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Saturday, December 17, 2005

Testing

Testing mobile gmail access as a way to update my blog

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John
rblprd@gmail.com
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"Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand
ready to do violence on their behalf."

-George Orwell

Saturday, November 12, 2005

LaptopLogic.com: Resources

LaptopLogic.com: Resources

Nice Article for anyone who has wanted to build there own laptop (well as much as you can with a barebones anyway)

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Well Shit

Ya know, I wonder what the hell Microsoft is really thinking somedays. I have been using Outlook for a number of years on the Windows Side of things, like the program overall, on windows at least. All my mail, calendars and contacts in one program, and I can easily pull the file I need to save my entire store of the before mentioned items in one easy (if long) step. But in trying to move my mail to my OS X machine, I am having a hell of a time doing it. First, M$ didn’t use cross compatible .PST files between the OS X and Windows versions of Outlook. Next they make no converter for the file either. Third, Entourage doesn’t use a PST file in anyway, BUT you can convert an older MAC version PST file to work with it. The only route M$ decided to give was to build or find a way to access a M$ Exchange server, copy all your mail and what not to it, then pull it down. Fine and dandy, I build a box just for the purpose. But damned if they don’t make it a bitch to do, no simple copy these folder, hell, there isn’t even a default, auk here is your Inbox and all sub folders of it. You have to subscribe to every folder on it’s own, and to get the mail across you have to select everything and then tell it to move the shit. A VERY Tedious and Pain in the Arse process let me tell you.
Ahh well maybe in a week I will be lucky and have it done :-s

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

DAMNIT TO HELL

I tweaked something and the damn explorer would lock when trying to delete anything, I really need to get to the bottom of that,has happened a number of times in the past, only way I have found to fix it is to reload XP. so it is going thru yet another install in as many days.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Well Shiat

Seems something went wonky with my Dell 5150, Having to reload it yet again, I am starting to really not like MicrShaft products.
Got lucky thou, was beginning to think the Hard Drive had gone south, or maybe I was hoping it had, then I could replace it with a 7200 RPM model, improve performance a bit, especially since it rarely runs on battery, that is what I have the iBook for, it is my travel machine, the Dell is now my Email machine since I still run Outlook on it till I can convert my mail store to something my Macs can use, damn MicroCrap and there wisdom of not making cross platform compatability a major concern of there Office Products. Wonder how hard it really is gonna be to pull off a MS Echange install just to move my mail store around the way M$ says to in order to move from Winblowz to Mac.

Sunday, October 09, 2005

NewOrder - computer security and networking portal

NewOrder - computer security and networking portal: "HOWTO: Bypass Email Filters
@ HOW-TO -> Windows Oct 04 2005, 15:57 (UTC 0)
s0journist writes: "

Interesting Read.

Saturday, October 08, 2005

Random thoughts

Well, finally got a KVM to work with both my Mac and my XP machine.
kinda funny really I am running a Mac and Windows box side by side, and I am using a Mac Pro keyboard and a Microsoft Trackball side by side as well. This Belkin finally decided to work right, even thou now have to use the button on top of it to switch between my machines, at least I can (means I can play WoW again HI HI)

I am also bouncing the idea of starting a small podcast, or maybe just an audio diary, no idea if I should or not, just a fun idea to think about, I think it is mainly cause I am a hardware guy and like the idea of more toys to play with :) (new mic that is USB and supposed to be a really nice mic to record with)

Course if I start a Podcast, would probably end up being more of a rantcast about World of Warcraft. But that isn’t really a bad idea either :P I can go in to some really interesting rants :)

Thursday, October 06, 2005

NPR : 'Virtual' Virus Sheds Light on Real-World Behavior

NPR : 'Virtual' Virus Sheds Light on Real-World Behavior: "Health & Science
'Virtual' Virus Sheds Light on Real-World Behavior

... by Laura Sydell "


This is actually kinda funny.

You should take a listen if you haven't seen it yet.

NPR : 'Virtual' Virus Sheds Light on Real-World Behavior

NPR : 'Virtual' Virus Sheds Light on Real-World Behavior: "Health & Science
'Virtual' Virus Sheds Light on Real-World Behavior

... by Laura Sydell "


This is actually kinda funny.

You should take a listen if you haven't seen it yet.

Linux encrypt - Rexploit

Linux encrypt - Rexploit

<==============================>
|| Linux Encrypting ||
|| by ||
|| William M. Hidalgo ||
|| redkommie<@>gmail.com ||
|| 02/25/05 ||
<==============================>


.: Contents :.

I. INTRO
- About

II. ENCRYPTING
- Containers
- Drives
- Files

APPENDIX


.: I. INTRO :.

