Office jobs shit me, especially at christmas.

Gold wrapping paper, a ruler and green foil tape, that’s the implements I used to wrap this present. It’s over-engineered and under-trimmed. I’m so obviously the only straight guy in my office. and one of the four males out of thirty people.

Secret santa my ass.

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SSH Reverse DNS Lookup Disable

This isn’t the most interesting of posts, but a good “note to self” for future reference. If not disabled, SSHD will try to do a slow reverse lookup of the IP address of the client causing for an unnecessary delay during authentication. I often run into trouble with this when creating a new install of Linux or FreeBSD.

To disable it, in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config add the line below:

UseDNS no
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The internet allows for everything.

Taken from here and copied just in case it disappears.

“Very Complicated Request, Please Kindly Read!!! - m4mw - 35”

If you are groggy or stoned please do not read this, I need your complete and sober attention, for my request is uniquely detailed. I am a man, 35, white, black hair with brown eyes.

Okay, first what I am looking for is a woman primary, but secondary it could be a woman and her man, but the man will have to remain behind the black curtain and only watch through the cut out eyeholes. The black curtain is inside the apartment that I reside in. This apartment is a fashionable studio in the hot part of town, and all my neighbors are graphic artists.

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This site is not entirely all about quotes.

A linguistics professor was lecturing the class. “In English,” he explained, “a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative.”

“However,” the professor continued, “there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.”

Immediately, a voice from the back of the room piped up: “Yeah….. right….”

But there sure are quite a few 🙂

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God and his fan club…

Personally its not God I dislike, its his fan club I cant stand

Aah, bash, how we adore you for spouting so much truth.

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Email to our pay-for-time IT support.

In Excel the Edit Find facility is malfunctioning. Sometimes it finds the word being looked for and sometimes not. Could you please see if there is anything you can do to fix this issue for us?

Ok, I can see that it’s just user error, but this is what happens on my day off. Ugh.

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Stupidfilter to save the intarwebs?

Stupidfilter‘s a project to create a bayesian filter to solve the spam and idiocy that’s becoming a serious problem with the internet these days. I’d love to see the general intelligence and maturity of the internet grow through projects like this, filtering people and things that are a waste of time.

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I’m helping!

Refactormycode is yet another Web2.0 site, this time for people to post code snippets and ask for help with making them better. I’ve been trawling through the rather infrequent posts of late and found something to help with!

Warm fuzzy feeling: [Check]

Weirded out that I helped with JavaScript: [CheckCheckCheckCheck]

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