A judge in Holland has declared use of electronic voting machines illegal. According to the ruling, machines used in Dutch elections in November and March did not have adequate authorization and some were not certified. The most concerning factor for the Dutch government, which last week decided stop using evoting machines, appeared to be the [...]
Law enforcement authorities in the UK now have the power to compel people to reveal decryption keys. If the request is refused, people could face up to five years in jail. The change comes as Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) was activated as of October 1. Critics of the measure [...]
I’ve just gotten a ‘new’ type SPAM!!!! Apparently now not only can they increase penis sizes, but also “Increase the size and shape of your breasts”! I’m really surprised this is the first one of these I’ve gotten. Thanks spammers! You made my day. Ooooo oooo! I got a different one! Its the “#1 Natural [...]
w00t! I ordered it back on August 20th and just got it Monday. I didn’t think I’d like it the first day I was using it, but its definitely grown on me. Everyone who comes in is really envious of it too, which makes it both worth the wait and very pleasing on a ‘Ha [...]
Funny thing… I’m sitting in my office trying to get a rather irritating Dell printer back online with the print server, when out of the blue I started getting emails from my Nagios server. Subject: ** PROBLEM alert – websensor/Illumination is CRITICAL ** ***** Nagios 2.9 ***** Notification Type: PROBLEM Service: Illumination Host: websensor Address: [...]
I know most people don’t like spam and I don’t blame them, but you have to admit that a lot of the Subject lines are hiarious! Here is my personal 25 favorites: You’ve received a postcard from a Worshipper! want your wanger to be bigger, you need our new improved product My Boyfriend’s tool is [...]
I got an EM01b Websensor the other day so we could monitor the environmental conditions for the server room. Over all the device seems pretty cool. I do tend to have some connection issues with it, but that could just be because of network traffic, but who knows. I had to quit having Nagios ping [...]
I found it! I didn’t even know I’d lost it…. But I found it! This progrm installs from IE3 to IE 6 and they run fairly happily together! http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE I have issues since I run a Mac that all my sites always break in IE. No matter what version it is. But I’ve finally got [...]
I’d like to strangle the people who voted for the change in daylight savings time. Nothing like causing another Y2K-esque time for technology professionals. Great job! Already we’re seeing swaths of people with calendar data out of sync with reality. My brain hurts trying to think of all the ways that this could possibly turn [...]
One of my friends showed me an awesome little site! http://www.blogmusik.net/ We’ll see how long it lasts.
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