FOXNews.com – Authorities Return to Polygamist Ranch Amid Reports More Children May Be Living on Premises
FOXNews.com – Authorities Return to Polygamist Ranch Amid Reports More Children May Be Living on Premises Ah yes. Remember this story? The phone call was a hoax by a known hoaxster and now the Texas authorities want to continue their unlawful kindnappings. I am ashamed of my home state and if this continues I may… Read more
Winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi dies
Winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi dies – Food Inc.- msnbc.com I am not a huge wine fan but one brand i have always enjoyed has been mondavi. I hope whoever takes over for him keeps things at least close enough to not make me have to instigate another very long search for a brand i can… Read more
The failure of the “system”
“For now, many of the needy, including many in Kladis’ store pushing carts laden with soda pop, bags of cookies and chips — much of it cheaper than healthier food — are doing what they can to stretch their shrinking buying power. “The bottom line is, a mother trying to feed her kids is not… Read more
A great product for pregnant women
I was at our child birthing class which turned out to be much more informative and engaging than i thought it would be. I wanted those fellow class members to know about a product that has helped my wife immensely. It’s called the allnighter by leachco. It’s been a total gosend for my wife..giving her… Read more
Weather Scientists demand more computing power so they can continue to get their forcasts wrong
Weather scientists demand more power – The INQUIRER Give me a break. If they would jut use their EXPERIENCE and not rely on computers exclusively then they would be relevant. I watch the forecasts change hourly because the computer models change hourly. The only time you can be a bit assured of the accuracy is… Read more
Illegal Immigration Advocate Group Says the Cost of Enforcement too High to Continue *UPDATED*
The Frederick News-Post Online – Frederick County Maryland Daily Newspaper David was brought to tears while speaking at CASA de Marylands press conference to unveil a report about a Frederick County program to detain and deport unauthorized immigrants. She said she has been unable to retrieve information about her partners case. The negative effects from… Read more
Dell, Lenovo to offer Windows XP beyond June 30 cutoff
Dell, Lenovo to offer Windows XP beyond June 30 cutoff Is there any way to get Windows XP after June 30th? Customers may continue to get Windows XP Professional by exercising Downgrade Rights that come with Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate licenses. Dell has the ability to exercise “Windows Vista downgrade rights” on… Read more
New AVG Free: A Very Worthwhile Upgrade
AVG has come out with a new version of their free software. it includes not only free anti-virus but also free anti-spyware and anti-phising. While i did not install the toolbar that comes in the installation you can if you would like. You can get the latest version at this link.
A New Type of Technical Attack..:)
I have been listening to the RSA 2008 security conference. I have learned quite a bit but the funniest thing i heard was during the “Hugh Thompson Show”. He was interviewing Bill Cheswick and Bill mentioned this new type of attack. Enjoy!! New Security Attack *UPDATE* at the end he has his band make up… Read more
The latest atrocity in the name of the children.
