Sam’s Blog

• Microblogs April-May 2013 Here are the Microblogs I posted between April 15, 2013 and May 5, 2013. ... [Read more] (May 05, 2013)

• MaraDNS and the Wikipedia I did not get a chance to update MaraDNS this month. The reason is because ... [Read more] (April 20, 2013)
• Microblogs April 2013 week 2 In my microblogs for the second week of April, I discuss living in Mexico, ... [Read more] (April 15, 2013)
• Microblogs April 2013 week 1 This is an archive of my microblog postings for the first week of April, ... [Read more] (April 07, 2013)

• March 2013 Microblogs Here are all of the microblog postings I made in March 2013. I discuss ... [Read more] (March 30, 2013)
• Tweets March 2013 I am moving away from Twitter and to using my own code for microblogs. ... [Read more] (March 29, 2013)
• Deadwood update I have updated Deadwood to fix a long-standing bug resolving host names ... [Read more] (March 20, 2013)
• Why I need Masculism This is my explanation for feminists who get upset whenever I use the #... [Read more] (March 16, 2013)
• Creeper cards In today's blog, I discuss those creeper cards which have recently been ... [Read more] (March 07, 2013)
• Twitter wrap-up In today's blog, I go over tweets from my Twitter feed posted in February. ... [Read more] (March 01, 2013)

• Deadwood update In today’s blog, I discuss today’s Deadwood update. The problem When I ... [Read more] (February 22, 2013)
• Netbooks in 2013 In today's blog, I discuss netbooks in 2013. Netbooks are not dead While ... [Read more] (February 17, 2013)
• Applebee's and God Recently, there was a pastor who went to Applebee's. While there, she ... [Read more] (February 05, 2013)
• Web font rendering In today's blog, I will discuss web font rendering on Chrome, and the work ... [Read more] (February 03, 2013)

• Thank you, Virginia This is an email I sent out earlier today Mark Obenshain, Ralph Smith, ... [Read more] (January 31, 2013)
• BuyVM: All is now good Just a brief note that all is now well with BuyVM at Fiberhub. Everything ... [Read more] (January 24, 2013)
• A brief look at systemd In today's blog, I look at systemd, the program that will replace init in ... [Read more] (January 21, 2013)
• MaraDNS update MaraDNS update I have released MaraDNS 2.0.07. This release updates ... [Read more] (January 20, 2013)
• samiam.org on IPv6 With the inevitable transition to IPv6 looming, and with IPv6 support on ... [Read more] (January 06, 2013)
• Minor Civ4 update I have been starting to play Civilization 4 again and have made a minor ... [Read more] (January 05, 2013)
• Finally, I have BuyVM Last year, I complained that it was impossible to get a BuyVM node. ... [Read more] (January 01, 2013)

• 2012 wrap-up 2012 has been a good year. While I only devote one day a month to MaraDNS, ... [Read more] (December 31, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1.3 end-of-life It may not be the end of the world today, but it is the end of MaraDNS 1.3.... [Read more] (December 21, 2012)
• Deadwood 3.2.03 released Deadwood has been updated. This is a bugfix-only release relative to ... [Read more] (December 20, 2012)
• How many squares? There's a puzzle making the rounds on social networks where one needs to ... [Read more] (December 19, 2012)
• Round-up I discuss an ObHack update and the 2012 Wrex the Halls concert, as well as ... [Read more] (December 12, 2012)
• Blog meta-index Today's blog is an index of previous blog entries. Every now and then, I ... [Read more] (December 01, 2012)

