haiku

evening train -
the only dialogue
between the pages.

[oz/06. sigh, my conversational skills apparently no match for da vinci code.]

mr head, meet mr wall...

console output of my freshly booted thumper...

SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118855-19 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Hostname: unknown
NOTICE: /: unexpected free inode 140193, run fsck(1M)
NOTICE: /: unexpected free inode 134712, run fsck(1M)
The / file system (/dev/md/rdsk/d10) is being checked.

WARNING - Unable to repair the / filesystem. Run fsck
manually (fsck -F ufs /dev/md/rdsk/d10).

Dec 20 18:44:50 svc.startd[7]: svc:/system/filesystem/usr:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/fs-usr" failed with exit status 95.
[ system/filesystem/usr:default failed fatally (see 'svcs -x' for details) ]
Requesting System Maintenance Mode
(See /lib/svc/share/README for more information.)
Console login service(s) cannot run

Root password for system maintenance (control-d to bypass):
single-user privilege assigned to /dev/console.
Entering System Maintenance Mode

Dec 20 18:47:16 su: 'su root' succeeded for root on /dev/console
Sourcing //.profile-EIS.....
root@unknown # fsck -F ufs /dev/md/rdsk/d10
** /dev/md/rdsk/d10
** Last Mounted on /
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
UNALLOCATED  I=134708  OWNER=root MODE=100644
SIZE=55460 MTIME=Nov 29 05:31 2006
NAME=/boot/solaris/filestat.ramdisk

REMOVE DIRECTORY ENTRY FROM I=135778? y

UNALLOCATED  I=140193  OWNER=root MODE=0
SIZE=0 MTIME=Nov 29 05:31 2006
FILE=/platform/i86pc/boot_archive

REMOVE DIRECTORY ENTRY FROM I=140097? y

** Phase 3a - Check Connectivity
** Phase 3b - Verify Shadows/ACLs
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
LINK COUNT FILE I=134712  OWNER=root MODE=0
SIZE=0 MTIME=Nov 29 05:30 2006  COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
ADJUST? y

LINK COUNT FILE I=139940  OWNER=root MODE=0
SIZE=0 MTIME=Dec 20 10:03 2006  COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
ADJUST? y

** Phase 5 - Check Cylinder Groups

CORRECT BAD CG SUMMARIES? y

CORRECTED SUMMARY FOR CG 0
FRAG BITMAP WRONG
FIX? y

CORRECTED SUMMARY FOR CG 29
FRAG BITMAP WRONG (CORRECTED)
DIR BITMAP WRONG (CORRECTED)
FRAG BITMAP WRONG (CORRECTED)
CORRECTED SUMMARY FOR CG 93
FRAG BITMAP WRONG (CORRECTED)
CORRECTED SUMMARY FOR CG 112
CORRECTED SUMMARY FOR CG 133
FRAG BITMAP WRONG (CORRECTED)
CORRECTED SUMMARY FOR CG 134
CORRECT GLOBAL SUMMARY
SALVAGE? y

Log was discarded, updating cyl groups
239603 files, 5443874 used, 5654583 free (80551 frags, 696754 blocks, 0.7% fragmentation)

***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

mere words fail me. prehistoric guttural utterences and primeval screams are called for.

recently noted quotes

splunk: all batbelt. no tights. -- splunk page

i can deal with all your girl stuff taking over my bathroom sink. i can deal with not farting for another week, but i will not tolerate microsoft in this house. -- brent [player vs player, 14/01/04]

skull: what is the difference between a normal sorcerer and a supreme sorcerer?
brent: well, a supreme sorcerer comes fries and a shake. [player vs player, 22/08/04]

we live our lives in America, now, in fits that involve many snarks, possible boojums. -- adam gopnik [from the introduction to the annotated hunting of the snark, the definitive edition]

The reviews I've gotten in the science fiction universe were some of the longest and most thoughtful critiques, closer to something you might find in The New York Review of Books. I would like to show those reviews to mainstream critics and academic literary scholars and say, 'Look at the kind of discourse that's going on around this book in a community that you think cares only about Buffy.' -- james morrow [on the reviews of the last witchfinder]

shaw, like many witty men, considered wit an adequate substitute for wisdom. he could defend any idea, however silly, so cleverly as to make those who did not accept it look like fools. -- bertrand russell

popper is not a philosopher, he is a pedant. -- paul feyerabend [three dialogues on knowledge]

to establish and to sustain an advanced culture, we need to avoid being debilitated either by error or by ignorance. -- harry g frankfurt [on truth]

flying machine...

amusement for the day: google patent search discovers that the flying machine patent belongs to one oltville wright...

hottest/coolest box ever: x4500...

blogging live: i have just unpacked a thumper with 48x500GB disks. oh, how far i have come since my first sun3/160 at york u dept of computer science...