{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fcharset0 Times New Roman;}{\f1\froman\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f2\froman\fcharset0 Helvetica;}{\f3\froman\fcharset0 Times-Roman;}}{\colortbl\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green255\blue255;}{\stylesheet {\style\s1 \ql\fi0\li0\ri0\f1\fs32\b\cf0 heading 1;}{\style\s2 \ql\fi0\li0\ri0\f1\fs28\b\i\cf0 heading 2;}{\style\s3 \ql\fi0\li0\ri0\f1\fs26\b\cf0 heading 3;}{\style\s0 \ql\fi0\li0\ri0\f1\fs24\cf0 Normal;}}{\*\listtable}{\*\listoverridetable}{\*\generator OpenPDF 1.3.30}{\info}\paperw11907\paperh16840\margl720\margr720\margt720\margb720\pgwsxn11907\pghsxn16840\marglsxn720\margrsxn720\margtsxn720\margbsxn720\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\par\f0 The Design and Implementation of laffer1\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 31 May 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:08 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Testing Journal Service\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Test\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Confused\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: Jewel - 0304\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:55 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Yes, this site works\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I am so happy. This site is working as expected, finally! ?\par ?\par I still have some serious bugs to work out, like the fact that I am using java.?\par ?\par Oh and hypens do not work. :(\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Happy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 1 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:05 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 working on the this site again\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I am playing the new wolfenstein game and programming in between levels. :) ?\par ?\par Its worked rather well so far.?\par ?\par I am trying to get single quotes to work and some basic validation on the update journal form. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Happy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: RTCW theme\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 2 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:44 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 RTCW ET\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 The new game rocks. I played it all night!\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Happy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:51 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 JJ\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 JJ\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Happy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:51 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 JJ: Take 2\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm working on a new patch for jj to allow single ticks. Lets home it works! (single quotes)\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Happy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 3 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:50 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Got my copy of Jewel's new album "0304" today!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm happy. I got my copy of the album today. I like the first few tracks quite well. The official site is introducing a premium content service for 35 bucks a year. That sounds good. ?\par ?\par It looks like they are going to windows media format though. :(\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Happy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: Run 2 Me - Jewel - 0304\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 5 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:49 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Things I'm working on\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Well I was rather busy yesterday. I did manage to add a second fan to my compaq. I think i fixed the over heating problem. It feels frickin cold now. I had to really hack the case and remove the face plate to even get the fan mounted in the front. The computer is quieter because the other fans are not working so hard most of the time.?\par ?\par As for the journal service, I just added a known bug list. I also started working on friends pages last night. I have most of the code written for profiles (well the viewer). My big problem is setting up sessions and authenticating... once i have that down i can add the security stuff and so on. I won't have friends groups right away, but I will have friends at least. You will be able to view others journal entries and set security that way.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Awake\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:49 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Caryn\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Just talked to caryn on the phone a little bit ago. She has an interview today at 3pm. :)?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Awake\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 7 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:33 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 jj update\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just upgraded the update journal servlet and the users servlet. Hope this works good. :)\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 8 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:02 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 rtcw et\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just got disconnected from the server i was on. What a pain in the ass. The level was almost over.. now the server is "gone".\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Angry\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:03 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 KVCC screwed me\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I was awarded a liberal arts degree instead of a CS degree. Now that just sucks! I'm going to call them tomorrow to see what the deal is. From my understanding, i was supposed to have my major listed at least.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Angry\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:04 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 jewel download card crap\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 i still haven't been able to download the custom content promised to me if i pre ordered the damn cd. what is up with that. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Angry\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:07 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Cheri and Carol visited today\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 My aunt visited today. We went out to lunch (inclusive caryn) at olive garden. Other than that, not much happened today aside from my previous postings. The kvcc stuff i found out by logging into the system.?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Annoyed\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:13 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 mysql backup\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 i figured out how to backup mysql last week. Now I am doing just that. ?\par ?\par I want to try to keep at least a weekly backup going on. I will automate it once i prove it works correctly. ?\par ?\par I will need to setup a cron job for it. ?\par ?\par Apache is a version behind, but the vulnerability does not affect me the way i compiled it. I won't dick with it.. it takes to long to get mod jk to work. just journal would be down during that tme.?\par ?\par Caryn added several moods I see. Very good. :)?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 11 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:39 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Messing with my journal\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 just playing around.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:51 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 :)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm working on a win 2k server right now. Hopefully I can get it ready over the next few days. Its been a few years since I administered a windows server. The last one was for Rob. Ironically, I have a similar setup on this one. Imail Express, SQL, MS DNS, and IIS are installed. I plan on running secondary dns on my freebsd server for this box. Its not my server though. ?\par ?\par I am happy with freebsd for the time being. I do wish java 1.4 was finished and another webserver product was available that I liked. Apache 2 is nice, but I don't like the fact that everything is modular.. i think it should have some scripting language builtin.. for administration purposes and performance... i have mine so hacked up with php, perl and java crap its not funny. I almost like the Sun One webserver, but the only affordable way to get that is to buy a Sun fire v100 or v120 server. I was rather disappointed when i found out that jetty uses the tomcat engine anyway.. it defeated the purpose of using it for me. Jigsaw looks promising but its a pain to configure. Tomcat does not have enough features to run standalone.. i've thought about it seriously though. If I get over my problems understanding java.. maybe i can write my own webserver someday. That would be great! My first objective for the time being is to either use tapestry or use some of the code in tapestry or write code to deal with the servlet api in a nicer manner. I hate it. Session state is DUMB. My problem is with integer data types.. i wish i could take a java class or somethng.. dont have the money.?\par ?\par JustJournal is working, but it is infantile compared to my .NET code or even my vb 6 code. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: Serve the Ego - Jewel - Remix\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 12 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:11 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Jewel JK\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just subscribed to the jewel unedited content. Hopefully I will like it since I paid for a year. :)?\par ?\par I really like the new album though.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 13 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:18 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 FoolishGames.com\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just did some changes on foolishgames.com. Anyone who visits my site regularly will notice some of them right away. :)?\par ?\par JustJournal looks ugly to me now... i'll do something about that soon too I hope.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: Live - Selling the drama\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 18 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 7:08 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Music Purchases and other stuff\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I bought some train and fleetwood mac tracks on the apple music store. Very kewl. ?\par ?\par I've been listening to 0304 quite a bit. Its almost as neat as Pieces of You. I like it better than spirit. ?\par ?\par I have been working a lot... i setup a Windows 2000 server for work. Its got iMail, SQL and IIS on it. Damn Imail. I picked it because rob used to have good luck with it. I think I like sendmail better. It is good for a windows solution though.. i am using the free version... 1 domain limit. ?\par ?\par Someone impersonated the Microsoft security contact and sent everyone a fake email from mexico. I forwarded it to the microsoft guy.. mike howard.. he replied and said "funny you should mention it, i got a copy too!" I found that rather funny. ?\par ?\par I just renewed my adsl contract with SBC. They are upgrading my bandwidth to 1.5mb downstream on the 25th. ?\par ?\par I toasted my freebsd install on my compaq. I tried to upgrade to 5.0 release from 4.8 stable. Big mistake.. it fucked the file system.. including getty... (tty as in terminal). I am downloading 5.1 release isos right now. ?\par ?\par I guess I can't upgrade my freebsd server remotely then. That sucks. No security problems with 4.8 release right now, but still. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Amused\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: John Denver - Take me home, country roads\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:46 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Testing Journal Feature\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Does this feature work?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Anxious\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 19 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:50 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 PowerMac is better!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/acgresearch.html?\par ?\par Note the kewl document showing intel chip slower than dirt. :)\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Amused\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 21 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:58 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 jj\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just finished fixing a few bugs. I have the friends viewer working, just trying to figure out how to let users access it and add friends.?\par ?\par For an example,?\par http://www.justjournal.com/users/laffer1/friends\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:09 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 kewl mysql admin app\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just found the best Mysql admin program ever... its even better than php my admin.?\par ?\par Its called mysql 4x manager and its a Mac OS X exclusive app. I love it. I think I will buy a copy when I can.. its only 50 bucks. They have another product that works with ms sql, oracle, sybase and db2 as well. ?\par ?\par It took me a minute to set it up where i could use it. See I don't allow connections to my database from the outside (only loopback) for security reasons. I got clever and setup a SSH tunnel to my server bound to the loopback on that end and this end. Worked like a charm.. plus everything I do is encrypted that way. If i could get the tunnel to stay up without timing out, i would do that for email also. I'd love it for ftp too. Come to think of it.. i should be able to do it for ftp . I think I tried once and had trouble with the data returning.. i'll think about it some more. ?\par ?\par Oh and in case anyone is wondering I am working on JustJournal.com this weekend. I plan on having the friends system and basic preferences up by next weekend at the latest. Then I will work on comments and private entries. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Anxious\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 22 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:19 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Security feature partially working\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I finally got the backend setup for the new security system.. very similar to live journal.. you have public private and friends. I do not allow custom groups at this time. That would really complicate things. ?\par ?\par The friends pages are almost working too. Actually it does work, just not for anyone but me. I have the code ready except for the administration part. End users can't add or delete friends yet. Basically I have to write two servlets to do it. The preferences interface was added yesterday.. i plan on getting it done aside from the posting servlets and then adding them later (other than friends which are a priority). \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:24 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 RTCW: ET\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been play ET so much that my hand is starting to hurt when i use home row on the keyboard. asdf are essential keys during my play time. After two games I feel like i'm going to lose my hand. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Awake\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 24 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:09 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 The last few days\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I have been so tired lately. I don't know why.. i will sleep for 10-11 hours and wake up exhausted. ?\par ?\par I have been reviewing my MSDN subscription content lately. I've also been rather busy with work. I did take today off though.. partially by choice. SBC had an issue upgrading my DSL line today. I was down until 6pm. Now I have 1.5 mb download and an unknown upload rate... It isn't fast enough to be 256 but I think its supposed to be. It feels like 192 really. ?\par ?\par I was on the phone all day with their technical support department until I could prove that it wasn't me. The last tech was very nice and finally escalated it.?\par ?\par I just noticed a rendering bug in safari. I will report it to apple but i doubt they will fix it. (1.0 was released yesterday)?\par ?\par Apple's new g5 chip means they make the fastest personal computers.. and they are 64 bit! Eat that AMD and intel. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:09 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 My latest project...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 In addition to Just Journal and my .NET charting component, I have just started another programming project. ?\par ?\par My interest in .NET has faded a bit after administering a Windows web server again. Its not worth it. ?\par ?\par On to my new project. It is a Web Server written in Java. I have been looking over source code for several months on Tomcat, Jigsaw, and Jetty. Some of it is way over my head, but I got some ideas. I had all but given up on the project, when I found some source on java.sun.com from 1997. It is a VERY basic web server consisting of 2 classes and one interface. Based on this code, I decided to try my hand at a webserver. Everyone who knows me well should know i've always wanted to write a web browser. My recent reading has suggested that a web server is simplier.. so i decided to go for it.?\par ?\par Many of you probably think i'm nuts. How can luke write a web server? ?\par ?\par Well remember, I started wtih working code. After making a few changes including converting the code to seperate files in a package, and tweaking the output a bit along with some subtle improvements to get rid of deprecated functions, i now have the webserver spitting out 1.8 pages per second. I ran a Microsoft stress test on a static file and received those results. It is a threaded server with 5 worker threads. I think i can get more out of it by increasing threads by a few and streamlining the Worker class a bit. I want to change the way it handles files.. for one i think the headers should be generated in a seperate method.. ?\par ?\par the current model does this...?\par ?\par start server.. binds to port.?\par reads config file (terrible setup now)?\par starts some worker threads in a for loop?\par listens for requests?\par ?\par Then each worker thread handling a request does the following...?\par ?\par tries to access file on file system....?\par spits out a bad header after reviewing a hash map of the possible content types (is the file a png, html, etc)?\par ?\par I added several content types to the file as well. xml and png were among them.?\par ?\par The server spits out the bytes to the client.?\par ?\par That is about it. ?\par ?\par I will continue to work on JJ though.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 28 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:04 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 CuteFTP Pro and CuteZip\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just took advantage of an upgrade offer for 10 bucks.. i upgraded cuteftp to cuteftp pro and got a free copy of cutezip. I uninstalled winzip after i found out cutezip supports rar and ace files. ?\par ?\par I think that is the first utility windows software I have bought since I got my mac. (not counting norton a/v)\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Awake\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 29 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:45 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 DOH\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just deleted my entry i was writing in IE.?\par ?\par I used a gui program in windows to draw a floor plan today for money.?\par ?\par I also commented on working on this website.?\par ?\par The interesting part was about a vb program I wrote in .NET. It retrieves orders from a database and prints them, with no visible forms.. only 2 icons in the taskbar (actually notification bar by clock). One shows the program is loaded and the other only displays when its retriving records or formatting them. The text updates for the icon. ?\par ?\par I do all of it in memory without temp files using a string buffer that I put in a reader so the printer controls can treat it like a text file. I thought it was slick since I'm not a gui programmer. ?\par ?\par Only drawback to the program is that it must stay in memory to print new orders.. and its 8mb in ram (it is a .net program)?\par ?\par It has an internal timer thats set for 30 minutes and I hacked it so it doesn't max out the cpu while its running.. I run an infinite while loop with a sleep 1000 statement... basically the thread sleeps every second in the loop. On my machine i see 3 percent spikes and on the clients (non debug mode) i see zero. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:54 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 JJ\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Based on my last post I just had an idea.. when i get around to writing the windows client for this site.. i will use VB.net and setup a notification icon that changes to a flag or something like netscape used to do when a friend posts new entries. I can also allow quick posts. that would be kewl. ?\par ?\par Wish I could do that on the mac...\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 6 Jul 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:20 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 test public\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 testing public\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accepted\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 9 Jul 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:16 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Midnight Web Server (my webserver software)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I got a few new features working today on my webserver. First, I have enabled the ability to bind to a specific ip address instead of all of them on the box. I also cleaned up the formatting of the directory listings a bit. I'm about to test that now. ?\par ?\par I also upgraded all the methods that were deprecated in earlier versions of java. The server is now designed for java 1.4. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:34 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Midnight Web Server Update\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I finished working on the webserver for tonight.. i spent almost the entire day on it. I have a logging system designed and half coded to replace the cheesy println stuff in there now. Right now it only logs the client ip, date/time (in java format), and the INTERNAL uri that the file was requested on. (another words the path to the files on the physical file system and not the virtual root).?\par ?\par The code i wrote tonight isn't quite right, but its a start. Basically I am trying to create an object factory to make loggers.. the idea is to support multiple logging formats in an OO style. Until recently, I didn't even know for sure what an object factory did (other than the obvious). ?\par ?\par If anyone is following me so far, the reason I am going to so much trouble is the fact that I want to support a large number of websites eventually.. like say 500+. For 50 sites, it would make sense to have a seperate log going for each one.. by using the factory I can do this. Now 500, that would be plain stupid.. most large hosting companies create one long and then parse it to seperate the different customers. I will probably create a special class to log large sites eventually. Maybe i could even create a utility program with the distro to seperate them? ?\par ?\par On another front, I want to create a class for the http headers.. the current system is fast, but very confusing... also I have to repeat code in a number of places.. its not OO at all. ?\par ?\par I am thinking about creating an object cache in the server like Jigsaw has (well sort of). It caches documents in memory for the entire website.. my plan is to simply cache recent documents or documents that are frequently accessed (user configurable). ?\par ?\par I also need to add CGI capabilities.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:43 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Other stuff\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I will be attending an orientation with caryn on friday for WMU. I'll get my student id, etc on that day. ?\par ?\par I plan on implementing some new stuff on JJ this weekend too. Hopefully I'll get the comments done.. i've been rethinking my original idea.. but i think I will just go with it and come up with a better system later. ?\par ?\par I need to think from a NON database point of view on this one. ?\par ?\par I also need to lookup how to handle time zones.. JJ shows up with Pacific time and my webserver is using EST on my mac. Webservers must use UTC time for logging and timestamps on files. Since both projects need the code, I will probably bump up the priority.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 12 Jul 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:13 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Orientation\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 The orientation at WMU went ok. It was an orientation though.. that means it was a bit boring. I figured out where most things are. I have everything but my parking permit taken care of. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:13 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 jj\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been working very hard on JJ lately. In fact, I almost have RSS ready. The code is done, I am just having trouble integrating it into the display servlet (users). I only designed it for html which was stupid. I should be able to refit it soon.?\par ?\par I upgraded the mysql driver today too. Now I am running 3.08 instead of 2.0. Supposedly it is much faster. I noticed small queries are quicker but the users servlet seems slower to me. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 17 Jul 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:36 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Good day..\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Caryn and I got an early dinner at jimmy johns.. good sandwiches. ?\par ?\par We hung out with tim and his wife (caryn works with tim). That went pretty well. ?\par ?\par I didn't do anything today lol. No work. It was a nice break.?\par ?\par I just published a new version of JJ. It seems much faster. Don't know if there are any bugs yet.. although rss doesn't seem to work. (i'm guessing there is some kind of exception there)\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Happy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 20 Jul 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:32 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Mac OS X died\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I was "tweaking" mac os x and killed it. It figures. ?\par ?\par Jaguar is reinstalling now. I can't work on jj until my mac is up. It does give me the urge to start backing up things.. this is my forth windows install too. (3rd in last two weeks). ?\par ?\par Whats going on with my computers lately?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Annoyed\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 28 Jul 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:28 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 ahhggg\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Caryn's car is a pain sometimes. I really wish we could replace it. (engine rebuild.. woo hoo)?\par ?