Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
A wish came true: NetBSD finally has a journaling file system. Simon Burge added support for WAPBL, Write Ahead Physical Block Logging file system journaling, to NetBSD-current’s main branch today.
The main purpose of a journaling file system is to avoid a time consuming file system checks after a power failure, system crash or similar problem. [...]
A lot has been said about the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight. Especially Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker has been praised a lot. I became sceptical about the film because of all the hype.
This evening Silke and I went to watch The Dark Knight ourselves. I must say it deserved all the hype. [...]
The latest DNS security issue (please read Hubert’s Blog entry) proves again that NAT is a bad idea. If you run a DNS server behind a NAT (which you really shouldn’t) you can pick one of two evils:
You use a fixed query source port on your DNS server which makes it susceptible to DNS cache [...]