• Adios, Gopher A few months ago, I put up a Gopher server. Today, I have shut down the ... [Read more] (November 30, 2012)
• Deadwood update After adding a domain to blacklist to my Deadwood server and restarting ... [Read more] (November 24, 2012)
• Let's not secede I agree with fundamental conservative principles: I agree that if we do ... [Read more] (November 14, 2012)
• Obama: Looking forward As an Obama supporter, the last thing I want to do is gloat right now. I ... [Read more] (November 07, 2012)
• Post-election thoughts As I write this, Romney is making his concession speech; I will discuss ... [Read more] (November 06, 2012)
• Final election prediction Since Nate's numbers are looking better and better for Obama every day, ... [Read more] (November 04, 2012)
• Saturday election prediction With only three days until the election, here's my prediction, again based ... [Read more] (November 03, 2012)
• Deadwood and SHA-3 In today's blog, I discuss the possibility of updating Deadwood's ... [Read more] (November 02, 2012)
• Keccak: The best choice In today's blog, I discuss the Keccak hash, and why it was the best choice ... [Read more] (November 01, 2012)

• Deadwood update Deadwood update In today's update of Deadwood, MaraDNS' recursive resolver:... [Read more] (October 28, 2012)
• Saturday election prediction In today's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday ... [Read more] (October 27, 2012)
• Friday election prediction In tonight's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday ... [Read more] (October 26, 2012)
• Saturday election prediction In tonight's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday ... [Read more] (October 20, 2012)
• Thursday election prediction In tonight's prediction, I am using NerdWallet's numbers from today. This ... [Read more] (October 18, 2012)
• Wednesday election prediction In tonight's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday (... [Read more] (October 17, 2012)
• Tonight's election prediction I am using Huffpost's numbers for today (pre-debate) for tonight's ... [Read more] (October 16, 2012)
• Predicting the election I am discussing politics again. As per my previous promise, I will not ... [Read more] (October 15, 2012)
• Why use MaraDNS? I had a friend of mine recently ask me why MaraDNS is a DNS server worth ... [Read more] (October 06, 2012)
• Why is Git still using SHA-1 Back in 2008, Dancho Danchev praised MaraDNS, my DNS implementation, for ... [Read more] (October 04, 2012)

• Slashdot: A final look In today's blog, I wrap my series on Slashdot which I have written about ... [Read more] (September 29, 2012)
• MaraDNS update In today's blog, I describe the work I have done on MaraDNS, link to a new ... [Read more] (September 22, 2012)
• Web typography In today's blog, I discuss the current state of web typography, and some ... [Read more] (September 18, 2012)
• Remembering September 11 For people like my stepmother and my friend Trillamar who have a birthday ... [Read more] (September 11, 2012)
• Multi Master fonts In today's blog, I discuss a new open-source Multi Master font, as well as ... [Read more] (September 08, 2012)
• Slashdot and more In today's blog, I discuss changing fonts on my webpage, my SSD hard disk ... [Read more] (September 07, 2012)
• Slashdot Slashdot has been a guilty pleasure of mine ever since it came out. Indeed,... [Read more] (September 03, 2012)
• No more politics I have made a decision to no longer post or comment publicly about my ... [Read more] (September 01, 2012)

• MaraDNS update MaraDNS non-update I have made a new snapshot of MaraDNS 2.0 here; this is ... [Read more] (August 27, 2012)
• MaraDNS update MaraDNS update I have finished up porting all of MaraDNS 2.0's SQA tests ... [Read more] (August 23, 2012)
• The great recession If I were to blame the housing bubble and subsequent recession on any ... [Read more] (August 18, 2012)
• Server Fault Fail Over at Server Fault, someone resurrected a years-dead thread by claiming ... [Read more] (August 15, 2012)
• Objective truth is going away Geroge Orwell lamented, in his essay "Looking back on the Spanish War", ... [Read more] (August 14, 2012)
• Adding Facebook comments Comments are difficult to deal with. I had to turn off comments on the old ... [Read more] (August 06, 2012)
• George Orwell and the truth One thing I find very disgusting about today's politics is how easily ... [Read more] (August 02, 2012)

• Oracle Linux: Now free Ever since I had issues with CentOS over a year ago (which have greatly ... [Read more] (July 31, 2012)
• I no longer accept patches MaraDNS update I am letting the MaraDNS community know that I am no longer ... [Read more] (July 23, 2012)
• Deadwood update Deadwood update I have updated the patch resolving the problem Deadwood ... [Read more] (July 21, 2012)
• Finally, a CVE-2012-1911 patch After nearly five months, there is a patch for CVE-2012-1911. The patch ... [Read more] (July 11, 2012)

