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Monthly Archives December 2005

Merry Christmas again!

Ok, so maybe I will post on Christmas Day. Today was great! Candice and I got up early to open presents and have a big breakfast. By coincidence Nyxie and I both got each other iPods — a Shuffle for me and a Nano for her. I have simple play-and-forget for those occasional times I […]

Posted 25 December 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: ,

Merry Christmas!

It’s still Christmas Eve here, of course, but I doubt I’ll be posting for the next few days, so you get it now. I hope you all have a happy Christmas, Chanukah, Festivus, Kwanzaa, or whatever you might do for the next day or two. I got my first Christmas present early — a permanent […]

Posted 24 December 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

ntdsutil auth restore subtree

One amusing element of a major outage on the last day before Christmas holidays — on which a lot of people bring their kids in to work — is a lot of “Fuck! Crap! Uh, oops, sorry.” We now have a few system administrators, myself included, going “Rats!” when things don’t work out. It’s sort […]

Posted 23 December 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: ,

Automatic Threadless wallpaper generator

I realized while browsing through Threadless’s catalog the other day that while there are only a handful of designs there that I’d like to wear, pretty much all of them with suitable background colors would make great computer wallpaper. But since there were hundreds I liked, I didn’t want to have to edit all of […]

Posted 21 December 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: ,

Butter many privates

Someone over in Engrish found a Chinese food menu which had been translated to English character by character with no regard to content, and posted scans. Seriously some of the best Engrish ever.

Posted 19 December 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

first, draw a safe on a cardboard box

New from O’Reilly/Syngress: How to Cheat at Designing Security for a Windows Server 2003 Network. I realize that “How To Cheat At” is a book series, but how could a title like that get past an editor and the book’s author without any red flags being raised?

Posted 16 December 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Did this need to exist? I don’t think it did.

“Thanks” to Brad, this entry was posted with Excel.

Posted 15 December 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

saw this in a toy store just the other day

Posted 07 December 2005 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: ,