The last two nights the neighbors in my building had cookouts. Tonight was even bigger, with 7 of us from buildings 4 & 5. Most of us did our decorating this weekend and I also did some new planting. A few of us planted poinsettias, which will actually grow here.
This looks pretty nice – a $200 PC with Linux. I may get one. I wonder if Lycoris is a decent server OS, since it seems to be sold as a desktop system.
We just released the new version of Computrace agent for Panther!
Geek-Hosting has been having intermittent outages at one of the routers, so MacMegasite has been going up & down since yesterday.
Microsoft is retiring its six-year-old NetMeeting online conferencing application. Instead, the company will push Office Live Meeting, formerly known as PlaceWare, for online meetings. NetMeeting helped pioneer online conferencing when it was released in May 1996, before the advent of instant messaging and other services for real-time online communication. The software still ships as part of Windows and some of its features, such as whiteboarding and application-sharing, are used by the MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger IM applications.
(Meryl) [Lockergnome Bytes]
The application I was developing at Teaching Network (R.I.P) was based on NetMeeting. One of the nice things about NetMeeting was that it exposed its objects for use by other applications. We were able to build a whiteboard module with NetMeeting as the underlying communication medium. It would be nice if we could do the same with iChat.
[mike: ~]$ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.* |grep “11/24″
11/24 Andrey Zakhvatov
11/24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby, 1963
11/24 Anniversary of the New Regime in Zaire
11/24 Mike Cohen born in NYC, 1958
11/24 Scott Joplin born, 1868
There’s still a lot of talk about Jonathan Brandis at wilwheaton.net.
I had mostly forgotten about him after Seaquest DSV, yet hearing about his sudden, unexpected death hit me hard. The other two recent deaths that hit me very hard were John Ritter & Joe Strummer, because they were so sudden & unexpected.
Evidently Jon committed suicide, and it seems that he may have suffered from depression.
I also suffer from depression. I’ve never tried to kill myself, although I have thought about it many times. I’ve been on several different medications at various times. I was taking Wellbutrin for a long time and it seemed to help, but I stopped when I changed medical plans and the new one wouldn’t pay for it. I’ve been taking St. John’s Wort since then. I don’t know if it actually works, but I’ve had a few episodes since I’ve been taking it.
I returned the Littermaid today. Cody & Midnight were using it, but Cody still pooped on the floor a few times. The littermaid was disgusting. It was impossible to keep clean, and when it scooped, it tossed more litter on the floor than the cats do. Emptying the container was messy & disgusting. Thankfully, Target took it back and gave a full refund.
I was able to solve the poop problem by getting the biggest litterbox I could find and putting it on the bare floor. It seems that Cody likes to poop on carpet, but not on bare floor. He & Midnight are both using the box now.
This news really hit me hard. I liked SeaQuest DSV. Another good guy died too young.
Several people have written in with the news of Jonathan Brandis’s apparent suicide at age 27.
I guess many TV watchers put him and me in a category together, because we both played “The Kid” on a SF show, and I’ve heard him called “The Wesley of SeaQuest” more than once. Jesus, I bet that sucked for him. [WIL WHEATON DOT NET: Where is my mind?]
A great PETA ad …for me to poop on! Amusing recent campaign featuring Triumph the Insult Dog to promote spaying/neutering that is catching heat for a subtle Clay Aiken jab. [metafilter.com]
According to the Rolling Stone interview, Clay killed a kitten once. He should be in jail for that.
Though the barb was Triumph’s own, PETA went along thanks in part to comments that Aiken made in a recent Rolling Stonearticle. “I think cats are Satan,” Aiken said. “There’s nothing worse to me than a house cat. When I was about sixteen, I had a kitten and ran over it. Seeing that cat die, I actually think that its spirit has haunted me. I wasn’t afraid of cats before. But now they scare me to death.”
Salon has a nice collection of right-wing reaction to the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that a law banning gay marriage violates the state’s Constitution. (If you don’t have a subscription to Salon, you can watch an ad for a “Free Day Pass.”)
For conservatives, this isn’t really about gay marriage. It’s about attacking a group for political gain. Republicans think they can get away with constant stream of divisive and hateful rhetoric as long as their target is gays and lesbians.
They can’t. America is waking up to their strategy. Whether or not individuals support the idea of gay marriage, they overwhelmingly oppose GOP attempts to write discrimination into the law.
I spent a lot of time landscaping & planting over several weekends. Comcast is upgrading our cable system, and today they completely dug up the entire area surrounding my condo, destroying everything I did.
[Slashdot]
Inspired by this story, I wrote a little script which I named spamslam:
#!/bin/sh
for ((i=0;i<$1;++i));
do echo curl -s $2 ; curl -s $2 >/dev/null;
done
When I get a piece of spam, I find the URL of their web site and append some nasty message to it and then run this script to repeatedly issue that request, which will leave a nasty little message in their server logs.
Some asshat “hacked” macmegasite by adding the following message:
Thi$ siTe w@Z ha(Ket!
Thi$ siTe w@Z ha9Ket! by RuSs1an CreZzZy Rabb1T$ HuCk(fuck) teaM! lol! Windows – 4ever!! Russ1an!!!
There was no other damage.
I never liked Britney Spears. I think her voice sounds really horrible (I also dislike Madonna’s voice and any other singers that require a lot of studio effects to sound decent). She also seems like a dumb, uneducated redneck. I also find everything about her a complete turn-off.
However, it wasn’t until after she made a statement supporting Bush that I really started hating her. For the same reason, I became a fan of the Dixie Chicks after they spoke out against Bush.
Daniel has lost 20 lbs, he will not eat the food ( all the meat is grey) yuk. The jail is threatening to tube feed him. Daniel is loosing ground in his fight to stay strong. He is now in lockdown again all the way past Thanksgiving.
letters need to go out right away to the PNJ, you can email your letter under 200 words and make sure you sign it with your name, address and phone number in case they need to verify your “real”
Please, take the time or the time will have passed
opinion@pensacolanewsjournal.com
you can also email from the Pensacola News Journal website at http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com
You can also email the local channel 3 station and state your views on Daniels treatment in adult jail by going to
http://www.weartv.com
or call 850-456-3333
I’ve installed UW imapd on my powerbook to archive my email locally. My email is now stored in a MAIL folder in my home directory and I can access it from any email client. I’m now in the process of migrating my email archive from Eudora to the local server.
Since I have ipfw blocking port 143 to allow local connections only, I built it with “SSLTYPE=unix” to allow plaintext passwords instead of requiring SSL connections for faster access & better compatibility with different email clients.
My powerbook just locked up badly.. I was typing in XCode (I had auto-completion on, which I then turned off). As I finished typing a function name, the Unstoppable Spinning Pizza of Death appeared. iTunes stopped playing, and I couldn’t even type a command in the terminal – it would hang when I hit return. I couldn’t even SSH into it from another machine, so I finally did a hard reset.
Isn’t interesting that on a Mac something like this is a newsworthy occurrence 
In an article on PC Magazine’s Web site, John C Dvorak postulates that Apple may once again enter into the handheld PC market — remember Newton?[MacMinute.com]
ROTFLMAO! Has he ever been right in the past? Dvorak is by far the most clueless person in the entire computer industry not only with Apple but with all industry matters. He’s never been able to get any story right.
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