• Deadwood update Deadwood update Earlier this month, Deadwood was unable to resolve es-us.... [Read more] (June 23, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 End-of-life MaraDNS 1 end-of-life: June 21, 2015 Ten years ago today, I released ... [Read more] (June 21, 2012)
• Legends of Ancient Arabia In today's blog entry, I review the Legends of Ancient Arabia (LoAA) ... [Read more] (June 11, 2012)

• MaraDNS update MaraDNS update I am in the slow process of updating MaraDNS for RHEL6-... [Read more] (May 21, 2012)
• On Civilization IV I have begun work on Totestra, which is my modifications to a Civilization ... [Read more] (May 10, 2012)
• Inspiron 14z sound problem I had a bizarre problem on a Dell Inspiron 14z with a Conexant SmartAudio ... [Read more] (May 08, 2012)

• EasyDNS and truncation I have updated Deadwood today. This will be my last MaraDNS and Deadwood ... [Read more] (April 24, 2012)
• Groundhog Day Groundhog Day, a 1993 movie starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, is ... [Read more] (April 08, 2012)
• Getting DNSSEC for MaraDNS I would love MaraDNS to have DNSSEC support. Unfortunately, I have bills ... [Read more] (April 03, 2012)
• Humility Humility is not thinking less of myself; it is thinking of myself less. To ... [Read more] (April 02, 2012)
• MaraDNS now has funding In today's blog entry (for April 1, 2012), I discuss MaraDNS' funding and ... [Read more] (April 01, 2012)

• The mythical $15/year VPS In this blog, I briefly go over low-cost VMs, discuss the non-availability ... [Read more] (March 27, 2012)
• MaraDNS: No DNSSEC In 2001, having a secure DNS server meant running a DNS server did not ... [Read more] (March 26, 2012)
• A thought I am responsible for every resentment I have. This doesn't mean I am at ... [Read more] (March 25, 2012)
• New MaraDNS CVE: 2012-1570 In today's blog entry, I discuss CVE-2012-1570 as well as Deadwood 2.3. ... [Read more] (March 22, 2012)
• DNS security comparison DNS security comparison I have compared the CVE history of four of the "... [Read more] (March 21, 2012)
• Deadwood update In today's blog entry, I describe this month's Deadwood update, as well as ... [Read more] (March 20, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 update Security fix for MaraDNS 1: Maximum TTL is now one day, to avoid ghost ... [Read more] (March 17, 2012)
• The ghost domain bug In today's blog entry, I look at the ghost domain bug, and how various DNS ... [Read more] (March 14, 2012)
• MaraDNS 2.0.06 and 1.4.11 I have updated MaraDNS to use Deadwood 3.2.02. Deadwood 3.2.02 is a ... [Read more] (March 11, 2012)
• On Anne Frank In today's blog, I discuss Anne Frank's fate in the world of a ... [Read more] (March 07, 2012)
• Remembering 1992 In today's blog, I share a Bible verse, and reminisce about the ... [Read more] (March 06, 2012)
• Geomyidae is stable In an earlier blog entry, I implied that Geomyidae, the gopher daemon I am ... [Read more] (March 05, 2012)
• On fundamentalist reasoning This blog entry looks at an event in the Bible which is widely regarded as ... [Read more] (March 04, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 has limited support This is a heads-up that MaraDNS 1 is no longer supported for anything ... [Read more] (March 03, 2012)
• MaraDNS donations In today's blog entry, I discuss why I have changed the link for making ... [Read more] (March 02, 2012)

