Archive for June, 2007

Top 10 Things That ZMD Is Doing While “Waking Up”

10 Ordering CDs from Bill Gates’ Amazon.com wishlist just like RRDtool claims to do when running configure. 9 Booting Windows XP and running CHKDSK. 8 Defragmenting /usr/lib so that Mono can run more efficiently. 7 Converting your /var partition from ext3 to FAT-16. 6 Drawing the Windows “flying folders” in the background. 5 Downloading patches [...]

SDF celebrates 20 year anniversary

On June 16th, SDF Public Access UNIX system will celebrate its 20th anniversary! Twenty years ago, SDF-1 was a 300 bps dialup BBS running on an Apple ][e computer system, and has evolved over time into a twelve node DEC Alpha cluster running the NetBSD operating system. SDF users, of which I am one (keymaker@), [...]

fixing Adobe Acrobat Reader’s “expr: syntax error” message

I just upgraded to Fedora (no longer “Core”) 7 and decided to finally install Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux. Normally I’ve used the built-in “Document Viewer”, but I needed to fill in a PDF form, and only Reader will allow you to do that. Upon installing Reader, I found it would loop forever, printing expr: [...]

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