dammIT

A rantbox by Michiel Scholten

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Computer anecdotes

Heh, well I've got my share of computers anecdotes from the last few days. First of all, my server died. It turned out to be a bad motherboard [and maybe a too light power supply], but at first I thought the main HDD drive had died. That would have been …

Victory!

I just booted XCalibur, my server, successfully. I replaced the motherboard [the other was b0rked, if I'm right], so now it has a nice Asus A7V8X-X heart. However, this has onboard LAN, so I left out the ethernet card. But then the Woody install didn't have LAN anymore. Turned out …


"Writing" a paper

What is it about me and writing papers? Well, papers about subjects I don't really, _really_ care about? I just don't get them done. Well, this one doesn't have to be lengthy, so I'm going to act tomorrow like it has to be submitted that evening. Guess I'll be finished …


Fun with logs and referrers

Alextreme's fun with referrers and porno links. I guess they found his hidden pr0n site ;) I'm currently [well sometimes, when I'm in the mood] implementing a log digging script, so I can marvel at the useless information my logs remember for me, so I guess there are a few pearls …

Well, that was entertaining...

Went to TINE yesterday. It was a little bit boring, except for some of the smaller stands and the [somewhat forced] discussion about Open Source and Linux in commercial use and with the government. We came along the stand of Amaze, a small company building a CMS in Python. Maybe …

I just got raped

While sleeping in Breedster, I got raped by a girl - Pink Babe. Talking about a weird game :) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:39:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Breedster To: aquatix Subject: Breedster - Pink Babe -PinkFam- has mated you Hi aquatix, Pink Babe -PinkFam- has mated you. 2 …

"I feel good - tadadadadadadah" :)

It was a lovely day today. First of all: the sun shined while it wasn't quite supposed to. Second, I'm currently copying 3 albums to a 256MB memorystick I bought earlier today so I can listen to them from my pda. I got a fresh haircut [boy that was needed …

Grades and stuff

While it's not that bad as this girl describes, my grades aren't great either. I'm doing some classes now that just aren't interesting, but I want them finished before I go on and do the far more interesting Master courses. Maybe I should have a change of scenery too [move …

Antivirus spam by ISPs

When will ISPs finally realize that the replies with "you've send an e-mail that contains a virus to one of our addresses" [in this case Netsky.Q] are futile? Those viruses contain made up From: addresses, so you don't even know who send it at all. I don't want …

Reading logic. Order matters ;)

Reversed the order comments where sorted at: now it's chronological and that's far more logical ;) Now that I'm at that point: top posting in an email or usenet message seems to be considered not done. I was a little confused when I saw the strong reactions someone got when he …

Some more blog [and real life] updates

I updated the comments design today. It looks a lot cleaner now, shows linebreaks as actual breaks and the system sends me an email when someone adds a comment. Neat :) A lot of internal code cleanup makes it actually a nice package I could release. I'm wondering if I want …

The opposite of technophobia

It's kinda sad: I just don't feel right when I don't have some electronic gadget with me. It doesn't matter where I'm going or what I bring with me - cellphone, pda, laptop, whatever - but I just have to bring some of my gadgets to feel at ease. Some example of …

Work work

[Anybody who's played WarCraft III, remember the Orcs saying "Work work" - that's what's playing in my mind now :)]. Anyway, setting up a new website with a co-worker at the moment. Converting html designs into java jsp's, setting up xml files and stuff. Big fun :| Ah well, we've planned to play …

Update done :)

Just updated the whole thing. Have fun with it and please mail me [or react :)] if anything b0rks! BTW, notice the new blogmark feed :)

Blog feature bloat

Working on tons of new stuff, so stay tuned. Maybe I'll even finish it tonight. Hm, then I'll be kinda sleepy at work tomorrow; maybe a bad idea. I'll see :)

News of today, April 14

First of all [text borrowed from Debian.org]: protest against software patents in Europe. Most software will become illegal to use in Europe if this dangerous directive is adopted without proper amending. The Commission and the Council of Ministers are covertly pushing for unlimited patentability of software, heavily lobbied by …

Things to cry about

Installing [or updating, actually] winxp on a Dell with a cracked screen. Ow, and a b0rked space bar. Why do people always have to abuse pc's? It has such a nice resolution [1400x1050], but it's all fscked up [pictures will follow]. Ow, did I mention the spacebar is fricking b0rked …

I don't care about accessibility

Jeffrey Veen says exactly what I'm trying to say to my colleagues for some time now: if you design a website right, you don't need to worry about whether or not "it works in Mozilla" or in Opera, or IE or Lynx. It just does. Great article.