Fire almost destroys my barn
“Fire destroys chicken coop owned by Fred Gustafson, 929 Sherman Ave., Evanston, and came near destroying the barn [at] 933 Sherman Ave., Evanston”. May 29, 1912.
10 Reasons I Hate Server Name Changes
There’s been a, um, heated discussion at my work about our current server naming standards. Personally I hate our naming scheme. However, a lot of people have become accustomed to it, and a lot of applications use the standards in their configurations, often to automate management. So when the idea…
Finding ECC memory errors on HP servers
A little perl utility to help you find failing memory in HP servers.. This utility parses hpdiags output to report the value of the ECC memory error counters in the spd registers since the last boot. This utility will report errors even when memory prefailure notification (which would otherwise log…
I’ll Be Celebrating at E&C Tomorrow
The Pompous Bill Smith
Bill Smith, editor and publisher of the local “Evanston Now online newspaper and I had lengthy discussion today. It started when I commented on his article entitled Library Board Votes To Levy Own Tax. My comment was summarily deleted because his interpretation of the statue that I cited differed from…
House seeks to revive law to stop ‘crush videos’
I hadn’t ever heard of this until today. After reading it, I have to ask myself, just who are the 3 Congressman that voted against this bill and how in the world could they possibly justify it? Those three Congressmen, btw? Paul Broun and Tom Graves of Georgia, and Ron…