It always seems that while I'm at work that either me or the guy that works nights with me finds odd things on the net. Yesterdays installment of Matrix Ping Pong was courtesty of him, today as I looked through the list of weird flash movies I found Odd Todd . He has a bunch of funny cartoons to watch and what better way to kill time sitting at your desk at work. The one from the list that had me crying was "Seeing Jesus H. Christ". Here's another one about a worm I guess.

In case you were wondering I had to go to that specific list directory because the main page is blocked by our filtering software.

Matrix Ping Pong
I'm guessing its from a Japanese game show, interesting little piece.

I always seem to have extra time at work for some odd reason, so why not fill that time with something of great importance. By constructing so Origami models.... I just finished my crane and I'm now starting an Azalea. Oh, I mean I'm getting back to working on those trouble tickets that I still have open. :)

All Jokes Aside ....

I'm not gonna say I'm a super funny person, even though I tend to do some super funny stuff or have super funny faces. My jokes never really seem to fall into that super funny category though. Hell they usually don't even fall into a funny category sometimes. I guess it probably has to do with the fact that I to lure people into my funny trap before I spring the "This was merely a joke". By then however its too late, people have either decided that they didn't get it or that it wasn't funny.

I guess my "jokes" are not really funny because people always play some on me, then me being me tries to get all technical and logical by that time the "I'm joking" card has already been drawn but I haven't had a chance to explain anything. I guess that is where my problem lies though, I allow too much time for other things to pop up killing anything funny within any of my comments.

Example

Scene #1

person #1 - "I just told So-n-So that you pee in the bed."

Person #2 - "You did wha..."

Person #1 - "LOL Just kidding, I'm playing with you"

Scene #2

Person #1 - "I just told So-n-So that you pee in the bed."

Person #2 - "You did what?!?"

Person #1 - "Yea, I told them you had a weak bladder and you can never make it to the bathroom in time"

Person #2 - "OMG, I'm gonna kill you!!!"

Person #1 - "LOL Just kidding, I was just messing with you"

Person #2 - "... ... ... .....ARGGGHHH!!! I'm gonna kill you!!"

Person #1 - "Wait...wait...Nnnoooo!!!"

It's obvious that I seem to fall into the second scene category alot more. About time its revealed that everything was a joke in scene 2 it's pretty much too late and you're well on your way to a beating.

Winter Sky

I'm not really into fall all that much, I'm probably more of a winter person. I don't really enjoy the cold but being from Milwaukee I can take it. What I really enjoy most about the winter though is the snowfall. During the snowfall, the one with the giant snowflakes and the temperature close to freezing, everything just seems to be calm and quiet. Well at least during the night it does.

I used to live on a relatively quiet block and when it was snowing sometimes I would go out in the middle of the night and just sit in our yard in the snow and just think. The sky would be cloudy with a deep purplish tint to it. The air would seem unusually warm and it would be so quiet and still that it seemed like everything stopped except for the snow.

Then if you incorporate all of that with the soft glow of flashing christmas lights, you'll get the other reason why i like winter. I'm really big into christmas, I even like the corny christmas commericials and christmas music. But enough of that.....

I currently don't have any bluetooth enabled devices myself, but I've found alot of bluetooth hacking information. The most interesting that I found was this. A Bluetooth Sniper Rifle ..... whoa

The Flexilis teams demonstrated the gun with some home-brewed Bluetooth scanning software. They pointed the gun down the hallways and out windows. Almost instantly, vulnerable phones with their unique Bluetooth device numbers appeared on the laptop screen. The device is powerful enough to detect devices through building walls.

You can pick off a bluetooth enable device from a mile away.... hmmmm

Video Tutorial For New Diebold Voting System

It seems as if they still have a few bugs in the system. Hilarious stuff... Download the Video.

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:::EDIT::: Fixed the link, should work now and I still have 3 Gmail invites if anyone needs one

....Just a Few Days Gone By

By few I should probably say about 5, so let's try and play a little bit of catch up. I should finally be closing on my house pretty soon, it has taken so long to try and get the house to this point that I'll be glad when its done. Not really looking forward to the mortgage but it's something I'll have to deal with. Then after everything settles I'll start thinking about house mods...the home automation type stuff. Something like MisterHouse will do, so I'll be able to control all different kinds of things in the house.

For those that would like to play their Divx/Xvid movies in a standalone player, I would highly recommend the Philips DVP642. I've been in a gadget buying mood lately (wasn't really trying to) and I picked this up because I really wanted a DVD player that played Divx. After I figured out how I should be burning my movies to cd I didn't have anymore problems with it. Check out this review. On the flip side to that coin be sure to avoid the JVC XV-NP10S.... Let me say that again Do Not Buy the JVC XV-NP10S. Its a nice slim dvd player with a pretty blue light in the tray, it also has plenty of card slots if you happen to use them for your digital camera/device/whatever. It just sucks at playing most Divx movies, which is not good for a certified Divx player. So the moral of this story...... buy the Philips DVP642 not because it plays Divx better, it's also $50 bucks cheaper.

Customer Service Sucks.......

