Archives: 2012 March
German: Suprisingly Hilarious for a 2-Year-Old
March 23rd, 2012, 2 Comments
The other night, I was tucking the boys into bed. I occasionally use a few German words with them (I don’t know all that many myself, but hey). They’d been rather bored with it, so I had dropped it for a few months. I said to Oliver, “Gute Nacht, Oliver. That means good night in [...]
Dear FedEx: I Live Here
March 8th, 2012, 7 Comments
FedEx has had some issues in my area. There for awhile, they kept returning packages as undeliverable, saying the address was bad. It wasn’t. Just because their GPS can’t find it or their driver doesn’t know it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. A map, a real map, would have done it. I had this kind [...]
Unreported Disk Data Corruption – Kernel Bug?
March 3rd, 2012, 9 Comments
Well this is new, and I’m utterly baffled. Here’s a file that’s not in use by anything. $ md5sum xppro.vdi 589cbb5501dcddda047344a3550aaa95 xppro.vdi $ md5sum xppro.vdi a69806ec60d39e06473edbb0abd71637 xppro.vdi Every time I run md5sum on it, I get a different answer. Same story with sha256sum. If I grab just the first 100MB, it gives the same answer [...]