\par I got some work done on .NET earlier.. still haven't had time to work on either java project. My webserver is coming along though. I have the config file stuff about half done now. I also have several things seperated from the main class now. I haven't noticed a large performance hit either. It handles more requests than the microsoft web stress tool can give out from my pc to my mac. Memory usage is a joke too. The program doesn't even use a meg as far as i can tell. I figured out the threading system too. Its pretty clever really. My plan is to seperate the request and response into seperate objects after the config system is done. I will also add code to handle named hosting (multiple domains one ip) and multi ip hosting. ?\par ?\par The last step will be to add POST support. (it only does get requests now) ?\par ?\par I will release a public alpha at that point (well maybe before)?\par ?\par I plan on using it to host the downloads on foolishgames.com first. That will be a good test of its speed. I plan on adding a servlet like interface too. CGI also. Well ok it won't be that much like servlets.. it will be easier to code.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Awake\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 1 Aug 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:09 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 KVCC sucks\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I graduated in May and I still haven't received my diploma. I called them earlier and they said it will be 2 weeks before they MAIL THEM. Come on. ?\par ?\par I start western on the 29th. ?\par ?\par My webserver is coming along nicely. I ran it last night on foolishgames.com on a different port. It was almost as fast as Apache. I downloaded a 40MB file at 129 Kbps. I'd get around that through apache 2.. dsl is great. ?\par ?\par I did pull 150 Kbps once from my site, but their connectivity sucks lately. ?\par ?\par Caryn might have another programmer lined up to help with JJ. That would be really great. ?\par ?\par Caryn got her replacement power supply today. Apple offered a replacement for 20 dollars including fan and power supply to make the PowerMac quieter. The system runs fine, but sounded like a wind tunnel. The new power supply is a 350 watt instead of 400 and the fan is variable speed. ?\par ?\par In order to ship G4 systems on time, apple went with a different vendor that sucked. 20 bucks isn't bad and a new power supply after 7 months doesn't hurt anything either!\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Awake\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 14 Aug 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:49 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Whatever\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I decided to post a journal entry tonight. Its been some time since my last post. My imac locked up using project builder and running my webserver. Granted I had itunes, ternminal.app, and safari open too. I'm not sure if it was my webserver or not. The code is drastically different from the version i was running as I am refactoring a good chunk of it right now. Hopefully i will get it worked out.?\par ?\par On the site front, I haven't done anything with jj lately. My java IDE expired and I don't have the money to buy it right now. It saved me hours of work though so its a priority after i get college and caryn's stuff worked out. I'll have to setup a new environment before i continue development.. that might mean going back to the old way of sshing into the server and working on it on there.?\par ?\par So far so good about the worm. My desktop was patched, antivirus updated, and my firewall is up. I should be ok for now. ?\par ?\par Only my pc is exploitable as mac's are very safe from microsoft dcom. :)?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 19 Aug 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:42 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 firewall\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm having a heck of a time configuring the firewall for this box. I locked out dns on my first attempt (lookups to the outside, inbound worked).?\par ?\par I've got the TCP rules in place, but UDP is a pain. I need to set down and figure out all the rules. Then i will need to reorder them after i see what rules get hit.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Annoyed\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:44 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Worm and Microsoft Update feature!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 That internet worm was interesting. I looked at the analasis done by several people on bugtraq. Very interesting work. ?\par ?\par Microsoft is planning on enabling automatic update in the next release of windows. It will force upgrade your box and if you disable it, your warrenty will be void. (meaning support options)?\par ?\par Whats worse is they might roll it out for XP in the next service pack. Mine is setup to download updates and notify me. That way if my box crashes, I know it was the update. I can use a restore point and not apply the patch again. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Annoyed\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:48 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 foolishgames.com\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just added content feeds to foolish games. RSS content is now available for all the jewel news. :)?\par ?\par Most of the people using my site won't even know what it is.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 25 Aug 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:09 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Just Journal and MySql\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just tweaked some of the tables on jj by converting them to Inno DB. It was much easier than I thought. I will check the memory setting later and verify they are set properly. ?\par ?\par So far so good. I did do a backup of that table before doing it. I will change the articles table on foolishgames.com as well if i like the benefits. ?\par ?\par I'm planning on writing a script to do backups soon. I want to automate the process. (better yet bring the database down once a month and do a binary backup) Of course, i would have down time with jj if i did that. I will probably end up doing that every three months and doing regular mysqldump procedures otherwise. (on a side note, mysqldump is not working right since i ugraded to 4.1.0 alpha)?\par ?\par My webserver project hit a snag.. its called threading hell. My first version had flawless threading, then i switched to someone else's code base and his sucked. Now I am trying to refactor the code to use a new system i devised. I'm getting permission errors like crazy on the threads. I think i figured it out though.?\par ?\par Here's my thoughts:?\par my pooling system needs to start 10 threads (probably less in future.. maybe 6 like apache?) using a class that extends thread. Next i need to make an object pool of tasks i want run on the thread that implements runnable? The threads get notified using notify or notify all, one wakes up to clean the pool? ?\par ?\par I'd rather hand off the socket to another thread and process that but i don't see how that woudl be done. If i get this figured out, i want to create a seperate logging manager with several threads to handle logging, plus run some type of status system, signal system on seperate threads. (this thing will almost need a second processor at this rate huh? ) ?\par ?\par I love the idea of getting status information on all the active threads like apache 2's controller does with lynx. ?\par ?\par All well.. maybe i'll get this figured out someday.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Bewildered\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:18 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Give us a week will take off the weight...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 That was a terrible jingle, but it fits my mindset about going back to college. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accepted\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:23 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 jj\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I finally added the template system. It certainly took long enough.. only 3 hours of work too. I'm half way through the overrides as well. I have a few other suprises planned for this site soon.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 28 Aug 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:07 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 jj experimentation\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm playing around with a connection pool right now. I want to make sure its reliable. If so, I can remove a lot of database code from the site. In fact, i can drop an interface. ?\par ?\par This site is setup like crap internally.. i'm still learning java. Its getting better though. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:09 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 WMU\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 My first class is tomorrow... its discrete. (thats computer math btw)?\par ?\par I'm a bit nervous, but at least my class isn't till 1pm. I'm not used to getting up early. Today I woke up at 10:30am. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: Dido - Thank You\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 6 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:08 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 p0f\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 p0f is a program that analyzes incoming ip traffic and tells you important information about the request including an OS fingerprint.?\par ?\par Its quite neat. I have it installed on the freebsd server and my windows xp box here. It uses the bpf in freebsd to read the inbound traffic. It does not make a connection to the host, but rather uses the information available from the packets the host sends. ?\par ?\par Basically its like running nmap -sS -O on a host except you don't know the ports they have open. ?\par ?\par I don't think i will leave p0f up all the time, but it might be nice to have if i think i'm under attack.?\par ?\par For example, here is the output from some guy infected with one of those worms:?\par ?\par 216.94.201.209:2686 - Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 (2) ?\par -> 216.93.162.119:135 (distance 9, link: ethernet/modem)?\par 216.94.201.209:2688 - Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 (2) ?\par -> 216.93.162.120:135 (distance 10, link: ethernet/modem)?\par 216.94.201.209:2686 - Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 (2) ?\par -> 216.93.162.119:135 (distance 9, link: ethernet/modem)?\par ?\par Here is an example of output from my macintosh:?\par ?\par 64.109.110.62:49500 - FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) (up: 5375 hrs) ?\par -> 216.93.162.119:80 (distance 16, link: sometimes DSL (4))?\par ?\par ?\par Of course its wrong on the uptime.. i booted the mac up 4 hours ago.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Amused\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:14 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 FreeBSD 4.9 pre release\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I upgraded the server today to 4.9 pr1. So far, so good. The kernel is larger but its very peppy. SSH is much more responsive, and compiling seems quick too. ?\par ?\par I have the firewall up, but the config got screwed up. Its only blocking limited traffic right now. I want to setup a script to restore my settings if this happens again. I want the firewall just as an extra precautionary measure. I feel the services offered are up to date other than tomcat. There aren't any big security issues with my tomcat install that i'm aware of.. so that means we are good to go. I will upgrade tomcat to release 4.1.27 plus patch today if i get time. 5.x is still to new.. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Amused\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: U2 - Please - Where the streets have no name\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:20 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 ipod\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Caryn is waiting on her new ipod. Her mom ordered an ipod for her birthday..?\par ?\par I got her the fm transmitter for her car. I tested it out with my cd player the other day. Its very kewl. It must be right next to the antenna though.. i also had to turn up the volume more than it suggested. ?\par ?\par The ipod is coming next week i think. Its customized. I think its the 30 gig model too! ?\par ?\par I've been looking at handheld devices. I want to get something i can surf with on the campus 802.11b network. Since i can't get a laptop, i was looking at pocketpc's. The palm units are missing several features i want even though they're mac compatible. Plus caryn's handspring doesn't even work in OSX. With 10.3 coming out, i'm not counting on OS support anyway. I can get third party mac sync software if i want it. ?\par ?\par I found a unit for 300 bucks that has integrated 802.11b support, 64mb ram, and an intel 400mhz cpu.. only problem is it has pocketpc 2002 instead of 2003. It comes with pocket everything though plus outlook 2002. i can get an ac adapter with it and plug in during class (2 classes have ports built in to the desk for each student) ac and ethernet. The rooms will be wired at the new campus for wireless in the next 3 weeks at western. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Amused\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:26 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Domain renewal\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 i just renewed foolishgames.com for five years as it was up at the end of the month. I'm so tired of renewing every year.. it was 66 dollars for 5 years. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Amused\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: U2 - please - with or without you\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 7 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:00 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Fun security stuff\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I beefed up security on the server today. I now have daily antivirus updates, plus a new trojan scanner. In addition, i fixed the problems with my firewall setup.. although i don't allow icmp for now. I also found a way to save the state of the firewall setup finally. I can load it in manually now and will setup an automated loader in my rc.firewall file later. ?\par ?\par Some of you might not know what an rc.firewall file is.. lol. ?\par ?\par OH AND ROB I AM NOT RUNNING WINDOWS ON THE SERVER.?\par ?\par See p0f caught traffic from an ip matching s2z.com.. interesting eh? ?\par ?\par The traffic was aimed at microsoft networking ports.. you know 135-139.?\par ?\par I'm actually looking into snort now.. its an IDS. ?\par ?\par I've been running tripwire for months already. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:28 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 jj patch\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just fixed a bug with RSS content.. i forgot to fix the ampersand issue. Now if i could only port foolishgames.com to java to fix it there...\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accepted\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 9 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:16 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 this and that\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I finally figured out the PERT/critical path analasis stuff in my discrete book. I feel dumb now. It just clicked...?\par ?\par I'm getting the same answers as the book now.. i had trouble understanding the books diagrams.. mine were fine. ?\par ?\par Doing laundry how fun...?\par ?\par Today is our wedding anniversary. Its been 3 years today. Caryn should get home in a few hours.. then we are off to dinner.?\par ?\par I had a lab today in ece today.. ewe. Circuit design stuff is so dull to me. Its like shitty programming, aka Perl. I think i need to allocate more time to that class now. I wish i could malloc my brain sometimes! Wouldn't it be nice to store school crap in an easy to search array.. just allocate more and put a pointer to it for each class your taking.. just a thought.?\par ?\par btw malloc is a function (or macro?) that allocates memory in C "dynamically." For example, lets say you have 200 characters you want to store for some reason.. say an address field on a form, you could simply do this.. malloc( 200 * sizeof(char) ). That would allocate 200 bytes of ram to your storage area. You can then address it similar to an array. You must use the sizeof part because everything is a different size.. integers, characters, floating point numbers, etc. Not everything uses only one byte. In fact, if it was unicode it would use two! ?\par ?\par Back to work...\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 11 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:06 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 fixed pasv mode ftp\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 i finally fixed passive mode ftp. I haven't been able to use it since i installed the firewall on the server. Turns out that there is a valid range of ports that pasv uses. Shitty ftp servers use all of them above 1024, but only 49152-65534 can be used according to the registration with IANA. ?\par ?\par I added a rule to allow this traffic. I am not sure if i need to tighten it or not.. we shall see. I decided to allow inbound and outbound on those ports. Nothing runs that high anyway unless someone were able to compromise the box and start a process on one of those ports. It really sucks that i have to leave them open. Theoretically though if someone could run an app as root they could do the same thing on the ftp data ports cause its usually not bound unless in use.?\par ?\par Of course, unpriveledged users can run stuff on ports above 1024. ?\par ?\par Most server programs on my box don't run as root anyway. For example, apache, mysql, and bind do NOT run as root. They give up privledges and run as unique users. I don't pull a fred and run everything as nobody... that would be foolish. If i get time soon, i'm going to chroot most of that stuff anyway. Sendmail, imap, and ftp i can't do anything about (unless i changed products). I could chroot the ftp space, but then apache would still need to access it. Maybe i could do a double chroot??? ftp inside of apache? ftp is more likely to get hit anyway. I'll think that over. I need to change the filesystem layout for all the web crap soon anyway.. i could make it a lot more secure than it is... its just a lot more work when i deploy.?\par ?\par Rob used to leave everybody permissions in NT. Now that was funny. He was just too lazy to figure out what files needed. Hell authenicated users would have been slightly safer.. but that was a 2k thing I think. Maybe that permissions upgrade thing for NT4 did it to? its been to long. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Amused\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:16 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 jj fix\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I corrected the issue with comments today. Stupid thing was crashing cause i forgot to upload a new copy of addcomments.class... lol. Thats a java file for those of you who are programming illiterate. You know i really need a spell checker on this thing. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Amused\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:18 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 CS111 Lab and Linux\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I had to use Redhat 9 today. I was rather suprised. The gui was very nice.. i liked it better than XP actually. It reminded me of a shitty version of Mac OS X! I think it was the workstation version which costs 150 per seat. What a pain in the ass.. microsoft type pricing. ?\par ?\par Redhat is the microsoft of the linux world! ?\par ?\par I must say though that it impressed me, and if they get the speed issues fixed it would be a good pc os, second to Mac OS X. I think FreeBSD will catch up though. ?\par ?\par Redhat did have a nicer gui than Sun and SGI though. Nice improvement. It looks like they are using some of the KDE stuff, but i'm not positive on that. I suspect an opengl accelerated driver would make it rock. Well if linux can do that like freebsd, it would. ?\par ?\par At least linux would support my fucking sound card. FreeBSD does not! (its an audigy)?\par ?\par If i didn't have requirements for .NET, i'd probably switch to linux with wine actually. I could play enemy territory on linux. ?\par ?\par I think i'd prefere a new Macintosh with virtual pc though. (no ET, but i'd have a new Mac to game on) I'd like to get a powerbook with 10.3 panther on it. Wireless of course! ?\par ?\par Anyway the lab went fine, aside from being a bit bored. I connected to my server with ssh and surfed with lynx. :)?\par ?\par Lynx actually supports iframe, and image maps btw. (seperate link)?\par ?\par I'm such a Unix geek lol!\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 14 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:19 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Linux, IRC, ET and other stuff\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Last night, I installed Redhat 9 on my pc. (dual boot w/ xp) It took over my pc network.. the port turned off on my router. Very odd. Anyway, linux is working suprisingly well consider its linux. The audigy and radeon 9000 were detected right away. I got enemy territory working on it quite nice.. its fast! ?\par ?\par I am trying to find an IRC client for my mac. I used to like mIRC quite a bit, but of course thats windows based. I tried the OSX reincarnation of ircle but i hate it. I used to use it at USOL on OS 8.1. All well. I also tried an app written in real basic but it locked up on the channel listing on Undernet. (thats a good test btw) ?\par ?\par Now, I am compiling BitchX on my mac. THe configure script takes a while! ?\par ?\par I'm also happy to report that dippy scans of my server have declined after I did some "research" on the attackers system. Here is a tip.. its NOT LINUX OR WINDOWS. Don't be stupid people!?\par ?\par I hate windows servers. THey suck. I'm a BSD person now. Everyone get over it!?\par ?\par I do administer a windows server, but I don't like it. My website IS NOT ON IT. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Amused\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: Jewel - Fragile Heart\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 15 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:38 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 calendar\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I finally got the calendar code working on this site last night. Woo HOO!?\par ?\par Its only taken me how many months? that link has been sitting there for so long. ?\par ?\par Development time in java is much slower than microsoft technologies, but much faster once its up. This site is flying. ?\par ?\par I plan on switching over to a more OO design soon which means major code reuse. For example, the friends, entries and calendar day views all use similar code to display journal entries.. those can be consolidated. I just havent' had the time. ?\par ?\par I'm working on a gui component design that uses beans with special rendering methods. The calendar year view was the first code to take advantage of my ideas. I learned a lot from that experience. Its quite peppy cosidering its several objects.. in fact its an arraylist of several objects. (thats not a regular array btw)?\par ?\par I plan on implementing a new system soon to fix all the shortcommings in this design. I want this site ready for a community by 2004. We shall see. If not, at least i have an awesome private journal site. ?\par ?\par Movable type sucks. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:57 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 AHHHH\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I hate ece250.. digital logic. I'm taking a break from it.. i feel dumber after trying to do it. it sucks.?\par ?\par I find myself logged into redhat linux. I think I might try to get this on my mom's computer so she can't get windows spyware anymore. I'm tired of that crap. She could use linux.. well at least as well as windows me. ?\par ?\par my fucking ece class is getting on my nerves. This damn circuit design stuff is NOT ME. What a pain in the ass. Its like this.. he gives us a list of circuits diagrams and ICCs. We are supposed to know what an AND4 is and how to build one with a NAND4 + an inverter.. hell i didn't know what an inverter was last week. ?\par ?\par Sure it sounds easy, but figure this out.. there are 3 inputs to a 4 input device.. plus either ground or VCC. Now how do i build an AND3 ? I have no idea. It just sucks. ?\par ?\par Once i get through drawing these things i have to figure out the boolean logic to them and then simplify it and draw/design another series of compatible circuits. Mind you this is for PRE LAB. Come on.. now each of these on seperate problems for homework would not piss me off, but if i didn't do the first part write my entire pre lab is fucked up. Is that right? I think not. ?\par ?\par God, i'm using linux. ?\par ?\par what next??\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Angry\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 16 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:26 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 So tired...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I am so tired.. i think i could sleep for a month. I've got so much left to do today. ?\par ?\par Caryn got her Maple 9 disk today. (she bought maple for one of her classes)?\par ?\par Maple is a Math program for those not in the know. ?\par ?\par I am going to try to play enemy territory for a little bit. I have the laundry and dishes running so i can take a break. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 18 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:42 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Waiting...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm waiting for my C++ lab to start... ?\par ?\par I'm download the new ports on the server right now. I have so much to update with the recent vulnerabilites and such... at least it isn't everyday like windows boxes.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:03 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 security advisory crap\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 There have been so many problems over the last few days.. i'm still waiting on the sendmail patch in ports. According to cvsweb they patched it five hours ago but cvsup12.us.freebsd.org is not updated. I'm going to try the main cvsup server. ?\par ?\par I did rebuild the OS today to fix the open ssh crap.. and get a few patches/ bug fixes. ?\par ?\par ncftp3 is crashing like a microsoft product though.. damn it.?\par ?\par 6 updates TODAY for linux on my desktop.. that makes 8 this week not counting the initial packages. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Annoyed\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:08 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 i feel like shit\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I am sick.. this sucks. i hate colds. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Annoyed\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 12 Jun 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:11 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Feeling a little less like shit\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I feel a bit better today.. i actually got some work done on jj. I fixed a bunch of css bugs.. (although old builds of mozilla screw up). Specifically, i've noticed problems in gnone with mozilla 1.21 (redhat 9). ?\par ?\par I fixed a few bugs today with jj.. the webError and users classes have been rewritten to use StringBuffer's. I'm hoping to output errors without the page being present with this design. This code is not live yet though.?\par ?\par I also fixed a few minor rendering problems.?\par ?\par The spell checking class is working internally, just trying to figure out how to embed it in the site. update.jsp handles the initial request and i'm trying to decide if i want another jsp page, update.jsp or the update servlet to handle the display of the spelling errors.?\par ?\par The english language file is rather large too. I'll try to add other languages eventually.. but the site needs i18n first. ?\par ?\par I'll need to convert to UTF8 in mysql to pull that off. (newer feature of mysql)?\par ?\par I'll wait until mysql 4.1.x is more stable to do that though.?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:11 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Jewel JK\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I feel a bit better today.. i actually got some work done on jj. I fixed a bunch of css bugs.. (although old builds of mozilla screw up). Specifically, i've noticed problems in gnone with mozilla 1.21 (redhat 9). ?