11/29/08 18:06 - 38ºF - ID#46882HAPPY FACESort of.
Home very very soon.


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11/26/08 13:26 - 34ºF - ID#46851Category: lifeVacationI'm sick. Of course, I'm on vacation. Why can't I be sick at a time I could use my sick leave?
That's all.

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11/21/08 14:33 - 26ºF - ID#46784Server CompromisedOne of my servers was compromised, thanks to a backup user's password set to something like: 'upload123'. The compromised user had locked down rights, thank god. But just to be safe we wiped the server. I didn't want to reinstall it, but you can't be sure.
Then, my stack of new servers was just delivered. So, this server is being wiped and reset, and then when I'm back at work I'll be completely replacing it. What a waste of time. All to put things back for a just a few days.
Anyone know of a program to make linux force good passwords on users?

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11/16/08 00:29 - 36ºF - ID#46701Category: technologyWorst iPhone App Yet?

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11/15/08 12:27 - 53ºF - ID#46697Category: programmingBug FixI love open source, we had a problem in a vendor library and we fixed it ourselves. If we had to wait for someone else to do it, who knows how long it would've been broken.
It was only a change to a couple lines of code, but it was very hard to track down. It took me and a co-worker a day of pair programming to narrow it down and figure out what to change, but damn it feels good to have done. And to have our specs and continuous integration running reliably again.
It was like 4 layers deep worth of metaprogramming. I feel like I know our spec library very, very well now.


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