Mothers from polygamous sect separated from young children|ABC 7 News Authorities are investigating whether the call that prompted the raid came from a woman in Colorado who has a history of making fake calls to authorities. The purported 16-year-old caller has not been identified, but state child welfare officials say their investigation has uncovered evidence… Read more
Britain’s version of the bailout emerges
U.K. unveils a $100 billion credit crunch plan – World business- msnbc.com The Bank of England, aiming to deal with the crippling impact of the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, on Monday announced a $100 billion plan to allow banks to swap mortgage-backed securities for British Treasury bills. So the UK’s central bank is going to… Read more
The Fictional Bailout
The day the financial world almost ended “Yes, we bailed out the economy,” said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in Senate testimony on Thursday, referring to the Fed’s role in responding to the Bear Sterns collapse. But since when is it the Fed’s job to authorize spending taxpayer money, which violates the long-standing separation between Fed… Read more
I have a new club I belong to
Lst night i woke up literally unable to breathe. It’s a terrifying prospect to face the fact you are suffocating and you are conscious while doing so. I had no idea why. I was stuck upstairs with no phone and my wife was sleeping downstairs. I wouldn’t call out as that would use what precious… Read more
Hillary: Free-market doctrine not for today(Hillary the Communist Revealed)
Hillary: Free-market doctrine not for today Many many folks are not going to pay attention to this. Obama is not much better and honestly neither is mccain. Please pay attention and also read the Constitution. Once you read that document and then look at what all of these folks stand for..go look at Ron Paul..remember… Read more
Feds admit vaccine ‘aggravated’ autism
Feds admit vaccine ‘aggravated’ autism *update* There’s a bit more. here are some links: Adventures in autism
Jenny McCarthy: My son’s recovery from autism – CNN.com
Jenny McCarthy: My son’s recovery from autism – CNN.com
So Much for global Warming..:)
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Global temperatures ‘to decrease’ The World Meteorological Organization’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer. This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory. Article Text: Global temperatures ‘to decrease’ By Roger… Read more
Vox Popoli: Servants of evil
Vox Popoli: Servants of evil What an amazingly insightful post. I follow htis blog regularly. However his last sentence is so very true. Don’t chose the lesser of two evils..there is always an alternative to evil..even if it is outside the norms. In this elections case i’m not voting for obama, hillary, or mccain. I… Read more
Dobson editing radio show to avoid ‘hate crimes’ laws
I’ve lost a ton of respect for james dobson over the years. He is now joining a growing number of ministries that choose to water down the work of God to please some earthly laws. I would like to see him just remember that the internet is global and there is an easy way around… Read more
Rosemont de-annexation to referendum(Village’s obstructionism rears its head again)
Rosemont de-annexation to referendum At first it was the burgess Jackie Ebersole crying foul and throwing various kinds of monkey wrenches into Brunswick crossing. There were various reasons but the biggest one was the small parcel of land they owned was going to be developed and they did not want that. But because they hung… Read more
Bye-Bye Verizon
I recently canceled their dsl service due to them taking 1/3 of my bandwidth away. When i called to find out what was going on i was told be glad you have that much by more than one tech support person. That same day i called comcast and went to their high-speed. Now it turns… Read more
The Bailout May Deepen
According to Vox Day it appears Lehman is also in trouble. Also the Fed Bernake had this to say about the bailout, Mr Bernanke then announced a new Primary Dealer Credit Facility. Dealers can now lend the majority of the $50 trillion of credit market instruments to the Fed in return for cash equivalents, “allowing… Read more
The bailout begins in earnest
Bear Sterns is being bailed out by the Fed and being sold for nearly pennies to JP Morgan Chase. The Fed has also opened up unlimited lines of credit to the top 20 banks. This means the dollar is going to plunge even worse than it has now and is only going to exacerbate the… Read more
JPMorgan Chase, Fed to aid Bear Stearns (The Fed Bank Bailout Begins..and it’s going to crash and burn)
JPMorgan Chase, Fed to aid Bear Stearns – U.S. business- msnbc.com Last week, the Fed announced an industry-wide rescue package that would provide as much as $200 billion in loans to banks and investment houses and allow them to put up risky home-loan packages as collateral. It was the Fed’s latest effort to stem a… Read more
N.Y. governor reportedly in prostitution ring – Crime & courts- msnbc.com
N.Y. governor reportedly in prostitution ring – Crime & courts- msnbc.com I bet Spitzer is done. He came into power as the tough on crime and going to clean up wall street platform. This appears to be the result of a prostitution bust at a high end club called the Emperor’s Club that was a… Read more
Officers Chase Stolen Police Cruiser|ABC 7 News
Officers Chase Stolen Police Cruiser|ABC 7 News When officers boxed in the suspect vehicle, they say the driver began waving a box cutter at the officers, who took cover. As they instructed the driver to surrender, police say the man suddenly got out of the car and got into a police cruiser. Officers wrestled with… Read more
Accusations of child abuse lead to major assault on parental rights.
