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• Free ebook I have spent a month writing a free open content (public domain) e-book ... [Read more] (May 15, 2024)

• February 2023 Hello, everyone! Just a minor update with my life. Right now, I haven’t ... [Read more] (February 28, 2023)

• New music released I have deleted these songs because sharing my music with the public is ... [Read more] (January 28, 2023)

• MaraDNS 3.5.0035 To end 2022, I have released MaraDNS 3.5.0035. This release adds support ... [Read more] (December 28, 2022)

• MaraDNS updates I have been making a lot of MaraDNS updates this last week. Let’s go ... [Read more] (November 29, 2022)
• The midterms This blog is about the midterms. I also have made a new MaraDNS release. ... [Read more] (November 18, 2022)
• MaraDNS 3.5.0025 I have released MaraDNS 3.5.0025 Scripting languages MaraDNS is becoming a ... [Read more] (November 02, 2022)

• Angela Lansbury The great Angela Lansbury has died today. Angela Lansbury R.I.P. Angela ... [Read more] (October 11, 2022)
• MaraDNS work This blog is a short summary of the work I have been doing on MaraDNS. ... [Read more] (October 09, 2022)

• A eulogy for djbdns This blog is an example of how outspoken, confrontational people have a ... [Read more] (September 25, 2022)
• Chess on 9/11 On the 21st anniversary of September 11, I look at how online discussion ... [Read more] (September 11, 2022)
• Baseless accusations This blog is about the unfounded serious accusations being made against ... [Read more] (September 06, 2022)
• Democracy This blog is about the importance of retaining America’s democracy. Also,... [Read more] (September 02, 2022)

• Round-up A round-up of various things in the second week of August, 2022. Alex ... [Read more] (August 11, 2022)
• MaraDNS security update I have made a security update for a fairly minor security problem in ... [Read more] (August 01, 2022)

• J. Polgar v. Carlsen 2022 This month, Judit Polgar played reigning World Chess Champion Magnus ... [Read more] (July 15, 2022)

• Why I’m pro-choice In this blog I explain that while I am, on a personal level, very deeply ... [Read more] (June 25, 2022)
• Republicans are dying In light of the nonsense passed by the Supreme Court today taking away a ... [Read more] (June 24, 2022)

• Remembering Vangelis The legendary electronic musician Vangelis has died. I honor his memory. ... [Read more] (May 19, 2022)
• Star Wars May the 4th be with you! Also, I go over a short chess game. May the 4th ... [Read more] (May 04, 2022)

• Happy Easter! Happy Easter! This blog is about my current thoughts on Chess variants, ... [Read more] (April 17, 2022)

• MaraDNS updates & more I discuss the Ukraine invasion, some minor updates I have been making for ... [Read more] (March 29, 2022)

• Slackware 15 I discuss Slackware’s new release and finish up going over the top five ... [Read more] (February 05, 2022)

• Nexuiz: Beer and pretzels While there are a number of free and open source first person shooter ... [Read more] (January 29, 2022)
• Variable optical size I list some variable fonts, and discuss the second most popular 1980s song ... [Read more] (January 09, 2022)

• MaraDNS support update I discuss a change in MaraDNS’s support policy in this blog. Also, I ... [Read more] (December 19, 2021)

• 1980s songs: Part two I continue to talk about the five most popular 1980s songs on YouTube, and ... [Read more] (November 07, 2021)

• 1980s songs: Part one I talk about 1980s songs on YouTube. This is part one of a series of ... [Read more] (October 21, 2021)

• AIDS and COVID-19 I remember the AIDS pandemic, and compare it to the current COVID-19 ... [Read more] (September 26, 2021)
• Jerry Pournelle This blog is written in honor of Jerry Pournelle’s legacy. While there ... [Read more] (September 14, 2021)
• 9/11 20 years later 20 years ago today, September 11 happened. I remember this tragedy. Also, ... [Read more] (September 11, 2021)

• Afghanistan In this blog, I briefly share my thoughts about Afghanistan, now that we ... [Read more] (August 17, 2021)

• Delta surge This blog is about the Delta surge of COVID-19, and why it can be ... [Read more] (July 31, 2021)
• MaraDNS and DKIM I discuss a very technical issue for users of my MaraDNS server: How to ... [Read more] (July 16, 2021)

• My Karen Story Now that decades have passed, I can finally tell my Karen story and its ... [Read more] (June 06, 2021)
• Pride Month In celebration of pride month, I talk about how watching the gay community ... [Read more] (June 02, 2021)
• The Drumhead I review the Star Trek episode The Drumhead, and talk about why it’s ... [Read more] (June 01, 2021)

• Dan Kaminsky On April 23, Dan Kaminsky passed away. I write about how our lives crossed ... [Read more] (May 02, 2021)

• The one true language Lunacy is the one true programming language. April fools! Lunacy April ... [Read more] (April 01, 2021)

• Remembering Fry’s Now that Fry’s is closed, I share some of my memories of this store. ... [Read more] (March 08, 2021)

• Online Chess I list websites for playing Chess online. Also, MaraDNS 3.5.0018 was ... [Read more] (February 23, 2021)

• Insurrection What Trump did on January 6 was an insurrection attempt. Its goal was to ... [Read more] (January 16, 2021)

• Moving to Ubuntu This blog is about why I am changing the Linux distribution I use from ... [Read more] (December 12, 2020)

• November round-up In this blog, I look at how well I predicted the election, how the United ... [Read more] (November 28, 2020)
• More predictions Some more predictions for tomorrow’s election. The approval ratings ... [Read more] (November 02, 2020)
• 2020 election prediction #5 I make a final prediction for the 2020 election. My prediction My final ... [Read more] (November 01, 2020)

• Grab bag: October 2020 I make another prediction of how the election will go, make an observation ... [Read more] (October 25, 2020)
• Election prediction #3 I make another prediction of how the election will go. 424 words What a ... [Read more] (October 04, 2020)

• Ginsburg’s passing This blog is about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, and the political ... [Read more] (September 18, 2020)
• Election prediction #2 I post a second prediction for the 2020 election, and mention a new ... [Read more] (September 02, 2020)

• MaraDNS 3.5.0015 I have released MaraDNS 3.5.0015, with coLunacyDNS declared stable. 523 ... [Read more] (August 29, 2020)
• PNY CS900 review I review the low-cost PNY CS900 SATA SSD. I also have a new MaraDNS ... [Read more] (August 20, 2020)
• MaraDNS 3.5.0012 I have released MaraDNS 3.5.0012 to address a minor security issue. I also ... [Read more] (August 12, 2020)
• MaraDNS; SipHash This blog is about my 3.5.0011 release of MaraDNS, and looks at patching ... [Read more] (August 11, 2020)

• MaraDNS 3.5.0008 I have released MaraDNS 3.5.0008. This release adds a new program: ... [Read more] (July 25, 2020)
• COVID-19 Website I have created an entire website showing COVID-19 growth rates. This ... [Read more] (July 14, 2020)
• Harper’s Letter This blog is about A Letter on Justice and Open Debate which was published ... [Read more] (July 09, 2020)
• Crime, Police, and Chicago This blog is about how someone in Chicago may see the police very ... [Read more] (July 06, 2020)
• COVID-19 growth by state In the blog, I discuss COVID-19 growth across the US, and discuss why we ... [Read more] (July 03, 2020)
• Election prediction I make my first prediction for the presidential election this November. ... [Read more] (July 02, 2020)

