One of Dakim’s [m]Power devices (located at a client site) wasn’t communicating with our servers correctly, and it took five hours and a bunch of people to correctly diagnose the problem.
On the call we had a member of the client’s IT staff (at the corporate office), a member of Dakim’s support staff (on-site at the [...]
I first heard about the Unicomp reincarnations of the original IBM “clicky” keyboard on Mark Pilgrim’s site. (Look for the heading “A real fucking keyboard.”) I’ve long been a fan of IBM keyboards — I used to pick them up at thrift stores. If you bought three you could usually end up with two working [...]
If you see “http://” in the address bar for a website, that connection is unsecured. Anyone eavesdropping can access everything sent and received between you and the website. Which is no problem if you’re reading tmz.com, but a big problem if you’re on wamu.com.
If you see “https://” in the address bar, that connection is generally [...]
People who have known me for a while are slightly puzzled. Why am I semi-consistently using my middle name now, when I never did before? Sudden attack of pretentiousness?
Actually, no. When you Google for “John Schofield,” I’m WAY down on the list — not even on the first page. (Some Civil War General gets all [...]
From Terminally Incoherent:
Yep. I just removed myself from all the groups except for vboxusers. Brilliant! I absolutely hate when I do stupid shit like that. It’s not like this was hard to fix – I just didn’t remember of the top of my head what groups I was supposed to belong to. Of course since [...]
Say you’ve got a Subversion source code tree checked out, and for whatever reason you want to remove all Subversion directories inside that tree. (The thing that makes a Subversion tree a Subversion tree is the presence of a “.svn” folder in every folder of the tree. If you had a complicated source tree with [...]
I reported a bug to WordPress and I’ve apparently gone as far as I can go with the folks on that bug.
I’ll be continuing this at the URL they suggested, and I’ll update this post.
Summary: Site5 sucks. They lost all my data and took my site down until I could restore from backup.
Wednesday night my site went down. Consider it a comment on the level of service site5.com provides that this didn’t worry me too much. I knew it would be back up shortly, like it always is when [...]
OK, that headline is a little ridiculous. But for a number of reasons, I ended up creating a lot of accounts lately — so here’s some pointers to other places you can find me on the web:
Things I use every day: (Just about)
twitter.com/schof
flickr.com/photos/schof/
Things I’m not sure about yet:
www.friendster.com/schof
www.linkedin.com/in/schof
www.myspace.com/johnmarkschofield
www.socializr.com/user/schof
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=684838741
Note that Facebook knows me as [...]
I’m focusing in on some very important parts of my workflow. Version control is Subversion. I’m most of the way through the book on it.
Text editing is TextMate. I was trying to use vim, because it’s one editor I can use both on my OS X desktop and SSH’d across the network to linux boxes. [...]