Dale's Weblog

BIND and lazy people.

I installed BIND today. A DNS server. It’s seems really nice and was much easier to setup than expected. I’ve heard that BIND was a nightmare but in fact it is pretty good.

Here is a zone that I have on it currently:

zone "dalegroup.info" {
type master;
file "db.dalegroup";
allow-transfer { 10.0.0.1;67.118.43.92;69.111.250.84; };
};

@ IN SOA ns1.dalegroup.net. mdale.dalegroup.net. (
2005012705 ; Serial
7200 ; Refresh after 2 hours
3600 ; Retry after 1 hour
604800 ; Expire after 1 week
86400 ) ; Minimum TTL of 1 day

; Name servers

IN NS ns1.dalegroup.net.
IN NS ns1.rollernet.us.
IN NS ns2.rollernet.us.

; Addresses
IN A 203.173.26.192
IN MX 0 mwdmeyer.is-a-geek.com.
IN MX 10 mail.rollernet.us.
IN MX 20 mail2.rollernet.us.
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
ns1 IN A 203.173.26.192
www IN A 203.173.26.192

On another topic I found the following two quotes interesting:

Ever see someone toss a coat on the floor rather than hang it up, and then go back later to hang it up anyway?

Most lazy people create an extraordinary amount of needless labor for themselves and then berate people who have a lot of free time because of their efficiency

and

I’ve noticed that a lot of "messy" people seem to know where everything is. I call it the chaos theory of organization; it can often be easier to remember where things are than to spend the effort to put them someplace. So you just put them where there’s space, and remember where they went.

My wife has what I call the pro-aesthetic theory of organization; if a room or place appears to be neat, it’s organized – even if the stuff is put away without any regard to an organizational structure (eg, related items aren’t in the same cabinet or closet). It’s important for the room to look clean, even if in reality its a highly user unfriendly mode of organization.

When you contrast the former and the latter, it’s an interesting mix – on one hand, you have a visual mess but things are relatively easy to find. On the other hand, you have visual neatness, but things are hard to find since there’s no scheme (other than size and volume) as to where things went.

As far as laziness goes, I’ve known neat freaks that never get anything done because the overhead cost of neatness eliminates their time.