Judge not...
Judge not, lest you be judged - a topic that has been making the rounds at my church in some depth lately. Several things that were said on the topic kinda got under my skin this past week, so I decided to write down my thoughts and counter arguments here.
God's Promises
So here’s the issue: we, as christians, accept the Bible as God’s absolute word. If it’s in there, it’s true, and that’s that. Contained within the Bible are any number of “promises” - protection, provision, healing, comforting, etc. Some of these we see- for example, I have never been unable to pay a bill, although I am often left wondering how we managed to spend an extra $800 in a given month and still break even. …
Proper Support Etiquette
Please, people, if you are going to ask for help with a problem you are having with my software, be prepared to follow-up with me about it. It is very rare for an initial support request to have all the information I need to solve an issue that you are having. If I reply to your request asking for more information, then send the information! …
How the E-Mail was Re-Won
So after getting the notification that my @macosx.com e-mail was about to expire, I sent a response stating, essentially, “Good riddance”. You may recall my previous rant about how they lost my messages, and so I switched. About an hour later I got a response from Scott (sysadmin there I believe) stating that they do, in fact, keep backups and it was just that the support agent I was corresponding with didn’t know about it. …
Building a static universal Postgresql
Most of the time when you are building Postgresql, you can probably just do a generic config with whatever options you want, and be fine. If you are just running the server on a given machine, you have no need for a static build or a universal binary- in fact, such things could be counter-productive for all I know. …
Installing OpenBSD on a PPC Mac Mini
I recently attempted to Install OpenBSD 4.8 on an old 1.42 GHz PPC mac mini we had left over at work. The OpenBSD distribution disks come with a PPC build, so I was expecting the install to be fairly straightforward. While it did work, there were a number of hiccups in the process. …
Setting up a Captive Portal Site with Web Filtering
Goal:
To set up a cheap captive portal site with web filtering using Squid and PF
Purpose:
While there are any number of captive portal solutions out there, any one of which would probably be easier than this solution, I also wanted to be able to filter the web traffic, which none of the pre-made solutions seemed able to do. …
Of Stiff Heads and Beds
For those of you who are interested, our latest woodworking project to be completed is a bed Headboard (see what I did there? Stiff Head- HeadBoard? No? Oh well :-P) The picture above is of the complete headboard in our living room. Here’s one of it installed.
I think it worked out well. …
Insignificant makeover - home edition
Two weeks and about $2500 later, and our house has received its long-awaited (ok, not really, just two years) and much needed (well, by some definitions) facelift. The entry way has been expanded to the full width of the existing porch, allowing enough room inside for the inner door to be closed before opening the outer door. …