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Nitevilla Final Post and Forum MovePosted on : Thursday August 14 2008 | category : news
I moved the forum to Brutal Deluxe, it is the same forum that we used here, just new location. I am also actively blogging on Scott.Buffington.ME. Nitevilla will remain as is. You can even find the forum I moved to Brutal Deluxe if you remember the minor difference to the url. I only modified the link so that new users did not get confused. I hope to continue to see all in the forum and at my new blogging location. If I can at all help it this will be the final post here on nitevilla dot net.
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Moving (the blog)
Posted on : Monday August 11 2008 | category : news
I am moving my blogging activities to scott.buffington.me. When I registered the nitevilla.net domain the initial idea for the website was much different than what it has become. I certainly never thought at the time that it was going to be my personal home page, that just sort of happened. For a long time I have wanted to have a domain that better identifies me. You will not need to resubscribe unless you were not using the feedburner feed. I still have some items to move to the new domain and some further cleanup to do.
I do not know if I will keep the forum here on nitevilla or if I will move it elsewhere. Regardless of what I do I am going to leave nitevilla.net online. For those using the forum, feedback is welcome. If the forum is moved, you will not have to register again. So other than the domain changing that you will go to when commenting, nothing should change on your end.
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This Week's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Posted on : Sunday August 10 2008 | category : linkdump
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Scott Buffington.
- delicious blog » Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here:
It looks beautiful, not sure the functionality of the website is better. Thoughts?
tagged as: web, bookmarking, social, del.icio.us, news - Alpine Messaging System:
Swood turned me onto Alpine. A rewrite of Pine, which I used years ago. This looks to be a pretty cool text based email system.
tagged as: cli, unix, geek, tools, freeware, opensource, email, ascii, client, alpine, imap
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This Week's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Posted on : Saturday August 02 2008 | category : linkdump
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Scott Buffington.
- YouTube - Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams:
Awesome, if you have never seen the Last Lecture, watch it and then watch it again. Randy Pausch died July 25th, 2008.
tagged as: inspirational, lecture, pausch, life, lessons, dreams, lifehacks - Our Towns - Build a Wiffle Ball Field and Lawyers Will Come - NYTimes.com:
I experienced this as teenager, we built a skate ramp on Memorial Day and ended up in a big debate. Let the kids play and the neighbors need to learn how to play, they seem have forgotten.
tagged as: wiffle, ball - Philadelphia Soul defeat the San Jose Sabercats, Win ArenaBowl:
Philadelphia's first title since the 1983 Sixer championship. This was not easy, and had the Soul lost you had the feeling it would have affected all Philadelphia sports for a while. Perhaps this will have the opposite effect.
tagged as: AFL, football, ArenaBowl, championship, Philadelphia
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This Week's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Posted on : Saturday July 26 2008 | category : linkdump
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Scott Buffington.
- DNS Exploit - Is Your DNS Patched?:
If you use OpenDNS you are okay. If you use whatever your ISP uses, surf to the link and click "Check Your DNS" button on the right side. I highly recommend OpenDNS.
tagged as: dns, exploit, security, tools - Broncos' Rod Smith Retires:
Easily one of my all-time favorites. The rare cool player who did not celebrate, nor demand the ball. He demanded to win and win he did.
tagged as: broncos, NFL, rod, smith - Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins:
Some interesting tricks.
tagged as: geek, linux, sysadmin, tips, tricks
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System Administrator Appreciation Day
Posted on : Friday July 25 2008 | category : news
For nine years the last Friday in July has marked System Administrator Appreciation Day. Today is the day to thank the person, who keeps your email flowing, your favorite web site available or in some cases your fantasy football league available. If a service you use is kept afloat by a computer, a system administrator is behind it. SysAdmin Day is also special to me because for the past ten plus years System Administration has been my chosen profession, for both my day and night jobs. While gifts are always accepted, coffee, donuts or a thank you is cool too.
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!
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This Week's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Posted on : Saturday July 19 2008 | category : linkdump
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Scott Buffington.
