Posts by Fatman

RE: I worry more about what the owners of the apartment will do if/when he moves out.

If you ever are in the market for a house, stay away from buying one currently (or just recently) owned by a chain smoker.

Many years ago, my brother bought a house owned by a chain smoker. That guy just sat in the living room and smoked all day long.

The normally silver colored air conditioning vents were a bronze in color, and there was this yellow film plastered over the walls.

We had to industrial strength `Janitor In A Drum` straight out of the bottle (no diluting) to cut through the tar on the walls. The vent grilles had to soak in the same solution over the weekend before we attempted to clean them.

NASTY stuff that nicotine tar.

NOW, you know why I will NEVER date a smoker!!!!!

US area codes

You would be surprised to learn that in the US, number changes are too a PITA.

There are generally two ways they are accomplished:

1) splitting an existing area code, with the larger percentage of numbers staying with the existing area code; or

2) overlaying a second area code on top of an existing one. In this situation, new customer lines generally get the newer area code. This almost insures 10 (or 11) digit dialing. In my own area code, some numbers are 7 digits, others are 10 and some are 11 (what a fscking nightmare!!!)

The area where I live, had its original area code split up several times. Originally, the area code was 813, later 727, 863, 941 and 239 have been added to the same geographical area once covered by 813. Some customers went from 813 -> 941 -> 239 in a span of only a few years. Still NANPA (North American Number Plan Administrator) is concerned about number exhaustion. What are they going to do as area code prefixes dwindle is uncertain. Since North America (Canada, the USA, and many Caribean Islands share the +1 country code, one possibility is to append a second digit as the long distance dialing prefix. But that would NOT go over very well. Think of all of the legacy equipment and software designed for at most, a 10 digit telephone number! You can be sure people are going to bitch about it.

RE: .. incompetence at the highest level.

No sir,

CHEAPNESS at the highest level!!!!

^---- Because I hope this really blows up in their faces.

RE: obey the law....

What the cell operators ought to do is refine the antenna patterns of existing towers to create a DEAD ZONE over this community.

When people start complaining - just point the complainers toward the a-holes who created this issue in the first place.

Then the cell operators could just say: "We are abiding by the wishes of the comminity!'

Fsck them if they can not take a joke. Fscking, whining (l)users!

RE: The fall of Silvio Berlusconi

I am sure that there are many of you "lucky" enough to have seen one of the "Hitler" parodies that clog You Tube.

If a sequel featuring Benito Mussolini, were ever to be developed; perhaps Mr. Berlusconi could audition for the lead role.

YOU thought wrong!

Windows IS malware!

Tw@tter is simply a waste of time and bandwidth.

RE: ..trying to set up IIS

NO, that is CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT.

RE: Black holes in the Internet??

AFAIAC, the LHC can swallow up all of the spammers, identity thieves and bot herders in the world. The Internet would be a better place if it did!

I see no reason why certain portions of the global IP address space don't get routed to `/dev/hell`.

RE: ....were behind bars for a couple of years.

No, too easy, I say, line them up against he wall, and shoot them.

Grenade, because I want to blow their heads off!

Saturday's weather

Saturday evening is expected to be clear, except in the area around Gainesville, where smoke and airborne soot will cloud human judgment.

The possibility of violent thunderstorms can not be discounted.

Outdoor activities should be avoided late in the day.

Because of the potential for wildfires, any unnecessary outdoor burning is prohibited by order of the state fire marshal.

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Personally, I hope that as this fool goes to strike up the match, a bolt of lightning flies out of the clouds, and strikes him dead.

That would be evidence of God's will.

RE: Deliquent, Excuse me!!!

I hear you dude!!!!!

Nothing infuriates me more than complete incompetence in an organization. One month, my local municipality hit me with a late fee for paying my utility bill "late". The funny thing is that I paid it on the "date due". Thank God, I had a computer issued receipt indicating not only the date of payment, but the time also. So, I went straight to the head of the billing office and reamed that woman a new arsehole. I used to run billing for a wholesaler, and before the statements went out, someone looked them over. many times mistakes in applying payments were caught before the statement hit the mail. The last thing I told that woman was "that if she had worked for me - I would have FIRED her sorry arse!".

When it comes to official incompetence, I suggest that you "Bitch, Moan and Groan" as loudly as you can. If the "public officials" don't like it, they can fsck off!

RE: ...what they polished.....

If you search the web for Dr Guff's product, you will get your answer.

Hell, I even did you a favor, here is a link:

http://www.guffsturdpolish.com/default.php

RE: Would it have been prevented by patching Windows?

How about: "Would it have been prevented by NOT USING Windows?"

RE: beta software `had bugs` - shocker

I am currently experimenting with this:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100901 Firefox/4.0b6pre (today's nightly)

On the Mozilla forums, it pains me to see people criticize `beta` software for "having bugs".

Don't they GET IT!!!

Beta software is PRE-PRODUCTION quality; and of course, it will have bugs.

FLAMES because I think some of these whining (l)users deserve to have their asses roasted.

Nightly builds

Yes, it can be very interesting to play with the nightlies. I just downloaded today's (Aug 27) nightly, and have yet to install it.

Grenade, because playing with nightlies CAN be dangerous!

RE: Could just be me

It appears that when you said: "NoScript and AdBlock worked fine until I downloaded the latest nightly"; you made it quite clear that you do not know what a `nightly` is.

A `nightly build` is literally bleeding edge.

The code fixes that were applied to the tree were compiled and a `nightly build` is available for those who want to see if those changes WORK. Nightly builds may not be stable, and can crash. If you use your regular profile with a nightly, then YOU take the risk that your profile may get hosed.