• COVID-19 growth COVID-19 is undergoing exponential growth again. 362 words COVID-19’s ... [Read more] (June 30, 2020)
• Grab bag This blog has an update on CHAZ, and discusses Stephen Hsu, Trump’s ... [Read more] (June 23, 2020)
• Juneteenth In light of the George Floyd protests, I am celebrating Juneteenth for the ... [Read more] (June 19, 2020)
• Cancel Culture One unfortunate side effect of the George Floyd protests is that the “... [Read more] (June 16, 2020)
• COVID-19 and CHAZ I discuss COVID-19 growth in San Diego and Seattle’s “CHAZ” ... [Read more] (June 13, 2020)
• Empathy This blog is about empathy, in light of current events. 348 words. Defund ... [Read more] (June 12, 2020)
• Let’s keep the Police This blog is about the importance of having a police department to reduce ... [Read more] (June 10, 2020)
• Monday grab bag I discuss Tim Cotton some more, and look at a mid-2010s article claiming ... [Read more] (June 08, 2020)
• Masculinity, etc. I discuss masculinity in light of Tom Cotton’s recent op-ed, announce a ... [Read more] (June 06, 2020)
• June round-up For June, I post an update on the COVID-19 virus, discuss CentOS 8 support ... [Read more] (June 01, 2020)

• Goodbye, OpenVZ I discuss updating my severs from OpenVZ. Time to move on from OpenVZ ... [Read more] (May 29, 2020)
• May update Some updates for May of 2020. COVID-19 in San Diego COVID-19’s doubling ... [Read more] (May 11, 2020)

• MaraDNS updates I am going over some recent MaraDNS releases in this blog. MaraDNS 3.5.... [Read more] (April 27, 2020)
• COVID-19: Update The doubling rate in San Diego is now over ten days long. This means the ... [Read more] (April 11, 2020)

• COVID-19: Good news Some good news in San Diego: We are making progress controlling the spread ... [Read more] (March 22, 2020)
• Stay home! The COVID-19 virus is real. Stay at home as much as possible. This ... [Read more] (March 16, 2020)
• Sanders should quit In this blog, I explain why Sanders should had dropped out earlier today. ... [Read more] (March 11, 2020)
• Bernie Bro myths In this blog, I address some myths which vocal Bernie Sanders supporters ... [Read more] (March 05, 2020)

• Body for Life In this blog, I review the book Body for Life by Bill Phillips. How I ... [Read more] (February 01, 2020)

• MaraDNS 3.5.0001 I have released MaraDNS 3.5.0001. This is a stable update to MaraDNS. One ... [Read more] (January 25, 2020)
• MaraDNS 3.4.02 released I have released MaraDNS 3.4.02. What has been updated MaraDNS 3.4.02 is a ... [Read more] (January 17, 2020)
• 2020s: Looking forward I am looking forward to the 2020s. My personal resolution My personal ... [Read more] (January 09, 2020)

• The 2010s: A retrospective I look back at the 2010s. The 2010s There have been a number of ... [Read more] (December 12, 2019)

• Richard Feynman I discuss Richard Feynman and his legacy. Richard Feynman’s legacy I was ... [Read more] (November 16, 2019)
• November round up I discuss my MaraDNS plans, getting good service at the local DMV, ... [Read more] (November 04, 2019)

• October roundup #2 I have released MaraDNS 3.4.01, discuss the updated search boxes, remember ... [Read more] (October 24, 2019)
• October round-up I discuss a new MaraDNS release, RMS being fired, and installing CentOS 8 ... [Read more] (October 05, 2019)

• September 11 Some thoughts on September 11 The technology of the time Wired magazine ... [Read more] (September 12, 2019)

• August round-up This blog is a collection of thoughts I have had in August of 2019. HJSON: ... [Read more] (August , 2019)

• July round-up Some thoughts I have posted in July of 2019. Why is there less sex? One ... [Read more] (July 27, 2019)

• June 2019 roundup This blog is various thoughts I have had in June of 2019. Installing Node ... [Read more] (June , 2019)

• New album coming out This blog is about my new album which is coming out. Wind and Spirit Wind ... [Read more] (May 30, 2019)

• Deadwood 3.3.03 released This is just a note that I released Deadwood 3.3.03 earlier this month. ... [Read more] (April 30, 2019)

• March 2019 round up In this blog, I discuss DNS security and my open source work this month (... [Read more] (March 23, 2019)

• Deadwood 3.3.02 I have released Deadwood 3.3.02, a new development unstable update to ... [Read more] (February 23, 2019)
• MaraDNS update I have released Deadwood 3.3.01, which implements a feature users have ... [Read more] (February 11, 2019)

• MaraDNS 2.0.17 released I have updated both MaraDNS and Deadwood in today’s release of MaraDNS. ... [Read more] (January 20, 2019)
• Hello 2019! I have released Deadwood 3.2.14, discuss working on MaraDNS again, and ... [Read more] (January 19, 2019)

• ACA ruled unconstitutional The ACA (Obamacare) has been ruled unconstitutional. Keep in mind that the ... [Read more] (December 14, 2018)
• Remembering the first Bush Yesterday, the first George Bush president died. I share my memories of ... [Read more] (December 01, 2018)

• Deadwood 3.2.13 released I have released Deadwood 3.2.13. Nothing in the server has changed; only ... [Read more] (November 11, 2018)
• Healthcare is here to stay Yesterday’s election firmly establishes that politicians can no longer ... [Read more] (November 07, 2018)

• The 5 best 1990s songs Here are my favorite five songs from the 1990s. This is a continuation of ... [Read more] (October 07, 2018)

• Landing on the moon This blog is about why we landed on the moon in 1969, and why it is many ... [Read more] (September 22, 2018)

• MaraDNS 2.0.16 released I have released MaraDNS 2.0.16. This is a very minor security update. The ... [Read more] (August 16, 2018)
• Password security This blog is about making secure password for websites. The problem with ... [Read more] (August 04, 2018)

• Mango Naked Juice I sometimes enjoy a Naked Juice Mango Smoothie. This particular juice has ... [Read more] (July 07, 2018)

• On Résumés I discuss the format to have a résumé in, and the fonts to use. Use Word ... [Read more] (June 02, 2018)

• Configuration files This blog is about some ways of formatting configuration files. The ... [Read more] (May 05, 2018)

• My new job I have a new job. I also look at how my old MaraDNS code is still notable. ... [Read more] (April 10, 2018)

• Phasing out email I no longer have a link to my email address on my web page. Phasing out ... [Read more] (March 10, 2018)

• Nolan Bushnell; MaraDNS This blog is about Nolan Bushnell and a new MaraDNS release. Nolan ... [Read more] (February 10, 2018)

• The ThinkPad T480 I look at the new Lenovo ThinkPad T480 laptop computer. Lenovo’s new ... [Read more] (January 04, 2018)

• Font Update I have updated the font on my websites. Caulixtla2017: Bug fix I have ... [Read more] (December 01, 2017)

• November 2017 round up I discuss a MaraDNS update and Roy Moore. MaraDNS update On October 24, ... [Read more] (November 11, 2017)

• Round up: October 2017 This blog is about unemployment and California’s political landscape. ... [Read more] (October 26, 2017)

• The night I found love I remember my first date with Marina, my wife who died of breast cancer ... [Read more] (September 12, 2017)

• August 2017 round-up This blog is about snopes.com, and about when to follow up if a company ... [Read more] (August 12, 2017)

• My job search This blog is about what my most recent job search was like, and some of ... [Read more] (July 08, 2017)

• MaraDNS 2.0.14 release MaraDNS 2.0.14 has been released today. This is a non-security bugfix ... [Read more] (June 10, 2017)

• RIP Robert Miles This is a story of how the musician Robert Miles, who just passed away, ... [Read more] (May 10, 2017)

• Trumpcare’s defeat This blog is about “Trumpcare”, the fact that CDs give perfect sound, ... [Read more] (April 03, 2017)

• Cakewalk Sonar I have purchased Cakewalk Sonar and will slowly make the transition away ... [Read more] (March 11, 2017)

