Man, I love movies. Everything from the cinematography to the writing, the acting, directing and everything in between. I’ve seen those movies we all know and love, such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Godfather or 12 Angry Men. However, sometimes I’ll enjoy a movie and find myself surprised I hadn’t heard of it before. Here is a list of some of those movies. Update: 2022-08-14 - This list is available on trakt.

Puppet-izing my lab’s machines, I phone it in a little and used the following logrotate definition. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 logrotate::rule { 'postfix': path => '/var/log/mail.*', rotate => 1000, compress => true, missingok => true, rotate_every => 'week', postrotate => 'invoke-rc.d syslog-ng reload > /dev/null', } This did terrible, terrible things. 1 2 3 4 5 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Dec 2 07:35 mail.log.1.gz.2.gz.2.gz.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Dec 15 07:36 mail.

Some-crazy-how, the Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 drivers on my office Ubuntu 12.04 workstation keep killing themselves. Usually, after a reboot, I’ll get the old familiar text based login. Generally, this is when I have two or three things that need my attention. And, to be fair, there is probably something I’m partially responsible for. What generally follows is logging into my window workstation to (futilely) find how I fixed it last time.

When you are travelling with a smart phone: Use hotel WiFi to look up directions on your smart phones map application (ie Google Maps). After you have found a route, use your smart phones screenshot function to take pictures of the route. Now, when you are out walking around, you don’t need to worry about wireless or Internet access, just look at your picture gallery to get where you’re going.

I’ve been pushing historical temperature data for Vancouver into a local graphite instance using python. While pushing the data, I received this error: 1 socket.error: [Errno 99] Cannot assign requested address This was strange, as I had been using the address in the loop many, many, MANY times before hitting this error. A little more sleuthing uncovered a ton of connections in the TIME_WAIT state. Around 26,000 open sockets was where I couldn’t open any more.

I’ve been using the Sleep as Android app to track my sleep for a little while now. The application allows exporting to CSV files. I thought, “GREAT! I can bash in some, well, BASH and put this in Graphite". You know to look at it in relation to other things I’m tracking and wastes of time like that. I cracked open the CSV and immediately noticed it was REALLY whacky. Okay, well, not whacky, just not what I expected.

The other day, while wandering through dhcpd logs, I spied a message similar this one. 1 hostname arpwatch: bogon x.x.x.x 0:0:0:0:0:0 Bogons? What the heck is this about? A little Google-fu popped this post up from a OpenBSD mailing list: http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/ports/0012/msg00098.html Along with pointing out this was just a message about an invalid IP address, it stated Others have already pointed out that ‘bogon’ means a particle of bogosity. Bogosity, eh?