Journal Saint Aardvark's Journal: I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
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Good news: I'm going to LISA! I convinced my employers to heavily subsidize my trip. I've booked a double room at the hotel; I'll be posting to the roomshare mailing list shortly, but feel free to comment or email if you wanna split the cost.
Bad news: I somehow borked X on my desktop at work yesterday. The symptoms are quite strange, and mostly involve not being able to click on a window and have focus move there. It's IceWM, and I haven't changed focus model, and the symptoms persisted over multiple restarts of KDM (ctrl-alt-backspace). I looked for open files, running processes and even removed
(Interesting how this pokes holes in my manly command-line-only stance; yes, I was able to get some work done by going to the console, but frankly I've become very very used to managing terminals and a browser with IceWM and it's hard to switch back. Damn.)
Weird news: A while back I came across a problem with a Solaris 10 machine: lpq just hung, and eventually timed out with an error (that I haven't written down, so I suck). Eventually figured out it was trying to contact the lpd service on the machine's main interface (handwave goes here about BSD-compatibility printing commands), which should've been run by inetd. Okay, but inetd is now taken care of by inetadm and svcs, not
And that is it for now. I am tired beyond belief, having moved up my annual snifter of port from Xmas to go out with coworkers last night. I stopped drinking at 7pm and I'm still tired today. Pathetic. Arlo would be so disappointed in me.
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