Yes, I work in Customer Service.....and yes it sucks, especially today. I just got another "monitoring" form today for a call I received yesterday. Did not offer further assistance, Did not give a reference number, Did not thank the caller for calling, and did not log the call at all. On a normal call with a normal customer I would have probably did all of the above things, but this call was from another customer service rep at another company we deal with frequently. They called to say "Hey, these files are bad... send them again", so I find out what's wrong and resend them. It becomes tedious if I have to say that long drawn out speech everytime I work with these people. I guess really I was taking a chance and hoping the QA Monster was not listening in on the call.

No such luck, I had a visit quickly after logging into my phone brought with her was a form with a list of all the things I did wrong on it. She began to go down the list of charges while pointing to the various pieces of paper that have taped to my cube with the scripts that we need to remember. Blah...blah...blah...blee...blee...blee...Just give me the paper so I can sign already. SHEEP

On an up note my son should be here next week, I still need to finish some things around the house though before he gets here. Like hmmm getting another bed to put in the other bedroom and maybe getting the shower fully operational. The time seems to be running out so I need to get a move on.

What are the odds of buying someone the same exact card for a holiday like Valentine's Day or on Sweetest Day? This happened to my girlfriend and I on Sweetest Day this past Saturday. We had bought the same exact card, it was pretty funny and interesting all at the same time. I guess that does show that we pretty much feel the same way since the card probably best said the way we feel about each other.

Trip to Chicago
Well I drove up to Chicago with my girlfriend with the intentions on bringing back a rat terrier puppy. Well we didn't get the puppy, but I think we still had a good time regardless.
The hotel was pretty nice, even though they tried to stick us in the same room as someone else. Yea that's right, right after we checked in this other young couple had checked in and we happened to follow them into the parking garage and happened to follow them onto the third floor of the hotel. We almost happened to follow them into room 325 on that same floor but we both found that kind of odd. We went back down to the lobby to tell the front desk person that there was someone else that just walked into our room. After he checked to find out who checked the people in, he apologized and set us up in a "nicer" room. So we hurried off and went to our room before they changed their mines about the nicer room. I'm still not sure how much nicer it was since I didn't get to see the other one though.
I even attempted to see my best friend in Milwaukee since we were so close. I had talked to him prior to coming up there and he sounded pretty happy we were coming. He did mention that he was drinking some Paul Mason and some kind of 211 beer that I have never heard of, That was pretty much the last sentence I heard from him. When we got there his girlfriend answered his phone and told me that he was pretty much trashed and not responsive to anything. We went over his girlfriend's house and there he was just spread out on the bed....not going anywhere for a long while. His girlfriend attempted to wake him when we got there and when that worked attempted to have me wake him... even though I knew that was gonna have the same effect as me poking him with a q-tip. So not to totally ruin her Sweetest Day, we all went out to CO2 Ultra Lounge it was a pretty nice place and a nice change from the places here in Dayton. After that we left and went back to Chicago.
Even though we didn't get the dog while we were there, I really enjoyed the time we had. To be able to spend some time away felt pretty good. I'm really looking forward to the next trip to NY.

Before I get into the detail of my weekend there are two things that I need to be sure to write about. They both have to deal with two small problems I had when using my linux box a couple times. One has to do with eth0 not starting up on boot and the other was a problem with the cdrom drive refusing to open.

Eth0 not starting on boot

Well for a few weeks now I have been having this problem, It probably happened the last time my cable internet went down and didnt come back up. I went in and changed something on my network settings to get my network connection back up but never changed it back. Not really sure what it was, and I really didn't notice the problem till I tried to run Nmap recently. It kept telling me that I had to specify my source address because it could not find it. I found it interesting since I have DHCP running and I should have had one.
After the ifconfig indeed showed me that there was no IP specified for eth0 I had to try to resolve that. Since I use redhat I went into "neat" and saw that my network device was eth0:1 instead of eth0. To get my network connection working on startup again I copied the ifcfg-eth0:1 into ifcfg-eth0. When I did this it showed eth0 as a selection for one of the network devices. I deactivated eth0:1 and activated eth0, did a restart, and it came up on boot this time. I also did an ifconfig and saw that I also had an IP address. I think this also caused me some network congestion problems, but that had to do with my gateways. On to the next problem...

Cdrom drive will not open

This was a very interesting problem since at the time I thought I had no programs running and I wasn't currently doing anything to the drive. Every time I tried to unmount the drive though it gave me the "device is busy" error. So I had to figure out what in the world was going on, so I did a google search for possible solutions to my problem. I found that in LSOF, I did /usr/sbin/lsof /mnt/cdrom and it showed me a process that still had a hold of the cdrom drive. After I killed the process I was able to unmount the drive finally.

::: GMAIL invites to anyone who needs one, I have 3 left :::

I had a pretty good weekend I just got in from Chicago.... I'll fill in the details tomorrow.

