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Thursday, November 4, 2004.

Well, lots of news for you today. First of all, I have registered badcomputer.org and will be working to change over as soon as I can get some DNS set up. As it stands now, badcomputer.org will redirect here for now. I also bought a crapload of new hardware in the last few weeks. My new main workstation is now an Athlon XP 3200 with 1536MB of RAM. It also has an Asus V9570 Geforce FX 5700 set up dual-headed with two 19" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro flatscreen CRTs using nVidia's twinview. Works pretty slick, and a desktop resolution of 2560x1024 is incredible. My old workstation is now going to be a fileserver/extra workstation for friends/family or whoever else wants to use a computer at my house.

I also bought a Compaq Presario R3210CA laptop. This is a pretty slick rig as well, although I am having problems getting the wireless and frequency scaling to work. I will put a write-up of my experience with this laptop soon.

Now that gmail invites are easier to get than AOL coasters my Gmail Give-away Cryptography Challenge had grinded to a halt. Still though, there must be some crazy crackers out there that can figure them out. Anyone?

I should also probably bite my tongue on this one, but I have to say something about the US presidential election. In a phrase => What the hell are you guys thinking? Why are you so blind as not to see that this man is a greedy, self-serving, idiot? All other points aside, how can the American people choose a man that is so obviously dim to be the leader of their country? This guy is a braindead hick in an expensive suit. I think this post from slashdot said it best:

I had twenty quid riding on the outcome of the election. I said that Americans weren't so brain-dead and masochistic as to vote themselves another four years of Bush. My friend said they were.

I don't want you to get me wrong, I am not an America basher...in fact one of my best and closest freind is an American living in Canada, but I am very *very* afraid for all Americans and indeed the world at large because of the direction the States have been heading in the last few years. "Patriot Act"??? Looks more like facism to me. You can be patriotic without blindly obeying your government. I suggest that every American, Bush supporter or not take a real long hard look at where their country is heading, and start taking action, or else "The Land of the Free" will soon become not much more than a bitter joke.

Let the hate-mail begin...

Saturday, September 25, 2004.

I have some Gmail invites to give out...and after stumbling accross gmailswap.comand seeing all the humourous, crazy, and just plain strange things people will do to get a Gmail address, I thought I would get in on that action. So welcome to the first, and perhaps last Gmail Give-away Cryptography Challenge, or GGCC. I have created 5 different cryptograms, and if you are the first one to solve one, then an invite is yours.

The Rules:

Well, then, on with the puzzles. As mentioned, they get harder and harder, and this first one is very simple:

Puzzle #1

Puzzle number 1 has been solved by Maxi Havok. Congratulations... 

Pbatenghyngvbaf, Tznvy vaivgr ahzore bar vf abj lbhef...

Puzzle #2

Puzzle number 2 has been solved by someone that didn't give me their name. Congratulations... 

Jvoo, gsv urihg lmv dzh vzhb, yfg V gsrmp blf droo urmw gszg gsrh lmv rh mlg zh
hrnkov. Uldvevi, ru blf ziv ivzwrmt gsrh gsvm Tnzro rmergv mfnyvi gdl rh lm rgh
dzb gl blf!

Puzzle #3

&6<< >6 3@= 2^ {@*%
4>02< 8%{#&@4%0#3{ 5*
8%08? >6 0!7 2'> {@*%^

Please send your solution to this email address.

Puzzle #4

Ty4p s6tuq6v e3to64tp o33q 6'p, 3t5 a, om3 e'p, 3t5 i, oy4qo1 5'p, p4l o'p, o4n5
u'p, p5n5t y'p, 5w5n5t 4'p, 3t5 z, 3t5 x, om3 w'p, om3 v'p 54uyo55t t'p, o4oo55t
3'p, om3 s'p, 3t5 r, o4n5 q'p, om5to1-p5n5t p'p, 54uyo55t o'p, om3 3'p, p5n5t
n'p, 54uyo m'p, om3 l'p, oyq55 1'p, & 3t5 k.
Cw5n5q o5ww3m, 133 y6n5 3tw3ex5i oy5 p5eq5o 3o uv64w 4tn4o5 t3va5q o33q, oq3w1
133 6q5 6 v6po5q, 6ti i5p5qn5 oy4p v3q5 oy6t 6ww 3oy5qp my6o y6n5 oq45i
6tio64w5i. Oq s5qy6sp t3o 4o 133 e33to5i oy5 w5oo5qp o3 p55 4o I m6p w14tu...

