A 3 foot tall, 37 pound lady gave birth to a 3 pound healthy baby boy yesterday. Dude, the lady gets around in a wheelchair because her body is “distorted” (that’s a quote from the article, I’m not being insensitive)… so what I’m wondering is how her and her husband (who is a giant at 5′ 8″) did the dirty deed???
//abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?id=3893004
I hope my interior decorator doesn’t start recommending these lamps made out of doll heads… Sure they are cheap ($35), but I’m not so sure it’s worth it…
The rumors have started about Apple releasing a “true” video iPod at the end of March or beginning of April. If the rumors are correct, they will go from a 2.5″ screen (on current iPod’s) to a 3.5″ screen and do away with the click-wheel, and instead use an on-screen touch-panel interface.
//www.thinksecret.com/news/0602videoipod.html
Some first grader was suspended from school for 3 days for sexual harassment. hahaha!!! The beginnings of a true pimp. 🙂
I need to get a good pan/tilt/zoom camera for the site of the house construction (to automatically make a time lapse of the house being built and also just to see what’s going on at any given time).
I’ve done a little research on it, and so far the Canon is the best one (for the job) I can come up with… It has good zoom capability (26x optical + 12x digital for a total of 312x zoom), it has a built-in server (no need to connect it to a computer), you can schedule it to take pictures (at a pre-set pan/tilt/zoom) for the time lapsing, has a night mode with an infrared illuminator to see in the dark, etc.
So go test drive it over here, and tell me what you think:
//www.nuspectra.com/vbcam/large.aspx
Or if you know of anything better, please let me know…
It seems French Parliament has legalized the use of peer to peer networks to share otherwise copy-written music and movies. Now they are just trying to figure out if they are going to impose a $5/month tax to users.
This is the best reason I’ve ever heard of to move to France. 🙂
The decision was actually made back in December but has only just been made public.
There has been a bunch of hoopla lately about CableCARDs finally coming to market this summer, so I decided to read about it a little more…
The CableCARD system basically lets you insert a PCMCIA card into your TV and then you don’t need a digital cable box to receive high definition signals. The CableCARDs are going to let things like digital video recorders work for high-def signals (TiVO, Windows Media Center, etc.) Anyway, after poking around the web on it, I realized that the whole CableCARD system is already obsolete and it hasn’t even been released yet. CableCARD 2.0 is going to follow about a a year later which will allow bi-directional data (you will have to wait for 2.0 for things like Pay Per View). But the really lame part is existing CableCARD TVs aren’t going to work with 2.0 CableCARDs (so you already need to buy a new TV… even if you have one that supports CableCARDs).
Then probably a year after CableCARD 2.0, cable companies are going to start switching to Downloadable Conditional Access Systems (DCAS). This will be much better than CableCARD (even 2.0) because it’s essentially a CableCARD that is downloaded automatically from your provider (no need to rent a CableCARD for each TV then).
I can’t imagine anyone reading this actually cares about any of this… but I don’t care. It’s more for my own archive purposes so I can look it up later, so piss off! 🙂
If you *do* actually care, here’s some reading for you…
Here’s one I got this morning…
Sure, I’ll get right on that.
I think Julien might have too much time on his hands… 🙂
I get so many random emails where people think I’m support or sales for whatever company they are trying to reach. So I decided I’ll start posting the emails in their entirety starting now (I’m not going to go digging for old ones).
Did you try contacting the printer manufacturer by chance? Or maybe someone who knows who in the hell you are?
Here’s an utterly useless fact for you…
What are those blue reflectors in the street for? They mark where fire hydrants are. They will be offset to the side of the street where the hydrant is.
Aren’t you glad you know that now?
I always had plans to do a home theatre in my house, but it was going to be a bedroom that was turned into a home theatre. Well, I was finally talked into reversing that stance. It’s now going to be a home theatre that could be turned into a bedroom (if really needed).
So this…
Those German bastards stole my idea about using Google Earth as a navigation system in a car…
What a bunch of little bitches. 🙂
Uhm… I thought maybe it was an isolated incident, but apparently more than one person thinks this is the cool thing to do.
A malformed UDP packet to your DNS server can cause it to respond to an IP address that never made the request (with the response being being more bytes than the request). So someone malicious could use one of your name servers to throw unwanted traffic at a 3rd IP address. Annoying… but pretty easy to solve. You can setup BIND to only answer DNS queries that it’s authoritative for except for specific blocks of IPs which it will do recursive lookups for (basically internal IPs that could use the DNS server as it’s name server for lookups).
Besides your server becoming part of a DoS attack, it can suck a ton of your own bandwidth (I was seeing cases where short-lived attacks were saturating 3Mbit worth of my bandwidth). Not any more! 🙂 I figured out what was causing the bandwidth spikes with my friend, tcpdump.
I’m too tired to get into more details (that’s what Google is good for), but you can basically add something along these lines to your /etc/named.conf file:
allow-recursion {192.168.1.0/24; 216.9.35.0/24;};
That will ignore DNS requests from any IP (except those 2 subnets) when the IP makes a request about any domain that the DNS server not an authoritative server for.
If you actually have 17 minutes to spare, this is kind of funny/interesting…
I saw a commercial for some drug to help combat “restless leg syndrome” where you have a tingling feeling in your legs, and you have the urge to move/shift your legs. Is this a real thing?
Why do I feel like maybe a drug manufacturer made up this “disease”?
