Rather than using rtin to read news on miracle, I started
using Thunderbird on my XP workstation. It is actually faster and the larger
screen gives me a better overview of the threads. I am also able to skim
down through articles much faster.
Most importantly though, Thunderbird has a feature I have been looking for forever: It supports whitelists. I add intelligent people to my address book. I pick View, Messages, People I know and I only see messages posted by known clueful people! This is great! Muppets are a thing of the past!
This is the basic premise in many aspects of security, such as input validation in applications and stateful inspection in firewalls: Identify known good and throw away the rest.
I can look at dead people, decomposed people, shot people, ripped apart people and whatever else they have displayed at rotten.com. If you get me really drunk I might even venture onto hotornot.com but nothing could make me visit one particular picture-rating site. Rated X.
Important link of the day: http://masscom.net/~deadfish/mouse.html.
I have completed the last steps of the IPv4 to IPv6 migration. My home network, except for her Windows 98 PC, is now running IPv6 only. Very exciting, do you not agree?
Now I just need to look at IPsec6 for my wireless AP.
Whoa baby! Mick is coming to visit on February 26th. P-A-R-T-WHY? Because I gotta!
I have been messing around with distcc. A normal compile of
itself on my laptop runs for 50.88 seconds. Compiling distcc with
my AMD Athlon 2200+ as the first listed host, my laptop (localhost) as the
second host and make -j12 brings the compile time down to 24.13
seconds. Network usage rose to 600KB per second. I had to experiment with the
best -j option as well as the order of build hosts.
All attempts at distributing make build or ports has failed
utterly.
Even if you were Jesus: system("foo -z"); is not an acceptable
manner of invoking other system binaries from a privileged process. Commit such
a load of shite to a repository I manage, and your commit gets reverted!
Worked from home and met up with the boys at Kaffariet. AJ gave a small demonstration of his Xbox/media center. An Xbox is now going on my wanted list.
Home around 11; had my way with her sometime later.
Called in sick today.
As you may recall, I killed my PC when I tried to upgrade my flash BIOS. A new motherboard and CPU arrived today. I went for a cheap board: ECS K7S5A with an Athlon XP 2200+ -- somewhat faster than my old CPU.
With this, I hope my random lock-up problems are gone for good. Also, the board supports AGPx4 which should last me until Operation Flashpoint 2 dictates my new machine requirements.
Celebrations on #mongers saw no end today as it was announced
that the individual who suffered serious head trauma from illegal fireworks
Wednesday night has finally passed away. For hours, we feared he would live
to further pollute the gene pool with his own offspring.
priceless$ /usr/games/fortune There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
We are actively and violently opposed to changes in legislation that could make these Darwin candidates reconsider the need to play with explosives. Kill them all. Let God sort them out.
Spent some quiet time with her last night. Talked. Ate. Watched the fireworks. Launched a few rockets of our own. Had sex. Slept.
Private joke: Rigtige mænd sidder ned og tisser.
I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Darwin's Theory of Evolution. According to the news, 2 people were killed and one seriously injured due to fucking around with fireworks. Several dozen humans were injured from fireworks in various other ways. Survival of the fittest.