The Setup: “Gruber mentioned today that he contributed to The Setup on waferbaby. Cool idea—I love seeing how experts in the field do what they do…” (Via The Weekly Review.) So do I. Since I have heard about Mr. Gruber from multiple sources, including Merlin Mann of 43folders.com fame, I decided to go check “The [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2009
Gamers and Violence
I ran across this article, where a researcher has stepped up to say that there isn’t a link between violent video games and school shootings. **Duh**. You might as well try and say that Music is resp… oh wait, they tried that too.. ummm. Well, it must have been the movies… crap, they tried that [...]
How to Suck at Information Security, from SANS.org
How to Suck at Information Security Some of my favorites are: * Require your users to change passwords too frequently. * Expect your users to remember passwords without writing them down. * Don’t cross-train the IT and security staff. * Expect end-users to forgo convenience in place of security. * Lock down the infrastructure so [...]
Music, courtesy of jss
A fellow SysAdmin, jss, decided to grace me with this link via IRC as I was about to log off and go pass out for a few hours… I never expected to hear quite that mix of music in one piece. I do believe I am going to need to look up some more of [...]
Irony, much?
In this article on foxnews.com, at the end there is the following quote: Boettger, who was shocked that the files had been made public, asked FOXNews.com to delete them. Though he said he didn’t know who could have made the mistake, he said he was on the case. “We’re gonna try to find out who [...]
Netscape Enterprise Server released under BSD License
Netscape Enterprise Server, Now Open Source. Holy Crap! My first ISP job we had Netscape Enterprise Server running on an SGI Indy running IRIX. It was “the webserver”. Course it was also “the mail server, the radius server, the dns server”. I’m not sure if I want to try to relive that particular part of [...]
Tanker truck fall down, go Boom?
This morning traffic was being a pain, and as I got off of 12/18 onto 14 East to go home, I saw that there seemed to be some kind of issue on the other side of the exit… and then I heard on the radio that there was a full fuel tanker truck that had [...]
Thanks is such a simple thing.
Saying “Thanks” is such a simple thing. Yet it can go so far. Our mailman just dropped off the mail, since it wouldn’t fit in the mailbox, and he thanked me for keeping the snow away from the mailbox, making his job easier. I think he just made my day.
Jesse will remember!
Looks like there may be hope for Jesse after all! A study has shown that coffee can help reduce the effects of Alzheimer’s. Too bad all he will remember are the hallucinations from drinking 3 pots of coffee a day! Yes, I am picking on him.
A new beginning.
And now, I start over. Blame Jesse. My goal is going to be to post at least once every couple of days, as to what is going to be posted, I don’t know. The subjects could cover a broad spectrum of topics that only hold in common the fragments of my psyche. Politics, Games, Systems [...]
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