Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
I seem to have a lot of kayaking entries recently. Maybe they need their own category – except all my categories start with the letter “R”, and I can’t think of a good R word for kayaking.
As you probably guessed, I went kayaking again today. I tried to take it easy, and so far my elbows are only a little bit sore.
Continue reading “Maybe I need a new category for this”
The Republican disinformation machine, and their wholy owned subsidiary Fox News have been spreading the lie that John Kerry is the most liberal senator. This site
John Kerry: The Most Liberal Senator? An Analysis sets the record straight.
I’ll rant about this American political assumption that being a liberal is considered political death some other time. Where I’m from being a liberal is a good thing.
Today I wish to hunt down everybody who makes an email virus scanner that sends back a message to the “From” address telling them that the message that they sent contained a virus, and all the morons who install these things without disabling this option, and kill them. Slowly.
Free clue: VIRUSES FORGE THE FROM ADDRESS, FUCKWADS! The “helpful” message ends up harrassing some innocent third party. And because you all feel you need to customize your “helpful” message some how, it’s impossible to filter these damn things out.
I get over 1000 pieces of spam a day, and all but one or two are filtered out by my spam filters. But I get 10 or more of these virus warnings a day, and most of them get through my filters. So most of the spam I have actually deal with in terms of seeing the “new mail” indication and opening up a mail client and reading it and deleting it are these messages.
Ok, everything wasn’t all sweetness and light. I went to bed with the rsync going on to the ext2 partition, and a cp -r going on to the VFAT partition. An hour or so later, I was awaked by my cell phone beeping to let me know that the program I have running on my Gradwell account to monitor my web sites was saying that my home box wasn’t serving up web pages.
Continue reading “Spoke too soon”
I bought a 200Gb hard drive ($141 with a $40 mail in rebate) and a USB external enclosure ($15). The idea was that I would have a hard drive that I could use as a backup for the 80Gb drive on the server, and also have some semi-portable storage so I could give Kodak back the 200Gb firewire drive I sort-of appropriated from them.
Continue reading “In computer terms, I came out ahead.”