Please send your solution to this email address.

Puzzle #5

7lzj areuued, zty qwc jueqwn qhpcj
Tey dnrc zty degauc et qwc lzac
Quu gegjn lcrc qwc ahrhdhpcj
Qty qwc ghgc rzqwj hkqdrzac

Xc qhhf wej phrszu jlhry et wzty
Bhtd qegc qwc gztohgc xhc wc jhkdwq
4h rcjqcy wc an qwc 7kgqkg qrcc
Qty jqhhy zlweuc et qwhkdwq

2cuu dhjw ykrt bhtjhrt'eq, ex nhk yhtc gztzdcy qh yejzrrztdc qwzq qwcrc shcg zty
qwej wcrc juzbf-vzlcy nhfcu qzuf qwct nhk ej dhqqet z dhhy arzet 'lwzq xhr
qwetfet' ex't nhk ac qzfet' gn gcztet'. 7wzq shcg yht'q cpct dhq lhryj lhq'j rczu
et'kg. 2wzq xhr ncr qrhkaucj z Wgzeu etpeqc ac ht eq'j lzn xcr nhk zty ncr fet.

Please send your solution to this email address.

Good luck everyone, and remember we are just having some fun here...

Sunday, September 12, 2004

woot!!! I am no longer employed. After 2 years of menial spatulation I am free to persue some of my more slack interests such as running a small LAN and learning how to program (better! and in more languages!). Big changes should be coming soon including but not limited to:

On the personal front: I am still preparing for LPI exams, and I am even considering going in for a RHCE certification. I haven't run Redhat in over two years, but it seems to be the most intensive cert out there, even if it is vendor-specific. What do you folks think? Any other good certs out there I should look at?

I also have plans to attend Linux World Conference and Expoin Toronto next spring. It's going to be a great road-trip 4000km accross Canada. Then I think I'll pop over to Montreal and visit my old buddy Yan whom I haven't seen in many years.

I released dir2ogg-0.7a few weeks back, and already I see things wrong with it. I first wrote it when I knew jack about python, and now that I know a little bit more than jack I think it needs a complete rewrite from scratch before it approaches version 1. See, most of the features were added on after the fact, and many, especially how it handles command line flags, are very kludgey. So I will re-write it, and perhaps try re-writing it with unit-testing so I can check that action out. Look for some big (but transparent to the end user...) changes coming soon.

Another project I am working on is Kgrabwhich some people may or may not find useful. It is something of an exercise, but it may turn into something real neat someday. Beta (alpha?) -testers are more than welcome to try it out, although there are still lots of bugs in it (mostly known!).

Other than that, I just need to start writing more...I have a few books on the go, and the LAMP guide desperately needs updating (and completion! jeesh...). Maybe someday it will all come together. And in the desperate plea for attention category, please folks start hitting up the comments here. You're taking the 'active' out of 'interactive'. I know that shit is hokey, but seriously, I like to see that people other than googlebot are visiting this site...

quote of the week

If I could do it all over again. . .I never would have taught those pigeons to play ping-pong

-B. F. Skinner

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

More MySQL madness! I spent a bit of time adding a new feature where you can comment directly on my entries on this main page. If you have a different opinion, a witty rejoinder, or some other form of feedback please feel free to add it for all to see. Not that I think anyone will, I just wanted to write some php and put it into action.

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

3:25 am

I installed MySql on the new server.

