July 26, 2004 Archives

I brought my iSight. I wish there was more bandwidth here so I could do something fun with it ... Hmn.

Yesterday we went to see Life of Brian with David Wheeler, his brother Alex (if I recall correctly), Casey and a bunch others. It was great, naturally. When we got there we thought we had lost Vani's stack of cards, so we rushed in a cab back to the hotel to find them and then get our rental out and drove back just a minute before the movie started.

Sitting in the last half of Matt's Anti Spam Tutorial now. I've already spent much too much time with that sort of thing, but it's good. And qpsmtpd is included. Yay. :-)

Holy @#$%#, that place is big! And we weren't even in their technical bookstore or the travel bookstore.

I thought it'd just be yet another bookstore, but it is indeed very cool. Every topic I went to had an impressive selection. Not Amazon.com impressive, but very very nice. And it's a lot more fun flipping real pages than virtual ones at amazon.

And there's a Whole Foods around the corner from it.

Vani and I are thinking that maybe we should move here some day. Of course now we are also in the middle of the glorious summer here. And everyone seems very nice. Compared to L.A. we are missing a bit of diversity though, all afternoon we saw just one (1!) asian outside of the hotel.

Eeek. The OSCON network seems to be misbehaving in new and interesting ways this year.

First, port 5222 and 5223 (jabber) seems to be blocked. At least I can't connect to my jabber server from the wireless network. Other ports on the same box are working. We have our jabber server setup with SSL so we can have our secret IMs encrypted to the server.

Second, the reverse dns is spectacularly messed up. The executive summary:

• the servers who are delegated the reverse lookup zone don't know that and give a confused answer rather than just "don't know about that, go away".
• queried from the outside they are just dropping requests.

It looks like they are recursive servers for their customers only and they shouldn't have real zones delegated to them.