The Godaddy DNS outage was caused by internal error, not a hack. We should specify name lookup via more than one DNS company so that if one company is unavailable, the other will still work and access to our web sites will be unaffected by a single point failure.
Category: Technical
VMWare Player and Ubuntu
VMWare has a habitual problem with NOT being usable in Ubuntu until several months after a release. I found a fix here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/130937/how-do-i-install-vmware-player-4-0-3. The bottom line is here: I based this on the instructions I found here: vmware player compile issue. To boil it down to the simplest steps: Download this tarball: http://weltall.heliohost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vmware802fixlinux320.tar.gz Extract the…
Free Anti-virus for Linux from reliable source
For those who invest in Anti-virus protection for their *ix boxes. Years ago I remember John McAfee, Peter Norton, and Friðrik Skúlason all started their own anti-virus projects and all made anti-virus free to individuals. Over time Peter bought himself a gay bar in New York, John went mostly into high cost corporate products and…
New Project Site
Interesting project site. http://www.clubjameco.com/
Group Editing using Linux / Emacs
Good post. http://technomancy.us/162 We’ve found SSH, tmux, and Emacs to be a great combination for this. The host prepares his machine with a new user created just for the purpose of swarming, and everyone is given the username, hostname, and password to log in over SSH. $ ssh swarm@zuse.local $ tmux attach Once logged in,…