- Rush soars in blistering sets- PennLive.com: Awesome show, possibly the best concert I ever saw and heard.
tagged as: rush, music, 2008, concert - Rush Interview And Tom Sawyer on The Colbert Report: Rush has gotten used to kicking so much ass and being awesome.
tagged as: rush, colbert, music - Xbox to Stream Netflix Movies: Gold membership - check, Netflix membership - check. This combined with a recently gifted Apple TV (Thanks Jules) gives me a lot of streaming options. So glad I held off on the Roku.
tagged as: streaming, movies, netflix, microsoft, xbox
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Major League Ba$eball
Posted on : Thursday July 17 2008 | category : sports
Tuesday July 15th, 2008 I again sat with my son who was intently watching the second inning of Major League Baseball's All-Star game with the time now after 9pm. I find that as each year passes I grow particularly more frustrated with professional sports. I realize it is a business but does everything always have to be about making a buck? I will be surprised if MLB does not seriously pay for snubbing young fans someday. What am I complaining about? Why is a game in which the league wants to showcase their all-stars on at 9pm on a weeknight? There is literally no chance of a young fan watching the entire game.
The World Series is already a mess that any kid that goes to bed at a reasonable hour never gets to watch. My son is 6 years old and the latest he stays up on a non-school night is 10pm except for very rare occasions. But MLB has demonstrated on numerous occasions that all they care about is when the advertisers want the game televised.
While I am at it, today’s players do very little to preserve the game. Sure they will threaten to sit out an opening day game played in Japan unless their managers and coaches are paid bonuses like they were to play. But I have not heard any MLB player say anything about ending the Hall of Fame game that had traditionally been played each year in Cooperstown. Nope, the players have no interest because there is no money to be made with playing the game. MLB does not care about the game because they could not make any money from the game.
The NFL has its problems but I do have to take my hat off to them that they still play the Super Bowl before 8pm on a Sunday. The NFL at least stays with some traditions and seems to understand that a game finishing at 10pm is a lot better than a game finishing at midnight or later.
Major League Baseball has a six year old fan that wants to get to know its players, he wants to watch your game and you continually program around him. Keep doing those sorts of things and someday you might not demand any ratings. I turned the game off after the six year old in my household went to bed at 9:30pm. You lost several adult viewers with that kind of programming, jerks.
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Harrisburg Mile
Posted on : Wednesday July 16 2008 | category : sports
I have never run a distance race competitively. Probably the closest thing was the old Presidents Physical fitness tests in school. I ran a lot of laps training for sports like wrestling where I needed the cardiovascular system of King Kong. But since leaving school I have not run distances very often and I have not run anything other than sprints in years. I was always a 100 meter guy. That all changed about six weeks ago and my lower legs are still not cooperating. I did achieve my goal though, under 10 minutes.
The time I crossed the finish line was 9:44, no idea what I will officially be listed at. I was told before hand to watch that I did not go out too fast, I was looking to run around a 2 minute quarter mile. I got caught up in the excitement and ran a 1:36 quarter mile, much too fast. I suffered pretty badly through the rest of the run, moving at a near crawl through the middle. However I ran the last quarter mile better and did not look too bad at the finish, although I did do a quick check where the medical staff was. The crowd was really good and cheered everyone on throughout the race.
My lower legs are still not used to running, but I intend to keep at it and come back next year to crush the 9:44 time. I think I will concentrate on logging longer runs, maybe work toward a 5k. I would like to run a 7 minute mile next year, but that might be a tall order. I finished and managed to walk to the free beer tent to reload some carbs.
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This Week's Del.icio.us bookmarks
Posted on : Saturday July 12 2008 | category : linkdump
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Scott Buffington.
- Slashdot | TrueCrypt 6.0 Released:
Truecrypt is the bomb, works on every OS. I use it over any built in encryption on all my usb thumbdrives in the event of loss. Protect your privacy!
tagged as: encryption, privacy, security, freeware
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