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jayIt's been stormy here all day, with sheets of water and high winds at times. patgreene has been ill and in bed for most of the day, so I've been watching the kids and shopping online. Including for a new DSL provider -- telocity is going away in <90 days, according to today's newspaper. So we'll need yet another email transition in a month or so. Sigh. After reading online reviews, I signed up with DSLExtreme (despite the name *). But I'm tired of having to resubscribe to mailing lists and notifying friends -- I only just got around to updating the SFSI lists 2 weeks ago, so I could unsubscribe from AOL.
I need something more stable, more solid and predictable, address-wise. Carved in stone, as it were... so I'm registering my own domain name, lithic.net. I'll probably rename our machines (paleo, neo) and router (endo)... not a bad choice for a part-time geophysicist. Besides, "vitreous" was already taken...
Given Pat's condition, it is just as well that we had earlier bowed out of going to a party tonight, for complex reasons. I had had thoughts of going contra dancing, but am taking care of the kids instead. And there are rare flashes of lightning outside. Cool. I attempted to go shopping this afternoon, made no headway but had an entertaining 2-hour coffee withbrooksmoses instead :-).
patgreene has been ill and in bed for most of the day, so I've been watching the kids and shopping online. Including for a new DSL provider -- telocity is going away in <90 days, according to today's newspaper. So we'll need yet another email transition in a month or so. Sigh. After reading online reviews, I signed up with DSLExtreme (despite the name *). But I'm tired of having to resubscribe to mailing lists and notifying friends -- I only just got around to updating the SFSI lists 2 weeks ago, so I could unsubscribe from AOL. I need something more stable, more solid and predictable, address-wise. Carved in stone, as it were... so I'm registering my own domain name, lithic.net. I'll probably rename our machines (paleo, neo) and router (endo)... not a bad choice for a part-time geophysicist. Besides, "vitreous" was already taken...
Given Pat's condition, it is just as well that we had earlier bowed out of going to a party tonight, for complex reasons. I had had thoughts of going contra dancing, but am taking care of the kids instead. And there are rare flashes of lightning outside. Cool. I attempted to go shopping this afternoon, made no headway but had an entertaining 2-hour coffee with
brooksmoses instead :-).
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Date: 2002-12-15 12:39 am (UTC):-((( Hoping for rapid improvements...
lithic.net
Sounds cool!
(I always worry about easily-guessed themed machine names, for security reasons - am I just being paranoid?)
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Date: 2002-12-15 01:00 am (UTC)In this day and age of frequent port-scans down all the numbers in an IP-address block, I'd suspect you're either being too paranoid, or not paranoid enough. Security through obscurity is obsolete; the machines need sufficient security to handle being found, whether or not they're given guessable names, and so the guessable names are pretty irrelevant.
Meanwhile, would I come across as cynical if I pointed out that paleo.lithic.net is unlikely to be "easily guessable" for a cracker-script (or its likely user)?
- Brooks
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Date: 2002-12-15 01:07 am (UTC)I do hope Pat is better soon.
Oh, and the power was indeed back on when I got back to our house. It apparently was out for somewhere around two to three hours, though.
- Brooks