About a month ago a guy started a site to collect donations and build a pool of money that would be given to the first person to get Windows XP runing on the new Intel-based Macs. In the intervening time, some development progress has been made but overall it’s been quite slow. The hold up is that Windows has forever been designed to run on a machine with a standard BIOS that was designed way back when… Basically, the Intel Macs initiate the boot process in a wholly different manner than all x86 PCs have previously. This different booting strategy has been the real holdup in getting Windows to run on the otherwise fairly standard hardware and it looks like last week someone got past that hurdle, booting into the Windows installer. With that, I’d say we’re nearing the time when Windows will run on Macs, a glorious day indeed.
Do you administer or use unix systems remotely? Ones that log you out if you’re idle for long enough? Spinner is a program that runs in the background and periodically sends characters to keep your session from going idle. Cool.
I was browsing around my favorite interwebsite and I noticed this page . Ok, so maybe not everything on Wikipedia is useful…
So, I knew it was going to be cold on Thursday when the NPR 5 minute news brief, which sticks to big stories like terrorists taking control of Israel or massive protests by fundamentalists, had a guy from the National Weather Service on saying, “This is going to be the first arctic air burst we’ve had all year; it’s going to be quite cold.”
I’m not really a fan of Jay Leno, but this quote about the whole Cheney shooting incident was very, very good; kudos to his writers.
“What a nightmare I had last night. I dreamed I was at a Washington party and I had to choose between Dick Cheney taking me on a hunting trip or Ted Kennedy driving me home.” –Jay Leno
This came from a page with a list of jokes made about Cheney since back in the first term. It also links to a couple of great clips from The Daily Show on shooting:
I’m not really a fan of Jay Leno, but this quote about the whole Cheney shooting incident was very, very good; kudos to his writers.
“What a nightmare I had last night. I dreamed I was at a Washington party and I had to choose between Dick Cheney taking me on a hunting trip or Ted Kennedy driving me home.” –Jay Leno
This came from a page with a list of jokes made about Cheney since back in the first term. It also links to a couple of great clips from The Daily Show on shooting:
I noticed a lot of network and forking activity while using my computer last week, thanks to GKrellM I checked around and noticed a constant series of hits in my auth.log from someone trying common names to login via SSH. I blocked the offender, but from looking through the log, this happened quite often and, though I have very strong passwords, this was very annoying to me to see all that crap in the logs. I searched around and found a daemon called fail2ban that simply watches the logs and blocks hosts who have more than a specified number of failed login attempts. It’s in the Debian repositories, so just apt-get install fail2ban and then configure it in /etc/fail2ban.conf.
I also saw some cool tips on the CLUG Wiki.
Drew Stephens @ 12:16 am —
This probably isn’t that interesting, but I’ll may find it good to look back on at some point. A simple picture of my desk while I’m working on a project on the laptop and the right screen (I just got the LCD for Christmas); you can also see the massive queue of books I needed to get through at that time. That little plastic shelf almost broke.
Sonic, the fast food chain self-proclaimed “America’s Drive-in,” which, I guess is true; it’s the only drive in I know of this side of Oklahoma. I’m not much for fast food, but I quite enjoy Sonic, probably only because of the novelty, as I only get it on my way to the Outer Banks, NC. What confuses me is their advertising scheme. The only place I’ve ever seen Sonic locations is in southern Virginia and beyond; indeed, the farthest north location on their website is in Williamsburg, Virginia. Yet I see their television advertisments in D.C. And in Rochester, fully 550 miles from Williamsburg. Why do they advertise here, again?
Drew Stephens @ 6:20 pm —