• Jobs It’s the economy, stupid. Let me explain. A retired pilot The year was ... [Read more] (February 23, 2017)

• Pioneer DEH-X1900UB I review my new Pioneer DEH-X1900UB car stereo, and give a 2017 roadmap ... [Read more] (January 17, 2017)

• “Ocean Path” album released I have released my “Ocean Path” CD on Bandcamp and as a physical ... [Read more] (December 06, 2016)

• Why the polls were wrong Why did the polls get the 2016 presidential election results so wrong?... [Read more] (November 14, 2016)

• Trump is toast In light of yesterday’s leaked audio of Trump saying some very crude and ... [Read more] (October 08, 2016)

• Album: Almost done An update on my album project, the Star Trek movies, and a note on ... [Read more] (September 19, 2016)

• Christianity and bigotry I originally wrote this right after the Orlando nightclub shooting, where ... [Read more] (August 26, 2016)

• New single released I have released a new single this month. Also, some thoughts on current ... [Read more] (July 21, 2016)

• The primary is over Now that the Democratic primary is over, my thoughts on how it went and a ... [Read more] (June 08, 2016)

• Making music This blog is about making music: Vinyl or CD, Bandcamp, and my up and ... [Read more] (May 01, 2016)

• RIP Prince and George Martin This blog is a tribute to Prince, who died today, and to George Martin, ... [Read more] (April 21, 2016)

• Super Tuesday After the Super Tuesday results, I have revised my presidential election ... [Read more] (March 04, 2016)

• Bernie Bro award I preset for you the Bernie Bro award, for the most obnoxious and ... [Read more] (February 28, 2016)

• Winter NAMM 2016 This blog is about this year’s winter National Association of Music ... [Read more] (January 29, 2016)

• Removing MaraDNS’ ads This blog is about why I removed the ads from samiam.org and maradns.... [Read more] (December 07, 2015)

• Round up This blog is a quick round-up for November of 2015. France My prayers are ... [Read more] (November 30, 2015)

• MaraDNS update, making music In this blog, I discuss making music again and a MaraDNS update. Making ... [Read more] (October 08, 2015)

• Welcome to September Welcome to September of 2015, everyone. I discuss gay marriage, keeping my ... [Read more] (September 01, 2015)

• MaraDNS 2.0.12 I have released MaraDNS 2.0.12 to fix a security bug in the zoneserver ... [Read more] (August 19, 2015)

• God is Not a Bigot God is not a bigot. I will explain why, using scripture. Luke 10:25-28 ... [Read more] (July 24, 2015)

• MaraDNS 1 plans I explain why I am going to keep a MaraDNS 1 download on MaraDNS’s ... [Read more] (June 12, 2015)

• MaraDNS, GPG, and trust In today’s blog, I remind people to stop using MaraDNS 1, and discuss ... [Read more] (May 27, 2015)

• The Roland TB-303 There is only one time in my life that I saw a real Roland TB-303 ... [Read more] (April 14, 2015)

• Love live the Netbook A couple of years ago, I lamented the end of Intel-Atom based netbooks. I ... [Read more] (March 22, 2015)
• More King v. Burwell & Star Trek Here are some other predictions for King v. Burwell, and reviews for four ... [Read more] (March 17, 2015)
• King v. Burwell; Star Trek In today’s blog, I explain why I think King v. Burwell will be ruled for ... [Read more] (March 06, 2015)

• King v. Burwell: Vogon Logic In order to accept the logic opposing ACA subsidies put forth in King v. ... [Read more] (February 28, 2015)
• Superfish Last Thursday, the Internet’s daily two minutes hate was directed ... [Read more] (February 24, 2015)
• Thinkpad mouse buttons Now that Lenovo has restored the mouse buttons for trackpoint users in ... [Read more] (February 15, 2015)
• Don’t mix CNAMES This blog discusses a possible issue with how Deadwood (MaraDNS) resolves ... [Read more] (February 11, 2015)
• Goodbye Radio Shack Now that Radio Shack has declared bankruptcy, here is my eulogy for the ... [Read more] (February 06, 2015)

• MaraDNS hotfix Because the new NS tarpit security code did not always perform bounds ... [Read more] (January 29, 2015)
• MaraDNS security update I have made three MaraDNS and Deadwood releases with an important security ... [Read more] (January 25, 2015)

• MaraDNS update I have fixed two bugs in Deadwood, and am making a statement about CERT ... [Read more] (December 14, 2014)

• The 2014 midterms As a whole, Democrats did a lot better than they did in 2010, when they ... [Read more] (November 05, 2014)

• MaraDNS support update Why I have stopped using MyBB, and how to now get MaraDNS support. Goodbye ... [Read more] (October 25, 2014)

• Best 80s Music January 2015 update: Edgar Froese, front man of Tangerine Dream, whose ... [Read more] (September 25, 2014)

• People like the ACA The fact of the matter is this: People like the ACA (Obamacare). The ... [Read more] (August 07, 2014)

• Women against feminism I look at what modern feminism has become and why women in droves are ... [Read more] (July 31, 2014)
• PT Sans and PT Serif In today’s blog, I give PT Serif and to a lesser extent PT Sans a more ... [Read more] (July 19, 2014)
• Bitstream Charter and more In today’s blog, I discuss the typeface update for my web site, the band ... [Read more] (July 04, 2014)

• The best open-source fonts In this blog, I list the best open-source fonts out there, discuss getting ... [Read more] (June 21, 2014)
• Fonts in 2014 In today's blog, I discuss web fonts in 2014. New in 2014 Both Firefox and ... [Read more] (June 11, 2014)

• Miguel: In Memorandum Marina, my wife, and her mother first met Miguel, a cat who looked like a ... [Read more] (May 24, 2014)

• MaraDNS Update I have updated MaraDNS to have DNS-over-TCP work in Windows. MaraDNS ... [Read more] (April 27, 2014)
• Alpine in CentOS This blog is about how I set up Alpine, an easy-to-use text-based mail ... [Read more] (April 23, 2014)
• The “Heartbleed” bug I briefly discuss the “Heartbleed” bug, and why my https certificate ... [Read more] (April 12, 2014)

• Postfix + Mailman in CentOS 6 This blog describes how I have configured Postfix to work in CentOS 6 to ... [Read more] (March 23, 2014)
• Gravity: A review I finally had a chance to see "Gravity" last night ... a local big-screen ... [Read more] (March 14, 2014)

• MaraDNS security update Today, I celebrate my anniversary with my wife, release a MaraDNS security ... [Read more] (February 12, 2014)
• MaraDNS on GitHub There has been some talk about setting up a repository for MaraDNS. I have ... [Read more] (February 05, 2014)

• Returning to Fresno I lived in Fresno for three years to get my degree in Computational ... [Read more] (January 28, 2014)
• Microblogs January 2014 Here are the microblogs I posted between January 8 and 22, 2014. Death of ... [Read more] (January 22, 2014)
• MaraDNS 2.0.08 I have released MaraDNS 2.0.08: Deadwood updated to 3.2.04 Make DNS packet ... [Read more] (January 14, 2014)
• Microblogs 2013-2014 Here are my microblogs from mid-2013 until January 8, 2014. New MaraDNS ... [Read more] (January 08, 2014)
• 2014 goals This blog looks at some of my goals for 2014. Returning to the gym I got a ... [Read more] (January 01, 2014)

