<< March 21, 2005 >>
meeting people is easy

the woman next to me on the train home saturday was reading some book by the author of mr. maybe. i was bored yesterday, so i figured i'd go buy the book, and then stop by her place (good thing i didn't have to burn all the phone books this year!) and tell her that she left it on the train.

she was very confused, because she had her copy right there, but thought it was nice of me and all of a sudden we are going to have dinner wednesday night.

on the T back home, i was bored again so i started reading the copy i'd bought. now i understand why she didn't want a second copy.

<< March 21, 2005 >>
party time in console city

i'm still serving my linux root nfs partitions from my powermac, and not the mini running os x server. this is mostly because when i boot from the mini, it doesn't work. it turns out that i am getting -EPERM from the mini, but not the powermac on files that are mode 600. this is totally awesome, because some of these files are important:

[root@milano etc]# ls -l shadow /etc/shadow -r-------- 1 root root 1098 Nov 10 13:22 /etc/shadow -r-------- 1 root root 1098 Nov 10 13:22 shadow [root@milano etc]# head -n 1 shadow /etc/shadow ==> shadow <== head: error reading `shadow': Permission denied ==> /etc/shadow <== root:*:12557:0:99999:7:::

classic. total classic.

but it's cool, i should be using lustre for the rootfs anyway.