Parents of 166,000 students could face criminal charges The real truth is about halfway down in the story as noted below: The current case was brought by two attorneys who had been appointed by the state to represent the family’s minor children in a dependency case stemming from accusations of abuse that resulted from the… Read more
Twit is having issues lately
The latest TWIT was a political podcast and very little to do with technology. Leo has said in the following macbreak podcast that he wants TWIT(the twit podcast not the network) to be more than just technology. Leo, if that is the case then rename the podcast or add a political podcast. Listening to an… Read more
New Virus With Strange Behavior
Viruslist.com – Analyst’s Diary It’s name is MonaRonaDona and it’s very unusual for malware. It takes over the system as visibly as possible and demands you buy a $40 product called unigray nti-virus. It’s a scam. How it gets onto systems is not yet known but the a/v makers have started pushing out updates for… Read more
The Sad State of our State Legislature
Early in the session of Maryland’s General Assembly, several bills were introduced dealing with Child Support related issues. A list of the bills can be found on the state’s website. Bills were introduced in both the house and the senate to support the custodial parents who are trying to collect child support that is owed… Read more
Illegal Immigrants “activists” try to Legalize Illegal Immigration
The Frederick News-Post Online – Frederick County Maryland Daily Newspaper If you are in this country illegally…you should be deported..period.
America’s Best Dance Crew EP. 4
My wife found this and now i’m hooked..rofl. My winner was Kabba modern. JabbaWockeeZ has been doing great and while their performance was good it did not measure up to Kabba Modern’s. Status Quo did an excellent performance as street tuners and kept up their high-flying tradition. BreakSk8’s characters as basketball street hustlers was good..but… Read more
YouTube outage *updated* (caused by routing filter mistake in Pakistan)
youtube had their ip’s hijacked. Pakistan was advertising an invalid route announcement which not only blocked youtube for Pakistan but other networks for some reason accepted this as a valid route and blocked youtube for other networks as well. This was caused because the gov’t of Pakistan said all Pakistani networks have to block youtube.… Read more
Knight Rider
No Krakana: Stumbling through a Tuesday Most folks just don’t want to accept the fact that the new Knight Rider is a very well done and thought out sequel to the original. I think the hangup is that it is a Mustang instead of a T/A. They would have a valid argument if GM did… Read more
MS pisses off technet and msdn subs with Vista SP1.
TechNet Plus Blog : TechNet Plus: SP1 availability plan of record Ms is not allowing msdn and technet subs get Vista SP1 until the masses do. These are people that pay large amounts of money to MS for advanced previews of everything and they are getting seriously shafted. Needless to say the response has been… Read more
The Sacrifice of The Bible by Episcopalians Continues Locally
Science, religion coexist at local church The headline is misleading but as a secular publication I can’t blame them too much. Let me put in a couple of quotes that show the issues with the stance portrayed int he article: Here’s the biggest one: “The Rev. Anjel Scarborough, rector of Gathered by Christ Episcopal Church,… Read more
MS bids for Yahoo
Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share: Transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock; provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders; combined entity to create a more competitive company, providing superior value to shareholders, better choice and innovation for customers and partners MS’s search is woefully… Read more
Back to windows for VM?
I have tried WMware in Linux and it’s waaay more complicated than it should be. It’s a total geek thing right now(at least in terms of the free version) and i really don’t have time anymore for the geek thing. I’m no willing to install gui on the linux mahcine either as that is jsut… Read more
DSL goes poofies..hello comcast
Comcast is going to give me my current cable plus hsi for $66/month. After running the costs by Gen we are taking the offer. That coupled with our dsl getting chopped back to 2.3 out of 3 and no plans for a speed upgrade means after 4 years we are jumping ship. I might look… Read more
A new version of Windows already?
There are increasing rumors that Microsoft is readying their next OS to be released one year early. It’s codenamed Windows 7. If that’s the case then this is a huge blow to Vista and is tantamount to MS admitting Vista sucks.
The education of the mases about Linux..one person at a time.
The server serving this article is really slow so i am going to link back to the post but post the entire contents here: Yanking the Window Shade Saturday, January 19. 2008, 06:43 AM we are everywhereThey Are Blind You know…in the past, I have been loathe to cite movies or television as an example… Read more
Ugh..vista
Well i have subscribed to the MS action pack and I’m starting with Vista business. I new i was up for some pain trying to integrate vista into my Linux based network..but man it’s worse than i could have imagined. Let me give you a bit of background. I knew it was going to be… Read more
I’m BACK!!!!!!
after a server shutdown and moving to another one i had some real problems with the database. it’s taken me over a month tog et it figured out. I can now work on the new emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com site and also post about a huge security hole in windows. post back in no more than 24 hours..:)
You’re hurting Business by keeping Illegals out!