Other than that, it's too goddam hot here again, and it looks like it will be another rough summer for forest fires. Work is busy as hell, and I seem to spend a lot of time drinking after work. It's all good though. To tell the truth I'm drunk now. How many geeks set up their sql servers drunk? Anyway, I'll get back to you after some sleep. First, a song:

lyric of the week

boy: If I lost my arms ...
girl: ...and if I lost my legs...
boy: ...I would put you on my back...
girl: ...and I would grab things off the shelf for you...
boy: ...and if I lost my ears...
girl: ...and if I lost my eyes...
boy: ...I would tell you what things look like...
girl: ...I would tap the beat on your hand.

-Blanket Music
Tap the Beat

Monday, June 7, 2004

Tired of having over 40GB of free disk space, I decided to dedicate 10GB of it to installing and trying FreeBSD. So far it has been pretty cool. I managed to get my audio working, and built a new kernel from scratch after only 2 days of using it. I will continue reading the FreeBSD guide, and if I can figure out how to run NAT on it I will consider switching my server to FreeBSD, as it has a great reputation for stability and uptime.

Fun with google: SCO are "litigious bastards"

If you haven't been under a rock for the last year or so then you have probably heard about SCO suing IBM, and extorting a fee from unsuspecting Linux users.I am loathe to reprint the sordid details here, so instead I will provide a link for you to do your own investigation: This site adequatley sums up the debacle so far.

Anyhoo, this slashdot articlehas made me aware that a google search for "litigious bastards" reveals SCO's website as the number one hit. Note that the article itself is not about SCO, but about googlebombing. Someone set up litigiousbastards.com to celebrate this. If you don't believe me then check it out:

As you can see 'litigious', and 'bastards' also reveal SCO to be number one in the rankings. It would seem that google has gotten wise to this, so take a screenie while you can. Always one to do my part, here's a link to the litigious bastards themselves.

Stupid bash tricks: 

[22:03][bulliver@nina bulliver]$ make love
make: *** No rule to make target `love'.  Stop.

Seems my computer doesn't love me anymore :(

Link of the...(arbitrary period of time)

This installment I present to you bash.org, a site which collects strange, funny, sick and twisted snippets of IRC conversations. I have to warn you, some of these are quite offensive, so don't complain to me, you have been warned.

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Well, I just finished giving the site a major overhaul under the hood. Not too much is noticeable from the surface, but hopefully there will be more consistency and less 404's. I also noticed the site was looking a little broken in Mozilla. That's what you get for development testing with Konq...however it should look better now. I'm sorry, I know I should like Mozilla, but I just don't.

The home network is treating me very well, and I have already made another leap in my Linux knowledge just from running it. Next on the agenda is a dual-processor, 1TB media server with RAID. Yeah right, send checks to the Darren Kirby Media Server Project. Anyway, currently I am working on an update to dir2ogg, which should be up in the next day or so. Also I am writing an article on IP Masquerade, so I can share the joy of my experience. It will be posted as soon as it is done. On the long-term agenda, I am going to get LPI certified THIS SUMMER, and will be looking for employment in the Linux field. I am also in the begining stages of a book titled The Complete Linux Sysadmin. As the name suggests it will likely be large and detailed. Probably be done in a year or 2. Ha.

quote of the week

The paper in my notebook is limp and the blue and white tiles of my floor are so slick with humidity that not even white canvas, rubber-soled basketball shoes can provide enough real traction for me to pace back and forth in the classic, high-speed style of a man caving in to The Fear

-Hunter S. Thompson
Excerpt from a Rolling Stone Magazine article reported from Vietnam

Saturday, April 24, 2004

The site has been down for a while...I was stuck up on the mountain with no internet. Don't get me wrong: I loved living and working at the ski hill, but I was definitely jonesing. Good news though brothers and sisters, Linuxbot now resides on a dedicated box. That's right, I spent the better part of yesterday setting up an old K6 450 as an IP masquerading busybox. So now I can futz with my workstation all I want and the website will always be up.

Sorry to be lazy, but I have some configuration to do still, so I will write a better update when I get a minute.

