Archive for the ‘Nerd Alert’ Category
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
The technical details are extremely thin in this article about a phishing scheme that is affecting a regional bank. In fact, the article only says that the anti-phishing company, MarkMonitor, "...responded by flooding the Taiwanese Web site with e-mails and shutting it down within 18 hours."
I'd be interested to ...
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
As the headline says, "Quantum computer works best switched off."
Now, I'm obviously no quantum physicist, but I do kind of understand stuff like Schroedinger's Cat on an intuitive level. (For God's sake, don't ask me to explain it.)
But this, quite honestly, makes my hair hurt*.
To sum up the ...
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
I was a customer of 3 Rivers (phone, Internet, satellite TV) for quite a while, Back in the Day™. When they first brought the Intarweb to Ennis, I was the first member of the general public to have a peek in the CO to see the bright shiny terminal ...
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Saturday, December 31st, 2005
While poking around Google Video the other day, I came across this interview with James Doohan.
You can tell it was given near the end, but you can't help but notice his smile and his positive attitude.
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Saturday, November 5th, 2005
It might be a little nerdy for some, but this is absolutely hilarious.
deGaulle: Eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the fock up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
...
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
Presented without comment. Well, except for the title, but you know what I mean.
Guettel and Goldman to Team on 'Princess Bride' Musical
Inconceivable!
(H/T: Tony.)
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Friday, August 12th, 2005
I might as well start going to the Civilization Anonymous* meetings right now, before Civ IV comes out.
The funniest part is the guy curled up whimpering "Just one more turn."
Been there, done that.
(H/T, again: The Presurfer).
*Broadband recommended, as link goes to a movie file.
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
Take the Star Trek Quiz
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Thursday, July 14th, 2005
If you thought Tatooine was hot, this planet with 3 suns is probably even hotter.
What amazes me about technology is that the better technology gets, the more questions we end up with.
(125 Question H/T to: Lex Communis.)
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Saturday, February 19th, 2005
You probably noticed (at least I hope you did) that I finally got my original template up to snuff on Wordpress 1.5. Now that I've had time to monkey around with it a little bit, I have to agree with Jeff, the theming system is pretty dang cool. ...
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Saturday, February 12th, 2005
If I were to ever set up a web hosting service, I would set up a mailing list so that customers would know in advance when their server would be going down for maintenance.
Just saying, is all.
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Monday, January 31st, 2005
As you probably know, I'm in the IT profession. (Our Motto: " Beats me, why don't you reboot it and see what that does") A while back, I was involved in a pretty massive effort to close up the holes exploited by the Blaster worm. I know ...
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Saturday, January 29th, 2005
However, what you do with said tools is your own business.
For example, creating false Windows error messages could be wrong.
(H/T: Margi.)
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Saturday, January 29th, 2005
I'm borderline obsessive about going through my log files. I always think, "Who the hell are you people?" and "Where the hell are you at?" and "Why are you stopping in?"
Most of you don't stop to leave comments, and that's fine. That's certainly your prerogative, and I'm ...
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
Check out this trailer for Star Wars Episode III.
Good stuff.
(Found in the comments at /.)
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