wow, 22 years
Posted by mcummings
I still remember the day. It was a cold, grey day in Germany. It was late afternoon, Mom was making dinner, and I was listening to a little handheld radio with an ear jack. A few weeks before I had discovered Voice of America, an English speaking stations besides AFN to listen to, and I thought I was the coolest. I was a space junkee at the time, and listening to a shuttle launch as it happened was just beyond amazing for me. I remember listening dumbfounded as it happened, and walking into the living room and telling my mom the shuttle had blown up. She didn't quite believe me, not for another fifteen minutes when it came on the family radio over AFN.
Dear Script Kiddies
Posted by mcummings
Dearest Script Kiddies,
I have gone ahead and ended the ssh honeypie you've tried to hit for the last week or so. Word to the wise: as a general rule, folks smart enough to both run ssh and open it up outside their network do not have userid conventions like "abby," "tasha," and "superman" (though I like that one 
. You have taught me to avoid php, since apparently there is some php app out there that has OS accounts with "php" in the name. You've also taught me to avoid a prebuilt zope box (sorry Dan)(H), because there were a number of zope based account names tried. One or two of you actually tried valid *NIX accounts, which I appreciated - at least it appeared you gave it some effort and forethought before tripping my sensors. But as I end this test and block off the honeypot again, I promise to write you all Christmas cards this year - I have your addresses on file, thanks for sending them in 4-part octet harmony!
Bad Astronomer to the rescue :(
Posted by mcummings
Thank you, Bad Astronomer, for tracking down the astronomer from yesterday's article and setting the record straight.
~sigh~
Good to know science was good, reporter bad, even if it means no good news.
ARCEBO may not answer collect call
Posted by mcummings
OK, in the ongoing series of revisiting childhood activities...I've re-evaluated comics in the last few months, my stamp collection is back to being active again for the first time in 20 years (yeah, don't that make ya feel old?), and now this - whisps of words that maybe ARCEBO picked something up, and I don't mean the kind of something you have to see a Doctor about. Unless it's Doctor Who, you know, 'cause that would be way cool.
Aw nutz
Posted by mcummings
Somehow, I just can't pass up sharing this article from the local paper. I'm not sure what gets me more, the analytical way that the author manages to discuss the truck adorning genitalia, or the detail given while all the while remaining very professional about the subject. Of course, this makes me think of all of those Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes fame...er, the cartoon variety, not the political philisophers) cartoons that have him taking a, well, stream of consciousness, that show up on the back of trucks and cars in great numbers down here. (An example, thank you ebay!) Surely if we ban one aspect, we should ban both? Which of course would lead to gun rack bans (promote violence), confederate flags, and WWJD stickers. Just don't touch my Linux Fish (er, penguin) decal
And in other news, yes, Tom Cruise is WHACKED, and this is the video to prove it.