That annoying soccer thing is over.
With 3 minutes left of the game I made a bet with the Spirited One. I bet 1 krone (20 cents) that Germany would win 4-2. I thought they would really snap out of it seeing as how they had been slacking for most of the game. I am going to have to find a job tomorrow to be able to pay my debt. My life is ruined.
Big Daddy sucks ass. Adam Sandler is only funny sometimes.
I bought a digital camera; it is a Canon PowerShot A100. Perhaps this means my gallery will explode. I must be careful not to upload any of the naughty pictures I have taken, which is going to be tricky as currently the naughty pictures outnumber the clean pictures by about 47 to 1.
I almost bought a remote controlled helicopter, too but I snapped out of it before it went too far.
DNS for mongers.org has
finally been sorted, and services and contents is slowly going
to be come alive over the next few days.
Happy, happy, joy, joy. It was simply the filesystem which had become damaged on my laptop; a reinstall of a 3.1-current snapshot works perfectly.
My snakeoil.dk account has almost been flooded with requests to evaluate a "brand new crypto system". The product is called Crypticore.
GOBBLES released an exploit for the apache vulnerability which causes my two httpds on OpenBSD to segfault, even with the correct patch applied. This worries me so I have shutdown httpd on miracle until I can take a closer look tomorrow. I am going to bed.
This diary entry was written on my laptop, by the way.
Christ. Even with the recent staleness the Dominion still gets between 300 and 400 unique visitor IP addresses a day. You people need a hobby. In case you were wondering how I gather my statistics:
$ grep -i "02/Jun" a.area51.dk_access.log | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -l
337
Depending on your httpd log format you may have to change $1
to $2.
Some people still do not fully understand this web thing. They still suffer from the "you have to use this font and this webbrowser to get the most of my page. Take Uffe, for example. He is supposed to be a developer who knows the web, yet he strongly suggests you use the Georgia font and Internet Explorer 6 to view his site. Nevermind that Mozilla and related browsers include superior support for W3 standards.
"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." -- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
Martin is the complete opposite. He understands W3 standards even better than I do, and he uses them.
I have gotten the Spirited One hooked on Type 0 Negative!
My girlfriend's girlfriend looks like you. My girlfriend's girlfriend is my girl, too.
I had problems sleeping last night so I watched Monsters, Inc and part of Planet of the Apes; I went to bed around 4am and slept until noon. I was woken up by a crowd of secondgraders yelling and screaming in our backgarden.
I went to talk to the staff in the repairshop where I sent my laptop and it
appears it has been sitting on their shelf for the past week and a half, and
they never called me. Fuckers. I brought the machine home and remounted the
harddrive only to find that it made disturbing clicking noises when reading or
writing to /home (wd0f) and wd0 timed
out several times. I did manage to boot into single user mode, tar up my home
directory and scp it off to alpha. I ran newfs on
/home which helped remove some of the clicking and timeout error
messages; I will still need a new harddrive, however. I hope to be able to
start working and committing changes to my various projects as of tomorrow.
I will be taking frequent backups until I buy a new disk.
Can you feel my pain? Supportive email will be welcomed.
Bought The Definitive by Foreigner for the Spirited One because she wanted it. I took her out to dinner and then we rented High Fidelity and much to my (and John Cusack's) surprise she liked it. I had seen it once before, as some of you might recall, but it is absolutely worth watching twice.
I got Arlington Road on DVD for 13 euro which was a total bargin. DVDs are normally 30-35 euro. The shops around here charge 60 (yes, sixty) euro for new PC games, e.g. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault or Grand Theft Auto III. Amazon.co.uk sells the former for 30 british sterling and the latter for 25 british sterling. Guess why the subtotal of my basket is 336 quid. Guess why illegal software distribution is so widespread.
I contacted my bank and filed a bug report against their online banking system. A new version is due out next week so I expect it has already gone into freeze and QA. Perhaps my change request will be incorporated in the next release.
Uffe started reading Joel recently(?) and he started preaching Peopleware to his employer. I do not know if I had anything to do with that.