\par ?\par I fixed a few bugs today with jj.. the webError and users classes have been rewritten to use StringBuffer's. I'm hoping to output errors without the page being present with this design. This code is not live yet though.?\par ?\par I also fixed a few minor rendering problems.?\par ?\par The spell checking class is working internally, just trying to figure out how to embed it in the site. update.jsp handles the initial request and i'm trying to decide if i want another jsp page, update.jsp or the update servlet to handle the display of the spelling errors.?\par ?\par The english language file is rather large too. I'll try to add other languages eventually.. but the site needs i18n first. ?\par ?\par I'll need to convert to UTF8 in mysql to pull that off. (newer feature of mysql)?\par ?\par I'll wait until mysql 4.1.x is more stable to do that though.?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 20 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:24 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 journal bug?\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I noticed the update journal command isn't working right if i'm not logged in.. i'll have to look at that later.. seems to be netscape specific.?\par ?\par i lost my previous entry as a result... \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accepted\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 24 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 7:37 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 First Web Browser...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 The first web browser was written for the Next operating system... Think Different!?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 25 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:42 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 lab...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I haven't gone to classes since tuesday.. aside from my cs lab today. I got a terrible coughing spell in the lab. It sucked. I had to leave class for 10 minutes to get it under control. Hell I had a Halls drop fly out of my mouth and peg the wall in the bathroom. Gross, but it explains my day. ?\par ?\par Western had a engineering job fair going on, but I didn't look the part to take advantage of it. I got a chance to look at half the booths, and none of them were looking for CS majors. (well maybe the army guy was, but why?) ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:54 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 too many moods!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been adding moods to JJ for half the day now. I have over 120 moods now. I probably have at least 30 more to add. think i need to increase the data type size for the id field at this point. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 26 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:01 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Eww Cleaning...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just spent a solid hour cleaning the apartment. Sadly it still looks like crap. 15 of that was spent on the cats water bowl.. poor kitties. ?\par ?\par Caryn should be home from work soon. I'll have to tell her that her mom called. ?\par ?\par File sharing services suck now, i tried to use one earlier but there wasn't anything. I won't download any audio tracks on them anyway.. that lawsuit crap is BS. Hell i've bought 150 songs on the apple music service anyway. MP4 audio sounds so much better than MP3 anyway. You should hear the difference when i encode cds in mp4 vs mp3. I tried it out on 0304 by jewel and it was very noticable. For one thing, there is BASS. The balance of frequencies is much better. Linux people use OGG format.. my only problem with that is lack of decent players. I went through the underground movement crap with MP3 and look what happened there.. it sucks now. I'll just deal with good old compression stuff. Now if i was a musician, I might consider ogg format.. but i'd probably try to keep everything in a wav or aiff format for quality reasons. ?\par ?\par I turned in my c++ lab assignment tonight. The values worked with what she gave us in class. I'm hoping that it will be right. i just didn't feel like debugging it any more than that.. hell i'd like to use functions! We haven't "learned" that yet. It sucks. I hate when they won't let you use a language feature till its taught.. you have to try to remember what they taught you so you don't go beyond that. ?\par ?\par Just journal is starting to look better now. I actually feel like its coming along.. i still don't like the header though.. all well. ?\par ?\par I need to finish the damn preferences.. i hate making them.. its like a control panel.. nothing fun in that repetition. Maybe i will grow to have more patience in it in the future. ?\par ?\par Its 80 degrees in the apartment. i opened the window. Three computers were on plus we are on the third floor. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Blah\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 27 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:32 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 new java framework\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been playing around with several frameworks trying to pick one. I finally found one that allows you to use XSLT extensively for presentation. Its such a fit for me. I'm going to implement it on JJ very soon. I also plan on doing something drastic with foolishgames.com.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Hungry\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 28 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:14 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 AHHHH\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been trying to figure out a bug for 4 days now, and I can't believe how stupid it was..?\par ?\par Damn MICROSOFT PRODUCTS. I wrote this damn handling rate update/view page and it used a data transfer object between a DAO and the .NET gui page. No problem right... well every time i updated the value it trunicated everything after the decimal point. ?\par ?\par For example, the regular value is 1.50. If i tried to change it to 1.60, it would return 1. If i changed it to 2.5 it would return 2. ?\par ?\par Now I figured it was the conversion of the decimal variable to a string to store it. See it has to go into a sql server table that contains a varchar 50 field as its the params table. It doesn't make sense to create a whole table to store 1 decimal. ?\par ?\par I was using stored procedures to do the update and views. Guess what the damn stored proc looked like this:?\par ?\par CREATE PROC handling_rate_u?\par @rate varchar?\par ?\par ...?\par ?\par well @rate varchar translates to 1 character instead of just saying its the character data type.. HOW IRRITATING. With other data types, you can just say int... not int 4 or some shit like that. ?\par ?\par Sure from a C standpoint its a DUH.. i should have known that. I guess i expect a database server to be a few levels away from obvious ARRAYS of a fixed size. ?\par ?\par (technicall malloc'd i'm sure)?\par ?\par What bullshit.?\par ?\par so i fixed it by changing it to ?\par VARCHAR(50)?\par i could make it smaller being a decimal, but screw it.. it works. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Bitchy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 30 Sep 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:30 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Cleaning freak\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been cleaning since I got home. (several hours now) I think I got a huge chunk of the back cleaning caught up. I've been really irritated by the state of the apartment but haven't had the time to do anything about it. Today I made time. I still need to study for my math test on (i think ) friday. I finally figured out most of the problems that were giving me trouble on the last quiz yesterday. I want to go through chapter 2 again before friday and hit the other two chapters if i get time. I think chapter 2 is going to be the majority of the stuff. ?\par ?\par I'm also going to look over old quizes and if i did badly.. learn to solve them.?\par ?\par I had a great idea yesterday for web programming. I won't disclose it all now, but i will make it open source if its successful. It could really change java web development for the better. The current crap is too much work. Caryn wouldn't use it because it involves XML/XSLT though. She thinks they are to much work and very hyped up. They are hyped up to much.. but if Tim BL manages to move along RDF they will be required knowledge.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 4 Oct 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:24 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Amazing Spider-man #74\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I acquired Amazing Spider-man #74 for free yesterday. Its not mint, but considering it was read a lot and in a plastic bag with other comics for years collecting dust in a corner, it is in good shape. ?\par ?\par Caryn and I had the reprints from the first five volume which include that issue. ?\par ?\par Also in the bag was issue #73, but the cover is missing. There was an incredible hulk (cover looks like wolverine got pissed), some archie comics (very bad shape), conan the barbarian (black and white), some weird religious type books, and an original batman matchbox type car from the old 60s tv show. ?\par ?\par I told the guy that they were probably worth something, but he just said I don't care. I wasn't going to argue with him. ?\par ?\par Amazing Spider-man #74 in mint would be worth 70 bucks. (price guide from last month)?\par ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:32 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Dido\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I agreed to a promotional deal for dido's new album on foolishgames.com. In exchange for a banner and a review, I get the new album for free. I already bought the White Flag single on the Apple Music Store. I listened to part of the album on there and it sounds good.?\par ?\par I normally don't do that stuff, but it made sense in this case. I like some of Dido's work. I also believe that other Jewel fans like Dido. ?\par ?\par I've had a lot of neat ideas lately, but I don't see how I get others behind me. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Awake\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:52 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Seti @ home\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Last I checked, 112 units were submitted to seti @ home on my account. Team foolishgames.com has in like 160. I've only had an account since march!?\par ?\par I have it installed on several computers of course. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Accomplished\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:16 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Linux\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I was playing around with my redhat install earier. Its rather weird sometimes. The firewall is toast, but all well. Its a POS anyway. (i have a firewall on the router anyway)?\par ?\par I couldn't get a dependant package to compile for KDE. I wanted to compile my own version instead of using the broken redhat version. KDE runs better on Mac OS X, but I think I know why. They seem to be using FreeBSD stuff in the project. Since Mac OS X 10.2 is based on FreeBSD 4.4 (and mach 3), it would be logical. Now 10.3 will have some code from the 5.x tree. ?\par ?\par I really cleared some seti units today.. last i checked its at 115. I have 22 percent done on the apple (which takes forever) and the linux install halls ass. I've also got it setup in windows when i'm programming and occasionally i run it on the freebsd server under a low privledged user. The freebsd box can really do some shit. I use nice to lower the priority so the webserver doesn't slow down to much.?\par ?\par For those of you curious about nice, use man nice on a Unix like OS. (or do a google search)\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 5 Oct 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:54 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Music clean up day\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just went through our itunes library and removed several duplicates, renamed some files (id3 tags), and deleted mp3's in favor of their re-encoded AAC counterparts. ?\par ?\par AAC rocks. ?\par ?\par Caryn's ipod resynced itself. ?\par ?\par She encoded several tracks again because the originals weren't named well (but they were in the correct directories on the file system). ?\par ?\par I woke up at 7am today.. doesn't that just figure. I need to study discrete and ece 250 for tests this week. I'm not looking forward to either. My lab looks a little lighter this week, but that could be decieving... (ece lab).?\par ?\par I've already turned in my C++ lab for next week. ?\par ?\par I wish my Jewel news was formatted as well as JJ. Someday I need to do something with the Jewel news. Maybe this new framework will help with that. The XSLT code is great. I plan on recreating all the old build tools written in vb with it. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: R.E.M. & U2 - One (Live)\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:53 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 How fun.. ports collection day\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm going through the portupgrade process on the bsd box right now. It takes a while. The java runtime needs upgrading for linux, but i think i'll hold off till there is a new patchset for java. Why bother otherwise? i run native java anyway.?\par ?\par I just upgraded the updateJournal class with some new improvements. Part of the code is in place for the new spell check feature. I wish i could enable that soon. ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Nerdy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 7 Oct 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:17 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 SCO\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 SCO asserts that they have not given out code via GPLing it. COME ON. ?\par ?\par They claim that under US Copyright law, you can not transfer license to another party without express written concent. Think about that. Digital documents are considered signed if they use a feature like a personal cert from verisign. ?\par ?\par If it is true that they did not release code into the public via using the GPL then the GPL is invalid. Further, to use GPL code it would mean that you would have to get a written license from EACH contributor to a project. On the scale of Linux, that is a nightmare. ?\par ?\par The nightmare doesn't stop there. If SCO is right, then all software licenses agreed to digitally without signing would be void including Microsoft EULAs, software under the BSD license, Apple, Macromedia, Adobe, Netscape, AOL, etc. I could go on all day. Very few applications contain licenses in "writing" that were written in the last 5 years. ?\par ?\par SCO must be wrong or the whole computer industry is screwed. They are not messing with just GNU/Linux here. All software including Mac OS X is in trouble. Apple does include GNU software. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 9 Oct 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:05 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 OSX Panther\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I ordered Mac OS X 10.3 yesterday (Acedemic edition). 10.3 comes out on October 24th. It will be neat.. 150 new features plus a new development environment. Unlike microsoft, apple gives you the IDE to write programs with the OS for free! Microsoft makes you drop 2 grand on Visual Studio.NET. Lousy eh??\par ?\par I just had my food bubble over. DOH! ?\par ?\par Midnight was just sitting on my chair... silly kitty. ?\par ?\par I have a ton of math homework left to do. For example, section 1.3, 1.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, A2, A3. Test is tomorrow. Fun Huh! ?\par ?\par 2.1-2.3 i have done and 2.4 was skipped. 1.1, 1.2, and A1 have been done too. I did do A2, but it was all wrong. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 11 Oct 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:24 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 iMac UPGRADED!!!!! YES!!!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just replaced my 10 gig maxtor drive in my iMac (5400 rpm) ATA 66 with a Seagate Barricuda 80 GIG ATA100 7200 RPM drive. Talk about a difference. I just got mac os up.. i had to install os 10.1, 9.21, 9.22, and finally 10.2 to get it setup right. It was a pain to take apart.. but i did it. Caryn helped a lot. I had to remove the radiation shield, etc. The new drive is VERY quiet. The iMac doesn't have fans, so its almost like the computer isn't making noise. You can hear the CDROM when its spinning a slight noise when the HDD runs and the power supply/monitor part makes a slight noise. Its the quietest computer i've ever heard now. (including PC laptops)?\par ?\par iMacs are interesting inside. There are two boards mounted on a metal peace in the center torward the bottom. The bottom board has the ide controller, and some of the connectors. The top board has the video stuff (except mirroring vga connector), Processor, huge heat sink, etc. ?\par ?\par The hard drive is mounted in a bay including the cdrom drive torward the bottom. I had to remove the ram to get out the hdd. There are like 9 screws to get to the HDD. ?\par ?\par My iMac has a faster drive than my shitty pc.. (it had a 40 gig seagate 5400 RPM). My mac has more ram, and it hauls ass. Hell my apple is faster other than the video card.?\par ?\par I can now install virtual pc and run windows on the mac. I plan on running win2k with the developer tools. Aside from a few games, I will be totally mac based. I plan on formatting the pc and setting it up as a server at some point. (freebsd of course)?\par ?\par I've gone to Mac! If i had a g4 and 16mb ram video card i'd have everything i need.. but i'll live for now. The hard drive holds off buying me a new computer for awhile. I dusted out the imac while i was in there. Its much quieter and the speakers sound new again!?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Happy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: Dido new album\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:32 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Dido\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I received dido's latest album for free in exchange for a review on my website i need to write today. I'm listening to the cd for the first time now. I bought the white flag single a few weeks ago on apple music.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Happy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:09 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Mac OS setup...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I have several packages installed that i require now. I was playing with fink, but the packages are so out of date on it. I also found out its not Panther compatible so i uninstalled it. ?\par ?\par There is a rumor that Panther has a ports or packages collection like FreeBSD based on the DarwinPorts project (opendarwin.org)?\par ?\par I think i'll hold off on installing a lot (other than ant and tomcat) I will install OpenOffice 1.1 though. ?\par ?\par I have windows 2000 installing right now. Its about 2/3 of the way though.. i've been installing macromedia stuff at the same time so its slow. I just realized that adobe and macromedia have new versions of EVERYTHING. What a pain in the butt.. new photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver, fireworks, flash, etc. It looks like adobe is getting smarter though.. for 500 bucks they have a pack for students that has everything i use plus go live. Too bad macromedia is cheaper.. 200. I use ps, illustrator, dreamweaver and fireworks for webdesign. I wanted to use flash more, but i really suck at it. I bought flash mx acedemic to learn it but i never got around to doing anything good with it. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:14 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Windows 2000...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 why did i pick win2k over xp.. simple.. i have a 400 mhz g3.. try running xp on that. Caryn could do it on her dual powermac g4 with 1.25 gig of ram.. but not me. ?\par ?\par Of course she doesn't use windows anymore. (really not at all.. she doesn't even use my pc) I think she used it once in 10 months for a stupid project that required the windows word equation editor.?\par ?\par i want this thing to end.. i have so much stuff to install. Still need to install flash, photoshop, illustrator, office, starcraft, diablo, windows software, idea, fetch, acrobat reader 6, etc.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:18 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 JustJournal\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 i wont get to work on JJ for at least a week.. my java ide is not installed and i'm still recovering from tests.. plus i have one more on monday, and a death lab on tuesday. it sucks cause i'm so close to having spell check. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 12 Oct 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:20 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Kill Bill\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just watched kill bill with caryn. It is one of the weirdest movies i've ever seen. I don't know how to describe it. It was very good though! ?\par ?\par The anime part was a little long. I loved the japanese sequences. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 16 Oct 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:53 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Eating lunch..\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I finally got lunch.. i had to goto lab and then install some software at work. AHHHHHHGGGG... windows software.?\par ?\par Anyway, I got some laundry and dishes going. I have the 2002 developer tools disk (dec) going right now on the macintosh. I need gcc for a lab assignment that will take me several days to finish. Why work on the linux boxes at school when i have project builder! I don't think i'll dick with the updates right now.. gcc 2.95 is adequete for this assignment. ?\par ?\par I still don't have a java ide installed yet. I need to do that soon.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Hungry\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 21 Oct 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:26 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 waiting for lab to start\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 someone jacked my spot again.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 23 Oct 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:32 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Mac OS 10.3 is coming!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 My pre-order of OS X shipped today. I should have it tomorrow!\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Happy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 24 Oct 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:06 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Panther is the best OS EVER!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 All I can say is WOW. Its like upgrading from windows 95 to XP. Its so fast and yet so easy to use. They stole every feature that rocked about windows plus all the old features from classic people liked. Its the first true Apple release since os 9. ?\par ?\par I haven't installed xcode yet, but the updates to safari, and mail are worth the price alone. The spam features got much better. It now detects spam assasign stuff. Very nice. ?\par ?\par An idiot could use it... really. It highlights things in an obvious fashion. ?\par ?\par Its so Mac. :)?\par ?\par I really needed this after my microsoft day of hell. I've been working on SQL server all frickin' day. What a piece of shit. I am seriously thinking about going to MySQL even though i don't have stored procs.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Happy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:21 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 1 bug in panther upgrade\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I had a bug.. java 1.41 did not update to the panther release and does not load. 1.31 works, but that kind of screws up my java development plans for this weekend.?\par ?\par I'm still trying to figure out where the java package is.. its not on disk 2 or 3. Its either in the main install or xcode cd in a package. either way i might need to do a reinstall.. DOH!\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 1 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:23 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 What a week...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Our phone was out for several days. People would call and we couldn't hear them.. just a ton of static. Very annoying.?\par ?\par It looks like my domain has to get moved to another server for $$$ reasons. I'm formatting my PC and putting FreeBSD on it. I have 4.7 release on it now and i cvsup'd last night to 4.9 and built it. I still need to reboot and install the userland. ?\par ?\par I upgraded perl on the server and broke everything. The ports collection didn't move my modules. Now my anti-spam stuff isn't working right. ?\par ?\par At work i had SQL die and their HP inkjet. I had to skip class to go with them to OfficeMax to buy a new laserjet. ?\par ?\par My mother got a new phone number. I called her yesterday. Something else.?\par ?\par Caryn and I rented movies last night. We watched two sopranos episodes (season 4) and still have the Hulk and another movie to watch. She is at work right now. ?\par ?\par I feel like i have a hangover and i didn't drink anything. ?\par ?\par JustJournal has been static for so long. I wish i had time to work on it, but now i must port work from .NET to java. That could take a long time. (and ms sql to mysql )?\par ?\par I need to register for classes tomorrow.?\par ?\par I'll write more later if i get time.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:35 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 I AM YODA\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22
