soapbox

When you log into dactyl at a shell, it pops up a little quote and an instruction to read the user agreement. (If you only use the blog, this doesn’t apply to you.)

Well, actually it should have had an instruction to read the user agreement. Instead it said “Please reader the user agreement…”

Now, that message has been the there for maybe six months? (Actually, I just checked, it was last changed on July 15, 2004.) No one noticed.

Of course, I didn’t notice it either.

Look at me! I’m posting! (and it’s still afternoon!) Now I’m special

Yea!
I have nothing exciting to post.
Oh.
Oh, well.

The next one will be better.

So I should include something useful: Hitchhiker’s movie was cute. Not great, but cute. So I recommend it if you want to see a cute movie.

Instead of the current dactyl system that’s only burning like 15 watts, I’ve decided to go to a quad pentium 4 system that will use about 1500 W and will actually be as hot as a small star. I don’t think anyone other than my officemates will care, and it’ll only matter to them because the room will be a nice toasty 104 degrees.

Needless to say, that’s not the case. However, dactyl did just get a memory upgrade. This is the second attempt since the “tested” memory that I got the first time was defective. (As a note, maybe “tested” just meant that they tested it but didn’t throw away any defective memory. Or they just squinted at it. It doesn’t actually say how it was tested.) Anyway, the new memory seems to be surviving a burn-in test.

So y’all can feel free to run emacs or firefox or whatever over X from dactyl on your own machines. If there’s any specific program that would be helpful to you just let me know.

(and if you’re wondering, we’re up to 384 MB of ram, it probably won’t be changing for a long time.)

Well, not really under attack, but I’ve never seen the webserver use this much of the cpu time.

It looks like the alexa search engine just found dactyl and is not cataloging everything. We don’t have that much stuff, so I imagine it shouldn’t take that long.

It would have been kind of cool if it were a real attack. Sort of anyway.