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Stephen Darori

Jeremy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:49:58 +0000

My experiences with Stephen Darori began when he started emailing me here at my hobby website with requests that I remove content from my website. His requests came in at an unkind rate, with poor grammar and frequently one email quoting the entirety of an email he sent earlier that same day with only a few more words tacked on at the top. I found the time to review these requests, and went ahead and unpublished the content from my website as he requested: a series of postings he had evidently made to a public mailing list which were then archived on my website along with tens of thousands of other messages publicly archived here. I replied to one of his countless requests that I had done what he asked and assumed that was the end of it.

The Fate Of KernelTrap

Jeremy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:24:44 +0000

It's been many months since I've posted an update to the front page of KernelTrap. Ironically, the last posting, dated September 30th 2008, includes in its title, "this one should be the last one". That was not planned irony, though it did lead to a few comments and emails from readers wondering what my plans where and why I was suddenly giving up on KernelTrap. In reality, life has simply been busy for me lately, and I've felt the need to take a brief break from keeping up with the lkml and other kernel mailing lists. I've been focused on scaling my small consulting company, Tag1 Consulting, and I recently purchased a 37' sailboat on which I'm taking a trip for a few months starting at the end of February. Long time readers of KernelTrap will remember similar lapses in updates in the past.

Annoyance, aka Stephen Darori

Jeremy — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:55:57 +0000

If you know a person by the name of Stephen Darori, kindly explain to him how search engines and search engine caches work. Many months ago he first emailed me asking that some messages archived in the KernelTrap mailing list archives be removed for whatever reason. As KernelTrap is and always has been just a hobby, I didn't jump right on the request but in a reasonable amount of time I responded and removed the emails as requested. Absurdly enough, said Stephen Darori (a self proclaimed "Senior VP Investments and Head of a billion dollar high technology division") evidently does not understand the difference between an actual website and a google cache, and ignores my attempts at explaining.

Manatees And Sailing

Jeremy — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:58:14 +0000

It'd been a couple of weeks since we'd been out sailing, both because Jamie has been keeping too busy with school, and because our aged two-stroke outboard hasn't been performing well lately. While our goal is to spend as much time as possible under sail, we still rely on the outboard to get us in and out of the marina, and it's always nice to know it's there to fall back on when something goes wrong.

We got to the harbor and started getting things ship shape as recently taught by our friend, Bill, preparing the sails, making up lines, and putting cell phones, wallets and keys into a plastic bag. Nearly ready, we were greeted by our harbormaster, Peter, who suggested we should walk down to the end of the harbor to see something cool before heading out in the boat. The something cool turned out to be a group of manatees drinking fresh water from a hose off the back of another sailboat.

Offline, Moving

Jeremy — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:07:56 +0000

I'll be offline most of this upcoming week, moving from Connecticut to upstate New York. So it's highly unlikely I'll be posting any updates to KernelTrap for the rest of February.

Man pages

Jeremy — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:54:33 +0000

I've added 3199 new pages to KernelTrap tonight, importing the Linux kernel man pages. I wrote a custom module that converts nroff format man pages into HTML on the fly, and another that imports the actual man pages from a tarball found on kernel.org. I've not yet finished an interface for browsing the man pages, but the pages will turn up in site-searches.

AirCard 875U with Ubuntu Linux

Jeremy — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:16:17 +0000

Having arrived in San Francisco for two months, I needed to find a reliable source for getting connected to the Internet. There was a selection of unsecured WiFi connections available from my new apartment, but all proved to be unreliable at best.

Wales

Jeremy — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:16:20 +0000

From London I returned to Ipswich, then Eddie and I set off on a road trip to Wales. We had originally planned to take a motorcycle, but a combination of issues including the weather forced us instead to drive a car. Our destination was Snowdonia National Park, where we spent two nights and climbed the 1085 meter Mount Snowdon. Wales proved to be quite beautiful, very green (which of course also meant very wet), and reminiscent of Ireland.

Sicily

Jeremy — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:25:00 +0000

I ended my trip through Italy with a visit to Sicily. Originally I'd hoped to get off the beaten trail a bit, but with limited time I ended up being more pragmatic. From the moment I departed Milan, the trip already promised to be exciting as Marco and I were met at the airport by police in full riot gear. As we passed through their ranks, they were strapping on their helmets and lifting their shields. Only later after arriving in Sicily did I discover what all the excitement was, George Bush was visiting Rome for the G8 summit and huge masses of people were all trying to congregate there to protest his presence. Had I known, I may have postponed the next leg of my journey from Rome to Sicily and taken part in the protest myself.

As the train approached Sicily, I was quite curious as to how we'd get from the mainland to the island. I was impressed when I didn't have to get off the train, but instead they simply drove the whole thing onto a large ferry. I arrived in Messina after 13 hours, quite ready to stretch my legs. The following day I took a hydrofoil out to Lipari in the Aeloian Islands. From there I headed to the touristy fishing village, Cefalù. And finally I ended up in Palerma, from where I flew back to London.