Oxford had a serious trim this morning, it is hard to believe this is the same animal!
The Taming of the Beast
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Oxford
For the purpose of beating my lovely wife to the punch, here are photos of our new Miniature Schnauzer, Oxford
Severe concentrated cuteness. 
Update: I lost. By like over an hour. 
Apple’s Mail Not Updating Read Flag on IMAP Server
For the past couple of months, I’ve had an issue where Apple’s Mail would not set messages “read” flag on the IMAP server unless I used the “Mark as Read” menu.
Just now, I read the following:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3144247
Disabling GPGMail’s ability to automatically decrypt/verify messages caused the issue to go away. Fantastic!
UltraMonkey Provides New Heartbeat Packages for Sarge
UltraMonkey provides Debian packages for Heartbeat 2.0 (currently 2.0.4).
Ottawa Bloggers
One of the sessions at BarCamp Ottawa was about blogging in Ottawa, Alex copied down the list of blogs folks put up on the whiteboard:
Blogging About Blogging in Ottawa
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BarCap Ottawa (BarCampOttawa)
I’m currently sitting in the BitHeads auditorium listening to introduction to the first BarCamp being held in Ottawa. Alec Saunders is presenting on the topic of demos/presentations themselves, which I’m looking forward to.
What Makes a Great Demo
Alec did a great job at this presentation, thanks!
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HP NetServer LH 3 (lh3) Ethernet Controller under Debian Sarge
If your e100 (eepro100) or any other NIC won’t work for you, try setting IRQ Routing to “Fixed” in the BIOS. I would get “Device or Resource Busy”. Also, I needed to manually load the megaraid module and then run the hardware detection step again to get the RAID controller to work.
Acronym Plugin
This allows me to say things like SIP, RTP, HTTP or TCP!
File Attachments
Just setup a new plugin for adding file attachments to posts. This is my first test.
The Lucky Olive Boat
Our good friends actually had this lucky olive boat waiting patiently for us:
Thanks guys!
I Did It
Today is the Big Day!
I officially proposed to the wonderful Ana Cristina Fernandez Gonzalez. Now, wish me luck! Oh, and she did say yes.
Open Source Includes Support Options
O’Reilly’s ONLamp has a great article which is most interesting. The premise is that Open Source software includes support options instead of support futures. I love it:
[Open source is] converting warrants on future maintenance and enhancements into options, which means that instead of having a sole supplier (warrants), we have created a third-party market (options) of these derivatives.
How capitalistic is that?
Very well said indeed. Found it from here.
Ducks!
Saturday, Thomas and I spent the day canoeing through a few lakes. While doing the dishes, after breakfast, we had some company:
Macro is Fun
Using the macro mode of our Canon A510, snapped a spider:
Fun stuff!
Apple’s Patched OpenSSH doing SRV lookups?
Recently, while trying to figure out why ssh is taking so long to connect to many systems under Mac OS X 10.4.1, I sniffed the DNS traffic. To my surprise, I see SSH is doing SRV lookups:
0.000000 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local
0.001124 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local
0.001272 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
0.001989 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local
0.002321 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
0.002848 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local
0.003176 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
0.003993 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
2.027353 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local.techsupport.local
2.027840 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local.techsupport.local
2.028764 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
2.029120 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
2.029562 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local.techsupport.local
2.030249 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query SRV _telnet._tcp.mariesa.techsupport.local.techsupport.local
2.030829 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
2.031551 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response, No such name
4.042563 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query A mariesa.techsupport.local
4.043651 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response A 10.100.0.103
4.064124 10.100.0.23 -> 10.100.0.10 DNS Standard query A mariesa.techsupport.local
4.065093 10.100.0.10 -> 10.100.0.23 DNS Standard query response A 10.100.0.103
That is very aggravating, since I don’t see a way to turn it off. Some Googling reveals a post on the topic.
Update: Stany did a little digging, found lots of patches, but not what I was looking for:
Now, regarding SRV lookups…. I’ve not noticed anything magic in the source that causes that to happen. Maybe that’s part of GSSAPI stuff – I frankly weren’t looking too closely. Maybe it’s something that libSystem.B.dylib does on behalf of ssh. Further investigation is needed, as it didn’t jump out at me.
So I’m thinking that this must be a part of the resolver. Although, it is doing lookups for _telnet._tcp.
iChat AV Updates
I landed on Irwin Lazar’s blog, from a post on VoIP Watch, mentioning the updates to iChat AV coming in Mac OS X Tiger (10.4). All very interesting features, but I really want Apple to support generic SIP-based services. (As I’ve mentioned before.)
I think Apple is in a unique position to be able to make their platform the premier integrated communications and presence environment. Hey Steve, you listening?
A.
Feedster
Technorati
So I’ve just been examining Technorati, trying to get the gist of it.
DrunkenBlog: Behind the Red Shed, with Jonathan ‘The Wolf’ Rentzsch
In this post on DrunkenBlog, Jonathan Rentzsch gives a terrific interview. Notably, he discusses Apple’s enterprise software development gem, WebObjects, which I’ve always wanted to know more about.
Anyone know if there is a downloadable developer’s version somewhere?
Update: Yes, you can download a 1 month evaluation copy from http://connect.apple.com/.
No More Appendix
Well, I’m back home with one less organ: my appendix was removed yesterday by Dr. Jose Pires at Montfort Hospital. Everything went very well.