urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pjustice pjustice pjustice 2005-06-01T20:27:39Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pjustice:2771 2005-06-01T20:27:39Z 2005-06-01T20:27:39Z Speaking of AmishOne's <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/amishone/51382.html">rant</a> about creating citizens, I have a modest proposal:<br /><br />Let's make Starship Troopers mandatory reading. And proven, for real, understanding.<br /><br />I've never liked the idea of discrimination against the citizenship of others, because the means typically chosen (skin color, property ownership [aka wealth], etc.) don't achieve any useful goals. But discrimination on the basis of willingness to put the common good first, that's not merely useful, it's Darwin-compliant. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pjustice:2448 2005-04-13T21:17:20Z 2005-04-13T21:17:20Z <br /> <table> <tr> <td><strong>Look honey, our puppy has a stick</strong><br /><br /> Continuing the pet meme...</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/pjustice/pic/00002d2x/g2"><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/pjustice/pic/00002d2x/s320x240" alt="Look honey, our puppy has a stick" height="240" width="319" border="0" /></a></td> </tr> </table><br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pjustice:2236 2005-02-17T15:08:34Z 2005-02-17T15:08:34Z So I've spent much of the last week learning to configure a Cisco access server the hard way. Most terminal server vendors have an intimidating 500 page manual that you can just sit down and read some weekend. Not Cisco. They have a 500 manual collection. And every manual refers to some generic set of functionality which doesn't match your unit (or even any actual model). And the manuals talk about strange configurations that most people don't need, but not the basic stuff. Comprehensive examples my hairy ass.<br /><br />So last night I finally licked that last known major problem: all calls get kicked after 15 minutes of connect time. Cause: the outbound call dialer timeout.<br /><br />WTF???<br /><br />No one ever dies there<br />No one has a head urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pjustice:1870 2005-01-21T18:06:00Z 2005-01-21T18:06:00Z Ok, as long as we're doing the pet meme, here's <a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/pjustice/pic/000013x3/g2">our newest friend</a>. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pjustice:1544 2005-01-20T17:18:47Z 2005-01-20T17:18:47Z Ok, so home automation is a little passe by now.<br /><br />If you need to automate power cycling some device under test, it's still pretty handy. The <a href="http://www.smarthome.com/1132.html">SmartHome PowerLinc controller</a> is pretty cheap, seems to work well, and there's Linux support in the <a href="http://wish.sourceforge.net/">WiSH X10 package</a>. The WiSH package is neat: it creates a bunch of specials in /dev, and you control your X10 devices by writing "on", "off" etc. into those files. Thus, you can script using pretty much any language you like. <a href="http://www.ofb.net/~jlm/intercal.html">Intercal</a>, anyone?<br /><br />Hackity-hack. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pjustice:1436 2005-01-11T13:42:32Z 2005-01-11T13:42:32Z .<br />.<br />.<br />ats705=49538<br />OK<br />atdtSFC-VIAARR/VIAPA**r<br />RDest&gt; ats300?<br />RDest&gt; <br />ERROR<br /><br />RDest&gt; ++<br />OK<br />atz<br />OK<br />ats705=49539<br />OK<br />atdtSFC-VIAARR/VIAPA**r<br />RDest&gt; ats300?<br />RDest&gt; <br />ERROR<br /><br />RDest&gt; ++<br />OK<br />atz<br />.<br />.<br />. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pjustice:1134 2004-10-09T15:14:24Z 2004-10-09T15:14:24Z Last Wednesday evening we lost Seamus the killer bark-a-beagle. He had been an amazing friend for 14 years. We miss him a lot. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pjustice:890 2004-09-30T12:38:49Z 2004-09-30T12:38:49Z So my current coding project is to write a unix tool to control an xcat board. An xcat board goes into a Syntor X radio, replacing the original memory module which contains frequency settings. The xcat has a serial port and can be controlled in real time, making an old but very well built radio into a frequency agile machine.<br /><br />Yeah, I know, boring. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:pjustice:741 2004-09-15T21:59:21Z 2004-09-15T21:59:21Z ...even Mace is telling you you should do so.<br /><br />Voila, ici est.