Thursday, October 23, 2003

So there's a link down at the bottom of each page that says "Show Source." Like the php website pressing this button will redraw the page with the raw php code tacked on to the bottom. This is not a security hole so please do not email me about it. All sensitive information is in a separate file that is not publically accessable.

an album you should own

Eric's Trip, Love Tara

Eric's Trip / Love Tara

Keen students of lo-fi and independant music may have heard of the Halifax Pop Explosion. First taking place in 1993, the festival was a showcase of local independant bands in and around Nova Scotia, that brought recognition to acts such as Jade, Sloan, and the terminal noise-pop outfit Eric's Trip.

Hailing from Moncton New Brunswick, and commandeering their name from the title of track 5 from Sonic Youth's legendary 1988 album Daydream Nation, Eric's Trip recorded their first album for Sub Pop in 1993, the tortured and brilliant Love Tara. A study in contrasts, this album carreens from the most haunting melodies, to syrupy power-pop, to all out machine-gun inspired fuzz-fests.

Case in point: tracks such as Stove, Secret for Julie, and Behind the Garage are hypnotically gentle and fragile songs, with almost ridiculously subdued boy-girl lyrics. Allergic to Love, and Spring are solid power-pop songs with sharp hooks, and sharper melodies. Progressing to a harder punk-pop sound gives songs like Follow and Sunlight a considerably harder edge, while the bloodcurdling Blinded is so violent it just has to be heard to be believed. Add a few more "filler" tracks of experimental noise and you have a lo-fi independant masterpiece.

This is their first album, so the sound is raw and only hints at what these four musicians could achieve in their short career before breaking up in 1996 after releasing four albums in three years. For my money, if not the best, certainly Love Tara has the most emotion of the Eric's Trip albums, and as such is an album you should own.

quote of the week

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the voice in your head saying 'I am your alter-ego from another universe' is not necessarily to be trusted and you may be wise to avoid using heavy machinery until it goes away

-David Ambrose
The Man who Turned into Himself

Thursday, October 16, 2003

If you have been here before you have no doubt noticed a few changes here at Linuxbot. Once again I am working on a complete redesign. I am also going to change the format a bit...and I am going to use the main page (the one you're looking at now) as a sort of...and I really don't want to say blog here...but you know...portal. A portal to links, news, images, websites...and whatever else I feel like showcasing here. Music reviews? Sure. Recipes for soup? Why not.

This would be the inaugural issue here of my sort of web magazine as it were. That being said...let's get on to some actual content.

Website: the Darwin Awards

You know who Darwin is right? Sure. He's that guy with the beard who sailed on a ship called The Beagle to the Galapagas Islands. He also wrote a book called The Origin of the Species which postulates that all living creatures grow and adapt to their environment in order to have a better chance of survival. Sounds reasonable right? Quite a few people actually got quite upset with this book however, because it suggested that humans may have evolved from apes, an idea that was no doubt inconceivable to any reasonable god-fearing man, woman or child.

But I digress, Charles Darwin's spirit is alive and well (and probably still offending people) in website form now. The Darwin Awards is a site that "honor(s) those who improve our gene pool...by removing themselves from it", or to put it another way, it is a site where you may read funny stories of the many stupid ways that humans kill themselves (read: not-suicide..I mean the stupid ways they accidently kill themselves). I can already hear many of you groaning, or perhaps even worse. As you may have guessed...if you don't appreciate gallows humour you will not likely appreciate this site too much.

The stories are submitted by the sites readers. If they are confirmed to be true by reputable news sources then they become eligible for a Darwin Award. The awards are decided by reader votes. If the story is proven to be false it remains on the site labeled as an 'urban legend', and why not: just because it's not true doesn't mean it's not funny.

Here's a few thumbnails to whet your appetite:

There are thousands more, ranked by reader ratings. Certainly a good place to spend an afternoon at work ;)

Quick Links:

UNIX and MAC spawn of Satan?

In the 'this can't really be serious' department, "Dr." Richard Paley explains that Apple Macintoshes 'brainwash' unsuspecting people into denouncing their faith and embracing Darwinism. What can you expect from a company founded by 'long haired hippies?' As a special bonus there is also unrefutable proof that UNIX systems are tools of the devil: "to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?".

