Figured I’d see what PureTracks was all about during lunch today. For those who haven’t heard of it, it’s basically a Canadian (only) online music store. This means nothing to those in the states, who have things like iTunes to purchase their legal online music from, but as a Canuck who wants to buy legal […]
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Yesterday was, for all intents and purposes, a great day. Aside from that minor incident with the alarm clock, all went well. In the afternoon everyone left here for a funeral (that’s not part of the great day though) and I got a lot of good work done here. I’m not sure if it was
Was flipping channels tonight and saw a bit of the “countdown” to Ms. Spears new video. While waiting for this no doubt earth shattering even they have other videos of hers and interviews. I was struck while watching one of these interviews by how…. oh what’s the word…. “vacant” she is. Sorry B, while there
GROKLAW responds to Ballmers claims that Microsoft is more secure than Linux. Wow, wonder why he’d say a thing like that. Dana also has a great response to the article.
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< p class=”quote”> Never, ever, trust an alarm that you have set or reset while mostly asleep. Chances are you’ll screw it up. To explain…. Alarm goes off at 6:51am as per normal. Accidently turn it off instead of to snooze, think to myself “Ah ha, I’ll just reset it to 9 minutes from now
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Finally got the new hard drive working. I used Cuvarack‘s suggestion I zeroed out the MBR with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1. Actually I left off the last two options the first time, and started nuking the entire drive. After it was doing this for about 10 minutes I gave up, ran it with bs
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Been a while since I posted a picture up here, so it’s fine time I did. Zoon the kitten (though she’s almost 2) has grown to really love lying on the back of the couch right under the reading light that’s positioned there. I guess it is basically a kitten heat lamp, and she really
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Darren has yet another reason why I will never put a windows system directly connected to the internet without a firewall of some sort. Hell, even a fully patched one I’d be nervous about. When I got back, Norton Antivirus had a HUGE message up about a virus found on the system, which it stalled
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A couple of things I’ve passed by this morning on my run through websites I wanted to share. In no particular order: Todays Penny Arcade. Anyone who has had passing lust with Apple or Apple products knows what this is about. For reference here are some of the earlier Chuck cartoons. Todays userfriendly (again, read
Grr… figured one thing on my todo list this weekend was to swap the hard drive in this server for a new one. I want to replace the 2 SCSI drives setup in RAID0 configuration (for a whopping total of 4G of space) for a spare IDE drive. While Cuv may be agast at this,
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