Perpetual Data is a peer-to-peer application that allows you to use an arbitrary computer as your own, with access to your personal and public data for the duration of your login. When you log out of the application, access to you data disappears from that PC.

I’m going to redirect http://blog.rootninja.com to the main site. I don’t know why I didn’t just do this in the first place. I’ve always left it over here on its own. But it’s all on the same Virtual private server. Anyway, this is really easy to do in lighttpd. First, redirect all “www.rootninja.com” traffic to “rootninja.com”, because that other page is useless.

There’s only two handfuls of assembly instructions you really need to know. The others aren’t used as often. Many of the instructions are made up of three characters with an operand, a comma, then another operand. Some others have four chars instead. To call a BIOS function that does some pre determined stuff such as printing something, you use INT. Most functions have multiple methods you can call so you’ll need to figure out which routine you want and put that number into the ah register first:

Can anyone think of any other audio related packages I can get rid of? I don’t need audio, cd burning, flashy 3d graphics, printing, image or video playback/record capabilities on this machine at all.

In Ubuntu, Fedora and other systems I’ve seen rsyslog running on, to see the console messages you have to have physical access to the server usually through a KVM or IP-KVM setup. Kernel messages are sent to /dev/console while mail, crit, debug, and others get sent to files. Any of these message can be monitored remotely…

Found this in the comments posted on

For getting a copy of a live system’s postgres databases onto a development platform, it’s easiest to just dump the whole thing and restore it on the dev machine.

1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce without morality
5. Science without humanity
6. Worship without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle
—Mahatma Gandhi

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Tigerdirect has to be the online equivalent to the Haynes furniture store, or maybe the Dump, the dump, the dump dump dump. That place is probably even worse though, because they run local ads that make you think they’re a small town shop that’s only open on sundays, but …

I put up a new 404 page. Hopefully Chuck Norris will allow it to live. I’ll make it a regular page linked from rootninja too.

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