I hope he has a really big wallet.
“PC EZ-Bake Oven”
Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure that this is a hoax. Or maybe that’s “fortunately,” because if it weren’t, GoddessJ would insist that I buy one for her.
“Each Wore a Tiny Trench Coat”
You’ll have to skip down the page a little, but it’s worth the effort… fourteen “trained squirrels,” equipped with “espionage systems of foreign intelligence services,” were supposedly caught in Iran.
Pull the other one, guys. I’m sure intelligence services would love to be able to do that kind of thing, but I really doubt the squirrels are cooperating.
“Grief Counseling Expert Available […] Regarding Harry Potter”
Our copy of the last Harry Potter book arrived early Saturday morning, and GoddessJ devoured it like a starving woman at an all-you-can-eat banquet. I got it late that evening, and read it at a much more leisurely pace, finishing it Monday evening. I find it hard to believe, but Rowling actually managed to live up to our highest expectations.
But the reason for this entry is only vaguely related to that: a press release by a certified grief counseling expert offering advice and services to parents and children “coping with loss related to [the] upcoming Harry Potter release.”
In part, I understand this. Many children don’t have the emotional maturity to truly understand that this is all make-believe, and no one is really hurt; they can feel grief for imagined characters as much as for real people, and those of us who follow the Harry Potter news already knew months ago, from the author’s own mouth, that there were going to be some deaths of major characters. But the rest of me is simply disgusted at how so many people are trying so hard to cash in on the Harry Potter craze.
“Ripped from Headlines or Plot from Scooby Doo?”
The sad thing is, I got all ten right on the first try. Apparently I watched too much Scooby Doo when I was a kid.
“Vandals attack man’s Hummer, leave note”
While I can’t agree with the actions, I can understand the sentiment.
The OS Wars II: Finding a New Note Program
As mentioned before, there’s one Windows program that I haven’t been able to find a Linux-based replacement for: dogMelon’s Note Studio. This morning I decided to break out a couple of the things I use it for, to see if I could find good replacements for those pieces only. Continue reading ‘The OS Wars II: Finding a New Note Program’ »
The OS Wars II: SSH Server Security
A leak? You call what’s going on here a leak? Last time we had leak like like this, Noah built himself a boat! — Wells (Wilford Brimley), ‘Absence of Malice’
Our copy of the new Harry Potter novel (delivered early this morning from Amazon) is presently being devoured by GoddessJ, and it doesn’t look like she’ll be done with it until late tonight. My other projects are all at a temporary standstill, so I decided it was time to make my server’s SSH system available over the Internet, as I’d mentioned an interest in doing before.
That noise… it sounded as if millions of knowledgeable sysadmin voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced… 😉 Never fear; even if a Linux-using friend hadn’t already been hacked through an SSH daemon that was ill-advisedly enabled by default in one of his various distro-hops, and I hadn’t seen a recent article that mentioned SSH server attacks, and I also didn’t already know that SSH server attacks were one of the SANS Institute’s top-twenty security attack targets, my paranoia meter (which generally reads quite high anyway) pegs the needle whenever I consider punching a hole in my hardware firewall. Assuaging the paranoid within would require plenty of research.
It didn’t take long for that research to hit the jackpot. Continue reading ‘The OS Wars II: SSH Server Security’ »
“Random Japanese Weirdness”
A friend of ours (hi, interrobang!) recently wrote this amusing post. So now we know…
New Spacesuit Design
Try this on for size.