For some reason tonight Rex is the happiest cat in the world. Lying next to me, purring, grabbing my hand and demanding to lick it, to lick my nose, to be petted, flopping down beside me (on the keyboard), purring, purring purring, playing with Patches (new kitten), making odd happy (I’m guessing) mewing noises…. We […]
Rex is a Happy Cat Read Post »
Wow, today freaked me right out. Towards the end of the day I did a random run of UFies with chkrootkit, a program to check for rootkits, the Unix version of trojans or viruses (kinda, sorta, not really but a good enough explanation). To my horror I got back “5 processes hidden, possible LKM trojan”.
Debian Unstable, chkrootkit and Heart Attaks Read Post »
I’m not so sure this morning that I like this overly happy cat. He woke me up at 5:30 or 6:00 (much earlier than the 7am I get up, especially when I was up till almost 1) demanding attention. Not for food or water, but just to sit on me, or lie beside me and
I’ve bitched about VBScript more than once, but I don’t think I mentioned this little gem. Apparently when it evaluates an expression it evaluates it completely, regardless of if it needs to be. For example, in Perl I can do this: if( $foo and $foo->func() = 42 ) { … } Which says to see
VBScript and Expression Processing Read Post »
My latest MS piss off is this. I’m using Frontpage from the latest version of Microsoft Office for my work on the VB/ASP project. It’s actually quite nice in some ways. The biggest one is that when you save a file, the page doesn’t jump around randomly leaving the page positioned with the line your
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Finally, after much waiting, the alleged Powerbooks arrived today. I’m typing in mine as we speak. Much more has happened over the last while too, which I’ll update soon, but there is still work to be done before the end of the night. I had a great birthday as well. Went over to my parents
Finally It Is Mine, What a Wonderful Birthday Read Post »
Just a shout out as a happy birthday to Keth. I’m a day late because I’m a horrible, horrible man. Shower her with good wishes.
Happy Birthday Keth Read Post »
Why can’t Windows kill an application when I tell it too? I have a bug right now that makes the Palm Desktop start allocating memory like nuts until I kill it. The above screenshot is after the app (or dumprep.exe, which could be at fault as well) finally was killed. Thing is, I killed it
Another Windows Complaint Read Post »
As bad and horrible as I think that Microsoft is, they have gotten better in the last few years. I just had my first experience with Windows 95 in a while…. about 6 or 7 years I wager, and I know why it was made fun of mercilessly. The XP computer I set up for
Windows ’95 Horror Read Post »
Slashdot.org pointed to the start of some security FUD about Linux. Basically their next big PR campaign will be against Linux and how it’s not as secure as everyone thinks. Uh–huh. From the slashdot story it sounds like they are predicted to use the fact that Novell’s aquisition of SUSE and the end of support
Microsoft and Free Software (They Still Don’t Get It) Read Post »