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.
Archive for the 'Technology' Category
I hit half a million records in our server’s SpamAssassin SQL database. Disturbing to me, but better than storing in BerkeleyDB I suppose.
So I borrowed a Verizon BroadbandAccess (CDMA EVDO) card for my dad, who has been suffering through dialup while in the hospital. I brought him his iSight and we ended up using it. The video was choppy, and the lag was obvious- but it was cool nonetheless. I did another video chat with Joe while my mom was driving too.
You know that seemingly useless option in Energy Saver about “Wake for Ethernet network administrator access?” Well I figured out how to wake up my computer by going to a webpage (on my website) that calls a script that ends up waking my computer up from sleep (or hibernation as you Windows losers call it). Thanks to a little script, this is all possible. This is going to be great for when I sleep my computer (as I have to with how freaking hot it gets in my room when I leave it on all day) and end up wanting something when I’m at a client or something- BAM!, I just hit up the webpage and my computer flips on.
New 60GB Photo iPod. Too bad the minis don’t have enough capacity to hold me over.
Technolust set in yesterday with refreshed iPods. The classic iPods all have color screens now and the prices are very attractive. The only thing stopping me from getting a new one is the fact I already have one… in the same capacity that I’m looking at. I’m really tempted by the album art and a little by the show-off-your-photos ability, plus the Aqua styled interface is a really nice bonus to me. Actually the more I think about it, the more tempted I am by the 60GB iPod. The price isn’t bad at all (Hey Joe- how much did you pay for your 60GB photo iPod again?) and the capacity would last me for a very long time - not that I have any issues now. Hrmm… I need another excuse (or excuses) to justify the need for a new iPod.
Reasons for a new 60GB iPod Photo:
- Backup Home Folder
- Even Better - Clone My Primary HD To It As A Disk Image For A Real Backup Solution
- Pure Want…
- Did I Mention Pure Want?
The new Podcasting stuff is a little interesting, but having been doing RSS since Podcasting first hit the net- I’m not sure it’s as super cool as some people think. I’ll see how it works out in iTunes and if it’s interface is worthy of actually subscribing to something.
Florida! Florida was a good trip, everyone has changed since I last saw them about 3 years ago (some much longer). I didn’t get to swim once and it rained every day. And on the last day I got to rapid fire Tigerize three Macs before I got on a plane at 8. Still, I enjoyed myself.
Hurray for HDTV over cable:
GTCN, OIT and ResNet are currently broadcasting a QAM encoded HDTV signal of local CBS affiliate WGCL on cable channel 68. You may find the signal on channel 68-1, 9-1, 68 or 9 depending on your HDTV tuner. We hope, during March Madness, that this channel will be useful to our residents watching the NCAA basketball games in the residence halls.
I just hope they continue with all the locals and perhaps even do HBO. HBO does HD (if you pay for the HBO on Dish or DirecTV, the HD feed is free). Now that’d be nice, movies in higher quality than DVD 
.
So I’m back in the dorm. Or I should say in my neighbor’s dorm, since Mike is already asleep. My schedule isn’t bad, but it could be better (more sleep!). God… I hate Stuffit Expander like nothing else… for some reason, Apple programmed Safari to decompress GZipped files (.gz), but not the .tar files that are typically inside a gzipped archive, thus forcing us to use Stuffit, which as of late has been very slow to open on both of my computers. I ended up using the terminal with tar -xf filename and I did that fast enough to untar a wordpress archive and force quit Stuffit. Also, I’m much happier with WordPress- it’s comment spam filters are much better and has an active plugin development community. This brings me to my little project, getting the email to WordPress gateway working for the purpose of using those near useless MMS picture messages I have as part of my data package, the built-in gateway doesn’t work well with pictures. No Calc lecture tomorrow, oh thank God.
Don’t ever make the mistake of playing me on Midship- you shall perish by the edge of my sword.
Playlist: Team Skirmish
Minor Assault on Midship
Gamertag (Team): Score, Kills, Deaths, Assists
Underlord X (0): 1, 2, 11, 2
CRICKET509 (1): 1, 4, 8, 3
steenhole (1): 1, 3, 10, 5
Mark 5 Zeus (1): 1, 28, 6, 2
moeronmatty (0): 0, 7, 12, 1
Lord ViviSect (1): 0, 12, 4, 4
Shepsbox (0): 0, 4, 12, 5
SqallLeonhart (0): 0, 11, 15, 1
Feeds for Stats Rule!
Huzzah! I only spent 3 hours setting up my RADIUS server! High grade encryption and authentication without the security issues of a pre shared key (PSK)!