How many people actually know someone with the first name Tillman? ...... Don't count me

Read MAC disks on your PC

I have to say that this free utility to read mac disks was pretty easy to use. The only thing I did was basically download it, run the program, and drag 'n drop the files into Windows Explorer. That's it.... and it's free

To be able to read MAC disks - Download it from here
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I stopped by my parents house today to kill some time before I had to go into work. Shewas talking to me about things I needed to finish doing to my house to get it together and stuff she wanted to do to their house in the near future. Then she happened to mention a message left for me from a Congressman Thomas Reynold's office inviting me to an Annual Dinner with President Bush. Now first off, how in the world did they pick the people to come? and why me? It is pretty interesting though, I'll probably call them to find out what its about. My dad got one for Kerry, so I am interested in hearing where they are getting the names from. Now onto something else...

A digital home is something that I have been thinking about for a little while now. There are so many different things that I want to do to my house and to put in my house that I felt I could write for days on all of it. Well the story that I saw in this month's PC Magazine was pretty much exactly what I've been thinking of doing and wanting to do. From DVRs and Video Games to Wireless Networking and Security Cameras, I basically want to do it all. I think this could function as a guide and inspiration for all of it, of course I'll pick and choose what actual technologies I would use in my personal project.

Even though a lot of the products that they choose to use in this guide are pretty nice and slick, I don't have pretty nice and slick money. So I'll more than likely begin finding different open source and free software alternatives whenever possible. For the hardware I would more than likely have to see how low and I can and still have some relatively decent equipment to work with.

So I guess I can now combine my dream of an Uber-network into my plans for my Uber-house. I'll provide links later for everything.

I know what I always sit around and think about.... What if they made movies that I like into Hip-Hop musicals, that would be interesting. Ok, I really don't sit around and think about that but I did find something that was pretty damn close and pretty damn good.

Star Wars - Gangsta Rap Special Edition

The intergalactic gangsta rap now has a whole new flava in this Star Wars Gangsta Rap Special Edition. This remake features all-new and improved animation that would blow away any Death Star. Check it today.

Thanks to Muts for dropping through, He's the one who brought you the Whoppix that I seem to be talking so much about lately. You can find him here. I'll be sure to send those videos to you when I'm done.

Man Melts Pot While Boiling Water

I guess today is just one of those days, a day where it is just extra blah for one reason or another. Well I guess it really didn't get that way for me till I had an accident trying to boil water. I know....accident and trying to boil water should not be that close together in one sentence, but that's the way it goes today.

I poured the other half bottle of Drano down the kitchen sink in another attempt to try and dislodge this stubborn clog. I'm really not sure if it is even a clog, the way the water is moving it seems more likely to be a small body.....well not really, but its moving pretty damn slow. Well since I'm getting just getting my gas cut on since I moved in the house I currently don't have any hot water. As per the instructions on the back of the bottle I needed some hot water, so as I did just the night before I put a pot of water on the stove ..... on high. (Mistake #1) Then me being me I left the room and became distracted by computers and video games. (Mistake #2) After becoming so distracted I forgot about the pot of water in the kitchen sitting on the stove on high.... so I left.

I come home about an hour and a half later to house filled with a smell similiar to a factory. As I went into the kitchen and looked at the stove I see an empty pot with a red bottom. I know that's bad for the simple fact that I have never seen a pot get that color before. I knew it was really bad when I picked up the pot and liquid metal came pouring out onto the stove. Of course, when the metallic liquid came out it began to harden on the stove surface. After all was said and done the casualties were two of the silver plates under the eyes on the stove, and alot of burn marks on top. I'm just glad the stove was the only thing to get burned..... but I honestly do know how to boil water. Oh, and cook.

HACKER:

[originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe]

1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.
3. A person capable of appreciating hack value.
4. A person who is good at programming quickly.
5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a UNIX hacker'. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)
6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example.
7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.
8. [deprecated] A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence "password hacker", "network hacker". The correct term is cracker.

Where I found this HERE


:::EDIT::: I did not see that this post really messed up the browser under IE, So I changed it.... Should be good now.

While you're out and about go pick up yourself an email icon to show off to all of your friends. They currently have Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and MSN.

"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."

Been kinda quiet lately, I guess that's good.... no problems to report .... Everything is O.K. Well I'm supposed to be going with my best friend to go pick up a dog this weekend. I guess that means I still have time to add my input into the name thing, although any names that I really thought up would either be tech related or just dog. I'm not sure everyone would appreciate "Dog" as the dog's name though. It's gonna be a long trip to go get the dog, but hell I'm all for a getaway even if it's to the middle of nowhere (a.k.a. Illinois).

I need to figure out what I'm gonna do with the other bedroom, my son should be down here at the end of the month and I need to have something in there for him. I either need to make it just a kids room or a room that "big" people can sleep in..... hmmm we'll have to see what I do.

Sweetest day is coming up, this will actually be a year that I will remember the day before its actually over with.

A site I came upon awhile ago that I'm not sure if I mentioned or not: Cooking For Engineers.

Well I downloaded my copy of WHoppix - 2.4 and have gotten to play with it a little bit..... good stuff. I was also trying to look around to find some more stuff on the pieces that went together to make WHoppix what it is:
MetaSploit Framework, Part 1
MetaSploit Framework, Part 2
MetaSploit Framework, Part 3

K-OTIK Exploits & Code

PacketStorm

I'll start making up some videos of WHoppix in action when I get a chance.