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Article posted on Apr 25

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on April 25, 2004, 12:31 am

So, I just tried to install Red Hat Linux 4.2 in a vmware VM on the laptop. Why? Because I'm both sadistic and bored. And considering RHL 4.2 was the first Red Hat distro I used (my first Linux distro was Slackware 3.something I think), I was curious as to how it looked compared to today.

I downloaded it from PlanetMirror, threw it on an NFS server (it appears ISO images for "old" RHL releases are no longer available), and proceeded to install. The text installer hasn't changed much in 8 years, except for being a little more crude, obviously. I went through all the pre-installation steps, then it tried to install RPMs.

And failed miserably. For each package, it threw out an error saying it was the wrong architecture. I switched to a separate virtual console and did a "uname -a", which reported the architecture as "i?86". Doh. Looks like kernel 2.0.30 doesn't understand what an i686 processor is. :)

Oh well.

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Article posted on Apr 15

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on April 15, 2004, 7:31 pm

Dear Humanity,

We're already 4 years into the current decade, and we still don't know what to name it. This is unacceptable. Please remedy this situation. I expect to see your report on my desk no later than 9AM tomorrow morning.

fo0bar

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Article posted on Apr 14

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on April 14, 2004, 10:41 pm

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on/dev/md0              1.1T   75G  1.1T   7% /mnt/bigass

Don't worry, I'll add more...

I took my experiences from building a 1.2TB array and wrote a little article on how you too can build a terabyte storage server for less than the cost of a cheese pizza!

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Article posted on Apr 12

Like, OMG! It's totally hardcore porn!!!! LOL!!!11

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on April 12, 2004, 11:03 am

When a ditsy teenager uses one of fo0bar's images as her journal's background WITHOUT COPYING IT, fo0bar breaks out his mod_rewrite-fu and has some fun! (like, totally not safe for work)

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Update: She changed the wallpaper. It used to be this, but after I did my mod_rewrite magic, it became this (again, NSFW). If you are curious on how to do such things, here is my recipe:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*luckypina143.*$ [NC]
ReWriteRule .*\.jpg$ http://www.updatedaily.com/socal-coeds/01/images/teen-blowjob-18.jpg [R,L]

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Article posted on Apr 11

I'm going to hell. For sure.

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on April 11, 2004, 12:41 am

2000 years ago, He died for our sins. Now Jesus Christ is available as a concentrated additive for your car or truck! Using the healing power of Our Lord with every fill-up helps eliminate engine knocking, increases power, and extends the lifetime of your automobile. Remember:

The power of Christ propels you!

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Article posted on Apr 5

Ha ha qmail

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on April 5, 2004, 10:23 pm

< CaptSwaggerPants> inkblot: know if you can do that in exim?
< fo0bar> qmail can do that
< fo0bar> because djb is a god
< fo0bar> I have no idea what you're talking about
<@inkblot> hahahahaha
< fo0bar> because I can't be bother to read the thread
< fo0bar> but qmail can do everything
< CaptSwaggerPants> no, qmail can do that because you applied the magickal patch
< fo0bar> ALL HEIL DJB! WRITER OF THE SOFTWARE! IGNORER OF THE AUTOCONF!
<@inkblot> IGNORER OF RC-RC!
<@inkblot> IGNORER OF FSSTD
<@inkblot> IGNORER OF BEST PRACTICES
< CaptSwaggerPants> reinventor of libc
< fo0bar> CaptSwaggerPants: SAINTS BE PRAISED!
<@inkblot> WOLVES BE UNCLOAKED OF THEIR SHEEP'S WOOL
< CaptSwaggerPants> mmm wool
<@inkblot> <fo0bar> mmmm sheep
< fo0bar> I find it funny that qmail is now unusable on modern linux systems without patching
< fo0bar> but that's alright, because qmail is "done" according to DJB
< fo0bar> LORD PRAISE DJB!
< CaptSwaggerPants> NO SECURITY HOLES

(Standard disclaimer: I use qmail, so I can make fun of it)

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Article posted on Apr 5

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on April 5, 2004, 12:25 am

You must forward this livejournal entry to 10 people or I will come over and beat you with a baseball bat.
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Article posted on Apr 1

Damn, there goes my dream job at Blockbuster.

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on April 1, 2004, 2:39 am

(Long post ahead)

So, I've been keeping this quiet lately (particularly because people like pdx6 and ghz will kill me because they are such big fans, heh), but I've accepted a job offer... from Microsoft. Promise me you'll read the rest of the post before strangling me, k?
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