• Deadwood 3.2.02 released I have released Deadwood 3.2.02 today. If all goes well, I will not have ... [Read more] (February 29, 2012)
• Deadwood update Today's update of Deadwood only updates the documentation: I make it clear ... [Read more] (February 28, 2012)
• Deadwood update; etc. In today's blog I mention a minor update I did to Deadwood yesterday, ... [Read more] (February 26, 2012)
• Fundamentalism & Christianity Everyone has a soapbox The advantage of the internet is that it lets ... [Read more] (February 25, 2012)
• Bulk polyhedral dice Buying dice After a 20-year hiatus, I am starting to play role playing ... [Read more] (February 18, 2012)
• Classic X11 fonts for Windows For people, like myself, who are fans of the classic X11 font misc-fixed, ... [Read more] (February 16, 2012)
• RedHat extended support I just found out today that RedHat has added three years to the support ... [Read more] (February 15, 2012)
• Happy Valentine's Day Happy Valentine's day everyone. For people happily in relationships, today ... [Read more] (February 14, 2012)
• On Ghost Domains Earlier this month Haixin Duan, et al released the paper "Ghost Domain ... [Read more] (February 13, 2012)
• MaraDNS 2.0.05 released I have released MaraDNS 2.0.05 today. This release updates the recursive ... [Read more] (February 12, 2012)
• Deadwood update I recently mentioned that the changes to give Deadwood finer time stamps ... [Read more] (February 11, 2012)
• My Gopher server As a geek, I sometimes have an interest in technologies and forms of ... [Read more] (February 06, 2012)
• A brief review of my VPS hosts I will briefly review the four VPS hosts I have used. A VPS, or virtual ... [Read more] (February 05, 2012)
• Adios cripperz.sg One of the three nodes I have used for hosting my domains (samiam.org, ... [Read more] (February 03, 2012)

• Having a spiritual experience I did not write this entry. This entry was written by Abhinabha Tangerman ... [Read more] (January 30, 2012)
• Deadwood update The code to give Deadwood finer timestamps has triggered a regression: For ... [Read more] (January 28, 2012)
• Deadwood update I have been improving Deadwood's resolution of domains with a bugfix as ... [Read more] (January 25, 2012)
• I oppose SOPA On the right, you can see a picture of me in San Jose protesting the DMCA ... [Read more] (January 19, 2012)
• Deadwood update I have been updating the Deadwood documentation a little. In addition, I ... [Read more] (January 17, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 update Hopefully the third time is the charm. While I added hash randomization to ... [Read more] (January 13, 2012)
• New Deadwood snapshot Here's a new FAQ question and answer for Deadwood: Records added to the ... [Read more] (January 06, 2012)
• Deadwood bug fixed I have fixed a bug in Deadwood: Srinivas Hebbar reported that Deadwood ... [Read more] (January 04, 2012)
• Welcome to 2012 In today's blog entry, I welcome my readers to twenty-twelve (2012) and ... [Read more] (January 01, 2012)

• MaraDNS 1 update Looking closely at the patch I applied yesterday, I realized that it had a ... [Read more] (December 30, 2011)
• MaraDNS 1 update One issue with making software is that a responsible programmer takes ... [Read more] (December 29, 2011)
• 2011 Wrap-up Now that the year is wrapping up, here is a look at what I accomplished ... [Read more] (December 24, 2011)
• Wrapping up the web design Now that 2011 is coming to an end, it is time for me to wrap up the web ... [Read more] (December 23, 2011)
• I miss killfiles Usenet and killfiles Once upon a time, before the world wide web, the ... [Read more] (December 22, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.1.03 released I have somewhat of a tradition of releasing new versions of MaraDNS on ... [Read more] (December 21, 2011)
• Looking at Celery In today's blog entry, I describe how to have cloud (distributed) ... [Read more] (December 20, 2011)
• Deadwood update Yesterday, I mentioned that there was a bug in MaraDNS (OK, Deadwood). I ... [Read more] (December 18, 2011)
• Round Up In today's blog entry, I discuss SOPA, a bug in MaraDNS, revising my web ... [Read more] (December 17, 2011)
• Round-up Today's blog discusses giving modern CSS to IE8, my site's browser usage ... [Read more] (December 16, 2011)
• Dillo CSS hacks A while ago, I posted an article about Dillo CSS hacks. Since that article ... [Read more] (December 13, 2011)
• Deadwood update Today's update to Deadwood does not update any source code; what I have ... [Read more] (December 11, 2011)
• ObHack 007.3 ObHack 007.3 released Fritz has made and I have uploaded ObHack 007.3. ... [Read more] (December 10, 2011)
• Web page design update As I have mentioned before, I am not completely satisfied with how this ... [Read more] (December 09, 2011)
• MaraDNS and Paypal On Facebook, my friend Sean Lynch posted a Paypal horror story of someone ... [Read more] (December 07, 2011)
• MaraDNS funding ; etc. MaraDNS funding Last month's funding drive gave me enough money to devote ... [Read more] (December 01, 2011)

