I must apologise for bestowing this upon the world. Not only does jlouis speak Scheme on a regular basis, including in public usenet newsgroups, he now also comes up with the likes of this:
<jlouis> To his bride said a numskull named Clarence : <jlouis> "I trust you will show some forbearance. <jlouis> My sexual habits <jlouis> I picked up from rabbits, <jlouis> And occasionally watching my parents."
Have been drooling over various Google job ads lately. I did not inhale.
Slept late and then rushed outside to pull trees out of the ground, roots and all. You may call me Sir Twister. I consumed too much orange juice, resulting in pain.
Now that OpenBSD/i386 can boot from PXE, I have been playing with the idea
of a fully automated install method for a cluster of different machines. Should
be as simple as a site35.tgz with a script that knows which role a
machine is supposed to take on -- and a heavily modified install script for that
unattended experience, of course.
My playstation has a powerful CPU and can PXE boot. I hope to be able to dual-boot between Windows and diskless OpenBSD soon.
Work annoys me at times, so I am trying not to care. Looks like they are going along with my idea of dropping anti-virus software and personal firewalls, and aim for lower privileges and reduced attack surface instead.
Take it away, Bob.
I'm a worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me, no one behind
There's a woman in my lap and she's drinking champagne.
Got white skin, got assassin's eyes
I'm looking up into the sapphire tinted skies
I'm well dressed, waiting on the last train
Standin' on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I'm expectin' all hell to break loose.
People are crazy, times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm outta range
I used to care, but things have changed.
This is interesting:
[00:37] <jlouis> what are you guys learning styles by the way?
[00:40] <jlouis> http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html for
instance
[00:49] <jlouis> 11 ref, 11 int, 7 vis, 7 glo ;)
[..]
[01:11] <holsta> REF 1, SEN 5, VRB 3, GLO 1
[..]
[01:14] <jlouis> holsta: there we have it. I tend to fly to the skies when
discussing how to solve something. You take the necessary steps to
ensure it becomes reality ;) (My things never does, heh)
Words cannot describe how hard I am laughing.
Another silly computer-related broadcast was on national television last night. This time the subject was "spyware," which are covert applications provided with certain software packages available for download free of charge. The purpose of spyware is to gather various information about the PC user and his or her habits.
You would think it was bad enough that the producers probably managed to scare half the Danish population with their James Bond references. "Experts" such as Peter Kruse and Peter Holst-Albretsen displayed a complete lack of understanding of the problem as well as the solution. Never once did they mention that applying common sense was enough to keep spyware from slipping onto your computer. They eagerly talked about scanners that can recognise and remove spyware, and a link to Ad-aware was provided on the TV station's homepage..
..except, they didn't link to lavasoft.de, the makers of Ad-aware. The link pointed to a similar sounding software package, which claims to be able to remove spyware, but in fact installs a spyware application.
So here I am, giggling my motherfucking ass off.
I have an idea. Let us stop teaching people to think for themselves. For instance: Everyone with a drivers license could be made to exhale into a device before they start their car, and if the red light comes on, they're not allowed to drive. If the green light comes on, it's safe to drive. We won't tell them what the device measures, how they can avoid the red light coming on, what might happen if they drive when the red light comes on, etc.
Just give people this tool and tell them to use it. Drill it into their little heads, and punish them if they try to think as far as "Maybe I shouldn't drink and drive" instead of "I can't drive if the red light comes on."
Install a firewall! Install a virus scanner! Install a spyware scanner! Disable your brain! Never update your operatingsystem or applications! The integrity of your PC will not be compromised as long as you follow these 5 steps!
Mick arrived last Thursday and went home today. We laughed, drank, talked and listened to music. He got a bucketload of MP3 files onto his newly acquired Creative Zen Xtra.
I worked from home and will be going into the office tomorrow. I am off Friday; returning Sunday.
I guess I am losing my mongers.org account:
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