\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Surprised\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:38 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 No more PC games :(\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Since i have to give up my pc for work and my websites.. i'm left with my iMac. ?\par ?\par I can't play shit on my iMac. I have 4 games for it.. diablo 1 and 2, starcraft, and a star wars game that won't run on it official since i don't have a classic mac joystick (ADB). I had an emulator in classic before OSX to make my gamepad work, but thats no longer an option. The big problem is the video card in it. I can't even play quake 3 in OSX (i can get away with it in classic but just barely)?\par ?\par I do have a few other games like doom, the original wolfenstein, and shufflepuck cafe on there. ?\par ?\par I'll have to get AOE2 + expansion for the mac, maybe the star wars AOE2 clone (darth vader is kewl), and something else like the sims or something. Those will run on my old mac. ?\par ?\par Caryn's computer can play RTCW, Warcraft 3, quake3 good but i am just fucked on Enemy territory and star trek games (which i play all the time)?\par ?\par Hell i have an audigy and Radeon 9000 sitting here now. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 3 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 7:14 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 AHHHGGG\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 So i have to move my websites to my pc on a dsl connection.. sucks a lot. For some reason, Java was uninstalled yesterday on the server. I don't know if i did it by accident, the ports collection fucked up (portupgrade), or if someone else did it. My current provider requires a username on the box with sudo access and i don't know how secure their password is. Even if i was rooted, the server is moving pretty quickly anyway. (meaning i will be moving the content to the compaq)?\par ?\par My lunch is close to done. (yeah at 10:17am)?\par ?\par I broke my own rule on the server when i set it up, but i didn't have much choice. I had to install x windows locally so i could download certain software from sites that are not lynx friendly. What a pain in the ass. I have to upload that software to the current server, but with the new one on DSL i don't dare use that much bandwidth. My plan is to download everything here before i move the server. Then i will just need to upgrade it there. I already have java, bind 9, and 160 other ports insalled on the thing. (imap, sendmail sasl, etc)?\par ?\par I decided to experiment with newer versions of tomcat on the box though.. ?\par ?\par the machine is running very smooth now that i removed the video and sound card upgrades. Two fans plus the cpu fan going inside. I only have a network card plugged into the pci bus. All slots are open aside from that. My pc is faster than the current server ( 1.2 gig vs 1.3 gig celeron) The 1.3 gig was the first to use the .13 micron process as i recall so it puts off less heat. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:46 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Quake 1\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 There is a port of Quake 1 for Mac OS X. You can even use the files from a windows licensed CD for it! Caryn bought the pc version years ago. ?\par ?\par I'm still looking for a quake 2 solution. Caryn bought quake 3 again for the mac (actually i bought it for her including team arena). ?\par ?\par Since i lost all my games on the pc, i thought i'd at least beef up our mac collection. I started looking for ports today. I think they should allow you to transfer your license (even if they charged a small fee).?\par ?\par We actually own 3 copies of quake 3 but can only play one of them. Isn't that crap.?\par ?\par I got a port of doom for OSX. We bought doom 1, 2, and final doom previously (2 licenses for doom 2). I have doom 1 and 2 working on the mac. (midi audio don't work though)?\par ?\par I'll need to re-buy AOE2. THe big thing that pisses me off is that i can't play orion pirates, or empires at war (star trek games). I also got 4 games for my birthday. 2 of them are available for the mac, but that doesn't help me with a pc version.?\par ?\par I just encoded the quake 1 audio as mp4 files. (not a typo) The game engine will let me run them without the damn cd that way. (plus its kewl)?\par ?\par Wonder if caryn will be interested? ?\par ?\par I am going to install diablo 1 and 2 this week too.. blizzard is nice and includes the mac version with the pc version.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 5 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:36 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Oh joy\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I have a test today in CS111. I'm not very worried about passing it, but those tests are stressful because we must write C++ code on paper. ?\par ?\par Henry woke me up at like 7:30 in the morning.. at least i got to see caryn leave! ?\par ?\par Its weird having only one computer. I was so used to having two around. I've had two since 1999. I do miss my games, but i really don't miss windows. Pro Microsoft people always claim you will. I didn't have XP crash on my really but i never felt in control either. XP feels empty with no unix prompt and GCC. ?\par ?\par My iMac has been running pretty good with the new hard drive. I installed my logitech scroll mouse on my mac since my pc isn't here. Its a laser mouse. There are mac drivers and scroll works in safari and mail. I haven't tried other apps. Right click is working in finder and on the desktop, also in several apps. ?\par ?\par With the logitech driver, the mouse is almost as accurate as an apple mouse. I did notice a response slowdown in the OS slightly though.. but it did that in windows too. Probably the driver.?\par ?\par It could be the USB port i have it plugged into (a hub on the keyboard). I can't spare a USB port as i am very low.. printer or iSub can be plugged in plus the keyboard/mouse combo.?\par ?\par i.e. i have 2 ports?\par ?\par The cats are laying around today. I got a security patch for terminal.app and an update to xcode through software update today. ?\par ?\par I downloaded the code for my lab assignment. I need to finish it today.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 7 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:47 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 server migration sucks.\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Now i know how fred feels about moving stuff from one linux install to another. Of course its freebsd in my case.?\par ?\par I need to contact jenny about her account too.. i don't remember her password. ?\par ?\par I am rebuilding the kernel on the new box with my optimizations and firewall support. I'd like to get the firewall up early this time. I still need to install several things.?\par ?\par I have to build with USB this time so the kernel is going to be larger than the one on the current box, but not to bad. I did disable most usb devices since i only need it for the mouse.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:54 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 ok this sucks\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 i am uploading from my current server to the new one at 39kB/s.. (thats maxed out)?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:04 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 work fiascos...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 bob hit the water pipe for the sprinkler system with his fork lift. It flooded part of their paper warehouse. Then the fire department came because it set off the alarm. They had to get 3 companies there to get the water shut off. They had to cut the lines to the security system which was down till today. Then he is suing two different people and has a former employee going after him for various things. ?\par ?\par What does this mean to me? they might go under and i lose my job. (mind you my computer is colocated there).?\par ?\par Luckily i did not setup the "server" room on the first floor so it didn't get wet. ?\par ?\par snikes.?\par ?\par On a related note i applied for a job at western today for next term. (before i knew about all this too) ?\par ?\par I need to get ready for discrete in a few.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 9 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:18 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 DAMN PERL\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I hate perl. I didn't have iconv installed prior to build and now the w3 validator is not working. I figured out i have to reinstall perl (rebuild it) but that will totally fuck up my install modules. i just went through that twice and i don't feel like it again. my anti spam stuff is written in perl and i just got it working on the new server. (i migrated yesterday to the new machine)?\par ?\par I had to reinstall PHP already. (i got a new version this time) I need to upgrade apache and tomcat but i'm scared too the way things have been going. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Pissed off\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:22 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 new server setup\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 The new server setup is weird. I decided to use more of the ports collection this time.. including imapd. I have SSL enabled now. I get a message about the cert, but at least its encrypted. Encryption is imporant. ?\par ?\par i still need to get sendmail to do TLS. Hell maybe its setup to do it now. I did try to build it with it.. but i haven't made a cert.?\par ?\par I need an SSL cert for this site too. 35 bucks a peace sucks!?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 12 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:21 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 woo hoo\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 i have a math test coming up. I'm not excited about it. I am hoping today is the review day for it. Monday i didn't go to class, but we were supposed to cover the remainder of chapter 4. I am guessing my test is on friday after my dentist appointment. I will need to study tonight at parkview and tomorrow for the test them.?\par ?\par I upgraded the mysql admin today finally. It wasn't that old, but the new version has more support for the mysql build i'm using.?\par ?\par I still need to upgrade web based email. I'll do that another time.?\par ?\par I posted a lengthly article on fg about what i want to do with the site. I decided i need to start working on more projects and spend a little time on each. It might cheer me up. Plus i won't get stuck in one and not do my homework.?\par ?\par I got source to an asteroids rip off thats really good yesterday. It works on OSX, windows, and linux. (uses SDL) I want to hack it, make it OO, and add some new features to it. I want to make it more like some of my star trek games and i think i can do it.?\par ?\par My lunch is almost done. I have to eat so early now. ?\par ?\par Midnight is sitting in caryn's computer chair again. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Hungry\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 13 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:19 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Sitting at parkview, chillin'\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm sitting on western's second campus on caryn's laptop. People are looking at me funny since i'm on the superior platform. They don't get macs.?\par ?\par My ECE250 prof was staring at me as he walked by.. he moved on when i looked up. (i was plugging in the ethernet jack to the floor)?\par ?\par lol.?\par ?\par People from ECE are getting ready for their lab. Mine is on tuesdays.?\par ?\par I have a CS lab at 10. They are going to have a fire alarm during it. What BS. Its snowing here today. DAMN IT?\par ?\par Oh, my math test got pushed back a week so this weekend i must study. It takes a load off today though. I didn't feel like a crap session. :)?\par ?\par Caryn wants me to get her an oil change. Hope that goes well. ?\par ?\par I am on chapter 4 of my objective c with cocoa book. I get it so far, but the syntax is much differnet. It will be interesting to see what type of apps i can write coming from a MS background. I've never done gui apps in anything besides VB. ?\par ?\par C is starting to sink in. My fears are drifting away. It just takes time. I'm happy about that. ?\par ?\par I just love macintosh. It works. I've seen people reboot a bunch of times. How funny. I just put the laptop to sleep coming up stairs. People stare at the light you know. ?\par ?\par Dumb windows users.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 16 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:17 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Java upgraded\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 After downtime of 3 hours, i finally got jdk 1.4.2 compiled and installed. YES!?\par ?\par This version is supposed to be compliant finally to the spec. We shall see.?\par ?\par It does seem peppy though. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:19 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 My game\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Believe it or not, I'm finally writing my dream game.. and its for the Mac.?\par ?\par I found some source code for an asteriods clone last week. I've been hacking it for days now. I converted it to C++ friendly code last night and now i'm making it object oriented. (it was written in C)?\par ?\par The program uses SDL for audio, OpenGL and GLUT for video, and a few carbon/cocoa libriares on the mac build. THe original could be compiled in windows, but i don't care about windows. I plan on moving the sound code to native quicktime calls eventually. (i could always use direct sound calls in windows later if i wanted to port)?\par ?\par So what is my game going to be??\par ?\par Well it will evolve over time. Initially i want a two player space shooter. The starfield code works on for now and the ship moves fine in the asteroids ripoff. I'll work on the physics of slowing down though.. right now its instantaneous. lol.?\par ?\par I plan on adding shields (it has them but its integrated with hull integrety)?\par ?\par I want to add networking code too. I'll post screen shots when i get it reworked in C++. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Groggy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 21 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:56 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Evil test today\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I have a math test later. Not looking forward to it either. Caryn is surfing this morning. She has an early class.?\par ?\par I'm upgrading some server software with portupgrade right now. Caryn did it last night, but for some reason those packages didn't install right. Odd.?\par ?\par I just upgraded antivirus yesterday on the server. ?\par ?\par Why are the new govenors in the US originally from other countries. Think about it California has a former austrian and Michigan has a former canadian... ?\par ?\par odd.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 22 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:44 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 My Space Game, the saga continues...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Believe it or not the game is actually working. I had to start over today because of some foolish design decisions. ?\par ?\par Remember, i started with an asteroids clone. ?\par ?\par Here is where I am at:?\par ?\par 1. The game is playable.?\par ?\par 2. The game is about 60 percent faster on my iMac and extremely fast on caryn's G4.?\par ?\par 3. I have the game working in full screen now instead of a 640 by 480 window.?\par ?\par 4. The sound system has been setup for 16 bit, 44 Khz?\par ?\par 5. I am removing the mouse cursor during game play now. It did break the high score screen in that you can't click a button after entering your name cause the mouse cursor is missing. ?\par ?\par 6. The asteroids are now random colors instead of always purple. I am using a random number generator for each RGB value. It sucks when a dark color is selected lol.?\par ?\par 7. The statically linked executable has dependancies on quicktime, carbon and cocoa indirectly. (but i have it compiling statically at least)?\par ?\par 8. I want to port over to core audio in OSX eventually instead of dependancies on SDL. The catch is that i want to enable joystick support which might be easier with SDL libraries.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Nerdy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:52 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Two more tests\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I have a test in Rel 305 monday and a test in ECE 250 tuesday. I'm not happy about it either. ?\par ?\par Caryn is working tomorrow. I plan on studying then. I hope it works out for me. ?\par ?\par I just finished watching indiana jones on DVD (we rented it). The audio is very good, but i didn't see a drastic improvement in video quality. Its probably worth buying for audio reasons though.?\par ?\par My cat, henry, loves that movie. Its so cute how he gets excited, purrs and moves his tail.?\par ?\par My two button + scroll mouse on my mac is really nice. I'm having trouble using caryn's computer now because i'm used to it. ?\par ?\par I might have passed that math test. We shall see.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 23 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:13 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 FG updates\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just did some work on foolish games... about 4 hours on one HTML page fixing it. I think i should have run html tidy on it instead lol.?\par ?\par I guess my new CD burner is coming monday or tuesday. firewire 400 external... it should work great with my iMac. (apple did invent firewire)?\par ?\par The usb floppy is working great.?\par ?\par FG needs some serious programming work. I'll get to it soon enough lol.?\par ?\par I have been putting off studying.. bad me.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Okay\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 27 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:34 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Its tofurkey day\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Caryn and I had dinner earlier and played monopoly. She beat me.. ?\par ?\par Midnight is asleep on caryn's G4 again. ?\par ?\par I'm playing around with java a little. I've been doing a lot of C programming lately. (for that game) ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Okay\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 29 Nov 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:50 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Asteriods clone released for Mac OS X\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I published what i have done so far on the game for the mac.?\par ?\par It was compiled on 10.3, but might run on older releases.?\par ?\par http://www.foolishgames.com/luke/?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 4 Dec 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:24 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 What have i been up to? File sharing...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 This is the last week of classes. Finals are next week. I have 1 class left this week (discrete tomorrow). ?\par ?\par I went to the "review" session earlier. He went over test answers again and how to get them. I might still pass that course if i get my final grade up a bit.?\par ?\par I'm meeting caryn for lunch later. She wanted to go tuesday, but I didn't get the time for it.?\par ?\par Henry is sitting on the arm of my computer chair with me. He's been a little irritated because we won't let him eat everything. (diet)?\par ?\par I learned about some kewl software called bit torrent. It allows you to download files using others bandwith. Its not exactly like P2P gnutella stuff. Instead of using a client to search and waste bandwith having other people search, you go on the web to find .torrent files. Then, using these torrent files, you are able to access a "tracker". The tracker keeps track of all the people downloading and allows many peers to share their downstream/upstream. If a file is popular, you get awesome bandwith. If its not, then you get crap. (usually extremely slow or not at all) It looks like all types of files are shared with the method including legitimate and illegal content. I've seen torrent files for movies, software, tv shows, fonts, and other stuff. A quick search in google for torrent files will get you a lot of sources.?\par ?\par There are a few facts about the technology that are not clear and several that bother me. For one thing, the tracker and peers could EASILY track who is downloading what. In fact, there is an open source program on sourceforge for that task. Given a tracker file, anyone can track how many are downloading and their ip. Its certainly not good for music as the RIAA would have a field day. It seems popular in the US and Germany. I've seen a lot of german dub versions of movies and stuff. For smaller files that a lot of people want, you can't beat it. Apps like limewire are better for not so common files provided the person on the other end stays online long enough to get it.?\par ?\par Bit torrent is available for many platforms. I've used the mac client, but i know there are many windows clients. ?\par ?\par My personal review of different file sharing things goes like this:?\par ?\par 1. Bearshare (but its got spyware so you must install on a temporary install, or uninstall it after a few days and do a restore point in XP) I'd also use ad aware or similar afterword.?\par ?\par 2. Bit Torrent seems like it has great potential especially for movies, and software if you are into that. I may use this technology for my jewel site download section.?\par ?\par 3. Limewire is nice when you don't want to run on windows. The windows version has spyware but the other versions are much cleaner (linux and mac). The linux version is by far the fastest and most efficient. The Mac version consumes 512mb ram in no time. I had good success building my own version from the CVS repository and cleaning out BS like the media player and some of the panes to lower the memory usage. I switched back to a prebuilt version which seemed to fix some of the crashes and memory usage problems in 10.3 Mac OS. I must say that limewire uses way to much memory and the thread count is more than top can register. It opens a thread for EVERY connection and EVERY task. I would wager it would run much better on caryn's box with 2 cpu's. (provided its thread safe and java can use them)?\par ?\par The real problem is the memory usage for spawning a bazillion threads. lol. My hacked version had about 72 threads running when i was downloading 2 files and sharing 10. (no one was retrieving a file at the time)?\par ?\par Finally, if you want music i would suggest buying it through iTunes. Its only 99 cents a song and the quality is awesome. I've bought 187 tracks or so.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:44 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Visual Studio .NET\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Caryn got a discount on an acedemic copy of VS.Net 2003. The cds are going to be shipped next week. That is so kewl. We are going to install it in VPC for the time being until i get my PC back. ?\par ?\par Its the professional version with acedemic restrictions on use. Basically VB, C#, C++. Scary thing is i could probably use all three languages now. C# is a lot like Java only with subtle name changes. There are java to C# converters even. ?\par ?\par I've been toying with getting a Pocket PC handheld. My first choice would be to get a laptop, but unless i find a good used one cheap i might as well hold out. I did see a nice one on ebay a few days ago. 200 bucks.. apple powerbook. It couldn't run OSX though. I do have a lot of classic apps still. It was like a 200 mhz or so. 10.1 might run with a processor upgrade. (only a 1.x gb hdd though) It had scsi, ethernet, 12 cdrom, floppy, etc.?\par ?\par My real eye is on one of the new iBooks. G4 with a radeon 9200 is NICE. Good gaming system right now. It would even run halo coming out this month for Mac.?\par ?\par Of course a 2.4 gig P4 laptop would be nice too. I could run FreeBSD 5.2 on that baby when it comes out. Linux emulation for ET and a dual boot of Windows XP Pro. I would need an onboard nvidia or ati card though to play games. Without gaming and wireless whats the point.?\par ?\par I like the alienware laptops on the PC front. There are a few centrino models lincluding a toshiba and compaq that are sweet too. ?\par ?\par Even if i had the money today for a laptop, i'm not sure what i'd buy. I love Mac OS X, but FreeBSD is very sweet! its hard for me to pick between different BSD operating systems (except openbsd which sucks). I do have to say though that the founder of openbsd did great work on the netbsd sparc port in the past. If i had a sun machine, netbsd would probably be running on it. It makes solaris look like a toddler crawling to mommy compared to a formula 1 race car on I75.?\par ?\par Choices, choices. ?\par ?\par I wish apple would stabalize the BSD subsystem in OSX. Software ports are behind and I can't get KDE on here anymore. Dual booting is not an option either (well maybe darwin). I'd want Netbsd or freebsd though.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Tired\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 6 Dec 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:03 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 My New computer!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I ordered an iBook G4 thursday night. I'm going to sell my iMac as soon as I get it.?\par ?\par Here are the specs on my new computer:?\par G4 800 mhz?\par 128mb ram (i'm going to ugrade this)?\par 40 gig hdd?\par cdrom drive (i have a firewire burner)?\par 1 firewire 400, 2 usb 2.0?\par 12.1 inch lcd?\par Mac OS X.3 Panther?\par Quicken 2004?\par Tony Hawk Pro skater 4?\par World Book 2003?\par AppleWorks?\par ?\par It will be nice to have a portable super computer. I want to get an airport extreme card and some more ram for it. Someday i'll get an external DVD for it.?\par ?\par Here is the specs on my old computer for sale:?\par ?\par iMac DV 400?\par G3 400mhz?\par 512 mb Crucial PC133 ram.?\par 100mhz system bus?\par Seagate 80 gig hdd (i upgraded this less than 2 months ago)?\par 8mb ATI RAGE 128 PRO Video?\par 2 firewire 400, 2 usb 1.1?\par Original Keyboard and Mouse (Apple Pro)?\par Harmon Kardon Speakers built-in?\par 24x CD-ROM built in (note to upgrade this, you would need a laptop drive i think Its like half height)?\par Mac OS 9.0.4 came with the system, but i can provide 10.1, 10.2, or 10.3. THe original system restore disks and all the original software will come with the system.?\par ?\par It shipped with:?\par Bugdom, quicken, appleworks, and a few other things.?\par ?\par The system has a built in microphone that works with the apple voice recognition so you can control the computer and play chess in 10.3 with voice rec. (IBM ViaVoice is needed to use it with Word)?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:44 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Mac OS Emulation\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 It is possible to emulate a 68K Mac on almost any platform now including windows, linux, freebsd and Mac OS X. Last night I finally got two emulators working on my Mac. One is black and white. It supports through system 7, but I'm running 6.08 on it. I actually got Leisure Suit Larry 1 to run on it. LSL was originally written for the Mac. It is the FIRST version of the game. Sound works too! Its something to see lefty's in grayscale with the LSL theme playing. Caryn and I played it for a bit last night. ?\par ?\par There is also another emulator that will run a Quadra rom. I got that to boot system 7.5.5 in color without sound. The OSX native port doesn't work right, but i hacked the source code for the windows/unix/linux build to link with apple's X11 port. I got it to run fine except sound. I even got the math co to work. I still need to get networking, sound, and modem access to work. Its successfully emulation the 68030 chip with math co and 8mb ram. The only problem with that one is that X is running in high color so games that check for 256 color won't run! I'll figure out something. That emulator is called Basilisk 2. To get it to run in 10.3, you must run configure as a sparc... then delete the references to architecture in the final make file. finally, change references to gcc and g++ to gcc2 and g++2. It will build.?\par ?\par The other thing that got me is you must specify the path to the ROM image explicitly for it to work right.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:50 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 STP: Thank you\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just wrote a review of STP: Thank you the CD/DVD set on FG. Its a kewl album and the DVD rocks.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:51 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 OS upgrade on server\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm compiling the latest stable today. I've had problems with PERL on 4.9 quite a bit. Hopefully this will help. The box has been up for quite a while though.?\par ?\par 1:53PM up 21 days, 20:24, 1 user, load averages: 1.00, 1.02, 1.00?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 8 Dec 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:51 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 2 finals down, 2 to go\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I finished my CS111 final in like 30 minutes. My other final took me over an hour. ?\par ?\par I hope things work out for the other two on wednesday.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 11 Dec 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:09 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 iBook G4\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 my new ibook rocks. I need a memory upgrade to run some apps, but aside from that i'm all set. I can't start any macromedia stuff without another 128mb. I can run windows 2000 in vpc, although its very slow. RTCW runs AWESOME on the machine. I gamed for quite awhile tonight.?\par ?\par The lcd display rules. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 12 Dec 2003\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:05 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 what os am i?\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22Yep.. strange thing
http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_acquisition
Looks like xfire got bought by viacom. The odd part is the spinoff of cvs.. they mention MTV Networks, but the thing is i think thats spun off with CBS?