• New Deadwood snapshot In today's snapshot of Deadwood, I have fixed a bug where the CNAME of ... [Read more] (November 30, 2011)
• Deadwood update Better timestamps I mentioned in a recent blog entry my plans to implement ... [Read more] (November 29, 2011)
• MaraDNS can redirect domains Phil Harlow had an interesting problem which MaraDNS beautifully solves. ... [Read more] (November 28, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.1.01 released While everyone else in the USA has been celebrating Thanksgiving, I have ... [Read more] (November 27, 2011)
• Thanksgiving thoughts MaraDNS Funding received from my November 2011 fund drive is being used to ... [Read more] (November 23, 2011)
• New Deadwood snapshot I am beginning the work of having Deadwood check for a CNAME record in the ... [Read more] (November 19, 2011)
• Deadwood snapshot In today's snapshot of Deadwood, I have added a patch that fixes an issue ... [Read more] (November 13, 2011)
• MaraDNS 2.0.04 In light of Nicholas Bamber's very kind donation, my work on MaraDNS ... [Read more] (November 12, 2011)
• MaraDNS update MaraDNS 1.4.07 Because of a very very generous donation from Nicholas ... [Read more] (November 11, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.0.05 released My funding drive for November 2011 has so far been very successful. ... [Read more] (November 10, 2011)
• On Flattr Flattr and Kachingle are two proposed systems for giving money to creators ... [Read more] (November 09, 2011)
• Call for donations (Update: I have gotten a very kind donation from Bradley at Northtech. ... [Read more] (November 08, 2011)
• The Galileo 7 There is a classic episode from the original Star Trek named The Galileo ... [Read more] (November 05, 2011)
• Logic riddles There is a classic logic puzzle out there which is often not worded ... [Read more] (November 04, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.0.04 I have released Deadwood 3.0.04 today. This release fixes some bugs and ... [Read more] (November 01, 2011)

• Deadwood hacking One issue that has been annoying me is DNS timeouts wating to get a PTR ("... [Read more] (October 27, 2011)
• RMS on Jobs; Raspberry Pi RMS on Jobs RMS — the founder of the GNU Free software movement — has ... [Read more] (October 23, 2011)
• Dennis Ritchie RIP Just a few short days after Steve Jobs' sad passing, the great Dennis ... [Read more] (October 13, 2011)
• Web site plans Looking ahead While smartphone views are currently only a small percentage ... [Read more] (October 12, 2011)
• On web site design CNet's new design I must say, I really like the new web site design that ... [Read more] (October 10, 2011)
• MaraDNS update Karim Malhas has reported a bug with MaraDNS' csv2 parser when using the /... [Read more] (October 09, 2011)
• MaraDNS update Thanks to a contribution from a sponsor, I have been able to allocate some ... [Read more] (October 08, 2011)
• RIP Steve Jobs Yesterday's passing of Steve Jobs has greatly saddened me. When he left ... [Read more] (October 06, 2011)
• MaraDNS update I have fixed the following issues in today's release of MaraDNS: Nicholas ... [Read more] (October 05, 2011)
• Cloak of Darkness Interactive fiction Once upon a time, long long ago, the preferred method ... [Read more] (October 02, 2011)

• Deadwood update I have finished up all of the work I am going to do for MaraDNS and ... [Read more] (September 12, 2011)
• Open-source IMAP clients For my work, I had to find a good open-source IMAP client that runs in ... [Read more] (September 10, 2011)
• Deadwood update I am slowly but surely going through the bugs people have been reporting ... [Read more] (September 05, 2011)
• Random map templates I have made two RMG templates suitable for the recent patches to make ... [Read more] (September 01, 2011)

