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Month: October 2002

computers October 17, 2002

Local News Sucks

Gee. WDIV / Channel 4 just had an aweful story about war driving. What a load of garbage. Hey, guess what? You just learned more about war driving from this post. Yep, that’s how detailed it was. I’ve captured it and I’ll upload it somewhere later. I screwed up and made PCM audio, so I have to rip that out, redo it as MP3 and readd it. Aww, screw it. I’ll just up it now. It’ll be at http://www.nuxx.net/files/wardrive.zip once it’s done uploading. Feel free to take it. It’s ~58MB, though.

computers October 16, 2002

It’s @713

This probably should have been handled as a continuation of this thread, but, oh well. Does anyone here remeber Swatch’s Internet Time. It came to be around 1996 if I recall correctly. I’ve always thought something like this would be a great idea, but we could all do it with GMT. If everyone always worked on GMT, things would be a lot easier. Of course, this would be easy for geeks to get a grasp on, but imagine trying to tell ‘normal people’ that Friends comes on at 0100 and that they get up for work at 1130. Oh well. Just another point where tradition takes the lead over techonological innovation. Like Imperal and Standard measurement over Metric.

computers October 15, 2002

XXX-XXX-XXXX

I think the whole world needs to use 10-digit dialing. The 248 area code almost got it right, as you need full the full 10 digits for local calls, but you still need to dial a 1 for inter-lata and interstate long distance. Why can’t the phone companies just tell people to suck it up and use full 10-digit dialing (without a +1, ever) for all calls everywhere? Just like cell phones, it’d work great. The only reason I can think of is that then people won’t know precisely if a call is long distance or not, but I’m sure an automated “Enter the number you want to call and we’ll tell you the rate” service could be set up.

acquired things October 15, 2002

Homey Stuff II

Well, today I went and got the moulding for putting around the ceiling of my bedroom. I also got a router. A router is the one thing I’ve been needing in order to finish working on building my new bed. The best part of getting the router, though… I’ll start from the beginning. When I was at Home Depot earlier today getting the moulding, I saw this $59.99 Ryobi router that seemed to be just about everything I needed. It locks so bit changes are easy, pistol grip handles with a locking on/off switch on the handle, 1 1/2 HP, easily adjustable, and cheap. So, that all works out. I go home, get the $25 Home Depot Gift Certificate that I got from my sister and brother-in-law for my birthday, then head over there. Well, when I was grabbing the gift certificate, I found another one gift cert that I thought had maybe $1 or $2 left on it. I took it along, figuring I’d use it up. When I got to the cash register it turns out that this gift card somehow had $50 on it. So there we go. Free router! Woo!

I’m going to borrow my dad’s Black And Decker Workmate and his chop saw. Then I’ll be able to cut the moulding, route out the mortises on the bed, and generally keep progressing towards a nice looking, comfortable bedroom, complete with a big, soft, comfy bed. Yay!

But now, it’s time for bed. I’m Mr. Sleepyhead and tomorrow night is the Underworld show. Woo! I took Wednesday off, that will be a good day of rest. Maybe I’ll get started on the bedroom then. I need to pull everything away from the walls, wash the walls, patch the little nail holes, clean up calk overflow from when the place was build, then start tacking up the moulding. After that comes the hardest part. Picking out colors. Then painting, then I’ll move all the furnature out, clean the carpet with my parents steam cleaner, then it’ll be all good to go.

Somewhere in there needs to be time to clean the bathrooms, eat, do laundry, and just generally live. Gah! heh.

computers October 12, 2002

Saturday Afternoon Wardrive

This afternoon and I are supposed to go war driving around the Detroit area. I’m just putting the finishing touches on the notebook for logging everything. I’m getting Ethereal (a wonder packet capture/analyizer program) going, so Kismet can log to it via Wiretap. After this all I’ll go clear out my car, hook everything up, then head down to the prearranged meeting place. < giggle >

Ethereal is compiling away in the background, and empty bowl of Raisin Bran is sitting next to me, and some random programming from FoodTV is coming off the TV. I think I’ll go change the channel. You know, I really hate waiting for software to compile. It’s the best way to do things, though, I guess… Oh well…