Programming Poetry?

Serendipity has led me to another interesting discovery. Poetry. Some people love it... and some (most?) hate it. Especially writing it. So why then, would someone want to write a 50 line poem. In C. That compiles and runs. No this is not a joke, in fact after doing a bit of a web search I managed to find quite a few examples of 'programming poetry. This just goes to expand the metaphor of programming languages getting blurred into second (or third...or fourth...) human languages.

The discussion group for the Desperado webzine, "an irregular journal of distributed DADA processing", printed the C poem in question. Apparently it was the winner of the "Usenet Obfuscated C contest." Here's a bit of text from the link above:

This is an actual, compile-able, runnable C program! The author's name is Westley, and the program was given the same name. If you compile it (which is complicated; you have to tell the C compiler to do all sorts of gymnastics) and type "westley 3" it will print:
Westley loves me.
Westley loves me, not.
Westley loves me.
Anyway, the C code is far more interesting than the output.

I found this so intriguing that I decided to write a poem myself. I don't speak C so this one is in Bash. Please excuse the horrendous literary value (or lack thereof) that this poem contains. It very quickly became apparent to me that to write a 'good' poem using keywords, and variable constructs is very difficult. To write a 'good' poem that runs without errors is even more difficult, and to write a 'good' poem that runs without errors, and actually does something useful is damn near impossible. 

#!/bin/bash
# written by darren kirby

You="R_a_dream"
Are="you_really_there?"
let Me=make love; To="u"
i="long"; FOR="you"
Not="meant_2_b"
for the_stars in the sky and the light from The moon
do #not forget...I will
        echo "I love you" # 'til I am
done #in from the heartache
declare -i am_in_love
if [[ -n $You ]] && [[ -n $Are ]] && [[ -n $Not ]]; then # I will
        echo "I love you anyway" # till
fi #naly I am free

Go ahead and run it. If you know Bash, then you can probably figure it out already. I really am smitten with this programming poetry business...I have created a depository of all I can find on this site. It is here.

1:11 am Saturday, June 21, 2003

Well I know that there is no one waiting with baited breath for my next update, but I am sorry for being lazy lately. I am consumed with work. If I'm not working then I'm partying with folks I work with, ya know?

I got a new 80GB HD today. Took all of 10 minutes to get running. Just fdisk, mkfs, and mount. Try that with Windows. My OS detected and configured it stock. Brilliant. 'Scuse my geekness for a few all right...I'm just stoked. At 4000+ Oggs my 40 was getting cramped. Now I have room to breathe, and check out some new Linux distro's.

Other than that, car show, hot weather, work busy, what else you got. Listen to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Here's another quote for ya:

4:21 pm Sunday, May 25, 2003

Well it seems as though it's been a month of Sundays since I've done this. I have mostly been wrestling with Python and getting dir2ogg to a useable state. It is now Python powered, and has the ability to preserve ID3 tags between encodings. I am also working on other projects, such as a script which spiders your music directory structure, and spits out a nicely formatted mini-website, as well as m3u playlists for my enjoyment.

In other news, I have at long last reached a postcount of 1000 over at Linux Questions and as such, have had the honourary title of 'Guru' bestowed upon me.

If you're not bored enough yet, I will mention that I purchased new shoes the other day and I think they are very stylish. Hopefully I can get pictures up here soon. Please forgive me. It is very hot and hard to think strait...

Quote of the week:

I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetary, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caufield' on it, and what year I was born, and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'fuck you'. I'm positive, in fact

J.D. Salinger
- The Catcher in the Rye

11:50 pm Sunday, April 27, 2003

Hello. I'm back at work now. They have me on dayshift which is ok I 'spose, except I don't much care for going to bed at midnight. I think it's going to be a good summer. I can feel it and I am starting to get excited. I wish you all could live where I do, it's so nice here in the summer.

I decided this site needs more pictures, so I am going to start with a few screenshots of my box. This first one is my console, with one of my many 'projects' partially displayed:

Here's one of foobillard, the best unfinished pool game available for Linux:

That's all for now...I'll talk to you later.

