Really, you shouldn’t mix the two things. I discovered today that, with firebug activated, writing to a document opened this way just produced big problems with inclusions of javascripts and CSS (just three out of 20+ was really included).

Did I already say “sigh, open source!”?

Posted by mattia as ajax, firebug, firefox, javascript at 4:06 PM CEST

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Well, if you think you’ve configured well your samba share and you keep getting, after being authenticated:

revision:~# !smb
smbclient -U design //revision/design -W REVISION
Password:
Domain=[REVISION] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.24]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

Then, change all ‘valid users’ with ‘users’ in your smb.conf.

I mean, SWAT keep talking about ‘valid users’, but… it seems it is valid no longer.

Sigh. Open source.

Posted by mattia as samba at 3:03 PM CEST

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I’ve learnt a lesson: if you don’t administrate something, don’t trust it can work.

By the way, the side lesson is: if you administrate something, you can be sure it won’t work. But the point is, at least you can fix it.

So, it happened that acaro.org went awry. I mean, you can’t even resolve it. So, first thing: don’t trust a site whose blog isn’t alive since more than a year.

I had to choose a new domain. I’m really satisfied with afraid.org service in general, so I chose to keep with them. But, which one to choose? I wanted a significative name, not lamer (that is, no numbers and strange TLD), which was short and could be combined with my third level domain. I started looking at afraid.org registry, but reaching the fourth page I thought that was better to automatize the operation.

First, pardon me afraid.org, some wget bash to get all the pages:
$ for i in `seq 1 365` ; do wget "http://freedns.afraid.org/domain/registry/?page=$i&sort=5&q=" ; done
And then, a short python program which encodes some of the conditions:

• it’s marked as public
• no strange TLD
• no lamer numbers
• sort by domain length

which is here: find suitable domains script.

So, I ended up with a long list to look for. Apart from the first three- or four-letters domain (which remembered me of the output of pwgen), I found something interesting. Here are some of the finalists:

• tinyint.info
• nullish.org
• darkcup.net
• foschia.info

Since acaro.org had an italian word inside, I decided for foschia.info (foschia is mist, haze). Since I frequently feel my head in a thick fog, I decided: thick.foschia.info.

Welcome!

PS: blog on foschia.info had its latest post one month ago, with an average of one post a month. Pheew!

Posted by mattia as server at 2:36 PM CEST

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