The Hideyhole

Oh, casual racism, you are too funny

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:55:26 GMT

(1:33:39 PM) JF: why did i kill 115.49.32.197?
(1:47:52 PM) BR: Because it's a chinese guy trying to pass this off as an office id: 6' and char(124)+user+char(124)=0 and '%'='
(1:48:22 PM) JF: ok
(1:48:37 PM) JF: a chink in the armor, as it were?
(1:48:50 PM) BR: that's very terrible
(1:49:01 PM) JF: i am going to hell, i realize

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:13:11 GMT

john: if i had a nickel for every time a programmer maxed out a production server doing something weird
john: i'd put those nickels in a sock and beat the devs to death

The Flying Dog

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:14:31 GMT

I am being stalked by cougars. Canadian ones.

Relax.

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:18:06 GMT

Tonight is a night for:

Bottle of Grand Marnier
Good book
Autechre

Aaaaand go.

DESPERATE! Or you know, not.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:23:20 GMT

I must be giving off a desperate vibe or something. Two different people (although they could be working together) have tried to set me up on dates. A third friend has been trying to convince me to join some online dating site she used to use.

I can't decide if I'm just too resistant to new ideas for meeting people or if all these options really are as sad as they seem in my head. Ok I actually can decide and they are. Really I'm just waiting to see if the set up girl is cute. Sue me.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:05:20 GMT

False alarm!

Ruined

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:57:10 GMT

There's a Mozart song that I've always loved. I don't even know the name of the piece, but the main melody is one that always gets stuck in my head.

I loved it until I discovered it's the only song that VMWare technical support plays in their hold queue. When you factor in that I've spent 2 hours on hold in the last couple of days, you can start to see how the song loses some of its appeal.

Sea Change

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:57:47 GMT

Canada is cold, but I'm finding that it's not a terrible place to live.

I really wish there was a way to talk about some of the experiences here. I'm finding that this is true for a lot of my life though. There have been some intensely personal moments in the last year and it feels vulgar to pour my heart out on an anonymous webpage. But there are times where I wish that I could be more open and not feel like I've said too much.

Maybe I'll go friends-only and see if that helps. Who knows.

I can't tell if it's early or late

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:26:32 GMT

Today is my third night in four days that I've worked past 4am on a project. On the plus side, our SAN utilization is now well below the 96% it was at yesterday. I guess that makes it worthwhile.

Tomorrow night is when I push all the servers back out to the high-performance drives and then I'm done. I'm almost gonna miss driving home from work as the sun is getting ready to rise.

running processes

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:48:07 GMT

oid("1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.2.1")

Monitoring stuff

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:31:49 GMT

http://www.paessler.com/prtg/download - SonicWALL traffic stats?

http://manageengine.adventnet.com/products/opmanager/index.html

http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php - Running on GW-JF

Note to self

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:50:22 GMT

http://lopsa.org/CodeOfEthics

Beginning Perl

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:59:02 GMT

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/10/begperl1.html

ATI driver for Linux

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:14:26 GMT

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Note to self: Remember this link.

just a note

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:02:26 GMT

c:\LogTemp>gawk "{print $1}" s20070324.log | egrep "[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}" | sort | uniq -c | sort /R /O c:\LogTemp\sentcount.txt

mega giga tera peta exa zetta yotta

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:16:06 GMT

Our replication software is neat. We've moved 2 terabytes of data in a month to a backup server.

I'm hoping this will get me a raise.

ADDENDUM

I've got tail running against the mail logs for fun and I've found some WEIRD invalid email addresses that spammers are hitting:

216.222.192.2 >>> 550 5.1.1 <misappropriationmenstruates@xxxx.com> User unknown
210.197.74.195 >>> 550 5.1.1 <ragesemiprofessional@xxxx.com> User unknown
83.218.185.4 >>> 550 5.1.1 <lightweightspatrols@xxxx.com> User unknown
130.83.174.24 >>> 550 5.1.1 <siltselectroplates@xxxx.com> User unknown
80.90.45.136 >>> 550 5.1.1 <effectivelybrightest@xxxx.com> User unknown
200.49.208.147 >>> 550 5.1.1 <squelchedacting@xxxx.com> User unknown

We've bounced over 85,000 of these things since I reset the logging count two days ago.

The perfect bacon sandwich - a formula

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:37:23 GMT

N = C + {fb(cm) . fb(tc)} + fb(Ts) + fc . ta

N = force in Newtons required to break the cooked bacon.
fb = function of the bacon type.
fc = function of the condiment/filling effect.
Ts = serving temperature.
tc = cooking time.
ta = time or duration of application of condiment/filling.
cm = cooking method.
C = Newtons required to break uncooked bacon.

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This was discovered after painstaking research (and, one can only assume, several heart attacks) by British scientists.

Good show, fellas.

negativepositive.org <-- read it

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:51:01 GMT

I read the following paragraph and realized just how numb I've gotten to living around the loudest jackasses known to man. Basically everything described here is what goes on every night.