[-=] About [=-]

This is a quick rundown on how to encrypt files, containers, and drives under
Linux. The use of loopback encrypted filesystems and openssl is explained
and examples are given. This paper should have you encrypting in no time. The
following commands were done running kernel 2.6.9.

COTSE-I have no such right

No I didn't write the articles from COTSE, I wish I had, but Steve made them, they are all his, I just agree with him completely

COTSE-I have no such right:

I do not have a right not to be offended. If speech offends me I do not have a right to ban it. If a thought offends me I do not have a right to claim that it should not be expressed. Yet all this politically correct bullshit is showing me that this is untrue, that if someone finds it offensive then it should be banned. This is wrong.

Too much concern is being placed upon 'is it offensive to anyone'. This entire approach falls apart fast if you try to apply it fairly. If the hypothetical 'they' have a right not to be offended then I must have that same right, correct? Well, that is good because I'm offended when someone else takes offense at something.

Oops, instant 'I'm offended' checkmate. Who counts more, the person offended at something or me offended at him being offended? I quickly find out it is not me. As a heterosexual white male minority I have no rights and so I am usually just ignored. But wait, that's not applying it fairly.

Ok, so I do not have the right to never have my beliefs challenged. I do not have the right to never be offended by anything. But if that is true then neither does anyone else. Why? Because there is no such right that can be fairly applied. If I find something offensive, I can speak out in opposition to it or I can ignore it, but I could not in any fairness ban it without stepping on someone else's rights.

The world is a massive mixture of cultures, beliefs, and ideals, so many differences that everything is offensive to someone somewhere. If everyone was given the right to never be offended it would mean that no belief or culture could ever be challenged. This is because if applied fairly it would mean 'I'm offended' checkmate nearly every time.

For example, I'm offended by little unidentified red things in macaroni salad and I think they should be banned. Even if I did have that right, I wouldn't be able to ban it anyway. Because certainly someone out there would claim that any macaroni salad"

COTSE-What happened to my country?

COTSE-What happened to my country?:

Yes, it's time for another rant. Americans are showing themselves to be a weak people, it's pitiful. We are willingly trashing our own rights in the name of protection from terrorists. Not for protection, just for the idea of it. What happened to the image of a bunch of American rednecks not afraid of a damn thing, the 'if it bleeds it can die' group. What happened to those people? When did we all become such easily lead fearful sheep? Why are we giving away our rights in the name of protection, especially when we appear to be doing it out of fear and effectively just throwing them away?

Do you want protection from terrorism? Then just be aware. Increase your awareness of your surroundings. Stop going through every day in a self-absorbed cloud. Wake up and watch for the unusual. Did someone set down a bag on a bus and walk away quickly? Report it right away. Someone acting funny? Take notice and do something. Throwing away your rights willy nilly because someone told you that if you did they'd protect you is not the right way. It's not bringing you safety and they don't come back as easy as they go. It's far easier to get a bill passed giving away freedom than it is to get one passed granting it. This is because power granted is power used and power used is power kept. That is why power must have proper checks and balances, if not it becomes power abused. Wake up, we are removing those checks and balances. This power is being misused already and they still want more.

Sure they want more, they wanted more to track 60's radicals, then to stop organized crime, then drugs, then pedophiles (think of the children), but none of that worked. Then came terrorists and you freaked out and willingly gave away those rights you denied them before. They've always wanted more. They've always desired to remove those checks and balances because they get in the way. It's so much easier to chase bad guys when you can sneak into their "

Monday, October 03, 2005

New Keyboard

well just got a nice pretty new white Mac Pro keyboard. feels nice, looks tiny, least compared to what I am used to seeing and working with. Now if I could just get the damn Windoze machine to play nice with the USB KVM I now have instead of the old PS/2 style I was using I will be good to go..

For the record my new KVM is a IOGEAR MiniView Micro USB Plus, 2-port KVM with built-in cables and Audio Support. Model #GCS632U, nice little guy, replaced the Older IOGEAR PS/2 MiniView i was running (also with built in cables but without audio support.

Friday, September 30, 2005

More Birthday stuff

Well got to the range today, still need to make that a solid monthly occurrence, always a good way to let off steam, and keeps my muscle memory up. Course now I need to call Austin and order more ammo, damn having a favorite ammo that is only from one store in a city 200 odd miles away :/
Ahh well, guess I should get in to reloading, would save me a little money and I could always get the ammo the way I want and like it to be.

