djbdns and movies
Jan. 25th, 2004 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaI spent most of yesterday playing around with djbdns, getting it installed both on my personal computer and one of my servers. Once I set it to do cache forwarding, the speed increase in name lookups on my home machine (on dialup) was quite noticable and impressive. I am really starting to like his suite of programs, including daemontools. I also enjoy reading his articles about UNIX.
Anyway, I also watched a few movies over the weekend:
Underworld
About: Vampires killing werewolves. Until a vampire falls in love with a werewolf.
Review: This movie was complex on several levels. The plot was fairly original, and the story was set in the present time, which made for some interesting technological issues coming into play. The heroine is also a vampire, and you start sympathising with her as the movie progresses. The vampires aren't totally evil, and the werewolves aren't totally good. Everyone is shades of gray. Just like real life, now that I think of it. If I could change one thing, I would have less action. I think it spoiled the movie in some ways.
Grade: B+
Devil's Advocate:
About: Lawyers really ARE evil!
Review: Keanu Reeves plays one Kevin Lomax, a lawyer who has never lost a case. He gets an offer he can't refuse from John Milton (Al Pachino), who is the head of a prestigous lawfirm. As the movie progesses, Kevin has issues with his conscience, and the sins of vanity and materialism are explored. This film was a bit heavy on the gore and the sex. If it had less of that, it would be a more solid movie.
Grade: B
In other news, a weird DNS issue had made my website inaccessable for the timebeing. It appears that my web provider's DNS server thinks it's still authoritative, when it's really not. :-) I sent a message to the provider, hopefully it'll get fixed soon.
Anyway, I also watched a few movies over the weekend:
Underworld
About: Vampires killing werewolves. Until a vampire falls in love with a werewolf.
Review: This movie was complex on several levels. The plot was fairly original, and the story was set in the present time, which made for some interesting technological issues coming into play. The heroine is also a vampire, and you start sympathising with her as the movie progresses. The vampires aren't totally evil, and the werewolves aren't totally good. Everyone is shades of gray. Just like real life, now that I think of it. If I could change one thing, I would have less action. I think it spoiled the movie in some ways.
Grade: B+
Devil's Advocate:
About: Lawyers really ARE evil!
Review: Keanu Reeves plays one Kevin Lomax, a lawyer who has never lost a case. He gets an offer he can't refuse from John Milton (Al Pachino), who is the head of a prestigous lawfirm. As the movie progesses, Kevin has issues with his conscience, and the sins of vanity and materialism are explored. This film was a bit heavy on the gore and the sex. If it had less of that, it would be a more solid movie.
Grade: B
In other news, a weird DNS issue had made my website inaccessable for the timebeing. It appears that my web provider's DNS server thinks it's still authoritative, when it's really not. :-) I sent a message to the provider, hopefully it'll get fixed soon.