Maybe if your body is telling you to move your legs, you should move your legs, rather than take a drug to suppress the urge… But hey, what do I know? I’m not a doctor. 🙂
It seems like there are so many commercials for drugs these days. Most to help combat stuff you didn’t even know you had. Maybe we should leave prescriptions to doctors, rather than people going to the doctor to tell them what you need to take. eh?
I was thinking today that I’ve never actually had business cards before (never really needed them). But sometimes it might be handy to have them (I dunno… maybe you need something to write on real quick…)
So I decided if I’m going to get business cards, I’m going to make cool ones. But then I realized I don’t really have a job title… So you guys needs to think of a job title for me. The best one I could think of myself is “Digital Inventor”, but I want to hear all suggestions (leave a comment with the suggestion).
I went VIP style to the Buick Invitational golf tournament today (thanks to Bank of America). It was pretty fun to lounge on the 18th green/fairway with all the food/drinks you want. 🙂
I’m sure you must find that terribly exciting (whoever is reading this), eh? 🙂
Me and Tiger Woods are becoming old friends these days. 🙂
Been seeing some interesting pictures floating around the last week or so where people take a picture of a real scene, but it’s done in a way so it looks like a very detailed model.
For example, check out the pictures on these sites:
//www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1760>
//blog.so-net.ne.jp/photolog/archive/c22183
Being a dork, I started digging into the “how-to” side of things and found a really informative site…
A group of 10 drunk friends went to In-And-Out Burger and demanded a cheeseburger with 100 patties. Aaauuuggghh…
//whatupwilly.blogspot.com/2006/01/in-n-out-100×100.html
I have no idea what it says, but it has lots of links to tools I’ve created, so you know it must be an excellent article (heh). 🙂
//www.computerra.ru/focus/249041/
I bet that the next time I’m in Russia, people will be asking me for my autograph… or not. {shrug}
Last time I was deep sea fishing, I swear I caught one of these, but threw it back because it seemed a little small. God dammit… if only I knew it was fully grown!
They live in dark tea-coloured waters with an acidity of pH3, which is at least 100 times more acidic than rainwater.
//www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2006/jan/news_7501.html
Why in the hell would anyone buy this? Actually, a better question would be why in the hell would anyone MAKE this???
//www.etsy.com/view_item_sold_anon.php?listing_id=69369&transaction_id=16776
I just found out today that the house I’m building is going to have fiber to the door from the phone company (SBC/AT&T), so there will be no old school twisted pair copper wires coming into my home. 🙂
The downside to this is the temporary construction trailer is going to need special equipment to get a temporary phone line from the fiber. Oh well. 🙂
39Mbit “DSL”, here I come!
An interesting read… all things considered.
//arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060124-6036.html
If you ever need to figure out what is eating bandwidth on a server, tcpdump comes in handy…
tcpdump -n -i any
That will spew out everything, so you might be able to find anything that looks suspicious in there. Say you find the IP address of 1.2.3.4 doing something suspicious, you can zero in on them to see if they are doing anything naughty like so:
tcpdump -n -i any host 1.2.3.4
In my case, someone was utilizing one of my DNS servers for about 200 lookups per second (not logging DNS lookups and it’s UDP traffic so it was hard to figure out where the bandwidth was going).
Once you find a naughty IP address, now just block them like so:
route add -host 1.2.3.4 reject (Linux)
or
route add -host 1.2.3.4 255.255.255.255 -reject (Mac OS X/BSD)
Time to invest in the stock market! 🙂
//money.cnn.com/2006/01/23/news/funny/super_bowl_indicator/
When the Pittsburgh Steelers upset the Denver Broncos Sunday, it meant that neither team in the Feb. 5 game will have American Football League roots. The Steelers, which moved to the American Football Conference when the NFL and AFL merged in 1970, will face the Seattle Seahawks in this year’s championship game.
And according to the Super Bowl Stock Indicator, a victory by an old NFL team means a bullish year for stocks, while a victory by an old AFL team gives the bears the upper hands.
I get very few phone calls on my cell phone… maybe 3 calls per week or so. Anyway… sitting in the car with my roommate, I started singing my ringtone (which I don’t do normally). And 10 seconds later my cell phone started ringing. My roommate had a pretty weird look on her face. 🙂
Teach ’em young! 🙂 At this rate smokers might die of lung cancer before they are legally allowed to buy cigarettes.
Maybe Gerber should just make tobacco flavored baby food. 🙂
I can just see this kid on Santa’s lap… “I’ve been a good boy, I would like a carton of Marlboro Reds please.”
Looks like Adam Sandberg did a followup to the widely popular “The Chronic – what? – cles of Narnia” Saturday Night Live skit. Not quite as funny, but still funny. Especially with all the Chuck Norris hoopla going on lately.
Someone pointed out to me that the day after my NY Times article came out, someone went and registered shawnhogan.com.
Now *that’s* pretty funny if you ask me. 🙂
I hope they put it to good use and start the official fan club. hahahaha
Be sure to strap in your dog when doing parabolic maneuvers in a plane for weightlessness. 🙂
You know a site has gotten pretty popular when you happen to find your mom on it (in addition to the millions of other people)… hehe
Was at Mammoth mountain the last few days and the day we left (this morning) it was snowing pretty good. Got a half day in before driving home. The mountain got about a foot of powder overnight and was snowing hard enough all morning that when you went back up the lift, your previous tracks were gone, so every run was virgin powder. Nice! 🙂