I can’t post this directly to twitter because it would completed ruin the surprise and wonderful simplicity of the, um, tweet. But it’s so great! Twhirl, via is.gd, gave me http://is.gd/NNy for Numa Numa. /NNy maps to Numa Numa-yay! God doesn’t exist. Q.E.D.
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Hooray for ballpoint pens! Today marks the 65th anniversary of the patent of the ballpoint pen by László & Georg Bíró; true life-hackers. László, a Hungarian newspaper editor, was inspired by the numerous annoying rips fountain pens created when marking up copies of his paper. Eventually he and his brother fled Hungary at the start of WWII and developed the Birome pen for production in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Incidentally, photos from Chloey’s and my trip to BsAs and Chile are now available in her photostream. They’re awesome.
As much as I love to type (until my wrists give out), nothing can replace a solid notebook and a trusty pen. I plan to take some time this evening to sit down and really enjoy my moleskin with one of the decendents of Bíró’s technical wonders. My personal favorites currently are the Pilot G-2 05/07 and the Uniball Signo 207 Micro.
Also, upcoming on the nonrat’l blog, I’ve more-or-less finished my clean upgrade to Hardy Heron and those notes will provide for at least three or four posts and patches on kernel 2.6.25, Tux-on-Ice, PATA cable detection, and iwlwifi led.c tomfoolery.
(This message is for all three of you that read this blog & the one who spams it already…)
I’m currently in the process of switching to google-syntax-highlighter. Please bear with me.
There are some useless quizzes out there to kill time.
- You could take on 20 five year old kids in a fight.
- You are 71% Geek!
- You Have a 36% Chance of Survival in a Zombie Apocalypse.
- Approximately 141,703 people died worldwide on February xx, 19xx.
- Congratulations, your dead body is worth $3590!
- Congratulations! Your body is 47% effective as a human shield.
- Number of colors I can name in 5 minutes : 34
- There is a 57% chance your brain matter contains grade-A synesthesia!
Is it bad when I saw thought “The Geek Quiz : Ever lose your car keys and wish life had ctrl+f?” I thought, no I lose my keys and wish life had ‘/’…
Hackers exist. They even do some pretty nefarious (or idiotic) things. Most of it we don’t hear about because if bigwigs knew how insecure most systems really are, they’d lose it. If Wachovia or Bank of America’s website was consistently down, would you leave them for another bank? Maybe. Since servers have finite bandwidth, there’s a vulnerability waiting to be exploited.
A few days after the now infamous Tom Cruise video was released and subsequently recalled, a group of people called Anonymous (some subset of whom are (cr|h)ackers) openly declared war on The Church of Scientology. When I saw their video, I laughed a little and thought of Angelina Jolie in that see-through top in Hackers. I miss those good ol’ days,” when worms were in 3D…
Anyway, today it happened. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were apparently successful in bringing down many of the Scientology websites targeted. For up-to-the-minute Scientology faceplants, fans of the movement have created a nifty status page.
What’s interesting about this attack is that it’s public, it’s not for money, and it’s not against a business, insofar as the Church of Scientology cannot be called a business. It’s against a group of individuals who share a common faith in alien souls inhabiting human bodies. Sure that belief may be weird and you have to pay money to advance and learn its tenets, but seriously, what happened to the Hacker Manifesto? “We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias…” — The Mentor, 1986. Anonymous is attempting to digitally purge the Internet of a belief system they find objectionable. Why not Nazis? Why not Elvis impersonators? Why not hackers? The whole idea of the Internet is that it’s free and for everyone.
Anonymous are censors. Amusing, intelligent censors with whom in many respects I whole-heartedly agree. But censorship is a bad thing.
If abortion is made illegal, what should be the punishment for women who have illegal abortions?
Embedding has been disabled, but these people are fantastically sad. I guess you don’t need to think things through when the man upstairs calls you.
My CSS for use with Google Prettify available for download.
Inspired by the vi-colorscheme brookstream.
Incidently, Dean Lee’s WordPress plugin for Google Code Prettify doesn’t play nicely with Shutter Reloaded because it hogs the window.onload event. Here’s the patch to get around it using addLoadEvent.
function gcp_footer(){ ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
function addLoadEvent(func) {
var oldonload = window.onload;
if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
window.onload = func;
} else {
window.onload = function() {
if (oldonload) {
oldonload();
}
func();
}
}
}
//prevent override other' onload
//window.onload = function(){prettyPrint();};
addLoadEvent(prettyPrint);
</script>
<?php
}
Guitar Hero. Through the Fire & Flames. Expert. Pwnage. Goat-throwing nine year old.