Illegal-immigration crackdown hurts business – U.S. business- msnbc.com updated 6:36 p.m. ET, Fri., Dec. 7, 2007 WASHINGTON – A crackdown by scores of U.S. states and municipalities on illegal immigration threatens the competitiveness of businesses across the country, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce report said on Friday. The report looked at more than 1,500 measures… Read more
Scare Folks Into Buying Vista!!!!!
Buy Vista or die – The INQUIRER XP is supported until 2014. XP is on sale until June 2008. Buy your copies now..quickly and skip Vista is my advice to everyone.
“Conservatives” are running blindly over the cliff again.
FOXNews.com – Mitt Romney Offers Comfort to Religious Conservatives With Faith Speech – Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum Mitt Romney took his Mormon faith directly to the public Thursday, defining the relationship between religion and public office in a speech in Texas ??? and many Christian conservatives said they came… Read more
What they don’t tell you about gun-free zones.
FOXNews.com – Media Coverage of Mall Shooting Fails to Reveal Mall’s Gun-Free-Zone Status – Opinion First VaTech and now this. Before that columbine. Seeing a pattern?
Bay Bridge Walk Canceled For 2008, 2009
wjz.com – Bay Bridge Walk Canceled For 2008, 2009 Gen’s not going to like this. I was actually looking forward to it this coming year..bummer.
A Typically Short-Sighted Solution to Long-Term Problem
FOXNews.com – Democratic Presidential Hopeful John Edwards Will Unveil Strategy to Reduce Heating Oil Costs /a> Noting that home heating oil prices in New Hampshire have surpassed $3 a gallon, the former North Carolina senator is calling on Congress to release some of the nations home heating oil and crude oil reserves as a way… Read more
A good site to Watch Congress
MAPLight.org | Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection While they center on Cali politics they also profile federal congressional contributions and show the correlation between the money they receive form who and the way they voted. An excellent site.
I forgot to mention this one.
WorldNetDaily: Hundreds of banks threatened by new subprime crisis If your mortgage has been sold to another bank as part of an investment(as many have these days) then the institution holding that mortgage pool owns nothing..they are standing on a time bomb since those debts are unsecured. WOW.
Kidan Talks About The Rise of The Reptilesbian Overlordless
krashpad: Clinton’s Las Vegas Trip I can admit, I hate social welfare programs. They are evil things, and in effect are enforced charity. It is the government, taking money from me to give to someone it deems worthy by some arcane stricture. A modern-day Robin Hood if you will. While Robin Hood is often classified… Read more
More Maryland Taxes and They Mostly Hit SMB’s.
Well here in Maryland now i have to charge 6% sales tax on EVERYTHING i do except webdesign. I was hoping to delay my price increases a while longer but it appears Maryland decided to not only do it for me but to steal that revenue away form me to boot. It appears i will… Read more
The performance drop Vista gives you
exo.blog: What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away Also Vista sp1 fails to impress the same blogger in terms of performance with rc0 of the service pack.
Another Hysteric Climate Change Report
U.N.’s landmark report on warming – World environment- msnbc.com Never mind that the earth is actually cooler than 2 years ago the UN wants control of the world for itself. Global warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it is nothing more than another attempt at a one world government. *long time needed update*… Read more
Another False Charge of Racism
FOXNews.com – Robbery Suspect Charged With Murder After Alleged Accomplices Killed by Homeowner Three block men break into a house and two of them get shot to death. The third burglar is being charged with murder in the death of his two accomplices. Racism cries abound..but it’s another false charge(as usual). Charging the third man… Read more
Boy Scouts Get Stymied Again
FOXNews.com – Cambridge Officials Put a Stop to Boy Scout Drive to Aid Troops in Iraq A verbal agreement for them is not going to work in these days. ?? The BSA is going to be targeted for more discrimination and persecution while they rightfully take a stand against the homosexual cancer that is infesting… Read more
Israel prepares to bring it’s own judgement upon itself(and will take the US with it as co-sonspirators)
WorldNetDaily: Annapolis insanity God specifically warns against this very thing. What’s worse is the consequences will make everyone who doesn’t think for themselves(most of the human population and even a significant percentage of modern Christians) run to the UN and set the stage for the future rise of hte Anti-Christ. Hang on folks it’s going… Read more
Welcome to Amerika: Security at the Cost of Freedom.