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin
I got a leak detector for firefox today. I guess many javascript/ecmascript uses actually leak memory on every page it. FCKeditor does and thats what i use for JJ. It seems that functions are objects and its quite easy to make a circular reference to something in Javascript which causes a memory leak as the garbage collector will never run when the page is exited. WOW.
trains are in my blood — All locomotives become available.
?\paroops — Make all the trains crash.
?\pargo go go — All trains capable of traveling twice as fast.
?\parupgrade — Automatically upgrade all locomotives to the best possible.
?\pardouble shift — All buildings produce double the cargo.
?\parsubsidy — Add $1 million to your cash reserves.
?\parbailout — Add $10 million to your cash reserves.
?\parpassport — Get access to all available territories.
?\parall is lost — Lose the game.
?\parsafety first — Your trains never crash.
?\parwe have a winner — Win the game.
?\parwe have a winner bronze — Win the game with a bronze medal.
?\parwe have a winner silver — Win the game with a silver medal.
?\parwe have a winner gold — Win the game with a gold medal.
?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 16 May 2006\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:47 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 AGGHHH\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 ok its been a shitty day. Literally. One of my cats had issues all over the sofa and carpeting. Another one decided to join in by squating by the window. Lets just say i beat little garfields ass...Caryn's coming home from work. Day 2. I looked at isp stuff and found out commiecast has 8/1 Mbps for 160 with static ips. I may go that route instead of coloing with fred. It would be as much as colo but include home bandwith too. 1 Mbps is a bit slow for lots of et but it would do 8 slot i think. I'll be internal anyway so zero ping. I could use gigE internal and possible multiple boxes. Right now i have a 2400+ semrpon with 512mb ram and sata software raid 1. Aside from a ram upgrade, it could handle the sites without a problem. Hell i could build or buy a second box for linux or solaris and run everything but midnightbsd on that. Midnight bsd is the only hurdle to this plan and no one is using it yet anyway. I might be able to get a mirror anyway. I had to do 3 loads of laundry and some other shit around the house. I looked at hotjobs for kicks and noticed a few helpdesk jobs that only require an associates degree... they focused on XP experience, but between my Windows System administration and chad's shit i could handle it even on paper i think. THey wanted citrix experience and active directory. Thats an issue, but i know i can handle AD. Just a thought. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:26 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Falckon ET: The quest for Macdom\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I test compiled (not really) the Falckon revision 66 today.\u160? Someone imported Windows code.\u160? Not kewl.\u160? I can fix it myself but they should really import the new version that supports macs.\u160? Its an error fest.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 17 May 2006\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:33 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 JJ\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Haven't posted much about JJ lately.\u160? I've done some work on it tonight.\u160? Source forge made some major changes to the CVS service.\u160? I'm debating what to do at this point.\u160? I've gone ahead and worked on JJ a bit.\u160? I'm in the middle of a very large change.\u160? Currently there is a Preferences class and a User class.\u160? I'm merging them into one.\u160? Most of the time I need to access the preferences class in my code and thats two object intstances plus 2 sql queries.\u160? It seems dumb and quite a few parts of my code could be tweaked (less params etc) if i merge them.\u160? The Preferences object has been around since 2003 and thats buried all over the place.\u160? I've also got some rendering and message bugs fixed.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:14 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 The network is the computer...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Hmm.. i finally found 2 things i've been looking for. I've been wanting a serial cable to do beastie kernel debugging and an aui to ethernet adapter for my sun. Its rather useless right now sitting there. I just ordered those bad boys! Actually finding a cable for serial was trivial. I looked last year and couldn't find a damn null modem cable anywhere (that i'd buy from). They are in again for some UPS systems. now i can connect the router to my dell and do serial connections :) The sun will rock on the network. I'll have to figure out how to program the damn thing again. Its got solaris 2.6 on it :) I almost tossed the sun recently. Its been awhile since i did sparc assembly, but i might be able to get into the groove again. At least i can test some of my code on a sun once in awhile. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: Don't Go Away - Be Here Now - Oasis\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 18 May 2006\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:44 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 JJ Bugs\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Looks like the style sheets are dicked up again.\u160? I need to fix that.\u160? I've got a new JJ design i may publish.\u160? That makes 2 site designs beyond the current one.\u160? I'm not sure which i like better.\u160? I may show caryn tonight.\u160? One is gray and shades of pink/red.\u160? The other uses blue and yellow more.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:12 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Hex color references for HTML\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.only-zuul.com/ahexcolor.htmhttp://www.december.com/html/spec/color4.html\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 7:51 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Bind security\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Someone posted this on the net today about bind security.. nice i may try itBIND when used correctly can foil/hamper these DNS attacks from occuring.Any tool improperly used can possibly cause problems.This a proper way to secure a Bind nameserver.An example would be in your bind named.conf adding an acl section and adding to section options.//add your trusted networksacl "trusted_queries" \{ 127.0.0.1; 192.168.1.0/24; some.ip.network.outthere/8; \};acl "trusted_recursion" \{ 127.0.0.1; 192.168.1.0/24; some.ip.network.outthere/8; \};options \{allow-query ( "trusted_queries" \};allow-recursion \{ "trusted_recursion" \};version "no version"; //protect your nameserver version\};//and for your zones just add allow-query anyzone "some.zone.com" IN \{type master;file "pri/some.zone.com.zone";allow-query \{ any; \}; //allow legitimate nameservers to get host info\};\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:37 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 No shit...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." -- Ayn Rand\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 19 May 2006\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:46 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 DAMN it\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 This is a shitty day. I won't go into work right now, but CDW didn't include the more expensive part i ordered in the fucking box. So i don't get to work on the sun this weekend afterall. :(32 dollar part. I talked to their customer service rep Jim who said he'd send me out a new part for free. Its inconvenient but at least they are correcting it. The thing that concerned me is he said he'd do it because it was such a cheap part. The box was a little beat up but didn't look like anything could fall out. I don't know if this is a UPS or CDW issue although it could be either. It makes me a bit nervous ordering big ticket items from them. I've had issues with UPS in the past like they stole my iPod mini dock. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 20 May 2006\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:14 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Source Forge Sucks again\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 They deleted my mac ssh public key from the cvs server! No fucking wonder I can't commit code. What a bitch. Oddly my windows key was still there. I commited the windows client code at least. They have rsync support.. guess what i'm thinking about using...\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 22 May 2006\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:19 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Today so far\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'll just start at work. I got to look at the new MacBook in person. Its sweet!!!! It doesn't look very user servicable to me though. (worse than iBook)?\par ?\par Sounds like we can get comcast for our bandwith. That will stop the hosting company crap. :)?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 23 May 2006\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:10 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Having trouble sleeping again.\u160? This is a much to common occurance.\u160? Not sure what to do with my time right now.\u160? Caryn's still asleep and i think her alarm goes off in like 2 hours.\u160? Cats are napping except for henry.\u160? I'll have to work later.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:23 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 ebay time\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just did my 2 year itch and bought something on ebay.\u160? I just realised i've only bought computer stuff and usually sun stuff on ebay.\u160? Anyway, its a 440mhz ultrasparc w/ 768mb ram\u160? 9.1 gb hdd and a scsi controller.\u160? It has ethernet and a video card.\u160? Its a creator ultra 10 which according to sun's kb can run Solaris 7, 8, 9, and 10.\u160? My plan is to download and install Solaris 10 with the Java Enterprise System.\u160? That will allow me to run sun's webserver and other kewl shit instead of apache httpd + tomcat, php and all this other bullshit.\u160? The new issue is what to do with my current "router".\u160? I currently host et and i could do that on freebsd, linux or windows.\u160? I may choose not to run et as well depending on how fg goes.\u160? If I ran windows, I'd get access to .NET again in addition to a few other kewl things.\u160? Linux would run et a bit faster than freebsd, but be totally useless otherwise since i have a real fucking sun.\u160? The machine isn't reliable enough to do compiles on for midnightbsd either.\u160? I'll think on it more.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:34 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Intel iMac\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm installing a new iMac 20 inch today! Its fast as hell! \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 24 May 2006\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:54 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Dentist\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I talked with the denist.\u160? The hygentist recommended a dentist named wolly or something like that.\u160? She knows the hygentist there, etc.I guess i've got a problem on my side with the baby tooth.\u160? The dentist said if it gets any worse i'll need to do something about it and most likely by next x-rays i will.\u160? (november)That sucks.\u160? I am at work.\u160? First time i've been here at 8:30 am ini a really long time.\u160? I left a vm for chad since i figured he wouldn't believe me otherwise.\u160? I don't like to eat right after going to the dentist so i'll probably just have lunch here a bit early and go out.\u160? (say 11:30 or 12) so i can do surplus with stecy.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:59 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 New sparc and CDW\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I haven't heard about shipment dates for either.\u160? Thats really pissing me off.\u160? The ebay guy has a few days i suppose but cdw has no excuse.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:51 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Server Time\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I bought a used server today.\u160? Its a 533mhz p3 dell with 2 18gb scsi disks.\u160? I got it for 50 bucks!\u160? Chad wanted 75 but surplus decided it wasn't worth that.\u160? :)I think this will be my windows server.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 25 May 2006\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:21 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Just applied to EMU (eastern michigan). Need to gather all my transcripts.?\par ?\par The sun shipped yesterday. The guy is sending me tracking later today.?\par ?\par The dell server works ok. :)\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:04 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Intel iMac #2\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm setting up a second intel iMac. This time a 17 inch. :)?\par ?\par Lets see how it compares. If I bought one at some point, it would be this model for price reasons. There's a huge difference with the display. I wish they made one in between like a 18 or 19 inch... This feels small and the other was too damn big.?\par ?\par This one is going in widr's newsroom. Seems a lot slower than the 20 inch. Much brighter display though. Thats fucked up they got a 450 gb hard drive and 1gb ram in this one but the other was factory... how retarded.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:27 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 ID10T people\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just got a forward from my Aunt. It was one of those damn age old AOL and Microsoft will pay you for forwarding... fucking emails. ?\par ?\par Those have always been fake and always will be fake. Why the hell would microsoft give you 240 dollars for forwarding an email? Lets think for a minute. Thats more than the cost of a Windows XP Home edition license. THey can't afford to do that. This is Microsoft's worst financial year in a long time. The xbox has to carry them! Vista is delayed and office isn't ready. ?\par ?\par For shits and giggles I looked at the email source code. Not one damn thing in it contains anything microsoft could use for tracking (like urls to images or something). Its not even a good fake! ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Pissed off\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 26 May 2006\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:43 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Microsoft Office 2007 beta\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I won't get to crazy with details. Lets say that the installation process wasn't smooth for an upgrade, but the new interface in Word is awesome! I can't wait for this to go gold. Overall a big usability improvement. Chad will hate it. Odd enough file was replaced with an office logo and its round and in the apple menu location :) \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:50 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Burned\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Microsoft is releasing a blog server feature in sharepoint and Word is a blogging client now. It works with live journal, their various products and a few others. SHIT.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:52 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Myspace, Mt. Morris, stuff...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Hmm.. signed up for a myspace account. I wanted to find some old people i knew, etc. I won't use it for blogging! ?\par ?\par Looks like jason moody did pass away...?\par http://www.webfh.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=79579&fh_id=10426&ck=1?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:01 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Offender gets away with sexually assaulting a 12 year old\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Asshole is short so the judge put him on PROBATION! MOTHER FUCKER. Shoot him. He forced himself on her.. he can have it done to him in prison!!!!!!http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/05/26/judge.flap.ap/index.html\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Work\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:01 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Mary j blige covers one?\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Yeah its on my iTunes now... weird huh? Bono's on there too. Very strange.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Work\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:03 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Liberating Iraq? Try killing them.\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/26/marines.probe.ap/index.html\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Work\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:04 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Gun shots in the capitol?\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/26/house.shots/index.html\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Work\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 27 May 2006\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:35 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Resetting XP icon cache\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Do the following please to reset and clear the Icon cache..?\par ?\par 1- Go to: Windows Explorer/Tools/Folder Options/View/Show Hidden File and ?\par Uncheck Hide Protected Operating System Files. ?\par ?\par Delete Icon Cache. It is located here: ?\par IconCache.db ?\par C:Documents and SettingsYou may need to edit the Makefile as well. QTDIR isn't getting set. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 13 Nov 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:55 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Fuck i hate work sometimes\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I come in to find that the iMac I was trying to develop an image on for boot camp has been dicked with and is without a keyboard but ASLEEP.\u160? Next, i find the keyboard in the middle of my build cluster with half the units partially disconnected and beater macs in their places.\u160? SHIT has been put all over the room that i had been cleaning very carefully. And this is why nothing gets done.\u160? Now kirk wants us to deploy logins and has taken away my job with bootcamp.\u160? I sense a power struggle between kirk and new chris.. well an agenda difference at least.\u160? This fucking sucks.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 15 Nov 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:51 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 10 minutes with 10.5.1\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm preparing for class, but I had an opportunity to work with the 10.5.1 update for 10 minutes. First observations:?\par ?\par The firewall dialog has changed.\u160? Instead of fixing it, they changed the text to something logical.\u160? "Allow only essential services"\u160?\u160? Better, but I want more control over the firewall. A "quick list" of built in OS X apps and services to allow is a good start.\u160? ?\par Mail closes MUCH faster.\u160? It is like night and day.\u160? I'm quite happy with that.?\par The finder seems to be working subtly better.\u160? I don't know what it is, but it "feels" better.?\par After another reinstall my wacom tablet is working.\u160? I don't know if that will last?\par It's a 40mb update.\u160? Not "small"?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:06 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Researching boot camp\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been asked to find a solution to using boot camp at work.\u160? We need to image 20-30 machines in a dual boot setup.\u160? According to various sources there are only a few options.1. Netrestore.\u160? The idea here is that you'd setup a Mac and make copies.\u160? Windows must be on a NTFS volume.2. dd.\u160? This old friend can duplicate a disk including the GPT/MBR hybrid needed to boot OS X and Windows.\u160? Of course if your drive is another size, you are out of luck.\u160? 3. Manually setting up each machine with boot camp.\u160? This one is out.4. Imaging the machine as normal for OS X and then using a Bart PE disk customized with the OS X drivers for Intel macs to use Windows ghost.\u160? Of course this breaks the Microsoft EULA for Windows.\u160? I do like ghost, and this one is interesting.\u160? We do not have a license that I can use in the CS department.\u160? I'm leaning toward the dd solution.\u160? We could do that with a Mac OS X boot on firewire which Kirk is into right now.\u160? I could script it pretty easily.\u160? I can't find a firewire cable to test it tonight though.\u160? I really do want to try this.\u160? There are further limitations.\u160? GPT does not support extended partitions.\u160? MBR does not support more than 4 partitions.\u160? The combination means you can't use extended or more than 4 primary partitions.\u160? One is used by EFI.\u160? That gives you a maximum of three partitions for this to work in hybrid mode.\u160? Windows must be on the last partition.\u160? Some people can get os x, linux and windows triple booting by using a third party boot loader.\u160? The apple loader doesn't support triple boot effectively.\u160? Kirk has proposed multibooting OS X, OS X and Windows.\u160? I'm not sure if that will work or not with Apple's software.\u160? (10.4, 10.5 and XP) \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:16 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 LDAP\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I think I might have written an entry about LDAP previously, however I feel that I should write a second entry.I have successfully authenticated a MidnightBSD machine against an Mac OS X server (10.4.10).\u160? Ports needed:\u160? nss_ldap, pam_ldapCreate a shared config file in /usr/local/etcldap.conf or nss_ldap.conf# Your LDAP server. Must be resolvable without using LDAP.# Multiple hosts may be specified, each separated by a# space. How long nss_ldap takes to failover depends on# whether your LDAP client library supports configurable# network or connect timeouts (see bind_timelimit).host YOURSERVERIP# The distinguished name of the search base.base dc=od,dc=cs,dc=emich,dc=edubase dc=od,dc=cs,dc=emich,dc=edunss_base_passwd cn=users,dc=od,dc=cs,dc=emich,dc=edu?onenss_base_shadow cn=users,dc=od,dc=cs,dc=emich,dc=edu?onenss_base_group\u160?\u160?\u160?\u160?\u160?\u160?\u160?\u160?\u160? cn=groups,dc=od,dc=cs,dc=emich,dc=edu?onensswitch.conf needs this: group: files ldapgroup_compat: nishosts: files dnsnetworks: filespasswd: files ldappasswd_compat: nisshells: filesshadow: files ldapThere are also some things in pam.dThis is not "complete" by any means.\u160? I was also able to nfs mount the home directories too.\u160? There are some issues with X11 and locking in this setup but I haven't had time to refine the approach.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:28 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Another option\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/This software allows you to clone NTFS boot camp images.\u160? Combining this with a script would probably work out well.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 24 Nov 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:03 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 The Holidays\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 It's the holiday season again. Family fighting and manipulation are rampant. My father finally sent me a birthday gift. It's November. My birthday was in May. Had to make sure it was for this last year. He included a card with a chicken on it. Good way to mend things with a vegetarian. I don't eat meat. ?\par ?\par Thanksgiving?\par ?\par My mother came over for Thanksgiving. It was a rather relaxing holiday. My father wasn't around to start shit. I didn't have to deal with the in laws. Usually Caryn's family doesn't bother me, but it's very awkward during the holidays. My family is always rude to them if they run into each other this time of year. ?\par ?\par Caryn made a tofurkey, pumpkin pie (Libby's recipe) and the usual veggie fixings. My mother seemed to like it. We ended up watching The Producers on DVD (original) and playing the Wii. She loves Dance Dance Revolution and Wii Sports. ?\par ?\par Professors stick us with homework?\par ?\par As usual some of my professors decided to ruin the holidays for their students with tons of bullshit work. I get annoyed because I am usually ready to pull my hair out this time of year anyway. I'm trying to decide how much I have to do and how much can slide until Monday. ?\par ?\par CPU?\par ?\par I bought a new CPU for my desktop. It's an Intel core 2 duo 6420 aka 2.13Ghz w/ 4MB Cache. It's helping quite a bit with my system performance. The RAM is now running at 667MHz and the power management is great. In MidnightBSD, one of the cores is slowing down to 800MHz when the system is idle. Some improvements should help with that problem. The heat when first starting the system is almost half. Now the chip runs at 32C instead of the old chip at 60C. I think it will be better as the compound sets in. In Vista, the computer's index is now 5.0. The RAM went from 4.6 to 5.3 and the CPU when from 4.7 to 5.0. Some people don't pay any attention to those tests, but it's still a way to compare systems. I didn't see too many at Best Buy that scored a 5.0 last time I looked several months ago. ?\par ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:34 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 First Year Sales: PS3 vs xbox 360 vs Wii\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 The PS3 has been sold as many times as the xbox 360 in first year sales.\u160? The units are comparable and both are overshadowed by the Nintendo Wii.\u160? There have been many people who have reportedly bought multiple xbox 360s due to failures.\u160? It would be interesting to subtract out duplicate purchases from the figures of each console.\u160? I suspect that the PS3 has actually done better than the xbox in sales.\u160? Remember that the core system was $300 which is half the price of the original PS3 units.\u160? The real question is how many games are getting sold.\u160? That is possibly a better indicator of sales volume.\u160? Many people have speculated that Wii owners aren't buying games.\u160? Unlike the hidef war, there could actually be a winner and loser in the game console war.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:39 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 DVD vs HD DVD vs Blue Ray\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 The initial sales figures at retailers show that more DVD players were getting sold than either new format.\u160? The mad rush has not happened.\u160? I've also been reading misinformation on many blogs and websites about studio support for each format.\u160? HD DVDSupporters:Universal/NBC (subsidising the format)Toshiba (making most of the players)MicrosoftStudiosUniversalParamount (exclusive?)\u160? Warner (both formats)Porn industryBlue RaySupporters:SonyApple...StudiosSony PicturesDisneyWarner (dual format)Fox (showing blue ray on their site limitedly)TechnologyBoth formats use the same codecs to encode video although blue ray titles tend to use mpeg2 more often (DVD like).\u160? Blue ray has higher capacity discs.\u160? HD DVD players are required to have more interactive features built in which means end users can do more "tricks".\u160? PriceToshiba, Universal and Microsoft are intentionally releasing very cheap players to win the format war.\u160? As the technology is similar, the real issues are disc capacity and availability of videos.\u160? Movies and TVMost consumers don't know about either format.\u160? Further, both sides have released general purpose titles that don't target people who adopt early.\u160? This is slowing adoption.\u160? Most PS3 owners don't know they have a blue ray player.\u160? Most xbox 360 owners don't know they can add HD DVD for less than $200.\u160? Paramount is releasing Star Trek on HD DVD.\u160? There are rumors that Indy and Star Wars will go with that format too.\u160? George Lucas also liked laser disc though.\u160? Most people have bought these films recently on DVD and don't want to pay more.\u160? Universal has released their stupid films like knocked up on HD DVD and until recently did not try to release classics that people really like.\u160? James Bond might be released on HD DVD. Porn might promote the format.\u160? The Porn industry feels that HD DVD is better because they don't have to pay licensing fees to release discs.\u160? It's cheaper for them.\u160? Blue Ray has done a little better with diversity in films.\u160? Sony has a very strange catalog at the moment with distribution rights on MGM films (although bond is going to fox?)\u160? as well as their own library.\u160? Spider-man, and most of the other marvel films are on Blue Ray.\u160? Disney classics and Pixar releases are going Blue Ray like Cars, Ratatoile, etc.\u160? In the past, Disney has picked the winner.\u160? In the end, it has to do with who wants to buy the format to go with their new TVs.\u160? If people all go on price, HD DVD wins and the movies will eventually come out.\u160? Disclaimer: I prefer Blue Ray for two reasons.\u160? 1. The capacity of the format is much larger which means it's better for backup on computers (not movies) and there are actually burners for it.\u160? 2. I don't like the companies releasing players for HD DVD.\u160? They are mostly known for cheap, low quality products.