http://bash.org/?top link provided by craigeaux #4753 +(6118)– [X] The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? #168859 +(1726)– [X] The most secure computer in the world is one… Continue reading thanks craigeaux
Year: 2004
Many Bothans died to bring me this information
I only looked at the pictures, but this is so cool.
A Real Man
I have scrubbed my hands until they are pink, yet still they are not completely clean. It’s the fingernails and the creases at the knuckles; they still show signs of the thing that I did. The thing that changed me forever. The alternator is a mechanical device under the bonnet of a car that converts… Continue reading A Real Man
Using external RSS Feeds in a .Text (dottext) skin
I recently moved from a home-grown blogging engine to .text (dottext), mainly because of the ‘blog anywhere’ web admin interface, and comment support. Because my old site was written by myself, it had in it most of the things I wanted. The released of .text contains many skins, but none of them were really what… Continue reading Using external RSS Feeds in a .Text (dottext) skin
Burgulars
Someone broke in to my car on Saturday night. I did not discover the break-in until Sunday afternoon, when I found the car to be unlocked, with the driver’s seat all the way reclined and everything scattered throughout the car. The contents of the glove compartment, door and console had been ripped out and thrown… Continue reading Burgulars
article: monitoring BCP Usage
I have nearly completed an article on Monitoring Bigpond Broadband usage with mrtg in Windows. It is published, but I still think it needs a bit of polish. It is the first proper article I have written for a long time. I liked it.
Zen II
Ok, I have done a bit more reading and thinking, and I am starting to form a picture of what it might be. I think that the reason it is so difficult for me to accept is that the whole point of Zen is to think in an intuitive way that is totally in opposition… Continue reading Zen II
Monitoring Bigpond Broadband usage with mrtg (Windows)
[update 23/7/2004: TristanK has added to the script to remove the requirement for lynx. A thousand thanks.] Bigpond Broadband* is a cable/adsl ISP in Australia. As with almost all Australian ISPs, they provide a limit on the number of megabytes that a user may download in a month. In order to help a user monitor… Continue reading Monitoring Bigpond Broadband usage with mrtg (Windows)