I’ve just spent a good 2 hours updating a fresh WinXP installation with the 64Mbytes (yes, that IS 64,000,000 bytes)* of security updates, installing a decent mail client, and turning off all the teletubbie-like tat that comes by default.
How can a relatively new OS need that much fixing (and SIX reboots) to get into a decent state?
How do they expect the poor people on dial-up to cope?
*OK, it isn’t. But if you said that to yourself, you should get a life.
We had a fairly major house tidying session yesteray (and not before time!). Anyway, part of my contribution was to take our bottle mountain, and some other rubbish to the tip waste managment centre. It’s a couple of miles away.
On the way there I realised how soft and weak I was taking my stuff in the car.
About 3/4 of a mile away from the tip, I nearly mowed down passed a bloke pushing a sack truck in the road, carrying a cooker and a large colour TV. A short while later, he appeared at the tip. That’s what I call making an effort. Some people can’t be bothered to drive to the tip, and drive to the nearest lane instead.
Sorry, but i had to post this. It made me laugh. It’s a test for some spam that got trapped by the filter. The software works by scoring messages points for spam-like characteristics. If it reaches a threshold, it gets binned. This is the main scorer for this message:
2.1 PORN_15 BODY: Possible porn – various types of feline
LOL
I promise to be a bit less geeky here. Honest.
I’ve realised what the one major problem with home computing is, for those of you that just want to use your PC rather than [expletive deleted] about with it like I do.
You’ve been mis-sold.
The whole industry is busily telling you how easy it is. Especially Microsoft and idiots like PC World. IT’S NOT!!!
They’ve tried to take an hugely complex machine, running complex software, and layer a thin veneer of simplicity over it, tell you it will do everything, and charge you thousands of pounds for it. Bastards.
[geek mode on]
I’m a new convert to Debian. This blog is hosted on a Debian server, and now I’ve moved my main file/print/mail server to Debian from Redhat Linux. Debian rocks, and I think RH have made a big mistake by withdrawing Red Hat Linux.
All went pretty smoothly, apart from making SpamAssassin work, unless I wanted to stay with the Debian ‘stable’ version of 2.2, which is *very* old now. I need spamassassin, as I typically get about 200 spam messages a day [shudder].
I spent a lot of yesterday napping with a collosal hangover.
I didn’t drink *that* much (about 7 pints or so?), but had the _worst_hangover_ever_. It seems to get worse by the year.
Sorry if anyone missed piglet.no-ip.org. I’d like to give some complicated reason and blame someone else, but actually I knocked the mains lead out last night.
I really like shopping over the web.
No having to deal with shop assistants.
No crowds.
No Parking or having to carry items on the bus.
BUT……
Why can’t all online stores deliver to alternative addresses, like work for example, and insist on valid ID if they’re concerned about security?
I bought a TV, which they tried to deliver yesterday. I was at work (well duhhh).
They can’t deliver it to me there, so I have to collect it, between the hours of 8am and 6pm, from Duddeston (!). That’s a short distance from the centre of Birmingham. I work in Wolverhampton, and live in Walsall. This means a drive across the urban West Midlands at 4pm, to collect it, and a drive out of Birmingham, and north up the M6 at 5pm. Joy.
As it turned out it wasn’t too bad. I think the BNRR (M6 Toll) is working. TV was cheap too. 🙂
I’ve been to get a sight test today: I scratched a lens of my glasses a short time ago, and it was time I had another test anyway.
The prices seemed reasonable- frames were on a half-price offer, which was 60 quid.
This did seem really cool until the prices of the lenses came in at 55 a piece [arrgh]. Add to that the insurance, the test fee, the tints and the coatings, and the chicken tax (ok, I made that one up), and it came to the wrong side of £200.
That’s crack dealer tactics.
I think I may need another part of me testing. :-/
The unspeakable horrors of the first day back are over, and weren’t *too* unspeakable. Mirth of the day: Virgin Trains- how do you tell? One colleague doesn’t know, but is sure he’s never heard of one pulling out on time. (Boom Boom!).
Have just nmap scanned someone’s firewall (they did ask me to). The question is, will he see it amongst all the port 135 connect attempts and ICMP noise that litters blueyonder these days? It’s well about time BY started shutting down all the unpatched WinXP/Win2K boxes out there. I’ve got shite to litter the web with and it’s slowing my connection 😉