\u160? If there were more diversity in that camp, I would probably settle for it on price factors.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 29 Nov 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:17 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Vista Bug\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I bought 2 x 1 GB PC5300 chips for my desktop. The idea was to go to 4GB of ram. That would be an issue except I'm running 64bit vista (and midnightbsd). The system works fine in MidnightBSD, but with all the RAM in Vista freaks out. At first it seemed like it was Norton AV so I uninstalled it. However, that didn't solve the VERY SLOW perfrormance. It takes 22 minutes to get into the gui with services loaded! At 3GB of RAM it works. Before I had 2.5GB of RAM. 2 of the new chips and one of the old 1GB chips are in. My next test is 3.5GB total. The ram is now operating in Dual Channel mode and vista rates it slower. THere could be a memory timing difference between the RAM. The new stuff is kingston. The old stuff I bought at CompUSA before they closed. Caryn's Mac tool her 4GB of extra ram without a problem. She was playing WoW in less than 30 minutes. My vista install is still screwed up after 5 hours. I've NEVER had this much trouble installing RAM. Since it seems to work with different chips, I don't think it's any one chip. It seems stable with 3GB so i'll deal with that for now. It's getting time for bed anyway.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 1 Dec 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:46 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 The Bowls of Hell: I mean Windows Vista x64\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've defended Microsoft for the last time. Windows Vista sucks. I upgraded to 4GB of RAM and now Windows will not boot. It corrupted the boot loader and screwed some of my data. The whole point of a 64bit OS is to use more than 4GB of RAM! ?\par ?\par During research, I learned that video card RAM has to be addressed in the same address space. So you can figure out the max ram for your system by taking 4GB and subtracting your video RAM. Vista has a nasty bug where it double counts it when using direct x 9 compatibility. That means subtract double unless you patch for it. That limits me to 3GB stable. ?\par ?\par I'm going back to 32bit XP as we speak. What's the point of vista. The big feature is gone. At least i'll get my games back. Interestinly, Ubuntu will also not boot with 4GB of ram (32bit) on 7.10 but an older version does. MidnightBSD is working fine and memory tests are ok. ?\par ?\par Say no to Vista! \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 6 Dec 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:58 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Ugh\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm feeling the stress piling on as the semester nears an end. I've got homework, programming assignments, portfolios (x2), and tests galore. Tonight I get to do a CS test that I don't feel prepared for. ?\par ?\par I have one more class left in English before the end of the semester which is interesting. Next week is a biggie. ?\par ?\par I'm trying to unwind with mild JJ development. I've almost implemented the blogger api. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 7 Dec 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:37 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 IP Cops to steal computers: BIll in congress\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.4279:This bill helps big media companies by creating a new IP cop division of the government. They can steal your computer on the accusations of the RIAA or MPAA of copyright infringement. This can be spoofed or done through a virus or other malware without your knowledge. You can lose your computer for no reason. Yes this is a bit sensational, but it's so true. The bill was sponsored by John Conyers, Jr. from Detroit. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:43 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 John Conyers, Jr. \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 If you would like to express your opinion of the previous entry...http://www.house.gov/conyers/\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:47 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Designing a programming assignment. \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Ever had the feeling you should be using java for something? I'm getting that feeling now. Well it's a start.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: Big Yellow Taxi - Counting Crows: Films About Ghosts - The Best of... - Counting Crows & Vanessa Carlton\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:02 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Commodore 64 25th anniversary\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/12/07/c64/index.htmlI remember using a C64 at several points in my life. My first computer programming class used c64s in eight grade. Some of the games were great. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: White Room - The Very Best of Cream - Cream\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:04 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Again? Van der Sloot freed\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/07/aruba/index.html?iref=topnewsWhat was the point in arresting him? \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: With Arms Wide Open - Creed: Greatest Hits - Creed\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:13 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Evil woman is shunned\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/12/07/suicide.shunning.ap/index.htmlPerhaps if she hadn't have led to the death of a teenager, it wouldn't be happening? I don't feel sorry for this woman. She acted immature and now the community is responding in kind. She should appreciate the attitude. Messing with peoples lives is OK to her if it's not happening to her. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: One Last Breath - Creed: Greatest Hits - Creed\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 10 Dec 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:31 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Apple sucks (again)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=429317?\par ?\par Apple changed the behavior of ACL handling. Login on leopard and watch the permission go to hell on your 10.4 server (10.4.11 actually)?\par ?\par I hate them.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 11 Dec 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:09 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/\u126?mhe/foundations2/node113.html\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:41 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Apple sucks (3rd time)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 xcode crashed today. I lost some of my homework. I hate leopard.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 13 Dec 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:26 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 null\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22
I'm trying out Ecto. It's a windows (or mac) blogging client. Somewhat nice actually.
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Can we edit things nicely? I think so.
\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: null\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:57 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Isn't blogging grand? I'm testing the Drivel client in MidnightBSD. This is using the new Blogger API on JJ.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 19 Dec 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:16 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Fixing Leopard permissions problems with ACLs\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 From Cyrus Shafai:?\par ?\par I have fixed the Leopard permissions problem for my iMac !! It is caused by the ACL permissions issue that a few people have mentioned, and it is an easy fix. It is not a solution, as the problem is caused by Leopard, but it appears easy to fix when it happens.?\par 1. What creates the problem??\par You can see it in action by creating a new user account (admin access), and create some dummy files in it. Try to change the names of these files, and no problem you can do so easily. Now go to up one directory level to your user folder, open a Get Info window on the new account you just made. You will see several users in the permission section, most likely "user", "staff", and "everyone".?\par ?\par Now use Get Info to apply a permission change to this new user account. For example, change the permission for "everyone" to Read Only. Then select "apply to enclosed items". Now go back to your home directory and try to change the file name of items in that account, and you will find you can't. Do a Get info on one of the files and in the permission section it says "You have custom access", instead of "You have read and write access". ?\par ?\par You can also easily create the problem from the Terminal window, instead of the Get Info window. For example, go to your users folder using the Terminal application, and type the following in the terminal window.?\par ?\par chmod -R =rw,+X username?\par ?\par This will force Leopard to set the read and write permissions to the usual default to your user folder and to all files/folders recursively (this is what the -R is for) in your user folder (the +X will retain any execute permissions that are currently set). After doing this you will again create the problem.?\par 2. What causes the problem??\par Run the Terminal application (you should be in your home directory) and type:?\par ?\par ls -le?\par ?\par This will list all your files and folders in your home directory, along with the ACL extensions to the file permissions. On my machine I get under each "permission affected" files or folders the following additional information.?\par ?\par 0: group:everyone deny delete?\par ?\par So this "everyone" person is not allowed to delete any files (or rename them). And this "everyone" person is a "group" that includes EVERYONE including the user as well. Thus, since "everyone" can't change files, neither can the user. This part is confusing at first to realize what is going on since in Unix terminology normally "everyone" only refers to the outside world, and not the user himself. I believe Apple tried to use the ACL extension to prevent certain files/folder that Leopard would not want the user to rename/delete (i.e. Pictures directory), but for some reason Leopard is applying this to all files, folder, and contents of folders.?\par 3. The solution the solution is simple. Remove this ACL condition for all files or folders in your home directory.?\par ?\par 3a. You typically can easily do this from the user folder level in Terminal, since the affected account also has the same ACL condition applied to it. Type ls -le to see if this condition is present for the affected user folder account itself. If it is, then all you have to do is type is:?\par ?\par chmod -R -a# 0 username?\par ?\par This will remove the ACL condition (numbered 0) from the user account folder, and all files or folders in it (the -R condition causes this recursive fix of all contents of all folders).?\par ?\par 3b. You may not be able to do this from the user folder level in Terminal if the user folder itself does not have this ACL condition. In this case, simply go to your home directory in Terminal, and fix to each file or folder within your home directory individually, and do this recursively to all contents of folders so you don't have to do it for the contents of the folders in your home directory. Type ls -le, and find which files/folders are affected, and for each affected file/folder type the following to remove their ACL condition:?\par ?\par chmod -R -a# 0 file_or_folder_name?\par ?\par After doing this, if you type " ls -le " in Terminal window you will see that the ACL condition is gone from every fixed file or folder. Also, if you do a Get Info in Finder on any fixed file/folder you will see in the permission section the phrase "You can read and write".?\par Should the permission problem be fixed this way by canceling the ACL conditions, I am not sure. But it is now fixed on my machine (not solved, but fixed) and I again have full access to all my files. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 22 Dec 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:28 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 KITT specs\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 The new Knight Rider car "specs" have been published.?\par http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4237588.html?\par ?\par It's an interesting read for KITT fans. I wish they still made Trans Ams. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:29 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Guitar Hero III\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been enjoying Guitar Hero III for the Wii. I figured I wouldn't like it much or suck at it. Quite the contrary. it's a great game. I'm at level 2 so far. Caryn likes it too. I'd recommend Wii fans get it as well as Dance, Dance Revolution. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:36 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 The end of the semester\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm waiting for one grade, (hurry up Steve :) but I got the others. ?\par ?\par I got a B in Computer Networks which was a little hardware, but mostly about how things work and coding network apps in C or Java. I was retaking the class from the spring semester. I got an E the first time and now a B. I'm quite happy! ?\par ?\par I didn't pass my stats class. That sucks. I got a C+ in writing for the professional world. That means I have two classes left in my writing minor. ?\par ?\par So, I have the following classes left to take:?\par 2 writing classes. (winter term)?\par 3 computer science classes (2 winter term)?\par 1 math class?\par ?\par Now to see what happens with my other english class.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Mellow\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: Peaches - Presidents of the United States of America\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 27 Dec 2007\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:02 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I went shopping yesterday. I found some new clothes at JC Penny. I also got a copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on DVD. Caryn's been using the Kindle a lot. I don't know when we'll be watching HP. ?\par ?\par I bought some new hard drives for stargazer today. It's now got two IDE Seagate drives acting in RAID1 for /home. It seems much faster now. I did some tweaks on the OS too. Very nice. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:04 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Last grade, Christmas Eve\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I got an A- in Technical Writing. I'm very happy with that grade. I've registered for four classes. I'm still toying with taking that other class Steve mentioned. I could fit it in, but I can't register for it without some hoops which I can't do until EMU is open again. I'll think about that some more.?\par ?\par Christmas Eve was something else. We went to my mom's this year at 1PM. Things went well for awhile. Caryn got ill and started turning green. She wasn't feeling well most of the night. I ended up using Dance, Dance Revolution with my mother which I bought her for Christmas for her new PS2. (she bought that herself) I did not see my father at all this year. That's a long story in itself. I may share another time. We went to my aunts next. Caryn got sick to her stomach and so we left after about two hours. I wasn't feeling smashing myself. We started home on US23 and found ourselves in a terrible traffic jam. Traffic was completely stopped for 20 minutes. A series of cars slid off the road. I got off at the first Ann Arbor exit I could once we got past the 14 and 23 section where the accident took place. I don't know that part of town well and got lost for awhile. All the time caryn was puking in a bag. That had to be the most unpleasant drive I've had ini some time. However, it was still an OK christmas because my father wasn't around to bring everyone down. It's hard to explain. ?\par ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 1 Jan 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:47 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Netscape is dead Jim\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/I guess the book of Mozilla was wrong :) Seriously, the browser practically died when Mozilla was founded. This is still a shame as I remember getting my first copy of Netscape years ago.\u160? I remember running 2.0 beta and using a 1.x release on another system.\u160? I still have a "Mozilla" mug with a Netscape logo on it.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 5 Jan 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:46 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Server fun\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I blogged about my fedex experience in the mbsd journal earlier. I managed to get the video card installed (they found it) and upgrade part of xorg, php, and perl modules. The updates on the server are about done. I think I even got the websites working :)?\par ?\par I just realized how behind we are and it's scary. At least the server isn't causing me to go deaf anymore. That bad fan on the video card was driving me nuts. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 6 Jan 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:35 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 The new semester begins\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Classes begin tomorrow. I'm a bit nervous as I tend to be every semester. Upon completion of this semester, I will be 2 classes away from my degree. I'm quite happy about that. It's a long time coming. I miss working. I will have more time for OSS projects once I'm out of school overall. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Okay\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 10 Jan 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:13 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 A review of Red Steel and that Looney Tones game for the Wii\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 My mother bought me two Wii games for Christmas.\u160? The first game is Red Steel.\u160? I've been wanting that game for some time.\u160? I played it for 30 minutes in the first pass.\u160? The movements are very precise with the wii mote and numbchuck.\u160? It's an interesting game, but very difficult.\u160? Also, the first level is gun based and I thought I'd be hacking people apart with a sword right away.\u160? The Looney Toons game hurt my wrists.\u160? It requires repetative motion to "kill" things.\u160? Bugs is ok to control aside from the attack moves.\u160? I became bored fairly quickly with that game, but I haven't tried the two player "brawl" mode.\u160? I suspect that might be fun.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 11 Jan 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:06 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 New York Times has Blue Ray story written by someone with a 20 year old 13 inch tv!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/hd-dvds-fall-like-dominoes/?ref=technologyHow can you take someone seriously who mentions a 20 year old 13 inch tv?\u160? I wanted to read a piece by someone who is not a techie.\u160? I am very curious what the public thinks about the format for the few who know about it.\u160? The author of the article did do some research.\u160? Download services were mentioned which many computer geeks have echoed.\u160? We don't have the bandwidth for it yet.\u160? I think we'll get at least one more disc format before the "end" of the media.\u160? We still need it for backups at this point.\u160? A flash drive is a terrible backup device.\u160? The author wrote a fairly good story, but clearly the ancient TV should not have been mentioned.\u160? It makes this person lose credibility.\u160? I still watch VHS movies in my home.\u160? I understand that people won't switch overnight.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 16 Jan 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:36 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 iCal Server on FreeBSD\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.royhooper.ca/blog/articles/2007/07/07/installing-the-darwin-calendar-server-on-freebsd?\par ?\par I'm amazed by this. Most of the dependancies are already in FreeBSD ports. It's not going to be feasable on MidnightBSD until zope works. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Okay\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:15 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Changes in Apache 2 vs 2.2 when using LDAP and Subversion\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.hostingforum.ca/921559-subversion-ldap-config-apache-2-vs-apache-2-2-a.html?\par ?\par WHy do they have to change things... ugh. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 17 Jan 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:57 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Microsoft did something right...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/17/1553206Amazing..and according to some blog info, it's under the BSD license!!!! WTG Microsoft.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 19 Jan 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:42 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Another cold day in Ann Arbor\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 It's a very cold day today. The roads are covered in snow. I'm already sick of winter and it's not close to over yet. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:23 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 JustJournal widget\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been working on the just journal widget for some time today. A user suggested some improvements in the widget. I'm working on it now to try to fix it. We'll see what happens.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:07 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Sony releases $199 Blueray drive!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Sony finally released a frickin blueray player for $199. Unfortunetley it's for the PC. In February, you can buy an internal SATA reader. I'm eyeing it very closely, but I don't have an HDCP display so the quality isn't going to be that good. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:40 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Testing the new JJ widget\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm testing the new Just Journal widget. It's rather nice looking compared to the old one. Slightly better error handling as well.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 21 Jan 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:21 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Microsoft VIrtual Server 2005 R2 SP1\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just installed MS Virtual Server. It seems to work quite well so far. I'm rather impressed. MidnightBSD 0.1.1 is running in a VM. I'm hoping to use that machine as an extra cluster node for building ports at some point. It's a pretty fast box and mostly idle. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 1 Feb 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:14 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7222114.stm?\par ?\par It's the end of the search as we know it... ?\par ?\par This would be terrible for the Internet. Google and Microsoft would not be competative. We'd end up with two big search engines + services. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 5 Feb 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:51 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Could I get any busier? Yes\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 On this super tuesday, I've had one hell of a day. I've been editing web pages for job #2, adding user accounts for job #1, trying to debug a strange windows problem on the server at job#1, editing word documents for Technical Editing, reviewing source code for a team project due at 1pm tomorrow, finishing homework for Li Zhang's class, doing laundry, helping andrew disable part of his script on the xserve, talking to triv about mports, and praying I get my journalism homework done tomorrow. I had one class meet today. I've been trying to follow the poll results. \par \par Needless to say, it's not a fun day. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 11 Feb 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:30 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 10.5.2 OS X update, MidngihtBSD uptime, ...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Apple released Mac OS 10.5.2 today. So far time machine seems to be much improved and the GUI is much more responsive. I'm quite impressed so far.\par \par I had to reboot a MidnightBSD machine (the build master) today to swap a video card. It had been up for 111 days. That is the longest uptime I'm aware of for MidnighBSD to date. \par \par I had to take an exam today in COSC422 which was rather weird. I'm not sure how I did. \par \par Apple has not yet released Apple TV 1.2. \par \par \par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 16 Feb 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:48 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Googling my name \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just googled my name and wow I came up everywhere. I think the first 10 hits are me. However, the first hit i found was disturbing that wasn't me.?\par ?\par http://books.google.com/books?id=DjlqULpdv3wC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=lucas+holt&source=web&ots=0RG9zvU4lD&sig=MZH4KZ93iYQm2qxid8GWIZDvAPU#PPA347,M1?\par ?\par Apparently, my name was used in a romance novel in the 80s. Bummer.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 17 Feb 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:00 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 I actually got out this weekend\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Caryn and I went downtown on Valentine's day and on Saturday. We ate at Seva's and Cottage Inn respectively. It was a nice change of pace. Yummy.\par \par We also went to the new Borders store. It has a decent selection of computer books compared to other stores in the area. I got a book on GTK programming, and Caryn bought books on MySQL Stored Procedures as well as a cookbook. \par \par I revised the code for my assignment today and did some other homework. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 21 Feb 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:36 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 When life gets in the way\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been quite busy lately working, going to school, and trying to balance many group projects. I had no idea this semester would be so busy at the start. In fact, I thought this would be an easy semester. I was wrong. ?\par ?\par Nearly every aspect of my life has gotten a 75% effort lately. As a perfectionist, I'm quite annoyed by this course of events. It's hard for me to let go of one project and jump to the next. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 26 Feb 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:42 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 this is a test\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:37 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm testing out the new just journal command line client for UNIX systems. It's actually a very compact program so far. I'm quite happy about that.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:42 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 For some odd reason, I'm watching Dragnet (the 80s movie). It's rather\par amusing.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 27 Feb 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:48 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Caryn and I had a nice meal earlier. It was nice to get out and relax after the the last few months. I had to do some work today, but it's not as bad as it could be.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 28 Feb 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:29 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Clinton supporters in Texas get some attention\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 One news outlet has run a story about the "controversy" surrounding Ann Richards what if support for Clinton.?\par ?\par http://www.kvue.com/video/index.html?nvid=222284?\par ?\par The original site is at:?\par http://www.standupforhillary.com/?\par ?\par This site is attempting to support Clinton in Texas.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 29 Feb 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:53 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Day 2: intel mac\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm still migrating from my PPC Mac to an intel model. It's been an interesting experience. I used a Time Machine backup to migrate data. It did not move data from the second drive I backup though. I've been copying 100GB of data over since yesterday. It's a very slow process. \par \par Mail.app still has some glitches, but the speed bump helped somewhat. I think Mail is the most resource intensive application on my system and I have photoshop installed! Many people would think that is crazy, but consider that it just "imported" 169,000 messages duirng the migration! I also have 3 accounts and until recently made use of hte RSS feature. I found it would lock up waiting on updates for that when I had to shut down so I stopped using it.