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Posts from March 2005

Posted
29 March 2005 @ 2pm

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netsec

woop!

My company experienced a 3 hour power outage this weekend because of a PG&E substation fire. Of our 3 internet circuits:
Vendor 1: emailed a mail account sitting on the inside of the down circuit. I’ve since changed that notification address to my pager. My Bad.
Vendor 2: sent me a 4 page fax in several languages [...]


Posted
23 March 2005 @ 9am

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rants

Your moment of zen…

http://images.indymedia.org/imc/seattle/images/2005/03/245292.jpg


Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr

http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/03/yahoo_actually_.html
Holy smokes, SOMEBODY out there is bad at keeping secrets!! Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the champagne corks!
Woohoo! What does this mean? It means that we’ll no longer have to draw straws to see who [...]


A Directory of Programs designed for USB drives

http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/2005/03/a_directory_of_.html
Check out Jeremy Wagstaff’s blog entry re: USB drive-able software. I’ve been trying to move all of my personal info onto a USB drive; work doesn’t have any rules against personal use of office computers (yet) but it’s nice to be able to have one copy of my data instead of trying to sync [...]


Posted
19 March 2005 @ 11pm

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bbs

The novelty is wearing off quickly…

My BBS is running on a Windows98 system I inherited from a client. It started freezing for no reason, Mozilla stopped working. I installed Windows 2000 on the system, and realized that W2K has replaced Windows 95 as what I envision when I think of a Windows install.
P.S. - Everything’s back up and running, [...]


Everything Bart wrote on the chalkboard

Everything Bart wrote on the chalkboard…
# I am not a dentist# Spitwads are not free speech# Nobody likes sunburn slappers# High explosives and school don’t mix# I will not bribe Principal Skinner# I will not squeak chalk (Chalk squeaks as he writes)# I will finish what I sta# “Bart Bucks” are not legal [...]


Another Inkjet?

I thought I’d be lost on film forever - I bought a Nikon D70 last summer, and a Canon Powershot SD110 last week. I bought a Canon Pixma i3000 printer along with the camera; after rebates the printer will have cost $10.
The printer came with a trial pack of photo paper, and the first [...]


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