Schneier on Security: Taking Pictures from a Train Yep. Socialism is on the march. This is harassment plain and simple. If i was watching this happen i would challenge them to produce the relevant regulations. WHEN they didn’t i would go along and then file a federal AND civil lawsuit against the police, the train… Read more
Kidan sees the light about not voting hte lesser of the two evils.
krashpad: It’s nearing Election Time again. I’m not voting for Ron Paul because he’s repub. I’m voting for Ron Paul because he’s a strict constitutionalist…:)
Dog Gets Corraled
Duane Chapman has always been fun for me to watch but we have to be careful with our daughter due to the profanity. Now this recording(which AFAIK was illegal in the first place) gets released and after listening to it I have to say Dog should be embarrassed for himself and his family. I hope… Read more
Montgomery County Maryland Hops Onto the Homosexual Train Wreck in a Big Way.
WorldNetDaily: Coed locker room plan sparks surge of outrage here’s an amazing quote from one of the council members: “The Montgomery County Council has voiced callousness and arrogance to the concerns of parents who object. When asked by a mother concerned about her 10-year-old daughter who swims at the Germantown Indoor Pool, where she must… Read more
The OSI Apparently is Confused
Who Is Behind “Shared Source” Misinformation Campaign? | Open Source Initiative The approved MS shared source as an open source license. The rub is later in this article they state the below: Shared source is not open source by another name. Shared source is an insurgent term that distracts and dilutes the Open Source message… Read more
Cory Doctorow gives a Talk to MS about DRM.
Audio version of Cory Doctorow’s DRM talk (kottke.org) I originally found this at the link above. This is the text being read by Jason of Cory’s speech. I then searched for the original video. I found it but of course it’s in IE only format. I decided to make a direct audio recording of it… Read more
The Lizard Queen Awaits
WorldNetDaily: Be very afraid this Halloween Farah has it wrong here in one area. It is not America MIGHT turn over power to this person but that it WILL. Vox Day for a long time has been talking about this. Read the linked post then search his blog for lizard and read the rest. Ron… Read more
How NOT to let your child dress for halloween
Creative-Type Dad: An Open Letter To A Parent That Buys A Hooker Halloween Costume For Their Daughter This father has it nailed. I have seen some shocking outfits even more revealing than what is inside this post or what’s linked to in this post. I agree with this father 110%. The Bible also very clearly… Read more
Spammers getting reduced @ ECC Webhosting
It took me a bit but i got the zen list at spamhaus activated finally. It’s nice to watch the mail server outright rejecting mail attempts by spammers so they never even touch my other layers of spam filtering..:) The drop in spam being filtered by spamassasin has dropped by at least 80% the instant… Read more
Windows Dekstop Search Being Forced on Folks
Sadjad’s space: Windows Desktop Search 3.01 in now Mandatory MIcrosoft is now so desparate to “compete” with Google they are forcing their desktop search onto machines…IF you have WSUS running on your server and managing things. Since all of my clients ecept one DO NOT have WSUS running we’ll be fine. *update* If you have… Read more
NASA refuses to disclose air safety survey
NASA refuses to disclose air safety survey – Travel News – MSNBC.com Here’s the gov’t protecting you..but wait..it isn’t. Nasa is withholding this information AND destroying it after spending millions of dollars. Why? They do not want to damage the already messed up airlines. I have one thing to say: RELEASE THE REPORT!!!
The Partnership With ICE May be Paying off.
