UPDATE [2022-02-06]: I’m fairly certain nothing in this blog posting is needed anymore with the current version of Synology’s NAS software (DSM). My NAS’s SSL certificate has been renewing automatically for quite a while now without my ever needing to use this script. I don’t know what mechanism DSM is now using to renew Let’s… Read More »
Does this sound familiar to you? Your Linux box has plenty of memory, but the kernel “oom-killer” keeps getting triggered and killing processes. The stack trace logged by the kernel shows that out_of_memory was triggered inside _do_fork (for me, it was mysqld forks that were triggering the problem; though I’d been running mysqld on my… Read More »
Passport Parking’s pay-by-phone service charges exorbitant fees, doesn’t inform customers about the fees up-front, makes it hard to obtain a refund, issues refunds slowly, has a broken web app, and has poor security.
The comics aggregator is now accessed over SSL at the new URL https://comics.kamens.us/.
GameStop doesn’t know how to run a working web site that is capable of taking people’s money, and doesn’t know how to provide decent customer service when people run into problems because of their broken web site that won’t take people’s money. Don’t patronized GameStop; they don’t deserve your money.
There has been a recent Linode security breach. Check if you’re affected!
After seven years, Micro Center still can’t handle, “Don’t send me junk mail,” or putting valid URLs in their mailings.
TL;DR if you suddenly start getting “uninitialized constant” errors and your jobs aren’t running, then check and make sure you haven’t accidentally connected the wrong app to your Resque queue.
Shell script for giving a list of DSM users access to all the albums in Photo Station.
Add CyberCoders to the list of cold-calling, lying, obnoxious recruiters with whom you should never, ever, ever do business.