Homage to Icarus

Here’s Knuth in an inter­view:
As to your real ques­tion, the idea of imme­di­ate com­pi­la­tion and “unit tests” appeals to me only rarely, when I’m feel­ing my way in a totally unknown envi­ron­ment and need feed­back about what works and what doesn’t…
Hmm, peo­ple who are “feel­ing their way in a totally unknown envi­ron­ment”… Like new contributors […]

For any­one who wants to han­dle dynamic DNS (either in con­junc­tion with DHCPd or not) with Bind and absolutely hates the ver­bosity of nsup­date, here’s a shell script which han­dles the common-cases of adding and removing:

Forward/reverse entries
CNAMEs

The com­mand line argu­ments are –k (privkey) –a (action) –h (host­name) –i (ipaddr) –c (cname) –d (debu­glevel) (-t ttl)

Usage:
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So, I use Firestarter to man­age the fire­wall at home. It has it’s issues, of course (not all events show up in the lit­tle event viewer, for exam­ple), and I’m a lit­tle wary of using a graph­i­cal tool to man­age ipt­a­bles. That said, I’ve so lit­tle time at home, I don’t really care to spend […]

Ok, so I decided to quite lit­er­ally worry myself sick this week­end.
Obviously in poor form.
Mmm, indeed, indeed.
At any rate, I’m going to ride the “fever train” for as long as I can.
For exam­ple, I can blame the fever for mak­ing me for­get that today was tarball-day after work, caus­ing the tar­balls for FUSA 2.13.91 to be precisely […]