Another Word for Nerd

that Tom DeLay took his own father off life support in 1988? He should quit trying to second-guess the judicial system. In other news, this has been drug out so long because Terri’s parents just want money from the settlement that has paid for her care.

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Finally got the ypldapd NIS-to-LDAP gateway software from PADL working perfect. It’s sitting on a RHEL4 box, talking to an iPlanet/Netscape/Sun Directory Server running on a Solaris machine.

A couple of months ago, I’d given thought to buying myself a Rolex watch as a gift. After seeing the actual prices, I gave up on that idea - but I’ve now found that there are plenty of places to get quality fakes on the Internet… Decisions, decisions…

Mail arrives with a subject of “Pre-Scripts w/out DR visit” and your first thought is something about “Data Recovery shell scripts?”

Terri Schiavo collapsed in her home in 1990, suffering from heart failure that led to severe brain damage. Michael Schiavo said his wife suffered from bulimia that resulted in a potassium deficiency, triggering the heart failure.

Sad to think that all of this could have been prevented with pie.

Ten people killed in yet another school shooting, yet the top story on CNN is about a human vegetable who should have been allowed to die fifteen years ago.

Terri Schaivo’s parents and dirtbag politicians need to stop humping her braindead corpse and just let things go, and quit smearing her husband who has obviously been through enough already.

I had a book on improving your memory, but I’ve lost it and can’t find it.

42 gigabytes of MP3s on network storage, a stack of 100 4.7G DVD-R blanks, and a 2x DVD burner in an iMac G5. It’s averaging about 30-35 minutes per DVD right now. I figure it will finish up sometime next week, then I can start burning the rest of the data off the 120G disk onto another stack of DVDs.

Using Samba on OS X as a bridge (via FTP) to access network shares from a Perl script running under Cygwin on a Windows machine.

(Cygwin has problems accessing network shares via crontab due to user permissions)

Why don’t I just run the Perl script on the OS X box? Because it depends on Win32: modules I can’t run on the Mac…