• Global warming denial Everyone is welcome to have an opinion. And, indeed, there are a number of ... [Read more] (August 27, 2011)
• On Apple products First and foremost, now that Steve Jobs is leaving Apple, my prayers are ... [Read more] (August 26, 2011)
• TinyVZ security update A discussion with Solar Designer (yes, that Solar Designer) on the OpenVZ ... [Read more] (August 23, 2011)
• TinyVZ 0.7 released I have released TinyVZ 0.7 today. This will be my last TinyVZ release for ... [Read more] (August 20, 2011)
• TinyVZ update I'm still hacking away at TinyVZ. Working with Busybox can be really ... [Read more] (August 16, 2011)
• Tiny OpenVZ template One issue I have had with OpenVZ is that there is not a small template ... [Read more] (August 15, 2011)
• Keeping CentOS secure One annoyance CentOS has is that, whenever Red Hat makes a new upstream ... [Read more] (August 09, 2011)
• MaraDNS 2.0.03 released I have released MaraDNS 2.0.03 today. This incorporates six months' worth ... [Read more] (August 05, 2011)

• Deadwood 3.0.03 released RFC2181 has this bit of text: "When a DNS client receives a reply with TC ... [Read more] (July 22, 2011)
• Web typography As I have noted in an earlier blog entry, is is now possible to put just ... [Read more] (July 19, 2011)
• Scientific Linux 6 on a S10-3 I have installed Scientific Linux 6 on my Lenovo S10-3 netbook and ... [Read more] (July 16, 2011)
• Deadwood bug I have discovered a bug blocking the 3.0.03 release of Deadwood: answers.... [Read more] (July 14, 2011)
• GOG HOMM3 Multiplayer It is really nice that gog.com has made a legal DRM-free version of Heroes ... [Read more] (July 10, 2011)
• MaraDNS update I have updated both MaraDNS and Deadwood today. In today's snapshot of ... [Read more] (July 08, 2011)
• Updating the ads After running ads on Samiam.org for a week, I have enough data to get a ... [Read more] (July 03, 2011)
• Tuning nginx + php-fastcgi This article talks about the dark art of making a webpage with a lot of ... [Read more] (July 02, 2011)

• Samiam.org now has ads In order to have samiam.org no longer be an expense but instead be a self-... [Read more] (June 28, 2011)
• Deadwood update I have spent all afternoon going through Deadwood's SQA tests to update ... [Read more] (June 24, 2011)
• Linux: Desktop fail When I wrote a rant about how Linux can sometimes become an absolute ... [Read more] (June 23, 2011)
• Lenovo S-100; Feedback Netbook news and Liliputing have reported that Amazon is accepting pre-... [Read more] (June 22, 2011)
• IE8 @font-face bug Since @font-face is a relatively new tag, there are a few bugs with its ... [Read more] (June 19, 2011)
• Dirt cheap Linux hosting It is now possible to have "root" access on a virtual machine with a high-... [Read more] (June 14, 2011)
• MaraDNS update In today's snapshot of MaraDNS: Certain TXT record parsing errors now tell ... [Read more] (June 10, 2011)
• x120e getting replaced? There is a chance that the excellent Lenovo x120e is going to be replaced ... [Read more] (June 09, 2011)
• Round-up In today's blog entry, I discuss pasting in X, Windows 8, and the System76 ... [Read more] (June 07, 2011)
• Webkit @font-face bug As I was testing the printing of my web page this morning, I discovered ... [Read more] (June 06, 2011)
• Web page touch-up You know, I thought I had the design to this web page done over two weeks ... [Read more] (June 04, 2011)
• I made LXer Well, I'm glad to see my blog is starting to get read. It would seem that ... [Read more] (June 03, 2011)
• Computex 2011 A lot of exciting new technology is coming out in the Computex event that ... [Read more] (June 01, 2011)