• 2013 in review 2013 was a good year in a lot of ways. Here are my personal ... [Read more] (December 31, 2013)
• Deadwood 3.2.04 released I have released Deadwood 3.2.04. This has, compared to Deadwood 3.2.03 (... [Read more] (December 20, 2013)
• New Cousine/MSYS font I have converted the 7x14 version of the misc-fixed bitmap font to a ... [Read more] (December 15, 2013)
• More font updates Yesterday, I mentioned that I was having technical problems with the ... [Read more] (December 14, 2013)
• Better fonts for MSYS I discuss how to get better looking fonts for Microsoft Windows and MSYS. ... [Read more] (December 13, 2013)
• MaraDNS Update I have updated MaraDNS’ snapshot release to use Deadwood 3.2.03d, which ... [Read more] (December 12, 2013)
• Using Crissic I have been having a lot of problems with AlienVPS -- the only active node ... [Read more] (December 11, 2013)
• Interactive Fiction Back in 2007, I wrote a couple of interactive fiction adventures for the ... [Read more] (December 10, 2013)
• The OnceTV update I discuss the OnceTV update from the other day and some possible ... [Read more] (December 06, 2013)
• Deadwood updates I have updated Deadwood to resolve yet another corner case and updated ... [Read more] (December 03, 2013)
• MaraDNS security update While looking over the source code to Deadwood, I discovered that Deadwood ... [Read more] (December 02, 2013)

• MaraDNS RPM files I have made CentOS-6 compatible RPM files for MaraDNS 2.0.07c. The spec ... [Read more] (November 27, 2013)
• Deadwood Update I have disabled the compile-time option to have RadioGatún[64]. This code ... [Read more] (November 24, 2013)
• Living in poverty I'm not going to play the X things you don't know about me game that is ... [Read more] (November 23, 2013)
• Root server change Last January, for the first time in over five years, the IPv4 address of ... [Read more] (November 19, 2013)
• RadioGatún[64], etc. In this blog, I discuss Deadwood’s RadioGatún[64] support, MaraDNS’s ... [Read more] (November 18, 2013)
• An ode to Netbooks In an alternate universe, all of the major tech news sites would be ... [Read more] (November 17, 2013)
• Deadwood Update I have updated Deadwood and discuss DNS-over-TCP. Deadwood update I have ... [Read more] (November 13, 2013)
• TinyVZ update TinyVZ (not to be confused with the hosting provider) is a Busybox-based ... [Read more] (November 12, 2013)
• Forum will be down Edit The move has been completed and forum.samaim.org is up again on both ... [Read more] (November 08, 2013)

• MaraDNS and DOS attacks This blog post is a small HOWTO showing how to stop MaraDNS from taking ... [Read more] (October 22, 2013)
• October MaraDNS Updates I have updated MaraDNS and Deadwood this month. MaraDNS update I mentioned ... [Read more] (October 20, 2013)
• More on SipHash This blog attempts to better explain why SipHash was created. SipHash in ... [Read more] (October 12, 2013)
• My SipHash implementation In my last blog entry, I mentioned a fairly new cryptographic primitive ... [Read more] (October 06, 2013)
• SipHash This blog is about the SipHash cryptographic primitive. In summary, ... [Read more] (October 04, 2013)

• MaraDNS 2.0.07c I have just declared MaraDNS 2.0.07c stable. MaraDNS (authoritative) is ... [Read more] (September 20, 2013)
• IPv6 update I have updated my servers to more fully use IPv6. To wit: All domain names ... [Read more] (September 15, 2013)
• Mailbag Naida Gonzalez writes the following about La Tempestad: I stopped watching ... [Read more] (September 12, 2013)
• Forum spammers Even though the forum has only been up since Sunday, and only linked to ... [Read more] (September 04, 2013)
• MaraDNS support I am changing how MaraDNS support is handled. The mailing list is no ... [Read more] (September 03, 2013)
• I now have a forum I now have a forum for discussing my web page, MaraDNS support concerns, ... [Read more] (September 02, 2013)

• MaraDNS webpage update Now that I moved MaraDNS’ webpage to maradns.samiam.org, I have given ... [Read more] (August 29, 2013)
• maradns.samiam.org Just a quick heads-up that I have moved the maradns.org webpage to maradns.... [Read more] (August 28, 2013)
• VirtualBox’s host-only adapter How to fix VirtualBox’s host-only adapter when it breaks down in Windows ... [Read more] (August 26, 2013)
• MaraDNS: All looks good I have been using MaraDNS-2.0.07c (Deadwood 3.2.03c) for a month now and ... [Read more] (August 20, 2013)
• Microblogs August 2013 This blog is an archive of all of my microblogs posted between July 30 and ... [Read more] (August 18, 2013)

• RSS and Zealots In this blog entry, I discuss the RSS feed I have added to this blog (as ... [Read more] (July 31, 2013)
• Microblogs June-July 2013 These are the microblogs I posted between June 5 and July 17, 2013. We now ... [Read more] (July 28, 2013)
• La Tempestad: A review In this blog, I look at the Spanish-language novela “La Tempestad” and ... [Read more] (July 21, 2013)
• MaraDNS testing release A few days ago, I fixed a bug in Deadwood; a very rare DNS packet would ... [Read more] (July 20, 2013)
• UltraDNS vs. Deadwood UltraDNS sometimes adds upper-case letters to their replies. These host ... [Read more] (July 13, 2013)
• Deadwood Update I have updated Deadwood; Deadwood has always had a limit of 20,000 fixed ... [Read more] (July 06, 2013)

• MaraDNS Update I have updated MaraDNS to incorporate a one-line bugfix with Deadwood (... [Read more] (June 22, 2013)
• Deadwood Update 11 years ago today, I released MaraDNS 1.0 to the world. Today, I have ... [Read more] (June 21, 2013)
• Alternate Pitfall maps This blog entry is my final look at Pitfall’s map generator. In this ... [Read more] (June 17, 2013)
• More on Pitfall’s polynomial In this blog, I continue looking at Pitfall's random number generator. ... [Read more] (June 16, 2013)
• Pitfall’s polynomial In this blog, I continue looking at Pitfall's random number generator. ... [Read more] (June 12, 2013)
• Pitfall redux In this blog, I discuss Pitfall's random number generator by looking at 8-... [Read more] (June 08, 2013)
• A 4096-byte jungle In 1982, the video game to have was Activision’s Pitfall, which featured ... [Read more] (June 06, 2013)
• Microblogs May 2013 In this batch of microblogs, I have spolier-free reviews of the new Star ... [Read more] (June 04, 2013)

• MaraDNS and Deadwood update I have updated both MaraDNS and Deadwood. Mainly Deadwood. SQA tests As I ... [Read more] (May 23, 2013)
• Microblogs April-May 2013 Here are the Microblogs I posted between April 15, 2013 and May 5, 2013. ... [Read more] (May 05, 2013)

• MaraDNS and the Wikipedia I did not get a chance to update MaraDNS this month. The reason is because ... [Read more] (April 20, 2013)
• Microblogs April 2013 week 2 In my microblogs for the second week of April, I discuss living in Mexico, ... [Read more] (April 15, 2013)
• Microblogs April 2013 week 1 This is an archive of my microblog postings for the first week of April, ... [Read more] (April 07, 2013)

• March 2013 Microblogs Here are all of the microblog postings I made in March 2013. I discuss ... [Read more] (March 30, 2013)
• Tweets March 2013 I am moving away from Twitter and to using my own code for microblogs. ... [Read more] (March 29, 2013)
• Deadwood update I have updated Deadwood to fix a long-standing bug resolving host names ... [Read more] (March 20, 2013)
• Why I need Masculism This is my explanation for feminists who get upset whenever I use the #... [Read more] (March 16, 2013)
• Creeper cards In today's blog, I discuss those creeper cards which have recently been ... [Read more] (March 07, 2013)
• Twitter wrap-up In today's blog, I go over tweets from my Twitter feed posted in February. ... [Read more] (March 01, 2013)

