The UK cracker is getting tried in the US after all. I can see why he didn't want to come here and I don't know the evidence against him. If he's guilty, he deserves this.
Remember media.. it's cracker, not hacker. Learn the difference.
Closing businesses. The republican party pushed for war which spurred increases in oil prices. 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. With so many positions outsourced overseas, and higher competition in many sectors, retail and service industry jobs is all we have left. Now those are going bankrupt. Way to go. I feel change
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.
hello nurse.
I'm experimenting with some new blogging features on just journal. We'll see how it goes.
Microsoft is offering a free service to stream video via Silverlight with ad insertion. I think that might be a nice service for sites to add streaming content. The only problem is that you need Microsoft Expressions software to actually create the content. If I've got to buy software, I might as well go with Flash which is supported on more platforms. There are also a few programs that can create Flash content in the open source world. Microsoft needs to get Silverlight support finished on Linux/BSD. Novell is working on this for Mono.
I found a website that tracks users and topics of IRC chat rooms.
tags: midnightbsd chat irc
I've been using Google for several years. I'm thinking about trying some alternate search engines. I just realized you can't easily change the default search in safari like you can in Firefox and even IE.
Apple doesn't seem to have a preference for it and cuil's FAQ incorrectly suggests there is a setting. I can't find it. A search on cuil returned one useful hit, but the site was pulled down. They also don't seem to cache pages like Google. I decided to use Google to look for an answer. There are two options.
Oddly enough, it's easier to change on the iPhone where apple could lock users in. I may stick with Google, but now I feel like I'm forced to. It's sad as I like Safari in my any other ways and have even been using WebKit in BSD for browsing.
Google finally has some new competition. I predict that they will end up like Yahoo down the road. It might not be this engine, but someone will de-thrown them from search.
location: Home
I just read a strange slashdot article about Comcast responding to blog entries. Apparently, Comcast is hoping that this will help their image with customers.
We've had better experiences with Comcast than some, but I long for the days of Charter Internet access. One upside is that Comcast offers business packages in residential areas (within reason). I suspect that's why I've had better luck with them.
I've noticed shaping with Bit Torrent traffic like others and with video streaming. The latter pisses me off as I've got a Netflix account that I like to use for streaming. I'd like the terms clearly identified and a way to cap yourself and or do QoS yourself. Actually, I've wanted a good QoS system for home for years. My switch priorities traffic from certain systems, but I'm unable to do protocol prioritizing. Since we have a comcast router, I can't do much on that front. My old charter setup used a freebsd box as a router and then used ipfw pipes to dedicate bandwidth for VOIP and other traffic. It wasn't perfect, but not to bad.
I've been experimenting with different frontends for Webkit. Midori is a work in progress and found to be very limiting. You can't download files yet. Today, I started experimenting with Epiphany built on Webkit. It is very promising. It passes acid2 and most of acid3. Newer versions supposedly pass acid3.
However, it dies creating blog entries on just journal. 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.
tags: midnightbsd midori webkit epiphany
I had a problem with a server at work recently. I used to use a hint from the macosxhints site to reverse ssh into my home mac. However, I can't do that anymore because my mac is behind NAT. What I needed was a way to connect to the mac at work which was behind a firewall (but not nat). I had another machine running FreeBSD with SSH open.
Solution:
Connect to machine one
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
location: Home
Yet again, nfsd refuses to work properly on OS X server. I'm getting sick of this on and off bullshit. The exports file has not been modified. The server was rebooted after a security update and now nothing will mount via the xserve raid partition.
This is just sickening.
CNN is reporting that Detroit Mayer Kwame K. was texting several women with "romantic intent." He's been charged with purgery and misconduct in office.
My sleeping habits have been strange lately. I seem to be sleeping during the day and up at night. Caryn described this as my summer schedule. I certainly hope not.
I watched Short Circuit via Netflix tonight. I haven't seen that movie in years. More Input!
I'm still trying to figure out an issue with one of my machines where two processes are crashing a lot.
I know this is strange, but I've been watching the Rockford Files on Netflix for a few weeks. They've got all six seasons of the show, minus two episodes from one season. I've got two episodes left to watch. Starting with season four, the show went downhill. Still, there are several good episodes. Season six features an episode with Tom Sellek and Larry Maneti prior to their work on Magnum, P.I.
The scary part is that my father tried to dress like that in the 70s.
I went to see the Dark Night this weekend with Caryn. The movie is excellent, but not for a young audience. It is a rather scary film; it is not gory, but just psychotic.
Anyone who hasn't seen this movie, better get to a theater. The IMAX version is awesome.
I've been more energy concious lately. My home PC has an Intel Core 2 Duo 6420 which supports intel enhanced speedstep technology. This means that the CPU can slow down when it's not being used to save power.
Laptop processors have supported this feature for years, but it's starting to crop up on many desktop systems as well. If your computer was built in the last two to three years, it may have this feature. It is not found on lowend processors like the celerons or slower Pentium D chips. You can confirm the features of your processor at Intel.com. AMD has a similar feature called PowerNow on their chips.
I found that Windows XP SP2 and higher support this feature, but have it turned off. Vista is much more friendly in this regard. If you have Windows XP SP2 or SP3 installed, you can turn on this feature by doing the following. Go into Power Options in Control Panel. Select Minimal Power Management.
To verify that your computer is using this setting, make sure no programs are busy running. (CPU utilization should be zero) Now, go into Control Panel, System, and view the CPU speed. You should see two speeds if it's working. The first is the maximum speed while the second is the effective speed.
My system seems to be running at about 1.6Ghz now while idle. In MidnightBSD, it tends to run much lower than that with cpufreq + powerd enabled. Now, my system can benefit a little in Windows like it does in BSD.
Anyone that uses a laptop can tell you the difference between the system when plugged in or running on battery. One of the common savings is slowing down the processor. This does something similar, but speeds it up if you do something intensive like playing a game or compiling a program.
Every little bit helps.