A Whole New Different

The one where I ramble for 15 minutes about going to auctions. Click to listen or download: Auctions (11MB high quality audio) Click to listen or download: Auctions (4.3MB low quality audio)

Could a government in the West shut down the Internet or major portions of it? What would happen and why? I give my opinions. 25 minutes. Click to listen or download: Can’t Stop the Signal (24MB high quality audio) Click to listen or download: Can’t Stop the Signal (8.6MB low quality audio)

For 15 minutes, I talk about gardening, trying, singing, and when did geek culture become a separate thing? Click to listen or download: Podcast #5: Not Even in a Bucket (14MB high quality audio) Click to listen or download: Podcast #5: Not Even in a Bucket (5MB low quality audio)

This is a short one, about 7 minutes, about finally losing my bad tooth, and garden progress. Click to listen or download: Podcast #4: Home Dentistry (7MB high quality audio) Click to listen or download: Podcast #4: Home Dentistry (2.6MB low quality audio)

Wherein I talk a little about how I got into teaching and tutoring, and some ideas of where I might go with it in the future. This one gets kinda rambling and repetitive. I think I’m going to start making at least a simple outline, because not every topic inspires a solid stream of ideas. I started this one with a single word in mind – “teaching” – and it didn’t go so well.

Wherein I mention kittens and chickens, and the talk a while about old computers and a project idea for new ones. Click to listen or download: Podcast #2: Reminiscing about Computers

This is my first podcast, in which I mostly talk about why I’m trying a podcast, and problems I’ve had with blogging. Click to listen or download: Podcast #0: Blogging and Podcasting

This is a small thing, but it’s been bugging me for a while, so I’m glad I finally took the time to find a solution. When I read my email, I don’t respond to anything on the spot. Every message that requires a reply or any other action gets refiled as an org-mode task with a header, timestamp, and link to the message. When I’m finished going through mail and refiling everything that needs an action, I then go to my org-mode agenda, which shows those tasks, and clock each one in while I handle it.

“[S]he lies in front of me curled up before the fire, as so many dogs must have lain before so many fires. I sit on one side of that hearth, as so many men must have sat by so many hearths. Somehow this creature has completed my manhood; somehow, I cannot explain why, a man ought to have a dog. A man ought to have six legs; those other four legs are part of him… [M]y dog knows I am a man, and you will not find the meaning of that word written in any book as clearly as it is written in [her] soul.

For FreeBSD administrators, ZFS and jails combine to make virtualization easy, fast, and secure. A FreeBSD jail is a virtual machine which can only access the resources assigned to it when it was created, so its processes have no access to the rest of the machine. ZFS is an advanced filesystem that makes it very easy to create and destroy filesystems whenever they are needed. Together, they make it a matter of moments to create a new virtual system for testing, walling off network services, or other projects.