups running now so I need not worry about losing uncommitted work. I guess I should use branches more to work towards having as little work as possible uncommitted.
Interesting day, and mbk is funny:
[17:55] [mbk!egrep@207.124.144.10] notice the OpenSSH advisory today?
[17:55] [mbk!egrep@207.124.144.10] thought of you when I read that
[17:55] [mbk!egrep@207.124.144.10] openbsd's new motto: 4 hours without a trojaned
core component. :-)
dogs is funny as hell, too.
[21:47] <dogs> i think more people should be put to death tho [21:48] <dogs> like points on driving licences [21:48] <dogs> stupid points [21:48] <dogs> do something stupid, get some stupid points [21:48] <dogs> collect 12 stupid points in 3 years, say goodbye to your kneecaps