-d

3:10 pm Monday, April 7, 2003

Hey kids! I'm back already. You can now browse my music collection, just navigate to my music directory and have at 'er...

The links will not work, so don't bother clicking them all right? They are for my internal private top-secret use only.

-d

2:20 am Monday, April 7, 2003

'sup then? I'm down the hill now thank god. More time to play with the box. I've been scripting lately. In bash. Bash is cool. I wrote a script that collects all my oggs and playlists and arranges them all nice like in a web page. You can actually browse my music collection if you type /music/ after the url of my main page. You cant download them though because of absolute paths relative to my computer. I think I'll work on making my music more portable. Stay tuned.

Music is so fluid now for me. Although I have hundreds of CDs I never play them. I have my Soundblaster piped right into the back of the amp of my home system. The speakers point right at me. All five of them. It's bliss. I'm listening right now actually. Music is no longer 'open CD tray and press play', it's just playlists and oggs. 1500 tracks at my disposal from the xmms menu, web page, or .m3u playlist. It's crazy really.

What else can I say? I'm down the hill. We'll talk more, don't you worry.

your friend and mine,
-d

3:15 pm Friday, March 14, 2003

Well, actually it's Saturday now. I started writing, got torn away, and now I can't be bothered to change it. It's starting to slow down up the hill, and I will probably be back in town for good the first week of April. Perhaps I will have the time to start writing again. Jeez, I just looked at the clock, and it's actually Sunday now. Sorry again, how time flies when your working one-third of your time, drinking another third, and sleeping the final third.

Anyway, check this out: 

01:42:02 up 37 days, 11:53,  1 user,  load average: 1.34, 1.23, 1.03

This box has been up 37 and one half days now. Not too shabby, although to be fair it only gets ridden hard on the weekends. I still can't believe how many folks are showing up here. I've built a thousand websites and no one came to any of them. Thanks, I guess.

I have to go up the hill early so I'm gonna git now. Thanks for truckin with us here. To be sure, it is now 1:47 am Sunday, March 16, 2003. So much ambition, so little time (...or talent).

Take care,

-d

3:31 pm Friday, February 28, 2003

Hello. I have a day off so I'm doing the computer thing again. Working up at the hill is actually pretty cool. Imagine this: wake up at 9:00, go snowboarding until 1:00, go to work, after work, play some hockey, then go to the bar for a couple of nightcaps. Not a bad living. Only another 5 weeks to go, then I start working in town. It's strange because there is no snow in town, and it is almost always above freezing, then you drive for 45 minutes out of town and there is 125 cm of snow.

What else to tell? Not much I guess. Check you soon...

-d

10:59 pm Saturday, February 15, 2003

Hello. I put up the Quick and Dirty Guide to Linux File Permissions. Hopefully someone will find it useful. Not much time anymore as I am a working boy. The job is pretty cool actually, and I think I will have to start snowboarding, seeing as I work at a ski hill. Unfortunately I don't have much time for writing or adding stuff to this site.

Next is the quick and dirty guide to tar and g/bzip'ing archive type stuff. Look for it coming soon. Also, I hope to finish my LAMP guide soon. I notice a few of you have downloaded it, so remember, I am looking for feedback. Don't feel shy to send me an email to say it's cool, or it sucks or whatever.

Guess that's all for now.

-d

11:43 pm Saturday, February 8, 2003

Horror of horrors, I went and got a job. And no it's not a cool job hacking Linux or anything like that. The job actually came to me; and although I was tempted to say no, I am in dire need of some more hardware so....

I also need to save some money up for when I move this spring or summer so I guess I should get started. My job is about half an hour from town at the local ski hill. You believe that crap? I don't even ski. I'm going to demand free lift tickets anyway, as I might be able to hock them downtown for beer money. We'll see.

Some people, well, one person, has mentioned I should put up some sort of FAQ here. I don't know why everybody thinks I'm an expert. I think I will put up some quick-and-dirty guides on certain topics though. There seems to be a handfull of questions that get asked on the message boards at Linux Questions several times a day. What do you want to see?

