{"id":139,"date":"2004-02-12T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-13T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-02-12T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-13T04:23:00","slug":"never-start-installing-important-software-late-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Never start installing important software late at night."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to go to sleep early last night but I saw that there was a new version of <a href=\"http:\/\/coombs.anu.edu.au\/~avalon\/\">ip_filter<\/a> (version 4.1) and foolishly decided to try installing it. Fortunately, I was able to uninstall it and had an older version of ip_filter sitting around. Unfortunately, there are a lot of versions of ip_filter that don&#8217;t run well on my SPARC. It&#8217;s all kind of iffy. Anyway, the version I had was broken and I was off the net from around 11:30PM until 7PM today. Not that big a deal except I get a fair amount of junk email and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\">sister&#8217;s web site<\/a> gets a lot of hits.<\/p>\n<p>So, there you go. Things are back to normal, or geek-normal anyway.<\/p>\n<p>And I figured out why the Pet Shop Boys CDs were so cheap. They aren&#8217;t as good as I had hoped. DJ Rob Swift was a great find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to go to sleep early last night but I saw that there was a new version of ip_filter (version 4.1) and foolishly decided to try installing it. Fortunately, I was able to uninstall it and had an older version of ip_filter sitting around. Unfortunately, there are a lot of versions of ip_filter that don&#8217;t run well on my SPARC. It&#8217;s all kind of iffy. Anyway, the version I had was broken and I was off the net from around 11:30PM until 7PM today. Not that big a deal except I get a fair amount of junk email and my sister&#8217;s web site gets a lot of hits. So, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Never start installing important software late at night.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}