• Linux is only for bachelors This morning, my Scientific Linux Virtual box guest developed a serious ... [Read more] (May 29, 2011)
• Embedding web fonts For years, web designers have been forced to select from a very limited ... [Read more] (May 28, 2011)
• MaraDNS; the PROTECT act As I blogged about two weeks ago, I would not make any updates to MaraDNS ... [Read more] (May 27, 2011)
• Beware: O'Reilly reviews Update (May 28): O'Reilly can not contact Power Reviews about this issue ... [Read more] (May 26, 2011)
• App Inventor By David Wolber, Hal Abelson, Ellen Spertus, and Liz Looney App Inventor: ... [Read more] (May 25, 2011)
• T40E: Atom killer AMD has just released two new chips: The single-core T40R and dual-core ... [Read more] (May 23, 2011)
• The Rapture Despite Harold Camping's predictions, the Rapture did not happen today. ... [Read more] (May 21, 2011)
• Atom Supercomputer Intel, when they designed and released the Atom, probably imagined that it ... [Read more] (May 20, 2011)
• The Thinkpad X1 Lenovo has entered the "thin and light" 13 inch laptop market with the X1 ... [Read more] (May 19, 2011)
• Android SDK on a Netbook As I mentioned in a previous blog, many feel the Intel N455 chip commonly ... [Read more] (May 18, 2011)
• Web page redesign I am wrapping up the 2011 redesign of the web page and blog. I started by ... [Read more] (May 17, 2011)
• Low-end Netbooks In this article I look at two low-cost netbooks from Acer and ASUS. Both ... [Read more] (May 16, 2011)
• Facebook viruses One of my friends in Facebook recently got stung by a virus; I was able to ... [Read more] (May 15, 2011)
• Mobile browsers When I originally designed the HTML and CSS for this webpage, cell phone ... [Read more] (May 14, 2011)
• MaraDNS update In today's snapshot of MaraDNS, I have reinstated the "PayPal donate" ... [Read more] (May 13, 2011)
• Internet loudmouths There is what I call the "internet loudmouth jerk rule". Basically, when a ... [Read more] (May 12, 2011)
• Poor man's Widelux One of Jeff Bridges' favorite cameras is the "Widelux". The Widelux is a ... [Read more] (May 03, 2011)
• Firefox and Javascript Since my current gig is having me do a lot of heavy Javascript programming,... [Read more] (May 01, 2011)

• New MaraDNS snapshot I have released a snapshot of MaraDNS today that slightly updates the ... [Read more] (April 29, 2011)
• E-350 redux I recently posted a blog about the AMD Zacate E-350. In that blog post, I ... [Read more] (April 26, 2011)
• New ObHack release Fritz has made and I have packaged and uploaded a new release of ObHack. ... [Read more] (April 25, 2011)
• On NXDOMAIN Some feel that NXDOMAIN should not only mean "this host name does not ... [Read more] (April 23, 2011)
• The AMD E-350 At the beginning of this year, AMD introduced a new Zacate E-350 chip (as ... [Read more] (April 22, 2011)
• IE6 end of life Now that Microsoft has a site telling people to no longer use Internet ... [Read more] (April 17, 2011)
• MaraDNS & Deadwood update In today's snapshot of MaraDNS, I have fixed an error reported by Bryan ... [Read more] (April 15, 2011)
• du for Windows One thing that has always annoyed me is that the version of MSYS I use (... [Read more] (April 10, 2011)
• On Xonotic Once upon a time, there was a real cool open-source first-person-shooter ... [Read more] (April 09, 2011)

• Another Deadwood bug A lot of the headache of making a recursive DNS server is dealing with ... [Read more] (March 25, 2011)
• MaraDNS updates As I blogged about before, I have made the transition from CentOS 5 to ... [Read more] (March 24, 2011)
• Bitcoin Bitcoin may be illegal. Bitcoin is an attempt to create an alternative ... [Read more] (March 23, 2011)
• Scientific Linux It's time to convert from CentOS to Scientific Linux. Some background: ... [Read more] (March 19, 2011)
• New MaraDNS snapshot In today's snapshot of MaraDNS, I have updated the documentation (namely, ... [Read more] (March 18, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #17 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (March 16, 2011)
• On nuclear power For society to continue to function, we need to continue to have power. ... [Read more] (March 15, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #16 Difficulty: Hard [Solve puzzle] (March 09, 2011)
• Automating the blog I am in the process of updating the blog. I am still keeping the files as ... [Read more] (March 06, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #15 Difficulty: Medium [Solve puzzle] (March 05, 2011)
• Deadwood 2.3.07 released As described in the MaraDNS schedule, this is a day I have set aside to ... [Read more] (March 04, 2011)