• Deadwood update In today’s blog, I discuss today’s Deadwood update. The problem When I ... [Read more] (February 22, 2013)
• Netbooks in 2013 In today's blog, I discuss netbooks in 2013. Netbooks are not dead While ... [Read more] (February 17, 2013)
• Applebee's and God Recently, there was a pastor who went to Applebee's. While there, she ... [Read more] (February 05, 2013)
• Web font rendering In today's blog, I will discuss web font rendering on Chrome, and the work ... [Read more] (February 03, 2013)

• Thank you, Virginia This is an email I sent out earlier today Mark Obenshain, Ralph Smith, ... [Read more] (January 31, 2013)
• BuyVM: All is now good Just a brief note that all is now well with BuyVM at Fiberhub. Everything ... [Read more] (January 24, 2013)
• A brief look at systemd In today's blog, I look at systemd, the program that will replace init in ... [Read more] (January 21, 2013)
• MaraDNS update MaraDNS update I have released MaraDNS 2.0.07. This release updates ... [Read more] (January 20, 2013)
• samiam.org on IPv6 With the inevitable transition to IPv6 looming, and with IPv6 support on ... [Read more] (January 06, 2013)
• Minor Civ4 update I have been starting to play Civilization 4 again and have made a minor ... [Read more] (January 05, 2013)
• Finally, I have BuyVM Last year, I complained that it was impossible to get a BuyVM node. ... [Read more] (January 01, 2013)

• 2012 wrap-up 2012 has been a good year. While I only devote one day a month to MaraDNS, ... [Read more] (December 31, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1.3 end-of-life It may not be the end of the world today, but it is the end of MaraDNS 1.3.... [Read more] (December 21, 2012)
• Deadwood 3.2.03 released Deadwood has been updated. This is a bugfix-only release relative to ... [Read more] (December 20, 2012)
• How many squares? There's a puzzle making the rounds on social networks where one needs to ... [Read more] (December 19, 2012)
• Round-up I discuss an ObHack update and the 2012 Wrex the Halls concert, as well as ... [Read more] (December 12, 2012)
• Blog meta-index Today's blog is an index of previous blog entries. Every now and then, I ... [Read more] (December 01, 2012)

• Adios, Gopher A few months ago, I put up a Gopher server. Today, I have shut down the ... [Read more] (November 30, 2012)
• Deadwood update After adding a domain to blacklist to my Deadwood server and restarting ... [Read more] (November 24, 2012)
• Let's not secede I agree with fundamental conservative principles: I agree that if we do ... [Read more] (November 14, 2012)
• Obama: Looking forward As an Obama supporter, the last thing I want to do is gloat right now. I ... [Read more] (November 07, 2012)
• Post-election thoughts As I write this, Romney is making his concession speech; I will discuss ... [Read more] (November 06, 2012)
• Final election prediction Since Nate's numbers are looking better and better for Obama every day, ... [Read more] (November 04, 2012)
• Saturday election prediction With only three days until the election, here's my prediction, again based ... [Read more] (November 03, 2012)
• Deadwood and SHA-3 In today's blog, I discuss the possibility of updating Deadwood's ... [Read more] (November 02, 2012)
• Keccak: The best choice In today's blog, I discuss the Keccak hash, and why it was the best choice ... [Read more] (November 01, 2012)

• Deadwood update Deadwood update In today's update of Deadwood, MaraDNS' recursive resolver:... [Read more] (October 28, 2012)
• Saturday election prediction In today's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday ... [Read more] (October 27, 2012)
• Friday election prediction In tonight's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday ... [Read more] (October 26, 2012)
• Saturday election prediction In tonight's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday ... [Read more] (October 20, 2012)
• Thursday election prediction In tonight's prediction, I am using NerdWallet's numbers from today. This ... [Read more] (October 18, 2012)
• Wednesday election prediction In tonight's prediction, I am using Nate Silver's numbers from yesterday (... [Read more] (October 17, 2012)
• Tonight's election prediction I am using Huffpost's numbers for today (pre-debate) for tonight's ... [Read more] (October 16, 2012)
• Predicting the election I am discussing politics again. As per my previous promise, I will not ... [Read more] (October 15, 2012)
• Why use MaraDNS? I had a friend of mine recently ask me why MaraDNS is a DNS server worth ... [Read more] (October 06, 2012)
• Why is Git still using SHA-1 Back in 2008, Dancho Danchev praised MaraDNS, my DNS implementation, for ... [Read more] (October 04, 2012)

• Slashdot: A final look In today's blog, I wrap my series on Slashdot which I have written about ... [Read more] (September 29, 2012)
• MaraDNS update In today's blog, I describe the work I have done on MaraDNS, link to a new ... [Read more] (September 22, 2012)
• Web typography In today's blog, I discuss the current state of web typography, and some ... [Read more] (September 18, 2012)
• Remembering September 11 For people like my stepmother who have a birthday today, their birthday ... [Read more] (September 11, 2012)
• Multi Master fonts In today's blog, I discuss a new open-source Multi Master font, as well as ... [Read more] (September 08, 2012)
• Slashdot and more In today's blog, I discuss changing fonts on my webpage, my SSD hard disk ... [Read more] (September 07, 2012)
• Slashdot Slashdot has been a guilty pleasure of mine ever since it came out. Indeed,... [Read more] (September 03, 2012)
• No more politics I have made a decision to no longer post or comment publicly about my ... [Read more] (September 01, 2012)

• MaraDNS update MaraDNS non-update I have made a new snapshot of MaraDNS 2.0 here; this is ... [Read more] (August 27, 2012)
• MaraDNS update MaraDNS update I have finished up porting all of MaraDNS 2.0's SQA tests ... [Read more] (August 23, 2012)
• The great recession If I were to blame the housing bubble and subsequent recession on any ... [Read more] (August 18, 2012)
• Server Fault Fail Over at Server Fault, someone resurrected a years-dead thread by claiming ... [Read more] (August 15, 2012)
• Objective truth is going away Geroge Orwell lamented, in his essay "Looking back on the Spanish War", ... [Read more] (August 14, 2012)
• Adding Facebook comments Comments are difficult to deal with. I had to turn off comments on the old ... [Read more] (August 06, 2012)
• George Orwell and the truth One thing I find very disgusting about today's politics is how easily ... [Read more] (August 02, 2012)

• Oracle Linux: Now free Ever since I had issues with CentOS over a year ago (which have greatly ... [Read more] (July 31, 2012)
• I no longer accept patches MaraDNS update I am letting the MaraDNS community know that I am no longer ... [Read more] (July 23, 2012)
• Deadwood update Deadwood update I have updated the patch resolving the problem Deadwood ... [Read more] (July 21, 2012)
• Finally, a CVE-2012-1911 patch After nearly five months, there is a patch for CVE-2012-1911. The patch ... [Read more] (July 11, 2012)

• Deadwood update Deadwood update Earlier this month, Deadwood was unable to resolve es-us.... [Read more] (June 23, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 End-of-life MaraDNS 1 end-of-life: June 21, 2015 Ten years ago today, I released ... [Read more] (June 21, 2012)
• Legends of Ancient Arabia In today's blog entry, I review the Legends of Ancient Arabia (LoAA) ... [Read more] (June 11, 2012)

• MaraDNS update MaraDNS update I am in the slow process of updating MaraDNS for RHEL6-... [Read more] (May 21, 2012)
• On Civilization IV I have begun work on Totestra, which is my modifications to a Civilization ... [Read more] (May 10, 2012)
• Inspiron 14z sound problem I had a bizarre problem on a Dell Inspiron 14z with a Conexant SmartAudio ... [Read more] (May 08, 2012)