Note to self: contact Blond Bimbo and find out which digital camera he bought last year. It uses the IBM microdrives for storage. He told me it doubles as a bootable PC Card he can slot into anyone's laptop and use his own OS install. "OpenBSD Anywhere."
I have returned from my killing spree.
Researchers warn (once again) that prolonged lingering in the burning midday sun increases the risk of skin cancer. I am probably the least likely person in the world to develop skin cancer. Researchers also discovered that while sunblock cream may withstand water, it does not withstand the sun, which is kind of a problem.
It seems no one can keep their systems secure. The source code for
fragroute and others was recently backdoored:
According to program developer Dug Song, the source code to the Dsniff, Fragroute, and Fragrouter security tools was contaminated on May 17th after an attacker gained unauthorized access to his site, Monkey.org.
A snippet from Dug Song's bugtraq post:
monkey.org was compromised on May 14th, via an epic4-pre2.511 client-side hole which produced a shell to one of the local admin's accounts. this was later used to reattach to one of his screen sessions, which apparently had a root window open (su very bad!).
Guess why nobody but me is getting root on mongers.org systems. Speaking of which, the DNS transfer is still pending due to Network Solutions being lame. I am dropping them and using a different registar. Trying to, anyway.
You only wish you were part of our elite hangout. We have more fun than you can shake a stick at.
[11:40] <holsta> WinAmp's random isn't.
[11:40] <ecksor> Is it exploitable?
[11:41] <holsta> With correctly aligned Boyzone songs in someone's playlist
you could easily ruin that someone's day.
[11:41] <ecksor> That's what I'm thinking.
[11:42] <ecksor> You could influence company policy by carefully predicting
what your manager is listening to at any one time and knowing what
music makes him more impressionable.
[11:43] <holsta> like Carly Simon singing "Nobody Does It Better"?
[11:43] <wulffeld> :)
[11:43] <ecksor> Or Frank Sinatra singing "Jerry is always right"
...
[11:46] <holsta> According to IMDB, Mozart's music has been used in 308 films.
[11:47] <ecksor> Mozart is such a fucking sellout.
[11:48] <ego> Media whore.
I am leaving today around 4pm. I will be spending the weekend in a remote cottage with a large number of computers all playing Operation Flashpoint. See you Sunday evening.
I applied for a security job with Telia.dk yesterday, mailed off a
coverletter in email with a URL to my job page. Today I received email saying
"no thanks" so I went to my webserver logs to take a look. The HR person did
not even look at my CV. She just loaded the job/
page with the blurb about how I want to work with clueful people, etc. The
timestamp of her visit and her email to me are just minutes apart. I guess
stating demands before being hired puts some people off.
The Onion kills me:
"Amanda has the most beautiful eyes," said Trevor Hillegas of girlfriend Amanda Lum. "I can't tell you how many times I've gazed into them, thinking they were the only ones I'd ever want to look into. But that was before I visited UC.Santa Cruz. The chicks there are so hot, it's not even funny."
It is official. The Spirited One prefers me naked.
I was away this weekend. Sorry. Should I have told you?
I am going away next weekend, too.
27394.
That means the Danish government wants me to spend 12 months of my life learning to neutralise other carbon-based lifeforms and operate state of the art communications equipment.
With my desires to rid the world of muppets, I am not sure this is such a good idea, but I have no way out. My training starts in March 2003.
People have been asking for my contact phone number in Denmark. These days email is almost always a better way of reaching me than phone is. Email is non-intrusive to my other activities (e.g. sleeping), and means I can take the time to compose a proper response. If you are in need of an urgent response, indicate this in your message and subject, and send the email 3-4 days before you need the answer.
I promise I will get around to setting up vacation messages real soon now.
The only exception where phone might be better than email is if you are dying to hear my voice in which case you should seek professional help.
I found these two quotes on a Thomas H. Patacek's website:
"Most people's resumes aren't arrogant enough. I don't have that problem."
and
"I used to spend lots of time thinking about how to make Unix operating systems more secure. The focus of my attention was 4.4BSD, particularly OpenBSD (before I discovered that the project was run by a sociopath) and FreeBSD."
Funny guy.
Some sort of soccer happening seem to be taking place. I am not sure what it is.