• Prosperity 7 puzzle #14 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (February 28, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #13 Difficulty: OMFG [Solve puzzle] (February 27, 2011)
• New MaraDNS snapshot In today's snapshot, I have finished resolving William Summers' issue with ... [Read more] (February 18, 2011)
• MaraDNS schedule As I mentioned a while ago, MaraDNS is now stable and the only changes ... [Read more] (February 18, 2011)
• All MaraDNS issues resolved I have just uploaded a second snapshot today which resolved the final open ... [Read more] (February 18, 2011)
• Deadwood now installs Last December, Mike Sands pointed out that the Deadwood install is not ... [Read more] (February 17, 2011)
• New MaraDNS snapshot A while ago, Nino pointed out on the mailing list that MaraDNS is not ... [Read more] (February 15, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #12 Difficulty: Very hard [Solve puzzle] (February 13, 2011)
• New MaraDNS snapshot Last November, William Summers pointed out that MaraDNS has issues with ... [Read more] (February 12, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #11 Difficulty: Hard [Solve puzzle] (February 11, 2011)
• Public domain Bibles Poking around on the internet, I have found a few copyright-free (or, in ... [Read more] (February 10, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #10 Difficulty: Medium [Solve puzzle] (February 08, 2011)
• MaraDNS outstanding bugs Here is my backlog of MaraDNS bugs to fix: There is an issue with maradns ... [Read more] (February 07, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #9 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (February 06, 2011)
• MaraDNS 2.0.02 released I have just released MaraDNS 2.0. This has the following updates: ... [Read more] (February 05, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #8 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (February 01, 2011)

• On the US Constitution Going through my old blogs, I found a blog which is very interesting, in ... [Read more] (January 30, 2011)
• MaraDNS & Deadwood update In 2002, when I rewrote the compression code for MaraDNS for the first ... [Read more] (January 29, 2011)
• Goodbye MySpace I haven't used my myspace account in a while; in April of 2010, I posted ... [Read more] (January 26, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #7 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 24, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #6 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 23, 2011)
• Win32 Deadwood build Wayne, on the MaraDNS mailing list, requested a Windows-compatible build ... [Read more] (January 22, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #5 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 21, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #4 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 20, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #3 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 19, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #2 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 18, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 17, 2011)
• Deadwood snapshot update In today's Deadwood snapshot, I have fixed an issue I saw a couple of ... [Read more] (January 16, 2011)
• Deadwood update I made a mistake in applying Yarin's plain diff patch against Deadwood the ... [Read more] (January 15, 2011)
• Usenet A year and a half ago, I posted that Usenet is dead. I was only partially ... [Read more] (January 11, 2011)
• Deadwood & ObHack updated I have updated two programs today. Actually, let me take that back. Other ... [Read more] (January 09, 2011)
• ObHack 007.1 released Fritz has relased and I have packed ObHack 007.1 for the new year. Here is ... [Read more] (January 04, 2011)
• djbdns 1.05: False security I would like to start off this blog posting by pointing out that djbdns' ... [Read more] (January 03, 2011)

• Final 2010 post; NIV update This will be my last blog posting for 2010, so a quick recap of the major ... [Read more] (December 25, 2010)
• Windows on ARM chips Every couple of decades, Microsoft ports Windows to some non-x86 chip. The ... [Read more] (December 24, 2010)
• End-of-2010 MaraDNS status Since MaraDNS 2.0 has been released, I am, as I promised to do back in ... [Read more] (December 24, 2010)