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Apparently Saturday night was slow for the local police…
Saturday night I was driving home from a friend’s house around 11 PM. I get off I-71 at SR18 like usual and then cut in to a neighborhood that leads me around to Smith Road so I can bypass all the stoplights on 18. A few seconds later I see headlights gaining on […]
TSA Security Fail
Everybody’s friends over at the TSA had a nice fail at some point when they posted a redacted version of their “Aviation Security Screening Management Standard Operating Procedures” on their web site. Unfortunately for them, redacting by drawing boxes over the text and images in Acrobat doesn’t really do anything useful, the content is […]
Move complete!
If you are seeing this post, your DNS servers have updated and noticed that my old VPS on JaguarPC is no longer where they should look. My blog and other random shit has now been moved over to Linode, where they don’t block IRC and other things I run on my box.
Steam claiming it is being run in compatibility mode on Vista and Windows 7
Today I had Steam start throwing an error that it is being run in compatibility mode when I had never set such a thing, nor were either the shortcut or EXE itself flagged for compatibility mode. Thanks to a little googling, I found this thread on the Steam forums which finally had a solution.
Open […]
Quick Post-Dayton Update
Got back home from the Dayton Hamvention around 8 PM last night. I went there planning on buying an entry-level HT, but I ended up getting attracted to shiny things and bought a Yaesu VX-7R rather than my intended target of something in the FT-60R range. Made a few contacts on the trip […]
Evolution
Evolution
A quick primer to send to any creationists you may know.
Edit: Apparently the Youtube Wordpress auto-post thing neglects to set the title.
Could Pat Robertson get any more out of touch with reality?
Yesterday Pat Robertson made another one of his trademark idiotic statements. In response to Maine providing homosexual couples the right to marry, Mr. Robertson went on CBN and opened his mouth to let this shit dribble out:
Here is a transcript, snagged from Think Progress:
HOST: Meanwhile, the New Hampshire legislature has also voted in favor of […]
VMware ESXi 3.5u4, Intel SATA, and local datastores
This morning I rebooted my test box running VMware ESXi 3.5 to complete the upgrade from Update 3 to Update 4. The hypervisor came back up, but no guests were running and when I popped open the VI Client it indicated that there were no datastores configured and it could not find any of […]
Coming Soon: Comparison of PC-based router/firewall platforms
Over the coming weeks I will be spending one week each with a number of PC-based router/firewall products installed as the primary NAT gateway at my apartment. I will be reviewing them based on overall performance, interoperability with my SIP-based VoIP service, QoS capabilities, VPN capabilities, and any extra features that make them stand […]
On “religious freedom” in the workplace…
With the Obama administration looking like they will be rolling back Bush era policies allowing doctors to refuse to perform certain procedures and/or refuse to prescribe or sell certain medications (let’s say RU-486 for example) the Internet’s political debate hotspots have erupted as expected. Over at the Something Awful forums I saw a great […]