Outside my living room window

Cat prints

Trees

Parking Lot

Path I walk to the bus every morning

Main Road West (my bus stop across the road there)

Main Road East

Road to my apartment complex

Same road

A couple squirrels ran by

An icicle

Here’s a quick video I took

Shortly after the video one of those birds shit on my head, luckily I wasn’t too far from my apartment so I just went home and showered.

The List:

• HP Procurve 2626 – 24 port 10/100 Switch
• HP Procurve 6108 – 8 port 10/100/1000 Switch
• HP DL360, Dual 3.0Ghz Xeon, 8GB RAM, 2 72GB 10K SCSI (in RAID1)
• HP DL360, Dual 3.0Ghz Xeon, 8GB RAM, 2 72GB 10K SCSI (in RAID1)
• HP MSA20 Storage Array, 3 1TB Drives in RAID 5

And I took pictures and video during the install…

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/49757/wtfserve/MOV00342.MPG
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/49757/wtfserve/MOV00350.MPG

It seems like it’s been 2 years since this Election’s campaigns started, some might even say they’ve been going on for longer, speculation of Hilary Clinton running for office was going on since before the 2000 election. I ask you though, why? Why is there this need for us to constantly be waiting for an event that ultimately means nothing?

You might be shaking your head, asking “What’s with this guy? Of course it means something, it means everything!” But does it really? When was the last time you were directly affected by a new president? You might be saying “My brother is in a foreign country because of war!” or “I’m in the poor house because our president ruined the economy!”. Well I have a secret for you, economic turns and wars happen regardless of who is in office!

We had a VERY prosperous 10 years or so during the Clinton era, what else happened during that time? The dot com boom, and what happened around 9/11? The dot com bubble burst! Several new jobs were created and just as quickly several jobs were just as quickly dissipated. Same with wars and threats, we have Vietnam, Iraq v1, Kosovo, Cuban missle crisis hell every little skirmish in the middle east ties up our military for decades. Do you think it really makes that much of a difference who is in office?

I grew up in Arizona and McCain has always been great he’s changed in his political views a lot during this campaign. Obama is a great charismatic person who has a lot of views that fall in line with my own, but how can we really know who he is? In the end what is the difference between the candidates? Race? Age? Tax plans that have a history of not being enacted and even so are different by mere fractions? It’s always going to be the same, the rich people will always be taxed more, the poor people will always want more social services.

Nothing will change and we will always progress regardless of who’s in theoretical charge. I say we vote, vote for apathy, don’t vote at all who cares in the end anyway? If you decide to vote anyway, vote for progress, progress for progress sake is better than doing nothing regardless of the outcome.

edit: Vote Stephen Baldwin

It’s not as simple as saying “we’re in this group and you’re in that group and that group is wrong and stupid and crazy” because “our” group doesn’t exist, it’s JUST the religious group and then everyone else. We should come together in our varied beliefs/dis-beliefs/anti-beliefs and at the very least let everyone know there’s nothing wrong with being ok with no belief.

The idea that we need religion is a deeply flawed one, one could argue that religion is nothing more than attempt at controlling populations through fear and a way to start wars. We don’t have to believe the same thing, we don’t have to see eye to eye, but at the very least we should agree that being ok with not knowing isn’t bad. We should celebrate the fact that we are willing to do good just to do good, it’s up to everyone as moral people to decide to be good and religion has no place in your decision making process. Ultimately you are the decision maker and if you can’t make the right choice without a deity you need to look deep at what you want out of life and how you want to affect those around you.

Most importantly we should at least all agree that belief in anything other than rational provable facts and information should not affect the way we are governed, taught and treated.

It appears that there’s some kind of mime type issue where either the input/output is munged because SUSE incorrectly identifies it. It results in a “loading dashboard…” showing up for a long time and after that.

Your search is still running after 1 minute. Unless you have set a high maxresults:: value, check if the Splunk Server is up and responding

The fix is actually quite easy, I’ll just repost it here just in case the link I provided becomes bad later.

Unable to get a properly formatted response from the server

Users running Splunk on a SuSE 10.x server may receive the error message Unable to get a properly formatted response from the server; canceling the current search when executing any kind of search.

In order to resolve this issue edit /etc/mime.types. Delete (or comment out) these 2 lines:

text/x-xsl xsl
text/x-xslt xslt xsl

Also change this line:

text/xml xml

to:

text/xml xml xsl

With these changes in place, restart Splunk and clear your browser cache.

Make sure to clear your cache, it’s actually quite easy! Just go to your firefox preferences underneath the “privacy” tag, there is a “clear now…” button.

Also visit WTFServe for deals on unmetered bandwidth on dedicated servers and VPSes.