We had some analog lines down at work and Verizon just left. In case any geeks are wondering, ANAC for the area is 200-5555. 😉
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A little bit of my inner child just died…
Go to LEGOS.com. Right now. Go ahead…I’ll wait. OK, back? Good. After nearly three decades of knowing and loving LEGOS as, well, LEGOS, the LEGO Group Companies have to go and destroy a little bit of my inner child:
The word LEGO® is a brand name, and is very special to all of us at the LEGO Group Companies. We would sincerely like your help in keeping it special. Please always refer to our producs as “LEGO bricks or toys” and not “LEGOS.” By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud, and that stands for quality the world over. Thank you!
Bugger off, LEGO Group Companies, I do believe I’ll continue to call my LEGOS LEGOS. And so will every other kid on the face of the planet that doesn’t know what ® means.
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A bucketful of quickies
Some people sleep on the job while others camp out in the parking lot; at any given time over my lunch hour there are half a dozen or more people snoozing away taking their siesta in their cars. The Interdictor is still standing strong and holding down the fort even after a group of overzealous troops from the 82nd Airborne decided to poke at him with M4-A1s. UnDutchables 0.2.3 has been released which deprecates Wasia B7.1. And Trunkmonkey Racing is still seeking sponsorship.
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So the combination is 827ccb0eea8a706c4c34a16891f84e7b?
So the combination is 827ccb0eea8a706c4c34a16891f84e7b. (lifts mask) That’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life. That’s the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage.
As reported by /. an online MD5 hash database has recently opened up. Just paste in any hash and, if the password is in the database, it’ll happily spit out the cleartext. This concept has been floating around for years including the beginnings of a crypt database project I helped out with at New Hack City back in the mid-nineties. Scary that an online version has popped up; I’m now just waiting for the Firefox plug-ins and Dashboard widgets to start surfacing.
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Trunkmonkey Racing finishes Maine Forest Rally, takes 3rd in PGT at Bethel Rally
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, HAVERHILL, MA (07/31/2005) — New England-based motorsports team Trunkmonkey Racing successfully completed Maine Forest Rally which hosts River Valley Rally and Bethel Rally of the Rally America Eastern Regional Championship. Competing in Production GT Class with their 1996 Subaru Impreza 2.2 L, the team placed 3rd in class at Bethel Rally and 5th in class at River Valley Rally. Over the two-day event driver Sean Sosik-Hamor and co-driver Andrew Hobgood traversed 88 miles of special stages and 260 miles of total distance through the picturesque landscape of Maine. -
Free Mac mini!
Holy crap. It actually showed up! It’s so sexy I actually kissed the box as I was walking out of work this evening. Now I get to have fun tracking who my seeded personal information gets sold to. -
Free Mac mini?
It looks like I’ll be getting my free Mac mini pretty soon. I fulfilled my referrer obligations about a week ago and placed my order. My order status page now has the update Sent to Vendor, Waiting on Product. w00t! -
Mixed results from Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on older G4s
I’ve been plugging away on a Power Macintosh G4 dual 1.25 GHz MDD with 2 GB RAM for the past few years now. Overall she’s been a more than adequate workhorse running all previous versions of Mac OS X with no issues whatsoever. When Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was released I was enamored by Spotlight as I’d been waiting for that specific feature for almost two years now. As I’m an Apple Developer Connection member I immediately upgraded both my desktop G4 and my Powerbook G4 with my free copy of Tiger.
Now I’m not saying the upgrade was a mistake but it wasn’t without its idiosyncrasies. It fixed a lot. It introduced a lot of new features. But Tiger has been responsible for making both of my systems feel sluggish for the first time since I purchased them. Not quite molasses in January sluggish but dirty air intake sluggish. And I’m pretty sure it all boils down to Spotlight dutifully chugging away in the background.
Spotlight has been a lifesaver albeit a mixed blessing; the G4 doesn’t have enough horsepower to take full advantage of realtime search and indexing. Importing a few thousand images from my camera results in a twenty minute CPU spike and a basically unusable system. Same goes for Photo Mechanic and any other files that create cache files on the fly. Spotlight sees the new file, starts processing, and slows the machine down to a crawl.
My only true regret about upgrading to Tiger is X11. It’s broken. Completely busted. Borked. Kafuckled. I rely on X11 for all Pepper Pad development and Tiger has made X11 completely unreliable with broken cut and paste, focus issues, windowing issues, authentication issues, randomly crashing shells, bad window geometry, and the occasional disappearing window. Nothing serious—it’s just made UNIX completely unusable.
Hopefully everything will fix itself sometime in the next month or so as Apple starts releasing more updates.
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A fistful of Friday quickies…
Last weekend we spent all day in the woods up in Vermont doing recce for Trunkmonkey Run for the Border, Trunkmonkey Racing’s second New England Region brisk TSD road rally event. I finally got around to putting together Pepper Hacks, a knowledgebase for hacking Pepper Computer’s Pepper Pad. Speaking of which, the Pepper Pad is now on sale at Amazon.com! And now I go back to work…
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Shespamigans
When training the Bayesian filters for SpamAssassin, be very careful about using sa-learn on your active IMAP inbox. Most IMAP clients don’t actually delete messages until they synchronize the mbox. So, after deleting around a hundred Spams, I ran sa-learn over my inbox and SpamAssassin happily learned all of the Spams I had marked deleted as Ham (non-Spam).
Since it was a few hours before I realized what had happened when the incoming Spam getting by SpamAssassin increased tenfold, it was too late to run sa-learn over the old Spams because they had already been truly deleted.
I had to wipe my Bayesian database and start over. No big deal; just inconvenient.
I suck.