Archive For May 1st, 2003
I’m not saying the ILUG is a rabid anti-Microsoft crowd, not at all! Many of our jobs rely on them crashing, eating harddrives, their networking problems.. etc. But when 2 ardent .net/win2k3/latest ms buzzword supports show up on the #linux IRC channel it’s bound to cause some trouble. hehe. Thankfully, the main protagonist, martin, has [...]
imgSeek is a most useful application! I’m importing my photo collection in there. That’s taking a while, as there’s a few gigs of data to work through! Sketching is fun, and could be useful as you can refine your sketch and it’ll keep updating the matching photos. Selecting an existing photo, and looking through the [...]
Looking through my log reports this morning I was shocked to see lots of failed logins for users such as root, ftp, nobody, apache, operator, amanda, mysql, etc. All originated from one host, ns1.webmediaworks.net, A visit to their website explained everything.. TechTeaM OwnZ u box dollarz@bol.com.br Unfortunately, the whois db seems to be down so [...]
I’m still working away at a registration process using the MVC pattern. It’s coming along very nicely in fact! Here’s an article describing it in some depth. I’ve hijacked the idea somewhat for my project. I have one controller, and multiple views/models. There’s one model and view for each page. The view is split between [...]
As featured on slashdot already, this movie is excellent. If you’ve ever played Max Payne you’ll really like this movie. If you haven’t, you’ll still like it! On a side note, the fileshack registration process is quite nice, enter a username and email address, hit submit, then click on the link they send to enter [...]
I know a hell of a lot more now about SCO than I did 24 hours ago. I know all about “Modem Manager”, /usr/lib/uucp/Devices and /usr/lib/uucp/Dialers – Argh! It’s so archaic! For those of you in the Windows world, imagine having to debug or use a Windows 3.1 application. That’s what SCO looked and felt [...]