• EasyDNS and truncation I have updated Deadwood today. This will be my last MaraDNS and Deadwood ... [Read more] (April 24, 2012)
• Groundhog Day Groundhog Day, a 1993 movie starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, is ... [Read more] (April 08, 2012)
• Getting DNSSEC for MaraDNS I would love MaraDNS to have DNSSEC support. Unfortunately, I have bills ... [Read more] (April 03, 2012)
• Humility Humility is not thinking less of myself; it is thinking of myself less. To ... [Read more] (April 02, 2012)
• MaraDNS now has funding In today's blog entry (for April 1, 2012), I discuss MaraDNS' funding and ... [Read more] (April 01, 2012)

• The mythical $15/year VPS In this blog, I briefly go over low-cost VMs, discuss the non-availability ... [Read more] (March 27, 2012)
• MaraDNS: No DNSSEC In 2001, having a secure DNS server meant running a DNS server did not ... [Read more] (March 26, 2012)
• A thought I am responsible for every resentment I have. This doesn't mean I am at ... [Read more] (March 25, 2012)
• New MaraDNS CVE: 2012-1570 In today's blog entry, I discuss CVE-2012-1570 as well as Deadwood 2.3. ... [Read more] (March 22, 2012)
• DNS security comparison DNS security comparison I have compared the CVE history of four of the "... [Read more] (March 21, 2012)
• Deadwood update In today's blog entry, I describe this month's Deadwood update, as well as ... [Read more] (March 20, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 update Security fix for MaraDNS 1: Maximum TTL is now one day, to avoid ghost ... [Read more] (March 17, 2012)
• The ghost domain bug In today's blog entry, I look at the ghost domain bug, and how various DNS ... [Read more] (March 14, 2012)
• MaraDNS 2.0.06 and 1.4.11 I have updated MaraDNS to use Deadwood 3.2.02. Deadwood 3.2.02 is a ... [Read more] (March 11, 2012)
• On Anne Frank In today's blog, I discuss Anne Frank's fate in the world of a ... [Read more] (March 07, 2012)
• Remembering 1992 In today's blog, I share a Bible verse, and reminisce about the ... [Read more] (March 06, 2012)
• Geomyidae is stable In an earlier blog entry, I implied that Geomyidae, the gopher daemon I am ... [Read more] (March 05, 2012)
• On fundamentalist reasoning This blog entry looks at an event in the Bible which is widely regarded as ... [Read more] (March 04, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 has limited support This is a heads-up that MaraDNS 1 is no longer supported for anything ... [Read more] (March 03, 2012)
• MaraDNS donations In today's blog entry, I discuss why I have changed the link for making ... [Read more] (March 02, 2012)

• Deadwood 3.2.02 released I have released Deadwood 3.2.02 today. If all goes well, I will not have ... [Read more] (February 29, 2012)
• Deadwood update Today's update of Deadwood only updates the documentation: I make it clear ... [Read more] (February 28, 2012)
• Deadwood update; etc. In today's blog I mention a minor update I did to Deadwood yesterday, ... [Read more] (February 26, 2012)
• Fundamentalism & Christianity Everyone has a soapbox The advantage of the internet is that it lets ... [Read more] (February 25, 2012)
• Bulk polyhedral dice Buying dice After a 20-year hiatus, I am starting to play role playing ... [Read more] (February 18, 2012)
• Classic X11 fonts for Windows For people, like myself, who are fans of the classic X11 font misc-fixed, ... [Read more] (February 16, 2012)
• RedHat extended support I just found out today that RedHat has added three years to the support ... [Read more] (February 15, 2012)
• Happy Valentine's Day Happy Valentine's day everyone. For people happily in relationships, today ... [Read more] (February 14, 2012)
• On Ghost Domains Earlier this month Haixin Duan, et al released the paper "Ghost Domain ... [Read more] (February 13, 2012)
• MaraDNS 2.0.05 released I have released MaraDNS 2.0.05 today. This release updates the recursive ... [Read more] (February 12, 2012)
• Deadwood update I recently mentioned that the changes to give Deadwood finer time stamps ... [Read more] (February 11, 2012)
• My Gopher server As a geek, I sometimes have an interest in technologies and forms of ... [Read more] (February 06, 2012)
• A brief review of my VPS hosts I will briefly review the four VPS hosts I have used. A VPS, or virtual ... [Read more] (February 05, 2012)
• Adios cripperz.sg One of the three nodes I have used for hosting my domains (samiam.org, ... [Read more] (February 03, 2012)

• Having a spiritual experience I did not write this entry. This entry was written by Abhinabha Tangerman ... [Read more] (January 30, 2012)
• Deadwood update The code to give Deadwood finer timestamps has triggered a regression: For ... [Read more] (January 28, 2012)
• Deadwood update I have been improving Deadwood's resolution of domains with a bugfix as ... [Read more] (January 25, 2012)
• I oppose SOPA On the right, you can see a picture of me in San Jose protesting the DMCA ... [Read more] (January 19, 2012)
• Deadwood update I have been updating the Deadwood documentation a little. In addition, I ... [Read more] (January 17, 2012)
• MaraDNS 1 update Hopefully the third time is the charm. While I added hash randomization to ... [Read more] (January 13, 2012)
• New Deadwood snapshot Here's a new FAQ question and answer for Deadwood: Records added to the ... [Read more] (January 06, 2012)
• Deadwood bug fixed I have fixed a bug in Deadwood: Srinivas Hebbar reported that Deadwood ... [Read more] (January 04, 2012)
• Welcome to 2012 In today's blog entry, I welcome my readers to twenty-twelve (2012) and ... [Read more] (January 01, 2012)

• MaraDNS 1 update Looking closely at the patch I applied yesterday, I realized that it had a ... [Read more] (December 30, 2011)
• MaraDNS 1 update One issue with making software is that a responsible programmer takes ... [Read more] (December 29, 2011)
• 2011 Wrap-up Now that the year is wrapping up, here is a look at what I accomplished ... [Read more] (December 24, 2011)
• Wrapping up the web design Now that 2011 is coming to an end, it is time for me to wrap up the web ... [Read more] (December 23, 2011)
• I miss killfiles Usenet and killfiles Once upon a time, before the world wide web, the ... [Read more] (December 22, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.1.03 released I have somewhat of a tradition of releasing new versions of MaraDNS on ... [Read more] (December 21, 2011)
• Looking at Celery In today's blog entry, I describe how to have cloud (distributed) ... [Read more] (December 20, 2011)
• Deadwood update Yesterday, I mentioned that there was a bug in MaraDNS (OK, Deadwood). I ... [Read more] (December 18, 2011)
• Round Up In today's blog entry, I discuss SOPA, a bug in MaraDNS, revising my web ... [Read more] (December 17, 2011)
• Round-up Today's blog discusses giving modern CSS to IE8, my site's browser usage ... [Read more] (December 16, 2011)
• Dillo CSS hacks A while ago, I posted an article about Dillo CSS hacks. Since that article ... [Read more] (December 13, 2011)
• Deadwood update Today's update to Deadwood does not update any source code; what I have ... [Read more] (December 11, 2011)
• ObHack 007.3 ObHack 007.3 released Fritz has made and I have uploaded ObHack 007.3. ... [Read more] (December 10, 2011)
• Web page design update As I have mentioned before, I am not completely satisfied with how this ... [Read more] (December 09, 2011)
• MaraDNS and Paypal On Facebook, my friend Sean Lynch posted a Paypal horror story of someone ... [Read more] (December 07, 2011)
• MaraDNS funding ; etc. MaraDNS funding Last month's funding drive gave me enough money to devote ... [Read more] (December 01, 2011)

