Everbody has a blog...2010-09-07T16:52:31ZJan SchaumannCopyright 2010, Jan SchaumannSPHPBLOGBroadway Bomb 2009Broadway Bomb 2009, the annual longboard race from 116th street down to wall street, took place yesterday. More fun than a barrel full of monkeys, though quite similar in many other respects. Some photos here.]]>http://www.netmeister.org/blog/index.php?entry=entry091011-1500492009-10-11T00:00:00Z2009-10-11T00:00:00ZBuilding Better ToolsNYCBug. This talk is an extended version of a presentation I gave at work in March, on how system engineers and administrators, the people who maintain the infrastructure of the internet and who write a lot of code without (usually) having any training in software engineering practices, can improve their tools.
Audio of the talk is here.]]>http://www.netmeister.org/blog/index.php?entry=entry090605-1140342009-06-05T00:00:00Z2009-06-05T00:00:00ZWhy I won't get Speakeasy DSL service again.my previous nightmare with DSL, the reason why I'm ditching Speakeasy DSL service after 9 years can be found summarized in this ticket.
Having outsourced my hosting to Panix, I'm ready to become a consumer.]]>http://www.netmeister.org/blog/index.php?entry=entry080428-1834252008-04-28T00:00:00Z2008-04-28T00:00:00Zbouncing mail due to relays.ordb.org I understand that it's an efficient way to make people not use relays.ordb.org anymore, but willingly and intentionally cause people to lose mail is really not very nice.
See also: http://www.nabble.com/relays.ordb.org-r ... 86049.html]]>http://www.netmeister.org/blog/index.php?entry=entry080325-2214062008-03-26T00:00:00Z2008-03-26T00:00:00ZA surfer's logWhere: Pacifica/Linda Mar Time: 13:30 - 15:00 Weather: Sunny Wind: None. Crowds: Emptyish (for Pacifica) Tide: Low, low tide. Waves: 3-4', mostly. Some 5. Fairly clean, but few.
First time surfing in 2008. Very, very out of shape. Good thing it was mellow. Warmer than anticipated.]]>http://www.netmeister.org/blog/index.php?entry=entry080119-1939552008-01-20T00:00:00Z2008-01-20T00:00:00ZGoogle blocking certain user-agents For example, perl's LWP::UserAgent sets the agent string per default to "libwww-perl/#.#". Google apparently doesn't like that and will not return results to you. Setting it to something like "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3)" would work.
Interestingly, they appear to whitelist agents, rather than blacklisting them. That is, a random string as a user agent will not work. This means that they are effectively saying "we will only serve content to agents that we know (and approve) of", banning any client they simply might not know of.
One would assume that they did put this whitelist into place to prevent certain abuses, but then again, it would be trivial for anybody developing tools that lend themselves to abuse to simply reset the agent string to something they would accept, so the win seems negligible to me, while the cost of banning unknown agents seems high.]]>http://www.netmeister.org/blog/index.php?entry=entry071203-0917522007-12-03T00:00:00Z2007-12-03T00:00:00ZA Surfer's Log Date: 2007-11-25 Where: Pacifica/Linda Mar Time: 11:15am - 12:45pm Weather: Cloudy Wind: Some winds from N. Crowds: Emptyish (for Pacifica) Tide: High tide just turned to outgoing tide. Some current. Waves: Choppy, but good. 3-5', mostly.
Got a 5', some 3'. Ate a 5'. Water was quite a bit colder than the last time. ]]>http://www.netmeister.org/blog/index.php?entry=entry071125-1911122007-11-26T00:00:00Z2007-11-26T00:00:00ZA Surfer's Log Date: 2007-11-23 Where: Pacifica/Linda Mar Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm Weather: Sunny Wind: Some winds from N. Crowds: Empty (for Pacifica) Tide: Low low tide, starting to change to incoming tide Waves: Choppy, but good. 3-5', mostly.