Does Krusty the Klown look like a bitch?
The Simpons + Pulp Fiction = Funny. Via kottke.
The ice and the fury
Why on earth would anyone choose to be a sports fan? After watching the best hockey game I’ve ever seen, I can’t imagine feeling as nervous for every game.
Jaguar and more
A synopsis of the Apple WWDC Keynote.
Jaguar sounds fucking cool and I’m stoked on Quartz running in OpenGL-accelerated graphics hardware.
I knew Windows 2000 was insecure, but damn
Eager as I am to learn relatively new skills, I recently converted an old Gateway PC I have from Windows98 to Windows 2000 Advanced Server running ColdFusion and IIS.
Did I download any patches, you ask? Any service packs, you inquire?
But of course not, as it has been less than 1 day and I just recently got SQL Server running an imported MySQL database. Upgrades and patches are for another time.
And just now, I attempted to view some rudimentary CFM files, and voila. This is the message I received:
HELLO! Welcome to http://www.worm.com !
Hacked By Chinese!
Wonderfuckingful. How do you un-hack Windows? Anyone? All my CFM files render this way. Rad.
Roots of the Apple tree…
I dont know how many of you know this, but I work(ed) for Apple until this morning. It has been almost 2 years and 2 departments. First iTools, then Apple Retail. It has been very interesting and educational to be with two Apple “startups” during the beginning of each. All I can say is Apple is just another corporation and I for one am glad to get the fuck out of corporate America… at least for the forseeable future. I am going back to working with friends doing print work, typesetting and design. Hallelujah. I need to be creative again, web/programming work and tech/customer service just arent my gigs anymore. Anyway, I know none of you care, but I am going to be posting as ‘”trk”, the initials of my real name, Tai Ram Kahn. So, now that I am not under NDA, expect some Apple posts but a little less refrain on my part. Dont get me wrong, they are still the best computers in the world, just not the best corporation, as I once thought.
Fucking Tech Center
Why is it that when a company/person can’t explain to you what they want, and you do the work as best as you can but it’s not good enough for them, they treat it as if it’s your fault? I’m getting really sick of that shit. And in my experience, it only happens with companies based out of the Tech Center. It just seems like they’re all full of themselves and totally oblivious to the needs of the outside world and they are utterly terrible at communicating their needs but if you don’t totally fulfill them, it’s entirely your fault. And nevermind the fact that they never want to pay you what the work is worth. It’s getting so I don’t want to take on clients if they’re based in DTC.
Wasted
In a 20/20 type internet expose, CNN has put together a rather bland story about a young female alcoholic. The main goal of the story is to try and hint at a genetic disposition in some people toward alcoholism. That’s fine and interesting, but what’s truly amazing is that this girl consumed on average 216 drinks per week. That comes out to about one and a quarter drinks every hour of the day. I can hardly fathom this. If nothing else the financial repercussions would be so enormous as to inhibit this. I’m sure frat boys across the country consider this a challenge.
3 for Me
They say good things come in threes. 1, 2, 3. I’d have to agree, I mean, I am salivating and frothing over the possibilities of my Cinema Display and the new 800mhz G4 PowerBook with DVI and 1280 rez. Mmmmmmm. Portable when necessary but with upwards of 2800 pixels across when at home plugged in. Fuck yeah.
Okay, not a good example
NYTimes: The Workaround: 32 Steps to Frustration
The phenomenon affects some so-called standard-format DVD movies, including “The Mummy” and “The Bone Collector.” While some might argue that this is not so much a bug as a critical response, portable computer users are told that each time they wish to watch such a movie, they must follow a nine-step procedure that involves first viewing the DVD’s bonus material.
Viewers of certain wide-screen-format DVD’s have no such option. Gateway advises them to try to track down the standard-format version. To date no known workarounds exist for those who have been unable to finish watching the Mariah Carey vehicle “Glitter.”
Sounds like a feature to me. Any interesting workarounds that you’ve seen? I can’t really think of anything too heinous recently… Except I remember Conflict Catcher a few years ago used to cause extension conflicts itself. And NAV telling me that a virus definitions file it itself downloaded was infected with a virus.