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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Author: Karel Kerezman

  • Random bits, no rhyme or reason

    There’s a lot going on this week, here are bits and pieces:

    • I’m downloading and will attempt to install KDE 3.0.1, just to see if it’s worth the effort yet. I’ve been underwhelmed by almost every major release of KDE so far. It would be neat if it weren’t so damned sluggish and crash-prone. I didn’t try 3.0, though, and with the recent announcement of 3.0.1 I figured it was time to give it another go.
    • I’ve got my hands onto yet another WinXP-installed Sony Vaio laptop. This time I actually need to try to connect it to our office network, as it is to become the main workstation for Rosey105’s music director. I told the PD that I wouldn’t be able to fully prep it until next week, though. I still have to finish rolling out that Quantum Snap! server.
    • Which brings me to the news that I’ll be coming in for at least a portion of Memorial Day weekend to switch the entire network over to the aforementioned Snap! server. Thanks to the helpful tech support at Quantum, I learned how to set granular folder-level permissions. Now I just have to replicate the existing permissions onto the new machine, a process that should only take about the next two working days. And this one’s already half-gone.
    • This entry deliberately left blank.
    • Tonight and tomorrow night are the perfomances for the dessert theater that Wendi and the kids are in. Weeks of almost-nightly practices have led up to this. I’ll be going to Friday night’s performance.
    • I love ham and swiss on bagel sandwiches. Yum.
    • I’ve learned how to push out a setting change that will tell Mozilla to use our network’s proxy server for web browsing. It’s not fool-proof, but should work for those machines where the individual user’s preferences haven’t been tinkered with. I can also push out a “no proxy” setting change at the same time I change the setting for IE.
    • I have the ability to view all image files transferred via the proxy server. Driftnet, while evil, may come in handy to tell when folks are surfing for things they really shouldn’t be. Well, that and the proxy server logs.

  • Personal Finance sucks.

    To make a long story short, this website was offline all day yesterday due to a billing misadventure. Gods willing, it won’t happen again.

  • Monday, How I Despiseth Thee

    Today’s excitement (or excrement if you prefer) included The Usual Email Crash, a misconnected reconnected print server in the NRK studio, missing desktop icons, the malware known as RealOne, rsync timeout issues and that damned Microsoft web browser. It’s enough to keep a guy hopping. Maybe tomorrow I’ll have some good material for my devoted fans, but today was just plain work.

  • Proof that you really are what you eat.

    While the 3 Bruces had nothing to say about this product, I immediately thought that it would be kind of cool to find a way to promote it alongside a related service…

    But maybe I’m just an evil sicko. Yeah, that’s probably it.

  • Otaku Purity Test

    According to the Otaku Purity Test I score a 63. “Your mother is worried about you.” Shows you what they know about my mother, huh?

    Dawn, who sent me the link, scored an 81. “Stop watching anime and go outside!”

    Oh, and somebody should convince the person(s) behind that website that coding exclusively for Infobahn Exploder should be a crime punishable by death. Or something.

  • Five For Friday

    It’s been a few weeks since the last one, so here’s a Friday Five for y’all:

    • What shampoo do you use? – Senscience. My previous hairstylist turned me on to it, and it works wonders.
    • Do you use conditioner? What kind? – Nope, I figure between the hairstyle I sport, the robust cleaning and the subsequent gelling, I don’t really need conditioner.
    • When was the last time you got your hair cut? – Yesterday morning, in fact. Catch me on the webcam, you can see how it looks.
    • What styling products do you use? – Aussie Mega styling gel. It does what I need it to do, which isn’t really saying much as my needs are pretty simple.
    • What’s your worst hair-related experience? – Oh, I figure it was all those years I spent with the delusion that I could wear my hair long and not look like an utter dork. That or the time my grandmother gave me a bowl-cut when we moved out from New York to the hinterlands of central Washington.

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