complich8′s journal

So, tiger on my laptop, after some use, feels about the same as panther did. Not significantly faster, not significantly slower. Probably about a 5% margin one way or the other. On the downside, it totally hosed Firefox performance. Which is a drag. Probably cut firefox render speed by 2/3, and doubled or tripled the [...]

after 2 days using a nicely configured iptables ruleset, everything is going pretty great so far. I haven’t been dropped from either of my irc networks — except for one rizon netsplit. Which means that all the flaking out it was doing was entirely the router, including why I couldn’t stay connected to gotwoot irc. [...]

so long, crappy linksys router. Hello again, world of linux routing and nat, courtesy of the same machine that’s hosting this very webpage right now. The changeover went smoothly, for something done between 2 and 5:30 am (it only took that long because I took a break to compile up xorg, vnc4 and fluxbox, and [...]

So apparently I was more exhausted than I thought. Even though I heard adam’s alarm wake me up at 10 am, I didn’t hear my own at 2:30 pm, or something. It’s now 5:30 pm, and I’m finally awake, refreshed. But damn … basically 11 hours of sleep, and some change. Jeesh. Oh well, guess [...]

So I was thinking about it … As a system administrator, I have a lot of skills, and a lot of knowledge. I can make a lot of things happen. But … I think it also means that I can’t really move a lot. Thinking about it, if you know how to build houses… if [...]