• New Deadwood snapshot In today's snapshot of Deadwood, I have fixed a bug where the CNAME of ... [Read more] (November 30, 2011)
• Deadwood update Better timestamps I mentioned in a recent blog entry my plans to implement ... [Read more] (November 29, 2011)
• MaraDNS can redirect domains Phil Harlow had an interesting problem which MaraDNS beautifully solves. ... [Read more] (November 28, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.1.01 released While everyone else in the USA has been celebrating Thanksgiving, I have ... [Read more] (November 27, 2011)
• Thanksgiving thoughts MaraDNS Funding received from my November 2011 fund drive is being used to ... [Read more] (November 23, 2011)
• New Deadwood snapshot I am beginning the work of having Deadwood check for a CNAME record in the ... [Read more] (November 19, 2011)
• Deadwood snapshot In today's snapshot of Deadwood, I have added a patch that fixes an issue ... [Read more] (November 13, 2011)
• MaraDNS 2.0.04 In light of Nicholas Bamber's very kind donation, my work on MaraDNS ... [Read more] (November 12, 2011)
• MaraDNS update MaraDNS 1.4.07 Because of a very very generous donation from Nicholas ... [Read more] (November 11, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.0.05 released My funding drive for November 2011 has so far been very successful. ... [Read more] (November 10, 2011)
• On Flattr Flattr and Kachingle are two proposed systems for giving money to creators ... [Read more] (November 09, 2011)
• Call for donations (Update: I have gotten a very kind donation from Bradley at Northtech. ... [Read more] (November 08, 2011)
• The Galileo 7 There is a classic episode from the original Star Trek named The Galileo ... [Read more] (November 05, 2011)
• Logic riddles There is a classic logic puzzle out there which is often not worded ... [Read more] (November 04, 2011)
• Deadwood 3.0.04 I have released Deadwood 3.0.04 today. This release fixes some bugs and ... [Read more] (November 01, 2011)

• Deadwood hacking One issue that has been annoying me is DNS timeouts wating to get a PTR ("... [Read more] (October 27, 2011)
• RMS on Jobs; Raspberry Pi RMS on Jobs RMS — the founder of the GNU Free software movement — has ... [Read more] (October 23, 2011)
• Dennis Ritchie RIP Just a few short days after Steve Jobs' sad passing, the great Dennis ... [Read more] (October 13, 2011)
• Web site plans Looking ahead While smartphone views are currently only a small percentage ... [Read more] (October 12, 2011)
• On web site design CNet's new design I must say, I really like the new web site design that ... [Read more] (October 10, 2011)
• MaraDNS update Karim Malhas has reported a bug with MaraDNS' csv2 parser when using the /... [Read more] (October 09, 2011)
• MaraDNS update Thanks to a contribution from a sponsor, I have been able to allocate some ... [Read more] (October 08, 2011)
• RIP Steve Jobs Yesterday's passing of Steve Jobs has greatly saddened me. When he left ... [Read more] (October 06, 2011)
• MaraDNS update I have fixed the following issues in today's release of MaraDNS: Nicholas ... [Read more] (October 05, 2011)
• Cloak of Darkness Interactive fiction Once upon a time, long long ago, the preferred method ... [Read more] (October 02, 2011)

• Deadwood update I have finished up all of the work I am going to do for MaraDNS and ... [Read more] (September 12, 2011)
• Open-source IMAP clients For my work, I had to find a good open-source IMAP client that runs in ... [Read more] (September 10, 2011)
• Deadwood update I am slowly but surely going through the bugs people have been reporting ... [Read more] (September 05, 2011)
• Random map templates I have made two RMG templates suitable for the recent patches to make ... [Read more] (September 01, 2011)

• Global warming denial Everyone is welcome to have an opinion. And, indeed, there are a number of ... [Read more] (August 27, 2011)
• On Apple products First and foremost, now that Steve Jobs is leaving Apple, my prayers are ... [Read more] (August 26, 2011)
• TinyVZ security update A discussion with Solar Designer (yes, that Solar Designer) on the OpenVZ ... [Read more] (August 23, 2011)
• TinyVZ 0.7 released I have released TinyVZ 0.7 today. This will be my last TinyVZ release for ... [Read more] (August 20, 2011)
• TinyVZ update I'm still hacking away at TinyVZ. Working with Busybox can be really ... [Read more] (August 16, 2011)
• Tiny OpenVZ template One issue I have had with OpenVZ is that there is not a small template ... [Read more] (August 15, 2011)
• Keeping CentOS secure One annoyance CentOS has is that, whenever Red Hat makes a new upstream ... [Read more] (August 09, 2011)
• MaraDNS 2.0.03 released I have released MaraDNS 2.0.03 today. This incorporates six months' worth ... [Read more] (August 05, 2011)

• Deadwood 3.0.03 released RFC2181 has this bit of text: "When a DNS client receives a reply with TC ... [Read more] (July 22, 2011)
• Web typography 2014 update: A combination of Windows XP hitting end-of-life, ttfautohint, ... [Read more] (July 19, 2011)
• Scientific Linux 6 on a S10-3 I have installed Scientific Linux 6 on my Lenovo S10-3 netbook and ... [Read more] (July 16, 2011)
• Deadwood bug I have discovered a bug blocking the 3.0.03 release of Deadwood: answers.... [Read more] (July 14, 2011)
• GOG HOMM3 Multiplayer It is really nice that gog.com has made a legal DRM-free version of Heroes ... [Read more] (July 10, 2011)
• MaraDNS update I have updated both MaraDNS and Deadwood today. In today's snapshot of ... [Read more] (July 08, 2011)
• Updating the ads After running ads on Samiam.org for a week, I have enough data to get a ... [Read more] (July 03, 2011)
• Tuning nginx + php-fastcgi This article talks about the dark art of making a webpage with a lot of ... [Read more] (July 02, 2011)

• Samiam.org now has ads In order to have samiam.org no longer be an expense but instead be a self-... [Read more] (June 28, 2011)
• Deadwood update I have spent all afternoon going through Deadwood's SQA tests to update ... [Read more] (June 24, 2011)
• Linux: Desktop fail 2014 update: Linux desktop usage share in May 2014 was 1.63%. On the other ... [Read more] (June 23, 2011)
• Lenovo S-100; Feedback Netbook news and Liliputing have reported that Amazon is accepting pre-... [Read more] (June 22, 2011)
• IE8 @font-face bug Since @font-face is a relatively new tag, there are a few bugs with its ... [Read more] (June 19, 2011)
• Dirt cheap Linux hosting It is now possible to have "root" access on a virtual machine with a high-... [Read more] (June 14, 2011)
• MaraDNS update In today's snapshot of MaraDNS: Certain TXT record parsing errors now tell ... [Read more] (June 10, 2011)
• x120e getting replaced? There is a chance that the excellent Lenovo x120e is going to be replaced ... [Read more] (June 09, 2011)
• Round-up In today's blog entry, I discuss pasting in X, Windows 8, and the System76 ... [Read more] (June 07, 2011)
• Webkit @font-face bug 2014 update: This bug has been fixed for a while As I was testing the ... [Read more] (June 06, 2011)
• Web page touch-up You know, I thought I had the design to this web page done over two weeks ... [Read more] (June 04, 2011)
• I made LXer Well, I'm glad to see my blog is starting to get read. It would seem that ... [Read more] (June 03, 2011)
• Computex 2011 A lot of exciting new technology is coming out in the Computex event that ... [Read more] (June 01, 2011)

