Archive for: February 2009

I’m completely new to python, but I ran across this program while trying to install pygopherd on my other computer, and found out the problem was that I was missing the python-devel files.

To fix this, from fedora console, I did …

Do a quick search on google images for the term “hacked by” and you’ll see over 1.5 million pictures, of which many are beautiful imagery, representing a whole gamut of sites having been hacked by either script kiddiez or more …

It was ten years ago when a few teams of research groups from Japan began researching the biodegradable properties of the compact disc, isolating several species of bacteria that degradate polycarbonates.  Fast forward to 2000, and Victor Cardenes, a Spanish …

So, I was thinking the other day.  There are so many piece of crap websites out there with spyware and malware, and so much of this spyware and malware is really just trying to lure you to install fake anti-spyware …

JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub …

Here we have an Ascii Periodic Table of the Elements, if I ever get bored, I’ll link every
one to a wikipedia article.

— …

THE COMPUTER USER’S REBOOT POEM

Don’t you wish when life is bad

and things just don’t compute,

That all we really had to do

was stop and hit reboot?

Things would all turn …

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Well, It’s funny, but I felt a need to showcase pictures of extremist and mideastern sentiment as shifting like the sands from which our oil come from.

Credits to failblog.org for the second picture.

Then!
NOW!

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In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error
messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction
rules - each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the
second, …