How to supply an IP address in Red Hat's Kickstart

Ignoring DHCP, there are three ways to supply an IP address when you'reusing Kickstart to set up machines automatically:

  1. put a network line in your Kickstart file. You need to give all ofthe information (--hostname, --ip, --gateway, --netmask, --nameserver)and also use ' --bootproto static '.
  2. put the information on the kernel command line, with ip=, gateway=,netmask=, and dns=. Non-DHCP is assumed

科幻不死身

由古至今,人類都對於生命之極限而惋惜,生命太短,明日無限遠,時間永遠不夠用。所以,有很多人都尋求延年益壽的方法,甚至研究如何可以永生不死。

在現今科技之下,我們的飲食健康都得到提升,所以人的平均壽命都延


我的心還留在華欣Aleenta

這次華欣之行,我們主要留在一間叫 Aleenta ,的小酒店內,基本上足不出戶,除了在沙灘散步時走得較遠。

說這是小酒店一點不為過,這裡只有約十間房,總共六棟獨立屋,沒有豪華設施,但客房很大,有漂亮的花園,而且整間酒店
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A web validation aphorism

There's a famous folk-rule on Usenet and mailing lists to the effectthat a spelling flame usually has at least one spelling mistake itself.There seems to be a related rule on the web, which I will put this way:

Websites that boast about validating often don't.

(The corollary is that a certain amount of people agitating for validweb sites don't have valid web sites.)

Now, HTML validation is certainly picky (arguably morepicky than spelling), but I'd


Why charging for things is deadly at a university

There's a really simple two-part recipe for failing to create usefulubiquitous services at universities. It goes like this:

  1. come up with an important service that should be ubiquitous.
  2. fund it by charging its users.

The moment you start charging people for things at a university, youenter into a competition for their money. People start asking 'whyshould we spend money on this?' and 'why should we pay you for this?'and 'is this the best use for this money?'


Link: The Unix Heritage Society

The Unix Heritage Society has a nice statementof its aims on its front page, but let me skip straight to the neatbits: complete source code for early Unix versions , such as V7 andV6. You can browse things online, or get your own personal mirror. Fora long time, having this sort of thing was a Unix geek dream, and now Ihave my own (legal!) copy of it all.

One of the neat things I like doing with TUHS is browsing to see


Weekly spam summary on June 10th, 2006

Our SMTP listener died on Tuesday evening and was restarted, so some ofthis week's statistics are incomplete. This week, we:

  • got 12,614 messages from 245 different IP addresses.
  • handled 17,611 sessions from 882 different IP addresses.
  • received 95,812 connections from at least 38,234 different IPaddresses since 21:10 Tuesday. (And about 43,000 connectionsfrom at least

城市的幽默感?

森小風波大家都有各種不同的看法,其中令我印象深刻的有這麼一句「森美小儀真正的錯誤,是在一個偽善、缺乏幽默感、以道德口號管治的城市開這個壞品味玩笑。」不談森小錯在哪裏 (也沒有什麼再好談,大家都看得非常透


Fixing the bad Solaris ssh patch

It turns out that there are actually three ssh problems introduced bythe bad Solaris ssh patch . Since it's been wellover a month with no sign or prospect of a fix from Sun, I gave in andapplied workarounds. Fortunately, it turns out that all of problems canbe made to go away with changes to /etc/ssh/ssh_config .

Ssh problem one is:

$ ssh host
dlopen(/usr/lib/gss/gl/mech_krb5.so): ld