• Linux is only for bachelors 2014 update: The issue was not really with Linux as much as it was with ... [Read more] (May 29, 2011)
• Embedding web fonts For years, web designers have been forced to select from a very limited ... [Read more] (May 28, 2011)
• MaraDNS; the PROTECT act As I blogged about two weeks ago, I would not make any updates to MaraDNS ... [Read more] (May 27, 2011)
• Beware: O'Reilly reviews Update (May 28): O'Reilly can not contact Power Reviews about this issue ... [Read more] (May 26, 2011)
• App Inventor By David Wolber, Hal Abelson, Ellen Spertus, and Liz Looney App Inventor: ... [Read more] (May 25, 2011)
• T40E: Atom killer AMD has just released two new chips: The single-core T40R and dual-core ... [Read more] (May 23, 2011)
• The Rapture Despite Harold Camping's predictions, the Rapture did not happen today. ... [Read more] (May 21, 2011)
• Atom Supercomputer Intel, when they designed and released the Atom, probably imagined that it ... [Read more] (May 20, 2011)
• The Thinkpad X1 Lenovo has entered the "thin and light" 13 inch laptop market with the X1 ... [Read more] (May 19, 2011)
• Android SDK on a Netbook As I mentioned in a previous blog, many feel the Intel N455 chip commonly ... [Read more] (May 18, 2011)
• Web page redesign I am wrapping up the 2011 redesign of the web page and blog. I started by ... [Read more] (May 17, 2011)
• Low-end Netbooks In this article I look at two low-cost netbooks from Acer and ASUS. Both ... [Read more] (May 16, 2011)
• Facebook viruses One of my friends in Facebook recently got stung by a virus; I was able to ... [Read more] (May 15, 2011)
• Mobile browsers When I originally designed the HTML and CSS for this webpage, cell phone ... [Read more] (May 14, 2011)
• MaraDNS update In today's snapshot of MaraDNS, I have reinstated the "PayPal donate" ... [Read more] (May 13, 2011)
• Internet loudmouths There is what I call the "internet loudmouth jerk rule". Basically, when a ... [Read more] (May 12, 2011)
• Poor man's Widelux One of Jeff Bridges' favorite cameras is the "Widelux". The Widelux is a ... [Read more] (May 03, 2011)
• Firefox and Javascript Since my current gig is having me do a lot of heavy Javascript programming,... [Read more] (May 01, 2011)

• New MaraDNS snapshot I have released a snapshot of MaraDNS today that slightly updates the ... [Read more] (April 29, 2011)
• E-350 redux I recently posted a blog about the AMD Zacate E-350. In that blog post, I ... [Read more] (April 26, 2011)
• New ObHack release Fritz has made and I have packaged and uploaded a new release of ObHack. ... [Read more] (April 25, 2011)
• On NXDOMAIN Some feel that NXDOMAIN should not only mean "this host name does not ... [Read more] (April 23, 2011)
• The AMD E-350 At the beginning of this year, AMD introduced a new Zacate E-350 chip (as ... [Read more] (April 22, 2011)
• IE6 end of life Now that Microsoft has a site telling people to no longer use Internet ... [Read more] (April 17, 2011)
• MaraDNS & Deadwood update In today's snapshot of MaraDNS, I have fixed an error reported by Bryan ... [Read more] (April 15, 2011)
• du for Windows One thing that has always annoyed me is that the version of MSYS I use (... [Read more] (April 10, 2011)
• On Xonotic Once upon a time, there was a real cool open-source first-person-shooter ... [Read more] (April 09, 2011)

• Another Deadwood bug A lot of the headache of making a recursive DNS server is dealing with ... [Read more] (March 25, 2011)
• MaraDNS updates As I blogged about before, I have made the transition from CentOS 5 to ... [Read more] (March 24, 2011)
• Bitcoin Bitcoin may be illegal. Bitcoin is an attempt to create an alternative ... [Read more] (March 23, 2011)
• Scientific Linux It's time to convert from CentOS to Scientific Linux. Some background: ... [Read more] (March 19, 2011)
• New MaraDNS snapshot In today's snapshot of MaraDNS, I have updated the documentation (namely, ... [Read more] (March 18, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #17 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (March 16, 2011)
• On nuclear power For society to continue to function, we need to continue to have power. ... [Read more] (March 15, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #16 Difficulty: Hard [Solve puzzle] (March 09, 2011)
• Automating the blog I am in the process of updating the blog. I am still keeping the files as ... [Read more] (March 06, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #15 Difficulty: Medium [Solve puzzle] (March 05, 2011)
• Deadwood 2.3.07 released As described in the MaraDNS schedule, this is a day I have set aside to ... [Read more] (March 04, 2011)

• Prosperity 7 puzzle #14 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (February 28, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #13 Difficulty: OMFG [Solve puzzle] (February 27, 2011)
• MaraDNS schedule As I mentioned a while ago, MaraDNS is now stable and the only changes ... [Read more] (February 18, 2011)
• All MaraDNS issues resolved I have just uploaded a second snapshot today which resolved the final open ... [Read more] (February 18, 2011)
• New MaraDNS snapshot In today's snapshot, I have finished resolving William Summers' issue with ... [Read more] (February 18, 2011)
• Deadwood now installs Last December, Mike Sands pointed out that the Deadwood install is not ... [Read more] (February 17, 2011)
• New MaraDNS snapshot A while ago, Nino pointed out on the mailing list that MaraDNS is not ... [Read more] (February 15, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #12 Difficulty: Very hard [Solve puzzle] (February 13, 2011)
• New MaraDNS snapshot Last November, William Summers pointed out that MaraDNS has issues with ... [Read more] (February 12, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #11 Difficulty: Hard [Solve puzzle] (February 11, 2011)
• Public domain Bibles Poking around on the internet, I have found a few copyright-free (or, in ... [Read more] (February 10, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #10 Difficulty: Medium [Solve puzzle] (February 08, 2011)
• MaraDNS outstanding bugs Here is my backlog of MaraDNS bugs to fix: There is an issue with maradns ... [Read more] (February 07, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #9 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (February 06, 2011)
• MaraDNS 2.0.02 released I have just released MaraDNS 2.0. This has the following updates: ... [Read more] (February 05, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #8 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (February 01, 2011)

• On the US Constitution Going through my old blogs, I found a blog which is very interesting, in ... [Read more] (January 30, 2011)
• MaraDNS & Deadwood update In 2002, when I rewrote the compression code for MaraDNS for the first ... [Read more] (January 29, 2011)
• Goodbye MySpace I haven't used my myspace account in a while; in April of 2010, I posted ... [Read more] (January 26, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #7 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 24, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #6 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 23, 2011)
• Win32 Deadwood build Wayne, on the MaraDNS mailing list, requested a Windows-compatible build ... [Read more] (January 22, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #5 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 21, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #4 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 20, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #3 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 19, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle #2 Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 18, 2011)
• Prosperity 7 puzzle Difficulty: Easy [Solve puzzle] (January 17, 2011)
• Deadwood snapshot update In today's Deadwood snapshot, I have fixed an issue I saw a couple of ... [Read more] (January 16, 2011)
• Deadwood update I made a mistake in applying Yarin's plain diff patch against Deadwood the ... [Read more] (January 15, 2011)
• Usenet A year and a half ago, I posted that Usenet is dead. I was only partially ... [Read more] (January 11, 2011)
• Deadwood & ObHack updated I have updated two programs today. Actually, let me take that back. Other ... [Read more] (January 09, 2011)
• ObHack 007.1 released Fritz has relased and I have packed ObHack 007.1 for the new year. Here is ... [Read more] (January 04, 2011)
• djbdns 1.05: False security I would like to start off this blog posting by pointing out that djbdns' ... [Read more] (January 03, 2011)

• Final 2010 post; NIV update This will be my last blog posting for 2010, so a quick recap of the major ... [Read more] (December 25, 2010)
• End-of-2010 MaraDNS status Since MaraDNS 2.0 has been released, I am, as I promised to do back in ... [Read more] (December 24, 2010)
• Windows on ARM chips Every couple of decades, Microsoft ports Windows to some non-x86 chip. The ... [Read more] (December 24, 2010)