Blog posts

1. ms warez

   Bwa.

   I actually wouldn’t mind seeing the same thing run against say, everything on a RedHat release.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon January 11, 2005 - 3:53 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-01-10-ms-warez/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-01-10-ms-warez/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

2. MJR TMOHS

   I’m plowing through mjr’s book The Myth of Homeland Security when the end of chapter two does this:

   It’s been tried before - attempts to mandate computing standards for secure computing have failed in the past. It’s time to stop playing around and start

   That’s page 30.

   Page 31 is the start of chapter 3.

   This is more along the lines of noticing that the back of a baseball card was printed upside down than a whine-whine but nonetheless, I briefly googled for an updates-to-my-book page and found nothing. Whine Whine.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon January 11, 2005 - 3:51 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-01-10-mjr-tmohs/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-01-10-mjr-tmohs/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

3. Powerbook Status

   01/10/2005 Ready to Ship
   01/10/2005 Unit Shippped/Completed

   Note to self: Leave post-it on mailbox asking DHL to leave packages in the Leasing Office.

   Dell: WHIRRRRR
   FreeBSD: still liking. will miss pkg_add

   :freeman: :freeman: :freeman:

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon January 10, 2005 - 9:31 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-01-10-powerbook-status/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-01-10-powerbook-status/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

4. Carrot & Stick

   PJ, our kitten, is crafty.

   His latest trick is to hold one of his favorite toys (feathers on a stick) by the handle, in his mouth. He then chases the feathers, which much to his surprise apparently, he is of course incapable of ever catching.

   **The feather and stick toy must be approached with great caution. **

   **The proper chase method can be executed in just two easy steps.

   Step 1: Place the small handle end in mouth. **

   **Step 2: Chase the feathers at top speed.
   Step 2 corollary: If the feather approaches an obstacle, turn left or right. The feather will turn too. This is magic. **

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon January 09, 2005 - 7:38 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-01-09-carrot-stick/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-01-09-carrot-stick/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

5. FreeBSD

   While the powerbook is in the shop I’m using a rickety old Dell on which I installed FreeBSD.

   I like. I want to try it on a server soon.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon January 09, 2005 - 6:30 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-01-09-freebsd/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-01-09-freebsd/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

6. The White Spots

   Apple has either just now officially recognized or is extending it’s recognition and repair services for the White Spots disaster.

   My powerbook serial number is in the range listed and exhibits the behavior detailed, I’ve just not wanted to part with it for the week or so it might take to be repaired. The time has come! I should have done it over vacation =/

   UPDATE
   I sent it out yesterday and am usind a Dell Inspiron 4100 from the office. I put FreeBSD on it and am getting used to gnome2 again - not terrible, X has a few tricks I’ve always missed in Aqua.

   Apple has a support page I can check for status, which I’ve of course been furiously refreshing all day.

   DHL picked it up yesterday (1/6) afternoon around 4PM, it was bound for Texas.
   01/07/2005 | Unit Received
   01/07/2005 | Begin Repair
   01/07/2005 | Begin Testing

   Hopefully I’ll get it back Monday. 😃

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon January 08, 2005 - 1:33 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-01-07-the-white-spots/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-01-07-the-white-spots/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

7. Religion rant

   What a lot of us non believers keep to ourselves: SomethingAwful attacks religion and the state - it doesn’t even seem to get to ranty or over the top until nearly 2/3 of the way down when the funny starts.

   For those of you thinking this Under God rah-rah is a right wing trick, think again. Furious googling has failed to turn up anything but of a lot of partisan ranting but I’ve heard it convincingly argued on C-Span (haha) using statistics on a four-year basis comparing Bush and Clinton and Bush I and Reagan and so on that mentioning the big G, having a prayer at the end of a speach, or some other similar theist hoo-hah, while slightly on the rise since the 70’s has not statistically differed from president to president, party to party.

   fine print: The point at which I care isn’t when God is mentioned, appeal to the masses all you want, just keep your Creationism out of the public schools, keep the ten commandments out of court houses, allow prayer in school but don’t mandate it or the Pledge of Allegiance, and so on.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon January 07, 2005 - 3:43 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-01-07-religion-rant/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-01-07-religion-rant/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

8. Fountain

   The owners of Urinal.net have been served a few times for, uhm, well, posting pictures of urinals.

   I’ve been in One of the bathroom’s here (yes, that is the DC one) but can’t place the specific urinal.

   My suggestion to the urinal.net guys: Try to find a domain name around the new site name Fountain.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon January 06, 2005 - 3:55 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-01-06-fountain/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-01-06-fountain/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

9. The Music of Chance

   Just put down Paul Auster’s The Music of Chance and am enjoying mulling over it.

   The Amazon reviews were my first thought after google failed to turn up any free information:

   Flat, boring, pointless, plain stupid. Guy gets too pretentious with all that bunch of alleged existencial symbolism, whatever it is supposed to mean. His writing style is quite poor, he uses tons of cliches, and presumes to be telling more than he does. Too kitshy to be true.

   I would give it a -5 star if I could. Just stay away from this garbage.

   And on the other end of the spectrum:

   Someone gave me this book alonf with Michael Cunningham’s THE HOURS, telling me that both were part of a group of talented young writers. Let me tell you, Paul Auster couldn’t be Michael Cunningham’s copy editor. There are more cliches in the first 5 pages of this book than you could find in a dime store mystery novel. The characters are flat, the story ludicrous. It tries hard to be some kind of masonic allegory but is so obvious it becomes aggravating. I read the NY Times review that praises the book for it’s series of “ricocheting” coincidences, and I kept waiting for that to happen. IN fact, nothing ricochets. Everything thuds. IF you are a lover of language, don’t bother with Auster.

   Lots A wealth of material (never mind kill this sentance) here. Both end’s of the spectrum reviewers quickly attack cliche’s. One then is upset about how much is unsaid, the other hates how obvious everything is. One calls it garbage, the other says it thuds.

   I’ll rate it internets style.

   +5

   Will read again.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon January 05, 2005 - 4:20 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-01-04-the-music-of-chance/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-01-04-the-music-of-chance/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

10. RSS UPS

    RSS is the new “Push”, for those of you that were reading the tech rags in the late 90’s. Er, but it’s done right this time.

    While furiously refreshing favorite sites looking for updates has been gone for a while, I’d never have thought to look for it for the few sites that I really want to be notified of updates. I’m tracking 5 packages right now from UPS and this UPS tracking -> RSS trick couldn’t come at a better time.

    Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon December 28, 2004 - 3:30 PM and archived here at /blog/2004/2004-12-28-rss-ups/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2004/2004-12-28-rss-ups/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.