So, it is expected that addons MAY NOT be up to date on a nightly. If you want to play with Firefox 4, then use a BETA. The most current BETA is 3. Addon authors need time to digest the changes made to Firefox, and make the necessary changes in their addon. One would hope that by the time Firefox 4 is released, most of the addon compatibility issues have been corrected. BTW, most addon authors have a `day job`.

FAIL because you failed the test.

distinction between God and root

There is none on our network.

root is SYSTEM LORD.

End of discussion.

if root does not like your surfing habits, you get routed to /dev/hell, and lose ALL internet access. Then you have to explain to your manager why you can not do your job. (Don't worry, before you are routed to /dev/hell; your manager will already know why.)

As far as `white listing / black listing` goes, our net admin has a BIND server that takes care of it. Try to surf to a banned site, and you get logged.

RE: Self destructing laptop

If a recent article that I have read has any semblance to reality, one could add Acer to that list.

The article's subject was: "The shoddiest laptop manufacturers".

Considering the tone of that article, I think a slight re-write of the subject is in order. Please substitute and `i` for the `o`, and a `t` for the `d`; and you will have hit the subject on the head.

On Star

Or have the Feds turn the mic on in the car cab without you knowing it. Reportedly, that has already occurred.

Like you, I will not buy a vehicle with On Star, or, considering my rabid dislike of all things Micro$oft, vehicles with Sync.

AFAIC, the politicians eventually want us all to get RFID tagged if they could get away with it.

OK, MR Politician, you want me chipped, YOU FIRST!!!

Remember: BOHICA, and believe me, it's gonna hurt!!!!!

RE: RE Feeding this back

"I actually had the delicious thought of them stuffing printouts of the apology down the lawyers throats."

No, I would have said:

"I actually had the delicious thought of giving NatWest's lawyers a good swift kick in the nutz."

A lot more satisfaction from that action.

RE: Why are 'mobile' and 'iPhone' distinct ways of making calls?

Because to make an iPhone call, one must genuflect before the altar of St Jobs, and make sure that you offer the required tithe before you can make an iPhone call. And, if you are so unlucky to live in merika, you are shackled to the beast known as at&t. That is your punishment for wanting to buy an iPhone, you stupid twit.

There is another `truism`

That one being, don't pick a fight with someone who can buy ink by the barrel.

In this case, Chase may have to watch out for the law of `unintended consequences`.

Is it a good idea to p!ss off Google??

Can you see your search engine rankings go directly to hell??

I am not saying Google would do that, but...........

Ads?? What Ads, I don't see no G--D--- ADS!!!

Oh, that is right, I use Firefox with AdBlocker Plus and No Script.

RE: This is a good idea, why?

Because a bunch of dumb fscking bean counters said it was.

BTW, you do bring up some extremely valid points.

I am curious who would get screwed by the Bulls--- Society of America (aka BSA) in the event unlicensed software is found on an empolyee owned machine.

Another question comes to mind: Data ownership.

Can the employee REFUSE to allow the company to gain access to data that is stored on the employee owner computer in the event they are no longer associated with that company???

Does the company have any right to `analyze` private data on an employee owned computer in the event that there is suspicion that some wrong doing had occurred; or at the time they plan to terminate an employee???

If I got fired by an employer, where I was supplying the computer; once they handed me the pink slip, the answer to a question about looking at my computer would be `tough s---`.

IMHO some serious LEGAL minefields to wander through. I am not sure I want that task. BTW, this applies to more than simply computers, one could apply this to cell phones, iPads, etc. I would rather, from a legal standpoint, not want go down this road. I would rather keep my s--- separate from the employer's s---. If they tell me `goodbye`, then `here is your fscking s---, see ya`!!!!

I will do you even one better!!!

On an old D^HHell GX150, 1.3 Ghz P3 with 512MB of memory, Rhythmbox runs fine. O/S is either Karmic (9.10) or Lucid (10.04). Getting those two to play nice with each other, and have shared (although not concurrent) access to the Music and Video files was a tad tricky.

It took a bit of Gooooogling to determine that you should NOT completely share `/home` across different O/S instances. (Something to do with clobbering settings). Sharing Music (as `/home/Music`) and Video (`/home/Video`) made things work out sweet.

I plan to try to pull this off at the office for a *nix based test platform. The question - how many O/S instances can you make work without virtualization?

Unencrypted WiFi dangers

You have described `Albert Gonzalez` and his merry gang of thieves. Out `wardriving` they managed to get into a wireless network, plant sniffing software, and laugh all the way to the bank, until they got caught. (Does `TJ Maxx` ring any bells???) [1]

If the victim (TJ Maxx) had not been so DAMMED LAX in their security, they would have not been their victim; some other stupid clueless bunch of ID10Ts would have been.

IMHO, the best wireless network - IS NO WIRELESS NETWORK..

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[1] In case it has faded from your mind, here are two links:

http://news.cnet.com/T.J.-Maxx-hack-exposes-consumer-data/2100-1029_3-6151017.html

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136800/Alleged_data_breach_kingpin_had_plenty_of_help

Note in the second linked article, one paragraph about Christopher Scott:

`On two separate occasions in July 2005, Scott compromised two wireless access points at a TJX-owned Marshall's store in Miami. He used the access to download various commands onto TJX servers containing payment card data. About a year after gaining access to the TJX network, Scott established a secure VPN connection between a TJX payment card transaction processing server and a malicious server owned by Gonzalez for uploading various sniffer programs to the server to capture transaction data as it was being processed. `

End result: GAME OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you must use wireless, then invoke the best security setting you can manage, or the criminals will MANAGE to loot your bank account (or someone else's credit card details).

It burns me up that there are still some refugees from the Cro-Mag days that will NEVER GET IT when it comes to securing data.

RE: .....regurgitating what's been fed to them by lobbying experts?

If there is a `R` after their name, the probability is extremely high.