Local NAACP fears profiling if law enforcement partners with ICE He showed his Mexican driver’s license and his international driver’s license, a document the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration recognizes as providing legal authority to operate a vehicle. Despite having those documents, Arellano was handcuffed and taken to the Frederick County Adult Detention Center on charges… Read more
Get ready for some more wacky and dangerous weather.
WorldNetDaily: Zechariah’s warning to Bush and Condi Bush and Condi are trying to divide Jerusalem and the current Israeli PM Olmert is going to try to help this along. Israel is going to have a very hard times fall upon it and this country is going to get some more dangerous and highly unusual weather(not… Read more
FOXNews.com – Clinton Says Universal Heath Care Plan Will Not Cover Illegal Immigrants
Hillary LiES!!! The dems have been trying to kill ID verification for voting regs for years..just so they can get all of these illegals to vote for them. Also these folks will be the first ones to accept the socialist state Hillary wants to create. It’s going to be very interesting for the 8 years… Read more
FOXNews.com – Boy Scouts’ Rent Skyrockets in Philadelphia to $200K Over Gay Ban
FOXNews.com – Boy Scouts’ Rent Skyrockets in Philadelphia to $200K Over Gay Ban There’s a simple thing to do BSA in Philly. Find a Christian place to rent..don’t try to reason with the irrational, militant, anti-Christian folks.
My Christmas Wish List
I have several folks asking me for my Christmas wishlist so instead of typing it multiple times here it is: The pc game assassin’s creed A digital triple trunking police/fire/rescue etc scanner(uniden, bearcat or a good radio shack one works) that can receive Frederick county Maryland, Washington county Maryland and Loudoun county, va frequencies A… Read more
The Frederick News-Post Online – The Goose Herder
The Frederick News-Post Online – Frederick County Maryland Daily Newspaper Now this is an innovative business idea and one that serves the public as well. If you have a goose problem call this gentleman up.
New spam type
It’s now contained inside an mp3 attachment. PLEASE don’t open these things!!!
WorldNetDaily: Israel moves to restrict Jewish immigration
WorldNetDaily: Israel moves to restrict Jewish immigration The slide of Israel into the clutches of the anti-christ continues. Not only are they wanting to try to divide Jerusalem again but now they are going to stop the Jews return to their homeland. I have a sharp ear out for the trumpets for once they sound… Read more
FOXNews.com – School Board Approves Birth Control Prescriptions at Maine Middle School
FOXNews.com – School Board Approves Birth Control Prescriptions at Maine Middle School – Health News | Current Health News | Medical News The sexual indoctrination of kids continues and marches onwards. Here’s my favorite part: At King Middle School, birth control prescriptions will be given after a student undergoes a physical exam by a physician… Read more
Schneier on Security: Future of Malware
Schneier on Security: Future of Malware I would think twice before doing a funds transfer online with your bank..or any other bank. Read the linked material for full details.
?? Vista ???Out of Memory??? errors | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com
?? Vista ???Out of Memory??? errors | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com Even sp1 doesn’t fix this? Wow. It looks like I’ll be holding off even more on vista right now beyond sp1.
Kunbuntu looses some luster
It just works out of the box…BUT..don’t try to mess with the configuration too much. Root is turned off and trying to get samba to work in kubuntu is a pain. So far I feel like ubuntu is the Linux version of winders..it tries to be everything out of the box and locks you out… Read more
Here’s a Wise Person When it Comes to the Entitlement Culture
I found this on worldnetdaily.com in the letters to the editor: Public policy for the birds I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it is, I thought, as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we… Read more
Here’s the Text of the US Constitution
This is how the federal government should be run. If it isn’t in this document the feds are not legally allowed to do it. The Constitution of the United States Preamble Note We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the… Read more
Ron Paul Tells it how it is
Take a look at this video. Ron Paul should be on your short list. Ron is the ONLY candidate not feeding from and regurgitating the same old rehashed message that the demopublicans and republicrats are spewing. He is a member of the Republican party. he is not a RINO or a republicrat. Here’s a page… Read more
WorldNetDaily: ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ banished by California
WorldNetDaily: ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ banished by California It’s official. California at least in terms of it’s public schools is now headed fully into Sodom and Gomorrah lookalikes. Unless you are GLBT you have o place inside cali’s schools. This will also impact the rest of us since cali is usually the largest purchaser of books… Read more
Goodbye Vista(on my laptop at least)
I’ve had it with vista on my laptop. It’s slow, everything placed int he most illogical places with some items not able to be accessed w/o multiple clicks in multiple windows. On top of that a full 60% of network i plugged into vista would not take a dhcp address from. more than 90% of… Read more
Take this PETA
of course PETA actually means people for eating tasty animals… For those that subscribe to the other peta meaning here’s a quote i found..:) “There’s plenty of room for all God’s creatures… Right next to the mashed potatoes.”
