Read about Technological Singularities, it’s an interesting prediction.
I’m looking forward to taking CS4002
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
Plague Strikes Azeroth
Hilarious. So there’s a bug in World of Warcraft (A horrible game that sucks the life out of all who play it) that allowed a poison attack that has an area effect to leave an instance (something closed to other players). It’s spread into the cities and kills lowbies (low level characters) nearly instantly because the attack was only meant to be encountered by high level characters. Blizzard has patched the game, to no avail. They’ve tried to quarantine characters affected, but they manage to enter cities and re-infect clean characters. It’s just so funny. I wonder if they’ll call the CDC and ask for help in dealing with plagues, I mean this would be a great simulation for training, wouldn’t it? These characters are controlled by people and that helps add uncertainty to the whole thing, which makes it more like a real world scenario.
I hit half a million records in our server’s SpamAssassin SQL database. Disturbing to me, but better than storing in BerkeleyDB I suppose.
mirrors.playboy.com
I downloaded SpamAssassin from Playboy. LOL. Apparently they’re a CPAN, Apache, Mozilla, mod_ssl, CentOS, FreeBSD, Fedora, and JSAN mirror. Is it just me, or is that a bit odd? Try explaining that history item to your girlfriend, “It’s computer software, I swear!”
Baby Kitten Pictures.
Last I heard, we haven’t named him yet. He’s an Exotic Short Haired Persian. Apparently he’s already made the mistake of crossing Jar Jar (our other Exotic Short Hair cat). He’s camping out in my old room now while he gets integrated with Jar.
Update: Looks like we’re going with Spooky for his name. Album is now setup here
How ridiculous. Not to mention a massive waste of everyone’s time. And this “textbook” if this horrid thing can even be called that, who in their right mind thought this was worth even using as a resource? This abomination uses symbols with no references for just about everything. Ridiculous. Argh.
Since I long ago switched from PulpFiction to NewsFire for my RSS reader, I’ve had one annoying issue- friends only LJ posts don’t show up in RSS since NewsFire doesn’t share Safari’s cookie store (which is how you stay authenticated as your user in LiveJournal as move you through their site). Well I found a great post about how to authenticate to LiveJournal using an different URL.
http://yourusername:yourpassword@www.livejournal.com
/users/yourfriendsusername/data/atom?auth=digest
My URL points to the Atom feed, which is better from a technical standpoint, but you can change atom to rss in the URL and you’ll get RSS formatted feeds instead. Also, despite your password being cleartext in the URL, the password is sent using Digest authentication, so it’s somewhat secure.