Tag Archives: stupidity

Freeradius Module-Failure-Message = “Failed retrieving values required to evaluate condition”

Posted on 7 November 2018 by stuff writer

One of my radius servers stopped doing its radius thing. Everything was going along swimmingly, and then it suddenly stopped at 1:00AM.  Restarts didn’t fix it. The way this server works is that the default handler receives accounting packets, writes … Continue reading →

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Search-engine assisted fraud HOWTO

Posted on 26 April 2016 by stuff writer

As many of the readers of this fine site are career criminals, it seems good to explain a new and popular procurement fraud scam.  Here’s a piccie to muddy the waters, followed by the blow-by-blow account, in which the numbers … Continue reading →

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Computer insomnia

Posted on 16 February 2015 by stuff writer

I updated my Ubuntu system installation on a laptop.  This went fine.  I installed more memory.  This went well.  But on the second day, I discovered that my laptop had insomnia.  It could not sleep.  Close the lid?  It’s still … Continue reading →

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Adobe XFA forms do not work, no really, Adobe sucks

Posted on 1 October 2014 by stuff writer

Our friendly tax collector has automated their personal inefficiencies into a relatively efficient system called SARS e-viling.  This amazing system allows you to confess your tax sins, after which they will perform their happy little calculations and tell you whether … Continue reading →

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VMWare + ipfix + NAT = intermittent fail

Posted on 21 May 2014 by stuff writer

So I put all of these things together a while ago for bandwidth reporting: VMWare‘s netflow reporting – I configured a virtual distributed switch to send netflow reporting to a collector.  Every time some machine runs up its internet usage, the … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 14.04 GPT EFI faiL

Posted on 12 May 2014 by stuff writer

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 and ran into a problem.  Starting with the default 64 bit version using pretty straightfoward settings as a new installation, I ended up with this terse message after the installation completed: Operating system not found It … Continue reading →

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Android Emergency

Posted on 13 March 2014 by stuff writer

On the way to work one fine morning, I stopped at a road accident scene, with some rather traumatic injuries – I thought someone had died, but instead of being dead, that someone spoke to me and asked me to … Continue reading →

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Arrays

Posted on 7 March 2014 by stuff writer

A programmer working on a large project noticed that every single variable was stored in a separately named instance: int c1, c2, c3, c4, c5, c6; This meant that there was a lot of code of this sort: c1++; c2++; … Continue reading →

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My new password

Posted on 4 March 2014 by stuff writer

I’m changing all my passwords to asterisks: ******** Now, when I enter my password, I can see what I’m typing.

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December is a bad month for Linux system administration

Posted on 12 December 2013 by stuff writer

The system load for Linux is an indication of how busy the system is, and how long you are going to wait to get something done.  When the load is 0.0, that means that the system is ready to do … Continue reading →

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