A few weeks ago, Kevin bought a wooden dinosaur model for 99 cents. When he got it home, he found that someone had already removed all of the little wooden bones, and donated the remains to charity. How nice.
Not one to be set back by adversity, Kevin took the wooden templates, scanned them, enlarged them by about 300%, and traced them onto large pieces of foam board.
Kevin now has a four-foot long Velociraptor model in his living room.
According to this Netcraft article, the Army has moved their www.army.mil server to Mac OSX, the first OS transition for that server since 1999.
The article also points out that Apple has switched its Knowledge Base servers to Solaris. Other anecdotal evidence shows that Apple is performing load-balancing between Solaris and OSX servers, possible for internal investigation.
Maybe Abel deserved it.
Maybe Abel was one of those people who just beg to be destroyed, crushed, smote with a rock and sacrificed.
Abel was driving the SUV who cut you off and made you miss your exit. He was talking on his cell-phone and reading a newspaper at the same time.
Abel works for the DMV. He also works for the Department of Labor, and answers calls with a smashed-together “Departmentoflaborholdplease-CLICK”.
My pool pump is powered by an ancient, rusting Intermatic mechanical 24-hour time switch. The entire case is rusted, and the On/Off switch is conveniently located right above the two screws that terminate the live electrical wiring, which makes for great fun when attempting to turn off the pool pump with wet hands.
Today I added a cute little CSS pseudoclass to my stylesheet. If you mouse over the link boxes on the sides, you’ll see the box color change to highlight the selected box.
Unfortunately, this effect only works with browsers that support the CSS :hover pseudoclass properly. I recommend Mozilla, or Safari, if you’re running OSX.
This effect does not work in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows.
Consider this article: “IE6 SP1 is the final standalone installation.” … “Legacy OSes have reached their zenith with the addition of IE 6 SP1. Further improvements to IE will require enhancements to the underlying OS.”
Today, Laura got a new fish.
Laura: I got a new work fish.
Laura: It’s a beta.
Me: A beta?
Me: Why would you want a pre-release fish?
Me: What does it do, eat 50% more food and sometimes swim upside down?
Laura: *pee*
Sometime Sunday, Laura‘s MoveableType barfed. Any MT action, such as posting or editing posts, yielded the following error message:
Statement has no result columns to bind (perhaps you need to successfully call execute first) at /usr/hosted/abracapocus.org/cgi-bin/mt/lib/MT/ObjectDriver/DBI/mysql.pm line 224.
After some investigation, it appeared that the problem was with the actual MySQL database, rather than the MT backend.
The solution was to use the myisamchk utility, from the command line, to repair the tables:
If you’re a tech, you’ve probably run into Windows NT, 2K, or XP machines that have had unknown Administrator passwords, especially in the case of job turnover. This situation can be extremely frustrating, and can waste a lot of your time trying to fix.
Check out pnordahl’s Offline NT Password Recovery Disk. It’s a free Linux-based boot image that can be written to either floppy or CD, and allows a tech to change passwords for any account on a Windows NT-based machine, as well as perform registry editing.
Check out the StClaire.com Safety Sign Builder for great time-wasting fun!
After several weeks of study [many more than it should’ve taken], I took the CompTIA Security+ Exam, and aced it with a score of 820/900.
I spent about three weeks longer to prepare for the exam than was really necessary, because I made the terrible mistake of purchasing the Wiley Security+ Prep Guide. This book is crap. It appears that the authors wrote an “Intro to Security” handbook, realized they couldn’t sell it, and slapped a “Security+ Prep Guide” moniker upon the cover. The book is very poorly organized, with large chunks of the material spread throughout the book and referenced by “See Chapter X”. It does cover about half of the information required for the exam, but that information only takes up a tenth of the book. The rest is filled with useless trivia that is only obliquely referenced in the exam.