"While the whopping phone log is printing at a turtle's pace, we have time to explain the ghetto cell phone factor itself. The main reason the girl was acting as though Sprint was trying to strip her of her pride is linked inextricably to this concept. There are two essential material possessions which lowly ghetto trash needs in order to feel like they've made it in life, despite the fact that they never will: a cell phone and a loud stereo. While these items are hardly covetable status symbols for most people, especially people who are actually gainfully employed, to the ghetto psyche, possessing them means you've 'arrived.' Anyone with even the lowliest McJob could afford them, but they're crown jewels to people who think being called ghetto or thug are compliments. The loud stereo is important. People who hold absolutely no sway over anything of significance in their lives need this to gain a feeling of dominance, and let me tell you, as someone who lived above inconsiderate ghetto idiots with a booming stereo, the power they wield might be petty, but it's definitely real. Gaining the ability to annoy the living shit out of people far and wide until they thirst for your blood for a price tag under a thousand dollars is a considerable status gain for people whose greatest accomplishment in life is getting their GED[...]"

-http://www.negativepositive.org/depletedhopeforhumanity.htm

Acronym soup

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:28:35 GMT

So, the girl I just took a support call from made a joke about BJs in the midst of our otherwise mundane conversation about MLS listings.

I'm not sure if I'm creeped out or refreshed by the change of pace.

Michael W. Smith --> Devil lover!

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:43:12 GMT

Who knew? Certainly not anybody who uses their brain.

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Something else very alarming is in "Michael W Smith". The "M" in Michael and the "T" in Smith is part of the Runic (runic means secret) alphabet used in witchcraft and satanism!

The Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions and the Occult, says of the "rune", "From the German word raumen, meaning 'secret' or 'mystery'. . . For witchcraft a rune is a magical chant. There are various rune alphabets used by occult groups"..(Mather, George A. and Larry Nichols, The Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions and the Occult, p. 235)

Author and occult symbol researcher, Dr. Cathy Burns, was so alarmed by Michael W. Smith's use of the runes on his Big Picture album, she wrote Smith requesting an explanation. Here is her reply:

"When I wrote to Smith about this, his manager responded. He denied that the record contained runic characters, but he did tell me that if I wanted to know more about runes that I should check out my library for more information! He may not be fully endorsing the runes, but he certainly didn't try to warn me that runes were occultic symbols." (Dr. Cathy Burns, Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated, p. 288)

In the book, Web of Darkness, former satanist Sean Sellers says, "Runes are the oldest form of occult knowledge and magic . . . their use sets a person against God."

Source: http://www.av1611.org/crock/crockex2.html

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This line of thinking is frighteningly stupid. If you read the rest of the website (which I don't recommend unless you're a masochist) you'll see that the person writing has a CLEAR agenda to promote that's well-served by a shameful lack of understanding in basic logic.

For starters, there's no indication that the "runic" letters are anything more than a simple substitution. The "runes" look almost exactly like the letters they were replacing and served to compliment the graphical theme that the rest of lettering used. I'm honestly a little surprised the guy didn't mention that in Dick Tracy comics the bad guys use that same kind of mismatched font lettering for ransom notes therefore Michael W. Smith must be a child-molesting pervert.

It's silly, I agree. Had it stopped there, it would just be a funny little "Oh that guy must have been beat up by a Christian musician in junior high" kinda article. But if you read that site, you'll see that the character-assassination pieces open with a logical misstep and then use that misstep as the foundation for all kinds of snide personal attacks.

The P.O.D. article is recent enough to mention the "Did Traa drop the F-bomb" confusion in Guitar World, but not honest enough to note that Guitar World posted a retraction the month after indicating it was a transcription error by the interviewer. I can only imagine how I'm furthering the cause of Satan by believing them.

The best example of "promote my agenda at all costs" is in the Carmen paragraph:

"An 'enlightening' display of irony occurred when Carman printed his back page ad for "Halloween 3:16" in the Oct. 29, 1998 'Life' section of USA Today. It seems there was a slight typographical error. . . The ad stated referring to Carman - 'See Him live.' The 'h' in 'him' was 'capitalized'. To capitalize a 'pronoun' (other than the beginning of a sentence) is to emphasize deity or God! The capitalization of a pronoun is reserved for God ONLY!"

So, because there was a typo in the ad, Carmen is a self-aggrandizing demigod. You heard it here first, folks: Typographical errors are a sign that you're itching to steal the throne right out from under God.

Let's close with a textbook case of the fallacy of equivocation:

"When it is rock, it is not Christian. There is only one 'Christian rock' and 'THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST' (1 Cor 10:4). 'For their rock is not as our Rock, . . .' Deuteronomy 32:31"

Just in case you miss the leap there, here's another example:

All jackasses have long ears.
This author is a jackass.
Therefore, this author has long ears.

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:11:56 GMT

People are disappointing.

Are you just supposed to get used to it?

Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:45:01 GMT

I'm bored.

But I cataloged all my books.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=em7add11

Surprise surprise

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:17:34 GMT

You paid attention during 100% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

Do you deserve your high school diploma?

I'm more autodidactic lately, but that wasn't the case in high school. Well, except for math and science.

Tell me how you do on this silly quiz. I'm curious.

The endings of 10 famous novels you always meant to read but never got around to

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:46:56 GMT

She dies.

He falls out of love with her.

He dies.

He kills it and then he dies.

Everyone dies.

A fire destroys everything.

He wins.

They're rescued.

They find it.

Snape kills Dumbledore.

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:02:22 GMT

If I get sick today, I'm bringing everybody down with me.