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What the hell?!
- After last night’s Firefox Crash-a-palooza, Mail tanked on me this morning. WTF? I ran disk utility and repaired permissions. This is what I got:
Feb 26 08:29:03: Disk Utility started.
Repairing permissions for “Lady Snowblood”
Determining correct file permissions.
Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/secure.log, should be -rw——- , they are -rw-r—–
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Permissions repair complete
Should I worry?
- Today’s A Word A Day e-mail amused me:
This week we have dug up five words you may not have known existed.
misology (mi-SOL-uh-jee) noun
Hatred of logic or reason.
[From Greek miso- (hate) + -logy (science, study).]
Today’s word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=misology
-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
“Fletcher laughed. ‘Your coyness smacks of misology. Sinking back down
to that dark place within yourself, the one that you tried so
desperately to suffocate.’”
Chris Mooney; Deviant Ways; Atria; 2000.
- Wayne Coyne was on NPR’s “This I Believe” series this morning.
- Claude comes back from the Vet’s office today. Oofah.
- Judging by the noise outside, they’ve started work on the new garage. Woo hoo! Fraction’s go the camera in LA, so I’ll try to take some photos later but they’ll be futurephone pics.
- Other than running to pick up the dog, I expect to be home chained to the desk all day. Say a prayer for me.
Don’t worry about the secure.log thing. It’s one of the log files that gets rotated daily (weekly?), and there’s a bug in the script that does the rotating, so the new log’s permissions don’t get reset. It’s theoretically exploitable, if you run as an admin, and if someone can finagle something useful out of your secure.log, but no biggie.
That’s comforting, thank you.
That word of the day was awesome. I spent a good hour or so throughout the day telling people, “You’re just so full of misology.” Then they’d look at me like I was crazy. ::shrugs::
Then you’ll really enjoy today’s word:
omphaloskepsis (om-fuh-lo-SKEP-sis) noun
Contemplation of one’s navel.