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Messing with Script Kiddies
January 15th, 2009Starting the first week in January, I started noticing my personal server getting pounded with requests looking for roundcube or mantis installs on my system. After doing a bit of research at the Internet Storm Center I realized it was a new vulneribility in these programs and these script kiddies were just scanning servers for [...]
December 31st, 2008, The Day The Zunes Stood Still
December 31st, 2008Apparently all 1st Gen 30G Zunes with the latest firmware update from Microsoft died at midnight, pacific time last night. None are booting up past the loading screen. Even people that had theirs on listening to it… Son of a B….., Right in the middle of Shine on you Crazy Diamond mine crapped out too. [...]
TF2 Dedicated Server Rant
December 28th, 2008Where to start with this one… I just spent the better part of 2 hours trying to configure a dedicated TF2 server with the Beetle’s Mod admin plugin… what appears to be the only functioning admin plugin out there worth a fuck for TF2. And you know where I’m at now? FUCKING NO WHERE. I [...]
PHP – 4th Most Popular Programming Language
December 7th, 2008Just a quick post here. I came across the Tiobe Software Index today which… well, I’ll let them explain it: The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third [...]
Vista Bashing – I’m SICK of it!
October 28th, 2008It seems that every single day I stumble on another article, newscast, or person, who is brainlessly bashing Vista. I’m fucking sick of hearing it. Every single one of these articles I have seen appears to be written by some talentless hack who has either not used Vista, or someone who has no fucking business [...]
So Long iGoogle!
October 22nd, 2008It’s been almost a week now and iGoogle still has no option of reverting. It is still loading slow and the new way their “widgets” load is fucking terrible. As of today I am changing my home page on all of my machines at work and home. I refuse to use a home page that [...]
Move that nasty EA Games folder out of Documents!
October 19th, 2008My girlfriend loves The Sims 2. Unfortunately she has to play it on my main computer because it’s also a gaming rig so it handles The Sims 2 with ease, where as her computer would stroke out. Because of this The Sims 2 is installed on my computer. I have my system setup with multiple [...]
Follow up to “Open File – Security Warning”
September 14th, 2008A month ago I posted on how to disable the annoying Open File- Security Warning dialog when opening files downloaded from the Internet. At the end of the article I mentioned that there was a side effect in doing this… The only side effect is that IE will have a warning bar at the top [...]
