February 2004

‘Lude Lookin’ Good

Saturday I decided that since it was nice, why not wash the car. I didn’t want to just wash it though, I wanted to give it the full fred treatment. Since I got my car so many years ago I’ve been acculating a collection of car cleaning products, including mothers products, armor all, rim cleaner, […]

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If Derek Was President

Derek has a couple of good ideas on what to do if he were president. I’m sure I could add a couple of things… how about a ban on excessive DVD and CD packaging for one? Ever buy a new DVD and have to get through the three of four different levels of wrappers they

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The Agony and the Irony

I know it’s comparing apples to oranges, but I came across a couple of interesting things in the paper at lunch today that sort of conflicted with each other. The first was reader responses to what sounded like your standard “violent video games make people go out and kill people” bullshit article. I really don’t

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Addendum to AV Letter

A couple of additions to Mike Dimmick’s letter to Microsoft on anti-virus software and how not everyone needs it. Don’t use Internet Explorer Don’t use Outlook Express This seems to connect well with his other points. OE happily lets you run executable attachments, or runs them for you, and many (most) security patches I see

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Gym Blah

The gym today was blah. You know that feeling you get after a good workout, a really good workout, where you’re just on the verge of puking and your body is just screaming at you to sit your ass down and not move anymore? I kinda felt like that from the start of the workout.

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Network Monitoring with NLoad

Played around a bit today with nload, a text load meter for unix systems. As you can see above, it’s pretty nifty. Can you guess when I started a big data transfer? I bet you can. I’d also like to note that either my samba setup needs some serious tweaking, or SMB just sucks compared

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