Well, I better get off to bed. I'm a working boy now....

-d

5:46 am Friday, January 31, 2003

Yeah, that's right, I'm up at 5:46 in the morning. Actually I'm still up from yesterday. Had a little downtime with the old site yesterday. First of all I built and installed a new kernel. Oh boy, new one is down to 889.5kb, which is small enough to fit in your pocket. I just realised something, my kernel is smaller than my NVIDIA geforce video card driver!!! How fucking stupid is that?

The other reason the site was down is because I'm stupid. I was changing the permissions of the files in my document root, because I added a non-privileged group to edit them, and I used the "chmod 664 *" wildcard to do the whole directory at once, but you need the execute bit set to traverse the directory right? Ha ha ha, linux geeks are laughing. Anyway, people were getting 403 errors for the better part of half a day. You'd think someone would at least send an email and give me a heads up...

I had my first crack attempt the other day, some douchbag skiddie trying the code red, which is ancient, plus it only works on microcrud NT bitches. That's right, I get crude when I'm sleep deprived. I could swear it says on every page "this is a Linux box", well, not in those words. Stupid kid. I whois'ed him and sent a nasty letter to security at his isp. Teach him for being a dread haxor dude, when they take his high speed away.

I just thought of something, this is a meta-website.

Whaaaa?

Yeah, you know, it's a website about a guy who makes and runs a website. Deep huh? So this sleep thing: When I'm not working I start to gravitate towards a nocturnal schedule. I used to wake up at 8:00 or 9:00, but now I wake at 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon. So every once in a while I'll do an all-nighter and go to bed at 9:00 or 10:00 to get back to a normal schedule. Fucking societal norms, what good are they anyway.

-d

2:45 am Tuesday, January 28, 2003

Hello. I want to send a big shot out to my buds at no-ip for setting me up with a free domain name (albeit one with advertising in it), so now I don't have to worry about my ip constantly changing. Of course shaw never changes them unless their building gets hit by lightning. Dynamic my ass.

There is all sorts of people showing up here. You're one of them aren't you? Ya, you! I guess if you build it they will come. I also want to thank buddy for putting "/just/messing/with/you/" in my logs. I never thought of that before, and it provided me with a good laugh. So did you like my 404? I actually stole the haiku from the humor?!?!? section of the FSF website. Some more haiku for ya:

the bar lies empty
the drinks shall not flow again
my life is over

KDE 3.1 finally came out today...ROCK. Catch you later.

-d

8:41 pm Saturday, January 25, 2003

I've received my first four visitors. I can only assume that three of them came here from Linux Questions because that's the only place that has a link to here. The fourth was my brother, I asked him to check if this site was accessable to the outside world. If whois can be believed, you came from France, Atlanta (or thereabouts), and Alaska. Sorry, but this is something of a novelty to me.

To the person who tried accessing "/scripts/": What were you thinking?

-d

6:43 pm Friday, January 24, 2003

Well hello. Glad you could make it. This is the first installment of what I hope will be many entries in this space. As you may have found, I have not yet registered a domain name. I have plans to register www.linuxbot.ca whenever I get some free cash. Hey, if you're one of those people who enjoy buying things for people and don't expect anything but kind words in return you can register it for me...Unfortunately your gift is not tax deductable. For some stupid reason, even though I'm dirt poor, the Canadian government won't recognize me as a non-profit organization.

So anyway, this website is running on my personal computer out of my home. For this reason I will ask you to be forgiving if you try coming here and you get a "unknown host" sort of error. It probably means that I had to reboot or Shaw is mixing up the ip pool again.

A note to any script-kiddies who think it may be a lark to crack my box: Remember that I am just one dude who likes to make websites. If you want to do something useful then crack Microsoft. Besides, there's nothing valuable on my computer except for mp3's and porn, and I'm certain you have plenty of both on your own box.

Guess that's all for now. Don't forget to sign the guestbook.

-d

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