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...to me. Celebratory self-wankery BMP. Hey you! I think I like this one better, though.

...and funny as hell.

...all I can tell you is to reboot. Ob 2001 sound file.

As far as I can tell, this is really Fatso Jetson's blog and not some mock up by fans.

Here are the individual titles of the various volumes of the Desert Sessions.

• Volume 01 - Instrumental Driving Music For Felons
• Volume 02 - Status: Ships Commander Butchered
• Volume 03 - Set Co-Ordinates For The White Dwarf
• Volume 04 - Hard Walls And Little Trips
• Volume 05 - Poetry For The Masses:She Shed Shithead by the She Sore
• Volume 06 - Poetry For The Masses:Black Anvil Ego
• Volume 07 - Gypsy Marches
• Volume 08 - Can't You See Under My Thumb? There You Are
• Volume 09 - I See You Hearin' Me
• Volume 10 - I Heart Disco

The best blonde joke ever.

This flog entry is only a test to see if I am really seeing a live copy of hecat.org or a cached copy. If this had been an actual flog entry, the content would have been far more banal.

Finally got around to plugging in the router my buddy gave me. When I pulled it out of the box it was configured for a password on the admin account. I had pressed the reset button with a pen, but apparently hadn't done it long enough. Tried again for at least 10-20 seconds and then I was able to get into the router's web interface without a problem.

Running through the "wizard" had me connected outbound within seconds...it was actually too easy. I was paranoid that something must be wrong somewhere. I guess this is the wonder of Windows XP's PnP when it works.

Inbound connections, however, were not occuring. For the port forwarding on this to work, you need static internal IPs.

• Control Panel > Network Connections > My DSL Connection > Properties
• Highlight TCP/IP protocol and click Properties.
• Setup with a static IP address outside the router's DHCP range.
• Set the internal IP of the router as the preferred DNS server.
• In the router's configuration turn off DHCP.
• Now you can start setting up services to forward - on the AT&T 6800G these are called "Virtual Servers", but normally it's port forwarding or something like that.
• For each server you have running on the internal machine with the static IP address you setup a rule that forwards traffic from the WAN side of the router for a specific port to the IP of the machine on the LAN that is listening for traffic. The port the server is listening on need not match the WAN side port external traffic uses to connect to your router.

Kaminsky's survey from last month (between 2005-12-15 and 2005-12-23) shows that there are still about 350,000 networks infected with the XCP copy protection software.

This memory leak is apparently already known, but I came across it for the first time last night. I was browsing some Classifieds threads on VWVortex and had loaded 2 threads with a large number of pictures in them. My entire system became extremely slow. In the Firefox tabs with the pictures, I could scroll the height of one image before the whole system had to take a break for 10 seconds.

I hit ctrl-alt-del to check for a run-away process to kill and discovered that Firefox was leaking huge amounts of memory...about 100Kb each second the 2 graphics intensive tabs for VWVortex were open. I closed all the other apps I had open at the time and browsed the threads as quickly as FF would let me and then killed FF, too.

It was quite astounding to see. Today, on this machine, FF memory usage is holding steady at 71,712MB. I should try to reproduce the behavior today, just for fun.

"I hate snuff films because you always know how its gonna end."

That'd be a cool name for a band...yeah.

Hi, this site is all about Chuck Norris, the REAL CHUCK NORRIS. This site is awesome. My name is beowulf and I can't stop thinking about Chuck. This guy is cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.

Facts:

• Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
• The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
• Chuck is able to magically diagnose disease by putting his hand on your shoulder.

Good to know, Ken.

Which MXC character are you?

There a number of cogent comments that point out flaws in this test, but the results still raise some interesting ideas about how acceptable it is to isolate the driver from the act of driving.

Fortunately, I don't have to worry about any of these new fangled "safety devices" turning me into a dumb driver in the Rabbit.

Never let it be said that ISCA doesn't yield at least one gem per annum.

The goddamned gap just keeps getting smaller.

Does it imply something that much different or are there just more fascists here?

Fake insurgents fake killing US soldiers during fake crises strikes me as both disturbing and humourous at the same time. It's kind of disthumourous.

There's a new MP3 up on the Sandanista Project blog.

I was over in one of the other buildings on the Initrode campus today. The sign on the door for 3rd floor western stairwell reads "Stair". There appear to be many stairs in the stairwell, but it must actually be the case that there is only one stair existing in multiple points of space-time.

For a while, I've had this script, chipd, which will update ZoneEdit whenever my IP changes. However, I have to remember to run it myself occasionally since it isn't setup to run on a schedule. Since it is a bash script, I decided to try to get Cygwin cron to run it instead of having it run as a Windows Scheduled Task. It took some fiddling, but I got it working.

• I installed cron using the Cygwin setup.exe.
• I ran crontab -e under my luser account to create schedule table. I wanted the sript to run every 15 minutes and initially tried using */15 in the minutes field, but that didn't seem to work so I ended up using a list - 0,15,30,45. All other fields were *.
• I originally called a wrapper script in the cronab, but that didn't work for some reason (that I think is related to the way redirection was done in the wrapper script), so I updated the cronab to directly call chipd like this:

  
          /usr/local/bin/chipd 2>&1 >> /var/log/chipd.log
  
          

• I also had to separate the fields in the crontab with tabs instead of spaces.
• Since I was running the cron service under my luser account I had to:
  • chown luser /var/log/cron.log
  • rm /vor/run/cron.pid - so it would be recreated with the correct owner
• Install cron as a Windows service:

  
          cygrunsrv -I cron -u luser -d "CYGWIN cron" -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec" -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
  
          

• Start the cron service:

  
          cygrunsrv --start cron
  
          

I updated my machine to Windows Installer 3.0 and then upon reboot I would get Error 997 when trying to start the Windows Installer service. The message associated with the error has to do with "overlapped I/O", so I mistakenly thought that maybe something was still trying to be copied or got corrupted while being copied during the Windows Installer installation. Re-ran the MSI for Windows Installer 3.0, rebooted, but still got the error.

Resolution is to unregister and re-register MSIEXEC.EXE. Another classic example of the text of the error message having fuck-all to do with the actual problem.

    msiexec.exe /unregister

    msiexec.exe /regserver

  

It's also recommended that the SYSTEM account have "Full Control" permissions to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive in the registry.