\par \par Front Row is nice, but I think I'll like it better when I get iTunes setup. I have to deauth the mac before i can migrate to this machine. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:32 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Fuck\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Man enters ER after collapsing during heart stress test, fails to call family after recovery. ?\par ?\par Isn't that how a journalist might write this up? I don't know, but it's happening to me. My father is at McLaren in Flint after he collapsed during a stress test. He had a 99.9 percent blockage in one of his arteries. They had to use a heart stint, and I don't even know his room number right now. ?\par ?\par My grandmother had to call me after a brief call from him in the recovery room. My mother found out from his friend. I'm left with little information and a really shitty day. ?\par ?\par My mother believes he's angry with both of us and we should visit him since he's a heart patient; we might upset him. ?\par ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Irate\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 3 Mar 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:37 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm having trouble sleeping tonight. I normally have trouble on Sunday nights. It's not just the fact I'm heading back after a week vacation (ha!), but the events that have transpired over the weekend. ?\par ?\par Thursday, Chris met me to work on the build cluster for MidnightBSD. Caryn was playing WoW the whole time. I had this odd feeling all day, but I couldn't quite place it. My father was at the hospital, after collapsing during a test for his heart. ?\par ?\par Ila called me sometime Friday with the news. My father had surgery. I talked to him Friday night. He called me Saturday afternoon to let me know he had been released. ?\par ?\par At this point, the facts end. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 14 Mar 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:43 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Comparing GNU make to BSD make\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I found this interesting blog entry on the differences between the two make. (freebsd vs gnu)?\par ?\par http://www.wgdd.de/?p=28?\par ?\par This just hit me with a project I was writing for class on bsd and everyone else was on linux. ugh. I just went with gnu make.?\par ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 16 Mar 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:56 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 The wii does keyboards\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm writing this on my Nintendo Wii. While that might not be amazing, I just learned from opera.com that the Wii supports USB keyboards for Input on the Internet Channel. I've successfully connected an Apple keyboard to the back of my Wii. It's one of the white keyboards (previous generation). ?\par ?\par I'm also using an Apple keyboard extension cable with it.?\par ?\par This is great. So far, I haven't figured out how to hit OK as return just adds a newline in the box. Still, It's impressive.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 18 Mar 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:09 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Interesting forum on CVS\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=55659&highlight=cvs+pserver?\par ?\par This covers cvs pserver setup. Normally, it would be insane to setup pserver. However, ohloh only supports pserver cvs setups. ?\par ?\par I've setup a test pserver on one of my boxes to see how well it's going to work out. Down the road, it would make more sense to create a jail or setup a new box for this. EMU is out of the question since 2401 is blocked. (port for pserver)?\par ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:12 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 More on cvs pserver\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 One aspect I did not find useful was the vague info on the password file format for cvs.?\par ?\par CVSROOT/passwd should look like this?\par ?\par username:encryptedpass:unixusertoimpersonate?\par ?\par There is also a readers and writers file that control access to the repository. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:13 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Waking up is hard to do\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I had trouble getting to sleep last night. I went to bed around 2 a.m. and found myself up for a minute or two around 7 a.m., but fell back asleep. I woke up at 2:30 p.m. ?\par ?\par That's a lot of sleep. That means I missed both of my classes today. ?\par ?\par To top it all off, we didn't get into SoC. Google told me I have to have big corporate backers or be something they use to get in. I have neither. ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 19 Mar 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:18 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Too long without sleep\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 It's been almost 36 hours since I last slept. I still haven't dozed off yet. I think I can in a few minutes. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 26 Mar 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:30 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Ugh\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I have not been blogging much lately. It's difficult to find time and energy to do little things like blogging. ?\par ?\par At the moment, I'm taking a break from writing several journalism assignments that were due last week. I've got two of four done which is quite good. Kirk has been working in 311 the past few days. I chose to come home after my test in microprocessors and meeting afterward about our little AI robot. ?\par ?\par My group didn't do the worst this time and I think we owe that to Chris. He did well with the presentation. Next week, we must work on a shame/fame presentation for 30 minutes on Operating System GUIs. John is starting that project and I have to help in person on friday and online over the weekend. Byron and I have been working on flashback, our cross platform backup solution. Right now I've got the webserver working (mostly) and Byron has the scheduler and database code flushed out. The config class is causing the system to crash and it's clearly a pointer problem.?\par ?\par Tomorrow I have an assignment in English 427 due. It's an editing project with a website. I've had the website done for awhile, but I'm having problems printing it and will most likely have to photshop a few screen captures together to get it. I also need to write a letter to accompany it and have answers for the theme of my portfolio which I can't think about right now. ?\par ?\par Next week Li wants us to brainstorm on improving linux for the masses. I don't think he's going to like my answers to that. I don't think there are many technical hurdles to linux adoption, more political ones. Linux must be advertised as a desktop and there must be software for it that equates to existing software. Games, productivity, and creative software is severely lacking on linux. Open Office isn't quite there for some people. There is nothing like the adobe creative suite or even business apps like quick books. When WoW and ET:QW runs well let me know. ?\par ?\par I've been trying to pull together midnightbsd tasks this month too. We've got the build cluster running and several ports have been fixed. We've been near 2000 ports for some time now. The last run I saw had about 100 broken and a few hundred not tested due to broken depends. The OS itself is another problem entirely.?\par ?\par Users are starting to message me more frequently about JJ bugs and login problems. I got a very confusing email today. ?\par ?\par Kirk wants me to push the computer science department more in discussions about magus. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 28 Mar 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:30 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Visualizing RC script order\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I found this interesting blog entry on creating a graph of the rc script run order.?\par ?\par http://www.links.org/?p=310?\par ?\par Now, one can just run rcorder with the directory path to see the actual runtime used by the system, but the graph is still very neat. This should be usable on MidnightBSD as well as FreeBSD. Our order is a little different.?\par ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 30 Mar 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:18 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Top 10 Games of all time\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Here's a list of my favorite games ever. I don't know why I am doing this, but I am. ;)\par \par 1. Super Mario Bros. I have more time with mario than any other game in existence. When I got my first game console in 1988, this was the game I played over and over again. I bought it for my gba, snes (all stars) and even my wii.\par \par 2. Doom This has to be the best FPS ever! dmc.wad forever\par \par 3. Tie Fighter. I love this game. I had it for DOS and Mac OS! You do not know the power of the dark side!\par \par 4. Enemy Territory. It's time to save the world or conquer it. online multiplayer FPS and even free\par \par 5. Age of Empires II. I could play this for 6 hours at a time. \par \par 6. Street Fighter II . Knee High Kick!\par \par 7. Top Gear. One of the best racing games I've played. (SNES)\par \par 8. Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator. I've broken two joysticks on this game! \par \par 9. NBA Jam. Is it the shoes?\par \par 10. lakers vs celtics and the nba playoffs (EA , genesis)\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 2 Apr 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:32 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 What else\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 My father went to the hospital yesterday after experiencing another heart attack. The initial plan was to perform surgery yesterday, but due to his previous surgery near March 6, he was on plavix (sp?). This means they have to wait for that to clear the system which puts him at risk for clotting. He's in the hospital for at least 8 days. They plan to operate on Monday. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 15 Apr 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:17 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Rush Hour 3\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just got done watching Rush Hour 3.\u160? I really needed a good laugh after the shit I've dealt with lately.\u160? The movie ended very poorly, but most of it was pretty good.\u160? These movies never did have good endings.I spent most of the day on FlashBack.\u160? It's a backup program I'm writing with Byron and Chris for my Software Engineering course.\u160? I've been writing a webserver and interface for it to function.\u160? I had to avoid working on it due to my father's health problems.\u160? Now it's time to play catch up.\u160? I don't like that.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:20 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 My Father\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I haven't filled in what's going on with my dad.\u160? I don't want to go into everything in a blog, but he had surgery last Monday.\u160? It's been a rough go.\u160? I'm hoping to get back into things this week.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 17 Apr 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:14 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 flashback\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 My group members haven't been doing much with flashback. I find that quite annoying. I managed to get backup working tonight and add some bsd extensions. I'm very happy about that. I still need to comment it (a lot more) and finish the web interface.\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 18 Apr 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:32 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I keep telling myself just one more week and this semester ends.\u160? Let's hope it gets over quickly.\u160? I'm quite sick of this.\u160? I started working on import Bind 9.4.2 today and it's a mess right now.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 22 Apr 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:55 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 and so it begins\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Finals week starts now. I just completed my English Portfolio with the exception of the personal statement for the front. Tomorrow, like every day this week will be quite busy. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 26 Apr 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:53 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Grades\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm still waiting for grades from most of my professors, however I did get one. Surprisingly, I got an A in Microprocessors. The professor was quite generous. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:33 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 I just feel like blogging\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22Isn't this great! I'm playing with Microsoft's Windows Live Writer.
\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 29 Apr 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:08 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Sun doesn't get it\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just got this e-mail about project glassfish. It asked the question, "What is project glassfish for you?" ?\par ?\par It's something that doesn't run on my operating system. ?\par ?\par With Sun, everything is going open source, but they don't take patches upstream from other operating system vendors. Sure I can see the code, but I can't actually use it on anything but Linux or Solaris. What is the point? \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:11 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Grades so far\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I got an A in Intro to Microprocessors and a B+ in Software Engineering.?\par ?\par I'm taking stats 360 in the spring. For Fall, I'm taking COSC314 (discrete 2), as well as, geography, philosophy, and history courses. I'll drop philosophy if I can get into computer documentation. Still waiting on that. ?\par ?\par I only need two of those courses, but I might as well go full time in the fall.?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 30 Apr 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:47 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Close but not there yet\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Another professor has finally put my grade up. I got a C in journalism. I can live with that considering I missed 150 points due to my dad's hospital stay. I just needed a C for my minor.\par (writing)\par \par Now if nancy will just post my techincal editing grade!\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 1 May 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:02 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 It's May\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 My grades turned out ok. I got a B+ in Technical Editing which I feel is more than fair. That gives me the following grades: A B+ B+ C ?\par ?\par I think that's decent! \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Okay\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:48 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Evening\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Caryn and I went out to eat tonight. It was nice to get out. I went to starbucks earlier, but it wasn't a lot of time. ?\par ?\par Sitting around the house is rough sometimes. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Okay\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: R.E.M. - The One I Love\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:16 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 OpenBSD has JDK 1.7\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/devel/jdk/1.7/?\par ?\par http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=120595000425284&w=2?\par ?\par http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080321023803?\par ?\par I'm impressed. It's GPL clean too. They have packages! \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:30 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Pidgin fork\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm still a bit surprised by the pidgin fork. The reason seems stupid, but I don't like the resizing box either. I've had some weird compile issues with the latest version too. SSL doesn't work right. ?\par ?\par http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/1822237?\par ?\par http://www.pidgin.im/ \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Okay\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:16 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 pidgin fork\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm still a bit surprised by the pidgin fork. The reason seems stupid, but I don't like the resizing box either. I've had some weird compile issues with the latest version too. SSL doesn't work right. ?\par ?\par http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/1822237?\par ?\par http://www.pidgin.im/ \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:35 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Build cluster\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Chris and I went to EMU to work on the build cluster. We didn't get any new nodes up just yet, but we're close. Several are about half done. We were kicked out before we got a chance. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 4 May 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:25 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 oh that sucks\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm just shy of a 3.0 right now. 2.97.... I really hate that!\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:10 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Visited my mother\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Caryn and I went to visit my mother today in Grand Blanc. It went pretty well. I didn't get her setup on that other computer completely because she lacked some parts. Maybe another time. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 5 May 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:51 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Early!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 It's too early. I've been up since 1:30 a.m. I really can't stand these nights I can't sleep. I went to bed at like 9:30 p.m. to avoid this sort of problem. I'm sure it's just the new semester starting.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 6 May 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:17 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 HP Upline\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 HP has a new backup product called upline. It's a web and application based backup solution for Windows based PCs. ?\par ?\par I decided to give it a try. I love .Mac and saw this as a backup solution for my Windows box in which I lost homework and itunes content on last year. ?\par ?\par The website is great. However, I'm not impressed with the windows client. It's a bit ugly, and suffers from one flaw. Users must pick what file types they want to backup. it shows folders it's scanning, but it doesn't backup the whole folder. I don't like this. My information is all stored in my profile in windows and I want a full backup of that folder. I don't know if this was a way to minimize disk space usage on their part or concerns of liability. Either way, I don't like it. ?\par ?\par This product would have saved my music and word documents that were lost in my vista crash. I'm going to give it a little more time and see what they do with it.?\par ?\par There is a free trial for one year with 1GB of storage and the plans are reasonable with unlimited storage. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Okay\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:51 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Tag clouds\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm working on adding a tag cloud to Just Journal. I haven't really thought about it much, but there is a bit to it. You need to have frequency counts for tags and their names. ?\par ?\par That can be found with this query:?\par ?\par SELECT tags.name, count(entry_tags.tagid) as num from entry_tags, tags WHERE entry_tags.tagid = tags.id GROUP BY name;?\par ?\par That will sort by the name, and give counts. ?\par ?\par midnightbsd 2?\par justjournal 2?\par ?\par etc...?\par ?\par Then you need to find the min and max values for the frequency. Also, you need to choose how many different levels you want for presentation. Do you want 3 font sizes? use max - min / 3 to find the points where you want to change the font size. ?\par ?\par The database schema is broken up into two tables with 2 fields each (in use). ?\par ?\par tag id and tag name in the tags table. entry_tags associates a tag with a blog entry. You have an entryid and a tagid. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 13 May 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:42 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Had it with spam\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 :0?\par * ^Subject:.Photoshop\u124?MsOffice\u124?photoshop\u124?viagra\u124?Viagra\u124?OEM\u124?0EM$?\par \u124? /dev/null?\par ?\par ?\par This will block mail with the following subjects. Anyone who knows me will avoid these! As my spam load increases, I have to do dumb things to avoid looking at it! /dev/null can enjoy it. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:55 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Bill O'Reilly Flips out\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 22 May 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:27 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 386BSD and BSD 4.4 Lite ISOs\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I found this site in germany with both 386BSD and BSD 4.4 Lite ISOs.?\par ?\par http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/historic/?\par ?\par Kind of interesting historic perspective. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:28 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Kitty\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Caryn and I saw an adorable cat at the petsmart. He's (?) 10 years old, black with short fur, and seems very friendly. We thought about adopting him, but we've already got three cats so a forth is questionable. I just feel sorry for that cat. His owners kicked him out because they had a baby! \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:30 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I can tell I'm grumpy again. I got angry with someone today because they hadn't been listening to me for some time about a permissions issue with their server. Normally it wouldn't phase me, but I can tell I'm short. I'm a bit tense right due to this math course. Not only do I need it to graduate in December, but it's a subject I'm not into. Most people consider it a hard class anyway and then compound it with my attitude about math and it's a nightmare. ?\par ?\par The odd thing is that I got a perfect on the first quiz which never happens to me. Tonight I've been doing a few problems to help study for a quiz tomorrow. I got one problem wrong because I thought there was more to it than there was. The rest I've gotten right after I brushed up on integration. I should probably figure out how my calculator does integration so i can check answers on that. Half the notes I prepared for tomorrow are actually for integration issues and a brief overview of the properties for each case. (discrete versus continuous) I had to dig out my old calc book tonight and review. It's been > 5 years since I had to do calc. ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 24 May 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:19 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull (Indy 4)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Spoiler alert!Caryn and I went to see this movie yesterday evening. I had high hopes for the forth indy installment. I will start with the few good points. The side plot with his kid and marrian getting together worked out well. Most of the supporting cast from other movies is gone. Indy has new friends at the university and in his other work. Now the bad. Interdimensional beings! I shit you not. They're not even aliens. I could have dealt with aliens. The other odd thing is that the communists are in the US or south america the whole time. Not even one shot of someone in the USSR. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 27 May 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:56 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://vuksan.com/linux/LDAP_authentication_under_Linux.html?\par ?\par http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080426172301710?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:41 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Adding Open Directory users in OS X\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 #!/bin/sh?\par ?\par # example ?\par # 20 = staff group?\par # 7001 = available uid we know about?\par # adduser laffer1 7001 20 LucasHolt pass22 /Users/laffer1 ?\par ?\par user=$1?\par uid=$2?\par gid=$3?\par longname=$4?\par password=$5?\par homedir=$6?\par ?\par dscl localhost << EOF?\par cd /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1/Users?\par auth diradmin diradmin's_password_here?\par create $user?\par create $user UserShell /bin/bash?\par create $user UniqueID $uid?\par create $user PrimaryGroupID $gid?\par create $user RealName $longname?\par create $user NFSHomeDirectory $homedir?\par passwd $user $password?\par quit?\par EOF \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 28 May 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:24 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 iDisappoint\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Apple released an update for leopard 10.5.3. This update addresses several issues with Leoaprd,, but is not the big fix everyone had been hoping for. \par \par Aside from the spaces issues, I don't think many of them will even effect my day to day use of my computer. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:56 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Unlimited\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm rather sick of companies using the word unlimited to sell services. Clearly, they do not mean unlimited. It is common practice for Internet access and cell phone plans. ?\par ?\par During a discussion today, we talked about what unlimited means. I decided to look it up in the dictionary. ?\par ?\par unlimited:?\par ?\par not limited or restricted in terms of number, quantity or extent ?\par (mac os x dictionary which uses OED as a source)?\par ?\par So clearly, unlimited means no limits, yet there are limits on service. I wish someone would file a lawsuit for false advertising.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 3 Jun 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:45 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Flip fired\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://msn.foxsports.com/other/wcStory?contentId=8118850#story=8205096?\par I don't get this.\u160? He got them very far each year and they fire him?\u160? Maybe the players can't handle the finals.\u160? Maybe other teams were better.\u160? \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 7 Jun 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:21 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Bull Shit\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9094118&source=rss_news10?\par ?\par "The Senate legislation, unveiled today by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), would allow foreign national graduates of U.S. universities to receive green cards, or permanent resident status, as long as they have a job offer."?\par ?\par Boxer and Gregg don't care about american computer scientists. There are qualified people in the united states. Google wants cheap labor. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 7:45 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Caryn and I went out to lunch at seva's today. Gotta love that place. I'm working on a big problem with my new backup server os setup.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 9 Jun 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 8:59 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Leopard + LDAP\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been trying to figure out how to map novell edir to os x in leopard. Our solution for 10.4 does not work. I was pointed at this:?\par ?\par http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7321642?\par ?\par So far, it saw the UUID = uid 500 for one time and then on reboot mapped to nobody! This is on 10.5.3. I'm not happy \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 11 Jun 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:15 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Like your PC or Mac: not for long\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/11/0213244&from=rssThis bill allows anyone to lose their computer.\u160? How?\u160? It makes copyright infringement a crime.\u160? If you have copyrighted works on your system, you are screwed.\u160? That doesn't just mean a MP3 file from your buddy or a less than legal copy of some software, it means anything in the cache of your browser from a website.\u160? You go to a website and you can break the law!