Birthdays

well, another year, another birthday :/
fun fun fun
Why is it people make a big deal about birthdays. just another day in my mind pretty much,
maybe I will buy myself something, I am planning on going to the range, need to do that anyway, been a month or so since I did any shooting, Always helps to keep in practice, builds muscle memory (which comes in handy)

Ahh well, to finish my few tweaks for the night and see if I can get any sleep.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Macenstein: Mac stuff dug up on the web and pieced together into an unholy monster

I truely love this, about as un-PC as you can be, frelling love it. Bout time someone let off like this :)

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Mike Tech Show: Mike Tech Show - Podcast - #30 - 09-24-05

Nice collection of usefull tools to keep on a USB key, I have used one similar for years with my basic computer files as I call them, things I need on any machine I load my "Essintial list"

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Record your life...

Ever forget something that you possibly said last year during a friends party when you were drunk. A guy created something that he used for 3 years now recording his conversations and takes it home to this program that transcribes and organizes everything into text that you can search and go back to later and hear the audio from it.

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Re-Ripping

So I am sitting here, re-ripping my Harry Potter collection of Books on CD, for the 5th time I think, hoping I can get rip of the skips and bumps I got last time :/
no clue how I got that errors in there, but I did, so I am redoing it, and since I have gotten my iPod I don’t have to worry about the short naming scheme I did with my iRiver (blew it up :( ahh well the drive is now my pocket storage device)
So I am now going with a more interesting naming, I can finally use chapter naming instead of some silly naming convention of title acronym disc and track number :-s

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Arrested for being a geek

"The police decided that wearing a rain jacket, carrying a rucksack with a laptop inside, looking down at the steps while going into a tube station and checking your phone for messages just ticked too many boxes on their checklist and makes you a terrorist suspect."

Talk about some of the most screwed up stuff I have read in a while.
Hell I went thru an intergation and 9 month long "investigation" because a co-worker turned me in for making "threats" to fellow employees. Not once did they interview anyone else I worked with about my joking (I have a dark sense of humor, only damn way to deal witht he bullshit out there lately) I have since been fired for making a bloody joke, took em 9 months to figure out I was not a threat and I have no real idea if my record has been cleaned. Fucking annoying is what this shit is.

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Monday, September 19, 2005

Testing this thing out

Let’s see how MacJournal plays with my Blogger account, would hate to drop money on a piece of shit :P

Welcome to MacJournal!

Use the Journals toolbar item to see your journals, and use the Entries item to see the entries for that journal. You can delete this entry to get started (or just make a new one).

I hope you enjoy using MacJournal!

Monday, August 29, 2005

HISTORY TEST

HISTORY TEST
Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the
following multiple choice
test. The events are actual events from history.
They really happened!

Do you remember?

1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
a. Superman
b. Jay Leno
c. Harry Potter
d. a Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17
and 40

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year
old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his
wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver
trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild
Bill's women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as
missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two,
one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and
crashed by the passengers.
Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer
Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of
17 and 40

Nope, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?
So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics
intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be
allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches
of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper
identification, secret agents who are members of the President's
security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of
Honour winning and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males
between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria
Aldreds and other dunder-headed attorneys along with Federal Justices
that want to thwart common sense, feel doubly ashamed of themselves --
if they have any such sense. As the writer of the award winning story
"Forrest Gump" so aptly put it, "Stupid is as stupid does."

Come on people wake up!!!
And guess who just bombed London?????????

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John
Rblprd
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"Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand
ready to do violence on their behalf."

-George Orwell

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Goddamn Horde

WTF is it with people who play Horde, are they all cocksuckers and assholes? Never fucking fails, I try and quest, minding my own goddamn business and one or 15 of these fucks shows up, waits till I am about to kill what I am fighting and nearly dead myself, then hits me from behind so they get an "Honorable" kill. Fucking people need to get a goddamn life. I play the damn game to relax and I can't quest half the time cause I am bust getting my bleeding body back. Seems lvl 60 horde players most of all are bored and like to gank anyone they see in contested territory. WTF I ignore horde players in alliance territory by and large especially if they are low lvl or lower than me by a good margin. hell the old curtsey of waving to say your just passin thru trying to level just gets a wave and stabbed in the back for me. shit should be marked as a back-stab non-honorable kill, but no, they get the stats showing they got a kill, who cares if it was a back stab. or player 40 odd levels below them. bullshit ass PVP servers. Why I listened to people who suggested I join one is beyond me.

Sunday, July 10, 2005

WoW addiction

Ok, World of Warcraft is a bloody addictive game. I think I have spent a couple too many hours walking around killing bearsad deer just to get bits of leather so I can make things :/
How wierd is that?

Friday, May 20, 2005

Just to see what happens

Just wanting to see what really happens when I do this

So Sayeth John