Monthly Archives: December 2006

What a pain in the ass

Posted on December 27, 2006 by Paul Tomblin

This morning while perusing my logwatch mails I see a strange result from the script that is supposed to email me with the day’s changes from my DAFIF Replacement wiki. It was complaining about a missing perl module in the … Continue reading →

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Woo hoo!

Posted on December 22, 2006 by Paul Tomblin

My contract has been extended for the year. I can start breathing again.

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1992/2006

Posted on December 22, 2006 by Paul Tomblin

In 1992, I worked for a company called GeoVision. I’d worked there for 6 years, but they were having financial problems. The previous two quarters, the end of the quarter had been the time when they announced layoffs. And just … Continue reading →

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Dammit!

Posted on December 14, 2006 by Paul Tomblin

What the hell is wrong with my colo box? For the second time in 10 days, it has gotten all weird on me and needed a reboot. This time, my “tail -F” on the various log files on my main … Continue reading →

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Today’s interesting discovery

Posted on December 14, 2006 by Paul Tomblin

My navaid.com web site uses a tiny bit of Ajax in order to refresh a portion of a page showing how many waypoints have been generated so far, when you’re generating a database. A couple of people reported that it … Continue reading →

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