\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:08 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 test\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 test\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 15 Jun 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:39 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 New Jewel video\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Jewel's second video from the new album is out... it's I Do.\par \par I just the album today.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 17 Jun 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:02 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Only two classes left and the semester is over. I couldn't be happier about that. No class on Thursday. I've got to write some scripts for work. Having trouble deciding on a language to use for the mac side. I could use php, perl or C to access mysql. I'm leaning toward php as I'm more familiar with it than perl.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:16 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm writing this on an experimental client for jj. Let's hope for the best.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 23 Jun 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:24 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 George Carlin\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 28 Jun 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:31 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Grades\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I received a B- in statistics 360. Anyone who's familiar with my luck in math courses, will appreciate how difficult that was for me to achieve. Some would call that a miracle. It was not my first attempt at this course either. It brought my cumulative GPA from 2.97 to 3.14. (Pi lol) ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 1 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:20 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Larry King Live interview with Chevron head\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Last night, I caught Larry King Live on CNN. The topic was high oil prices . He interviewed the CEO of Chevron, as well as several others. There were several points of interest in this show.?\par ?\par 1. The raw crude price is around $3.30 before refined or shipped to gas stations.?\par ?\par 2. Price variations in the US are largely due to taxes in different states. ?\par ?\par 3. Gas is sold to stations at around $4 right now. The remaining cost is taxes, etc.?\par ?\par 4. It would take many years to extract oil if we started drilling in the north pole or offshore leases. It may benefit us in the future, but unlikely to help with our current price points.?\par ?\par 5. He encouraged the use of alternate energy sources, but thinks that we'll be dependant on fossil fuels for most of my lifetime. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 8 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:50 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 SSH VPN: Connecting two BSD boxes together\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been working on getting into the office network at home. I have ssh access to one machine, a FreeBSD based server. The other end is a MidnightBSD desktop at home. ?\par ?\par I found this tutorial: ?\par http://tengu.us/vpn-ppp-ssh/vpn-ppp-ssh.html?\par ?\par It's quite nice. I decided to log my setup so far in my blog. You never know when another site like that will go down and there are a few ambiguities with the directions there.?\par ?\par Client setup: ?\par ?\par Add this to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf?\par ?\par work-vpn:?\par \tab set escape 0xff?\par \tab \tab # using ssh port-forwarding to connect?\par \tab set device localhost:6669/tcp?\par \tab set dial?\par \tab set timeout 600?\par \tab set log Phase Chat Connect hdlc LCP IPCP IPV6CP tun?\par \tab \tab # specify ip addrs for both ends.?\par \tab set ifaddr 10.8.0.1 192.168.0.1?\par ?\par ?\par Now the first address is "made up" for my local machine and the second is a "made up" ip for the tun interface on the other end "server". ?\par ?\par Also create a file /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup?\par in it, put this:?\par ?\par work-vpn: ?\par add 192.168.0.0/24 HISADDR?\par ?\par Now the client is ready. You will need to setup a ssh tunnel between the client and server.?\par ?\par ssh -L 6669:localhost:6669 youruser@yourservermachine.whatever?\par ?\par The next step is setting up the server system. You'll need root to do this. ?\par ?\par First, configure /etc/services?\par ?\par ppp-in 6669/tcp # Incoming PPP connections over TCP (ppp-vpn)?\par ?\par Next, /etc/inetd.conf?\par ppp-in stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/ppp ppp -direct ppp-in?\par ?\par make sure inetd is running and send HUP if you need to?\par ?\par /etc/ppp/ppp.conf?\par ?\par ppp-in:?\par \tab set timeout 0?\par \tab set ifaddr 192.168.0.1 10.8.0.1?\par ?\par ?\par /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup:?\par ppp-in:?\par \tab \tab # route traffic to home lan thru the connection.?\par add 192.168.2.0/24 HISADDR?\par ?\par start ssh tunnel as described above and then ppp on the client?\par sudo ppp -background work-vpn?\par ?\par verify it's up:?\par sudo tail -f /var/log/ppp.log?\par ping 192.168.0.1?\par ?\par This will get you in, but you'll still need to setup nat on the server using natd + ipfw or some other solution. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 10 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:19 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Apple TV Security Vulnerability\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Even my Apple TV had a bad day. It sounds like Apple is catching up the apple tv on quicktime updates.?\par ?\par http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2304?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:00 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Pizza Dude's got 30 seconds\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I ordered a pizza today for lunch. I haven't bought a Jet's Pizza in months. The guy was very busy and cut me off during my order. Then, the pizza wasn't even started when I got there! They told me after I paid of course. They did throw in a free coke, but I wasn't very happy about the wait time. ?\par ?\par The pizza was good at least. ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sat, 12 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:34 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Only apple would have a vulnerability in .funhouse files!\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 This is from a recent security advisory:?\par CoreImage Examples?\par CVE-ID: \u160?CVE-2008-2304?\par Available for: \u160?Mac OS X v10.5.x?\par Impact: \u160?Opening a Fun House document may lead to an unexpected\u160?application termination or arbitrary code execution?\par Description: \u160?Xcode tools contain an example application called Core\u160?Image Fun House that handles content with the ".funhouse" extension.?\par A buffer overflow may occur in this application when processing\u160?".funhouse" files. Opening a maliciously-crafted ".funhouse" file may\u160?lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code\u160?execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds\u160?checking. Credit to Kevin Finisterre of Netragard for reporting this\u160?issue.?\par \u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:43 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Cell phones suck\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been looking at cell phone plans. They all suck. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 16 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:10 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 CPU usage on Windows XP with video\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I did an experiment while streaming video on netflix.\u160? I set iexplore to use processor affinity + above normal priority.\u160? The result was a 10% cpu usage drop at first, and periods at 10%.\u160? Prior to that it was constant 60%.\u160? ?\par It's interesting the performance difference.\u160? I wonder if it's cpu cache or changes in the scheduling.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 7:24 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Google bug shows gmail users real names\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Google is leaking the names of users of their popular GMAIL service.\u160? \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 17 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:00 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Saving energy on your PC\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been more energy concious lately.\u160? My home PC has an Intel Core 2 Duo 6420 which supports intel enhanced speedstep technology.\u160? This means that the CPU can slow down when it's not being used to save power.\u160? ?\par Laptop processors have supported this feature for years, but it's starting to crop up on many desktop systems as well.\u160? If your computer was built in the last two to three years, it may have this feature.\u160? It is not found on lowend processors like the celerons or slower Pentium D chips.\u160? You can confirm the features of your processor at Intel.com.\u160? AMD has a similar feature called PowerNow on their chips.?\par I found that Windows XP SP2 and higher support this feature, but have it turned off.\u160? Vista is much more friendly in this regard.\u160? If you have Windows XP SP2 or SP3 installed, you can turn on this feature by doing the following.\u160? Go into Power Options in Control Panel.\u160? Select Minimal Power Management.\u160?\u160??\par To verify that your computer is using this setting, make sure no programs are busy running.\u160? (CPU utilization should be zero)\u160? Now, go into Control Panel, System, and view the CPU speed.\u160? You should see two speeds if it's working.\u160? The first is the maximum speed while the second is the effective speed.\u160? ?\par My system seems to be running at about 1.6Ghz now while idle.\u160? In MidnightBSD, it tends to run much lower than that with cpufreq + powerd enabled.\u160? Now, my system can benefit a little in Windows like it does in BSD.\u160? ?\par Anyone that uses a laptop can tell you the difference between the system when plugged in or running on battery.\u160? One of the common savings is slowing down the processor.\u160? This does something similar, but speeds it up if you do something intensive like playing a game or compiling a program.\u160? ?\par Every little bit helps.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 22 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:49 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Accidently in Love cover\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:51 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 The Dark Night\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I went to see the Dark Night this weekend with Caryn.\u160? The movie is excellent, but not for a young audience.\u160? It is a rather scary film; it is not gory, but just psychotic.\u160? ?\par Anyone who hasn't seen this movie, better get to a theater.\u160? The IMAX version is awesome.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:53 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 The Rockford Files\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I know this is strange, but I've been watching the Rockford Files on Netflix for a few weeks.\u160? They've got all six seasons of the show, minus two episodes from one season.\u160? I've got two episodes left to watch.\u160? Starting with season four, the show went downhill.\u160? Still, there are several good episodes.\u160?\u160? Season six features an episode with Tom Sellek and Larry Maneti prior to their work on Magnum, P.I.\u160? ?\par The scary part is that my father tried to dress like that in the 70s. \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 23 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:53 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 My sleeping habits have been strange lately. \u160?I seem to be sleeping during the day and up at night. Caryn described this as my summer schedule. \u160?I certainly hope not.?\par I watched Short Circuit via Netflix tonight. \u160?I haven't seen that movie in years. \u160?More Input!?\par I'm still trying to figure out an issue with one of my machines where two processes are crashing a lot. \u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:22 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Kwame gets romantic with several women?\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 CNN is reporting that Detroit Mayer Kwame K. was texting several women with "romantic intent."\u160? He's been charged with purgery and misconduct in office.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:32 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 This is just sickening.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 24 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:26 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Mac OS X nfsd sucks\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Yet again, nfsd refuses to work properly on OS X server. \u160?I'm getting sick of this on and off bullshit. \u160?The exports file has not been modified. \u160?The server was rebooted after a security update and now nothing will mount via the xserve raid partition.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:55 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Using Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) over SSH\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 \u160?I had a problem with a server at work recently. \u160?I used to use a hint from the macosxhints site to reverse ssh into my home mac. \u160?However, I can't do that anymore because my mac is behind NAT. \u160?What I needed was a way to connect to the mac at work which was behind a firewall (but not nat). \u160?I had another machine running FreeBSD with SSH open. \u160??\par Solution:?\par Connect to machine one?\par ?\par ssh -C -4 -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5900 remotehostyouwant Connect to work mac: ssh -C -4 -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 macatwork ?\par ?\par \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Nerdy\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 25 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 4:32 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Using webkit with MidnightBSD\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been experimenting with different frontends for Webkit.\u160? Midori is a work in progress and found to be very limiting.\u160? You can't download files yet.\u160? Today, I started experimenting with Epiphany built on Webkit.\u160? It is very promising.\u160? It passes acid2 and most of acid3.\u160? Newer versions supposedly pass acid3.\u160? ?\par However, it dies creating blog entries on just journal.\u160? I'll have to try a newer version of Webkit. It's still fun to play with as most sites render better thant they do with Konquerer.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 27 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:13 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I just read a strange slashdot article about Comcast responding to blog entries.\u160? Apparently, Comcast is hoping that this will help their image with customers.\u160? ?\par We've had better experiences with Comcast than some, but I long for the days of Charter Internet access.\u160? One upside is that Comcast offers business packages in residential areas (within reason).\u160? I suspect that's why I've had better luck with them.?\par I've noticed shaping with Bit Torrent traffic like others and with video streaming.\u160? The latter pisses me off as I've got a Netflix account that I like to use for streaming.\u160? I'd like the terms clearly identified and a way to cap yourself and or do QoS yourself.\u160? Actually, I've wanted a good QoS system for home for years.\u160? My switch priorities traffic from certain systems, but I'm unable to do protocol prioritizing.\u160? Since we have a comcast router, I can't do much on that front.\u160? My old charter setup used a freebsd box as a router and then used ipfw pipes to dedicate bandwidth for VOIP and other traffic.\u160? It wasn't perfect, but not to bad.\u160? ?\par \u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 29 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:45 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Google engineers start new search engine\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 \u160?WSJ article?\par Google finally has some new competition. \u160?I predict that they will end up like Yahoo down the road. \u160?It might not be this engine, but someone will de-thrown them from search.?\par cuil.com\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Home\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Hopeful\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 7:05 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Safari doesn't let you change the default search?\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 \u160?I've been using Google for several years. \u160?I'm thinking about trying some alternate search engines. \u160?I just realized you can't easily change the default search in safari like you can in Firefox and even IE. \u160??\par Apple doesn't seem to have a preference for it and cuil's FAQ incorrectly suggests there is a setting. \u160?I can't find it. \u160?A search on cuil returned one useful hit, but the site was pulled down. \u160?They also don't seem to cache pages like Google. \u160?I decided to use Google to look for an answer. \u160?There are two options.?\par ?\par Use\u160?http://www.inquisitorx.com/\u160?to configure your search. \u160?I don't know if they log searches or use any form of spyware. \u160?They probably don't, but I consider search very important and don't want to trust this.?\par Some people have reported success hex editing safari. \u160?I could do this, but I don't know what would happen when software update tries to push/install a new version. \u160?Best case, I'd have to do this every time Safari gets a security update.?\par ?\par Oddly enough, it's easier to change on the iPhone where apple could lock users in. \u160?I may stick with Google, but now I feel like I'm forced to. \u160?It's sad as I like Safari in my any other ways and have even been using WebKit in BSD for browsing.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 7:19 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 IRC stats\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 \u160?I found a website that tracks users and topics of IRC chat rooms.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 7:31 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Silverlight streaming\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 \u160?Microsoft is offering a free service to stream video via Silverlight with ad insertion. \u160?I think that might be a nice service for sites to add streaming content. \u160?The only problem is that you need Microsoft Expressions software to actually create the content. \u160?If I've got to buy software, I might as well go with Flash which is supported on more platforms. \u160?There are also a few programs that can create Flash content in the open source world. \u160?Microsoft needs to get Silverlight support finished on Linux/BSD. \u160?Novell is working on this for Mono.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:36 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I'm experimenting with some new blogging features on just journal. \u160?We'll see how it goes.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:36 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Testing mobile login\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 hello nurse.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 30 Jul 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 5:18 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Shia not at fault\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 While it's interesting he wasn't at fault, the report still said he was driving while intoxicated. How many close calls will this guy have before he chills on the drinking.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:44 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 What republicans and democrats love\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Closing businesses. \u160?The republican party pushed for war which spurred increases in oil prices. \u160?The democrats love the high oil because they can push their environmental policies that part of the party loves. The net result is an even worse economy as more americans lose their jobs. \u160?With so many positions outsourced overseas, and higher competition in many sectors, retail and service industry jobs is all we have left. \u160?Now those are going bankrupt. \u160?Way to go. I feel change?\par \u160??\par \u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 9:12 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Hacker loses extradition appeal\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 The UK cracker is getting tried in the US after all. \u160?I can see why he didn't want to come here and I don't know the evidence against him. \u160?If he's guilty, he deserves this. \u160?\u160??\par Remember media.. it's cracker, not hacker. \u160?Learn the difference.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:59 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Sir Bill\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 Bill Gates has been Knighted.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 1 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:50 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 The end of VCR recording\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 For many years, media companies have been pushing for Digital Rights Management (DRM) in consumer products. \u160?Devices like Microsoft's Zune or Apple's iPod limit the uses of purchased content. \u160??\par With the upcoming transition to digital television (DTV), consumers will need to get cable tv, purchase a converter box, or buy a new television set with integrated tuner. \u160?However, some people like me still have their VCRs hooked up. \u160?You can play videos, but what about recording? \u160?Analog recording of television is something we've enjoyed for over twenty years. \u160?The new DTV standard will kill those devices. \u160?It's possible that a digital converter box would allow you to record a down sampled version of the signal over the air, but for people like me who bought a new tv, it spells the end of a era. \u160??\par Some people use set top boxes such as the tivo to record television. \u160?They have newer products with DTV support. \u160?However, without using some hacks most of those devices do not allow you to keep recordings forever.?\par Unless the general public wakes up, DRM is here to stay.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 4 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:20 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Mozilla CEO's big business\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 55 Million and growing... \par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 6 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:05 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 like old guy for president\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 7 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:42 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 \u160?Justice is sweet. A certain mayor is going to jail. \u160?At least some people aren't above the law.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:46 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 McCain's own mother thinks the original Paris Hilton attack ad is stupid\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Fri, 8 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:30 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 The problem with Twitter\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I've been playing with Twitter for awhile. \u160?Considering how simple the app is, it's very cumbersome to add friends. \u160?If you don't use hotmail, gmail, or yahoo, you can't add friends. \u160?Who thought of that? \u160?Not everyone uses those services and if they do it may not be their main email account. \u160?I know a lot of my relatives use their ISP accounts. \u160?\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Sun, 10 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 11:59 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 It's a nice day today. \u160?The sun is coming out from the clouds, it's in the 60s, and I have nothing to do today.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher\f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 2:19 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 What do alleged female rapists and cloned puppies have in common?\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 answer\u160? ?\par More on CNN.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 11 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 3:49 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 24 if it took place in 1994... you got mail\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Tue, 12 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 6:43 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Air purifiers dangerous?\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 \u160?Caryn and I bought an air purifier last year. \u160?It has an ionizer that we rarely use, and a permanent filter. \u160?I happened to see some posts on amazon.com talking about the dangers of ionizers, further calling them ozone generators.?\par I did some research.?\par Some ionizers are ozone generators. \u160?Proponents of ozone generators say they kill bacteria, can clean the air. \u160?This is false. \u160?Ozone is toxic at high levels and can do very little at low levels with the air. \u160?Further, it can negatively interact with some chemicals and cause problems with rubber. \u160?High levels of ozone can cause problems with breathing, asthma, etc. \u160?All ionizers have a small amount of ozone byproduct. Small levels are not dangerous and allowed by the EPA guidelines. \u160?It is still not helping your air though.?\par The EPA recommends using HEPA filters and improving ventilation to keep the air fresh. \u160??\par More info against ozone: \u160?(biased some as they are selling products)?\par negative ion generators?\par air testers?\par After reading this information, I think I'll avoid the ionizer and look into a hepa filter for my other bedroom.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 13 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:15 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Fire at apple\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 One of the buildings at Apple HQ had a fire recently.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Thu, 14 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:07 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Lower standard of living\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 MSNBC has an article about the lower standard of living everyone is facing as a result of inflation. Duh. \u160??\par It's interesting that the brought up people in the 70s wanted wage increases. \u160?I've been saying that for awhile, but most people still think it will get better for some reason. \u160?I don't see how. \u160?It's not like oil companies want prices too low. \u160?Car companies in the US do. \u160?GM was making a fortune selling SUVs. \u160??\par Of course the problem with raising wages is that prices sometimes go up for that reason. \u160?We run a risk of that. \u160?However, I think people need to be able to pay their bills and buy gas and food. \u160?Right now, that is so difficult for some that they can't buy anything else.\u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:13 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Spies?\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 \u160?MSNBC has another article about the US spying network from the WWII era. \u160?I never realized how many spies we had back them. \u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 12:15 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Why are you always preparing?\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 \u160?Just go.\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:24 PM\par\f0 \par \f0 Reporter shot in Georgia (country), keeps reporting...\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Mon, 18 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 10:55 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 (no subject)\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I spent \u160?a good part of yesterday watching TNG season 3. \u160?Part of the time I even worked on MidnightBSD. \u160?Go figure. \u160??\par I'm hoping to get abiword working again. \u160?That port seems screwed up and it's probably one of the most useful remaining we can fix before the release. There is a newer version I'm going to try to update to. \u160?Our port is very old \u160?\par\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs16 Security: Public\par\f1\fs16 Location: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Mood: Not Specified\f0 \par \f1\fs16 Music: \f0 \par \f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs28 Wed, 20 Aug 2008\par\pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f2\fs24 1:16 AM\par\f0 \par \f0 Help me decide\f0 \par \pard\plain\s0\fi0\li0\ri0\plain\f3\fs22 I now have 3 different splash screens on foolishgames.com. \u160?They rotate "randomly". \u160?Tell me which one you like the best.?\par 1. The old one?\par 2. A flower?\par 3. Similar to the old one but "full screen"?\par If you're wondering how i made them random...?\par \u160??\par #include