bored as hell

As i sit here, waiting on boss man to get done flappin his gums. I am reminded of how boring down time really is. Guess i need to start bring my iBook with me again since i an not driving, and i can rant on it a lot easier :p

Moving

Dear President Bush:

I'm about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family,
and I would like to ask you to assist me. I'm going to walk across the
border from the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few
arrangements. I know you can help with this.

I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration
quotas and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do
here.

So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I'm
on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the
following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.

2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might
need, whether I use them or not.

3. All government forms need to be printed in English.

4. I want my kids to be taught by English-speaking teachers.

5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.

6. I want my kids to see the American flag flying on the top of the
flag pole at their school with the Mexican flag flying lower down.

7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.

8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy
access to government services.

9. I do not plan to have any car insurance, and I won't make any
effort to learn local traffic laws.

10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo
from Pres. Fox to leave me alone, please be sure that all police
officers speak English.

11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put flag decals on
my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any
complaints or negative comments from the locals.

12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, and
don't enforce any labor laws or tax laws.

13. Please tell all the people in the country to be extremely nice and
never say a critical word about me, or about the strain I might place
on the economy.

I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things
for all the people who come to the U.S. illegally from M exico. I am
sure that
Pres. Fox won't mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.

However, if he gives you any trouble, just invite him to go quail
hunting with your V.P.

Thank you so much for your kind help.

Sincerely,

An American Tax Payer

thoughts from my new phone

Messing with the new nokia 6682 so far i am really loving this new phone just have to stay off the net with, it get me in trouble with data charges. The application support is staggering really all lines of neat, usefull, and useless apps out there for this silly thing. Great for a geek you can tweak this thing all lines of ways.

Best Ever Freeware Utilities List

This user has compiled an awesome list of freeware utilities. Enjoy.

Interesting list for those that still use Windows

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Testing

Testing mobile gmail access as a way to update my blog

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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

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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 :)

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.