Linux Desktop Performance Tweaks
I have noticed this. Linux is tuned more for the server out of the box. I found this article at linuxtoday.com. This not only tunes vm.swappiness(which to me should ALWAYS be at zero) with also a filesystem cache tuning tweak and a good explanation of the two.
An Amazing interview.
Instead of vilifying him the black community at large could take a serious lesson from this. Depending on Gov’t programs that “advance” minorities only create a cult of dependence and slavery. I have recorded the audio and turned it into an mp3. The mp3 is here. The link to the first part of the interview… Read more
With the Lizard Queen’s Health Care and….
Over the past two weeks, I have been barraged with pay for this and increase tax that: you now have to pay this fee and cover this expense for someone else. /pulls out soap box/ I have now been working for almost 20 years and with the exception of taking one summer off, I have… Read more
Humberto???
Courtesy of about.com There are 6 lists of names the are used each year for storms. The names remain on the list until there is a devastating storm, then the name is retired. So, we will never have another Hurricane Katrina. For reference, here is our list of storms for 2007 2007 Hurricane Names Andrea… Read more
More Cellphone Sneakiness
The Apple Iphone even when it’s off(but it really isn’t off it turns out) continues to download mail and make data connections. This can have scary financial results.
Ebay users make sure to protect your accounts
I just saw this on eweek.com: My advice? Head to GRC’s password generator and use this page to make your passwords. Make sure to use at least 12 characters. Also keep that a/v and firewall software updated.
A chemical That’s Toxic to the Workers..But Not to the Consumer? Yeah Right
here’s the msnbc story via AP here’s the text: Popcorn maker to drop toxic chemical ConAgra to remove buttery flavoring linked to lung disease The Associated Press Updated: 12:07 p.m. ET Sept 5, 2007 OMAHA, Neb. – The largest U.S. microwave popcorn maker, ConAgra Foods Inc., said Wednesday it will change the recipe for its… Read more
HUUUGE Microsoft Problem Within Their own Activation System
Microsoft has this thing Called WGA(Windows Genuine Advantage) that has started flagging installations of Vista, XP, and Office as pirated. While WGA has a certain error rate it’s spiked up to a high level recently. MS has responded by taking their activation servers offline until Tuesday, August 28, 2007. If you have to reload your… Read more
Interesting Phone Company Sneakiness
I am posting this from msnbc.com. Posted: Tuesday, August 21 at 05:00 am CT by Bob Sullivan Nicki Harris couldn’t understand how she’d exceeded the monthly minutes on her Sprint calling plan. She is careful with her prime-time calling and pays for a plan that gives her free Sprint-to-Sprint calls, so calls to her husband… Read more
NO wonder Christians Don’t Volunteer for Christian Ministries
I’ve been burned too much. I often heard fellow Christians talk about how they won’t work for other Christians…now i understand the sentiment. I’m totally mentally exhausted. right now i’m in robot mode barely able to function above a basic level. i don’t want to mess with computers, people, my church or much of anything… Read more
What a relief
I needed to unload a couple of projects. When i removed myself from them i now have two new clients in two days and a long term startup is now wanting to ramp up. I had to resign because when it comes down to it..neither of them are being operated in or truly have a… Read more
Feeling Anti-Social 2
Between one of my clients acting..in an unexpectedly rude manner, my daughter acting like she has no brain, and the overall crappy couple of weeks since i came back from my vacation, I REALLY don’t want to be around people right now.