furtive explorations

Geek News to me SlashDot SharkTank APOD The Register SciFi Wire MozillaZine Freshmeat.net New Scientist Perl Monks Advogato Mozilla.org Fool.com Eureka Alert NTK.net

Funny things The Onion BBSpot Something Awful Bob From Accounting SeanBaby Landover Baptist Betty Bowers PigDog Kibo McSweeneys Zach Everson Food Court Walter_Miller GagPipe Satire Wire Brunching Shuttlecocks I Love Bacon

Adult Popular culture AdCritic The Smoking Gun RetroCrush X-E Stile Project Brutal Rotten

Scribbling Words Mike Jasper Misanthopic Bitch Laura's NYC Tales College Chick Lemon Yellow LingList Language Miniatures

Game playing Blue's News EQ.CastersRealm Allakhazam

Searching for lurve IMDB Google

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Blogs I read-ish <shes come undone> eMays DaveLog eMays KimLog Hell Bus Argon-Man Weblog.org Fever Head In Vino Veritas Asane's Journal Funtongue Scatterplot FARK Qetuilasnort David's Life 5ives Belle de Jour Wonkette Evhead Virulent Memes David Chess' Log The Null Device Lileks' Bleats Robot Wisdom Peterme MemePool BlogdexBlog Twernt Bud.com More Like This Linkwatcher Metalog Bump Metafilter Metascene Flutterby Hack the Planet Larkfarm Bird on a Wire Trenchant.org Toxic Custard Apathy

Spam I Really Want NextDraft Davenetics Joe Lavin Ruminations TopFive Ditherati World Wide Words Motley Fool

No doubt more will appear here as we move along. For now, a poem from a book I love called "When Harlie Was One":

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U BM
We all BM
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Monday, June 23, 2008

1:50:00 PM by Kilroy *: For you network geeks: Emulate a Cisco 7200 with a PC.
8:15:00 AM by Kilroy *: George Carlin is dead. Well, shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

5:44:00 PM by mark *: Google Mapped my neighborhood. Very cool.
The problem is, it was last year in the Summer/Fall some time (I'm guessing last week of July, first week of August?) and thanks to the gas prices all being $2.99 it is like visiting an alternate universe. *sob*

Friday, April 25, 2008

4:06:00 PM by mark *

This forum post helped solve a horrible problem we were having at work.

We have a couple of servers running Windows Server 2003 x64 with the old Sql Server 2000 installed. The counter objects weren't showing up in Performance Monitor and we couldn't record useful data logs to give to a vendor.

The short version? You need to run the x32 version of perfmon.exe that hides in \Windows\SysWow64\ AND you need to change a SysMon service's registry key so that it runs that same x32 version of the exe when collecting data!

Drove us nuts looking for it since there is no sign of this issue in Microsoft's Knowledge Base system. Why not? Probably so they can chant "upgrade" over and over while charging you for a service call.

Friday, April 18, 2008

5:53:00 AM by mark *: Yeah, We totally felt that earthquake in Illinois. They've changed it from a 5.3 to a 5.4 while I'm writing this. It was on the other side of Illinois from here (Middletown, KY near Louisville) and it woke my wife up and lasted long enough to discuss while it happened. I'd say 10-15 seconds at 5:37am. Wow.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

4:52:00 PM by Kilroy *: Heh. Pirate Gangsta Rap. Swab the tape deck, matey. Yarr. Hoist this.

Friday, April 04, 2008

2:51:00 PM by mark *

Looks like I got most of the mail issue sorted out, except for W3ME.com. *sigh*

2:34:00 PM by mark *

The Hostile empire lost a server today. Jade is dead.

Unfortunately, Jade was running DNS services for much of the empire and things are still shaky following the frantic reworking of that infrastructure. One of the sister DNS servers wasn't working and the one on the main Peridot box that this site runs on was offline from where I was using it to rescue another site's DNS last year.

Worse, the W3ME.com domain is off the air for a day or two whilst we correct the registry information to include at least one working email address... otherwise I can't change the stupid DNS servers to some that are working!

Email is still only semi-functional as I try and stablize the damage... except, of course, for email to W3ME, which is completely dead.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

10:16:00 PM by sklutch *: Now, that was interesting.
Rented Hitman...fun to watch. Again, not one to judge on a scale meant for reality. But, a fun watch for someone in the mood to watch a bunch of nameless people get killed. Plus, some nice nudity and S/M flashbacks, for those of that *ahem* bent. Especially since Olga is so yummy in the role.
Just another ping from the mind of sklutch. :)
5:03:00 PM by sklutch *: oh my God... I can't stop giggling. I *HIGHLY* recommend Shoot 'Em up. It's insanely fun to watch, although firearms purists will lose their lunch...but then, they expected something intelligent and I wanted something to watch on a rainy day. I'm totally gonna buy a copy of this one.

Sunday, March 02, 2008

10:42:00 PM by mark *: I feel bad about letting this blog languish so long... and about not finishing various things I promised I'd post about. Oh well. "Such is life" as the French might say if they actually spoke English and didn't have their own language.