Craig Maloney

Happy Birthday, Arjun! Hope you have a very Happy Birthday!

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God bless the internets, there’s someone who has a way to implement a firewall for RFC1149.

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Slashdot | Software Deletes Files to Defend Against Piracy
Apparently another fuckwit has decided to protect his software by damaging computers that are found to have pirated keys. In the developers words “There exist several illegal cd-keys that you can use to unlock the demo program. If Display Eater detects that you are using these, it [...]

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One of the latest memes (or trends, if you prefer) on the net is of creative folks trying to get back to a focused environment for being creative. I’ve blogged about coming full circle from single tasking environments to fully windowed environments, but ‘d like to elaborate more on the subject because a) it’s a [...]

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Linux administrators should be aware of Y2K7, which is the DST change-over as blessed by the morons in our government who thought it was a really good idea to screw with DST with a year buffer, because nobody in the computer sector ever procrastinates. Here’s a site with information on Verifying TimeZone Settings In Linux [...]

Tags: A day in the life, Computers, Silly Stuff by craig
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Dim Vista - Forbes.com
As usual, with any new Microsoft OS, there’s plenty of growth required to make it work, but it seems like even with the continued delays in releasing Vista, there’s still lackluster support. Drivers aren’t fully ready for Vista (though XP had the same issues). Vista’s security is also still a mess, and [...]

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Hudson Music - Mike Portnoy “In Constant Motion” preview
New Mike Portnoy DVDs, AND a new Rush Album?
Swooooon!

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Slashdot | RIAA Hires Artists, Then Sends In the SWAT team
So, here’s the deal: some artists got hired to do a “mixtape” by the RIAA. The RIAA then turned around and busted said artists in a SWAT-style raid.
Lovely.
Just remember, kids, that right on the RIAA site is the following: “Trade group that represents the US [...]

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Colombia clowns killed on stage
It’s no secret that I’m not much of a fan of clowns, but shooting two clowns during a performance is just downright despicable. Apparently this isn’t the first time this has happened in Colombia.
Can’t we just all get along?

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The suit for Anna Nichole Smith’s daughter is one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen. In this case, five guys are all claiming to be the father of the child. Usually in paternity suits, there’s five guys all claiming to be impotent.

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