December 2009
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TPMS
Last nigh, with 8°F (−13,3°C) outside, the Tyre Pressure Monitoring System’s light didn’t go off… I checked the tyres, all looked fine; slowly drove back home under 60 km/h (I live really close, so that wasn’t of much concern).
This morning, the light was still on, when it was 16°F (−8,8°C) outside, and the tyres still looked just fine.
Went to the Shell station...
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1and1.com increasing prices on domain names from...
1and1 surely knows how to make business. In 2005 (or earlier) they’ve started out offering ridiculously cheap domain names, 5,99 USD for most TLDs… Then, after a few years, when, say, I’ve transferred most of my domains to 1and1, they’ve slowly but surely have been raising prices, from 5,99 to 8,99, and, as it turns out, now to even 12,99 for .name…
2005: I become...
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style(9)
core:src {5594} find share/man -type f | xargs fgrep "there's" && uname -rms
share/man/man9/style.9:Then there's a blank line, followed by the
share/man/man9/style.9:Then there's a blank line, and the user include files.
OpenBSD 4.6 amd64
core:src {5595}
wow, I certainly didn’t expect that!
For comparison, though:
dale# find share/man -type f | xargs fgrep "there's"...
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nice xmas at BMO and left-turns right before the...
I visited a BMO branch earlier today (the visit that was planned for yesterday if not for the rednecks), they had some nice cookies and coffee at the entrances, the stuff was wearing santa hats, and the manager tried deer horns as I was looking. Since I waited for a bit, he decided to go ahead and open a new register to help me. I told him I liked his horns, he told me I could have more cookies...
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seamonkey 2.0 on os x absolutely sucks
* in password prompts (at least in mail) pressing tab after entering the password simply selects the password, instead of shifting the focus to ‘remeber …’
* undo / redo seem to be both mapped to command-Z. WTF?
* the default settings in the print dialogue are wiped out (due to some conversion in the way these settings are now stored? and because the original format in which...
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English expressions: "pass the buck"
It’s funny how some popular expressions are learned so late in one’s knowledge of a foreign language.
I’ve been living in either one of the US, UK or Canada for the last 8 years now (soon to be!), and recently I’ve been hearing ‘pass the buck’ more often than before, yet the first time I’ve learned about the phrase was just in the last 2 years as...
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NetBSD mailing lists
Subscribing to the NetBSD mailing lists is a major PITA, there are just too many of them!
A quite annoying thing is that you cannot subscribe to all of them at once; if you try to send multiple ‘subscribe …’ messages to the majordomo (instead of using the web-interface), then you will still get back multiple approval (“Confirmation”) requests in individual...
tired due to oversleep
I definitely get more tired if I oversleep. Funnily, many people seem to disagree that such a thing is possible, but that’s absolutely true.