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03/08/2006 11:42 #24478
sudo was invented in Buffalowho knew?
01/21/2006 17:22 #24477
Lord of the Ring(s)Category: photos
twisted - 02/17/06 16:30
They're beautiful! Best wishes.
p.s. - San Francisco is a great place for a honeymoon...
They're beautiful! Best wishes.
p.s. - San Francisco is a great place for a honeymoon...
01/19/2006 19:59 #24476
He is going to kill me.Category: life
[size=xl]HAPPY[/size]
[size=xl]ANNIVERSARY[/size]
[size=xl]!!![/size]
jim - 01/19/06 23:37
James. Shhh! :)
James. Shhh! :)
james - 01/19/06 21:52
Oh Jim...
Do you guys want to know what was in the rest of that picture? You see, Jim has a HUGE Thundercats fetish. I was wearing a (faux)tiger fur loin cloth, pretending to be Liono. Jim put on some soul music and pretended to be Panthro, showing the errant Liono a lesson or two. Well, needless to say both kitties got scruffed up a bit and the sheets needed some thurough laundering under the guidance of a chemical engeneer who later remarked "I just... I just don't understnad... HOW!!!".
Thanks for keeping me humble Mr. Lindley.
love
Oh Jim...
Do you guys want to know what was in the rest of that picture? You see, Jim has a HUGE Thundercats fetish. I was wearing a (faux)tiger fur loin cloth, pretending to be Liono. Jim put on some soul music and pretended to be Panthro, showing the errant Liono a lesson or two. Well, needless to say both kitties got scruffed up a bit and the sheets needed some thurough laundering under the guidance of a chemical engeneer who later remarked "I just... I just don't understnad... HOW!!!".
Thanks for keeping me humble Mr. Lindley.
love
theecarey - 01/19/06 20:19
awesome. Happy Anniversary, guys. :)
awesome. Happy Anniversary, guys. :)
01/18/2006 16:40 #24475
Documentation Delay!Category: estrip
To those helping me out, and to Paul. I have to start getting ready to present at my conference, so I can't finish anything more this week. I get back Monday though and my slate will be clear. For everyone else, sorry for all my boring posts about this stuff. I promise in the future, I'll blog about my dog instead.
Sorry for the delay. I wanted to get more done this week.
Sorry for the delay. I wanted to get more done this week.
01/17/2006 23:19 #24474
Engagement RingsCategory: life
(E:James) and I went to go pick up the rings we had made (tomorrow is our Anniversary) but the jeweler had made them out of yellow gold instead of white.
I almost didn't notice they were wrong ... the rings turned out really well, just ultra plain bands. I thought maybe they were just colored by the lighting in the store. Offhandedly at the end, I asked,"Isn't this a bit yellow for white gold?". So, no rings. It'll be on my finger for the next million years, so what if it's a day or two late? I'm trying to be philosophical about it.
I almost didn't notice they were wrong ... the rings turned out really well, just ultra plain bands. I thought maybe they were just colored by the lighting in the store. Offhandedly at the end, I asked,"Isn't this a bit yellow for white gold?". So, no rings. It'll be on my finger for the next million years, so what if it's a day or two late? I'm trying to be philosophical about it.
jason - 01/19/06 15:52
That's great man, congrats on your anniversary.
That's great man, congrats on your anniversary.
jenks - 01/18/06 17:52
yeah, happy anniversary! And I'd say it's worth waiting to get the rings the way you want them. Like you said, what's a few days compared to the years and years you'd be wearing the wrong one... The jeweler actually put the wrong diamond in my mom's ring, and she thought about not complaining, but in the end was glad she got the right one.
yeah, happy anniversary! And I'd say it's worth waiting to get the rings the way you want them. Like you said, what's a few days compared to the years and years you'd be wearing the wrong one... The jeweler actually put the wrong diamond in my mom's ring, and she thought about not complaining, but in the end was glad she got the right one.
paul - 01/18/06 00:19
happy anniversary
happy anniversary
Ajay, thanks for that info. I've always noticed UB was one of the handful of North American mirrors for FreeBSD, so it's great to find out why.
UB's Computer Science Department was very good at one time. When it was established, it was among a handful of departments in the entire country specializing in Computer Science. Our founding chairman, Anthony Ralston, was also the founding-president of the ACM.
We also had the late Patricia Eberlein as a faculty. She was one _kick ass_ woman. Think Amelia Earhart; she was just like her, breaking barriers and shattering the glass ceiling (and walls).
Ken Smith, the Systems Admin of the department, is one of the few people in the world who can actually contribute code directly into FreeBSD.
zobar: you made me laugh so hard that I cried
dragonfire: sudo is a program that allows you to temporarily assume superuser priviledges in unix or unix like environments
thanks, jim, for the info. I just always assumed that sudo got into bsd at Berkley.
lol, zobar, thanks for making me laugh. I better be careful and not go into a geeky fugue from laughing too much before dinner.
In fact, they invented it specifically for the Pan-Am Exposition in 1901. Few people know this, but they were having serious access control issues with the VAX 11/780 in the Hall of Electricity's server room. Thus begat the first version of sudo(8), though it has gone through numerous ports and revisions since then. My dad, for instance, installed sudo(8) on his slide rule 'cause people kept stealing it.
- Z
I could be wrong, but I think it was used first in buffalo during the Pan Am exposition. They used a lot of that stuff on the temporary buildings that were there.