Author: Ian

Funny SF Gate has a story about microsofts hotmail servers being affected by the code red virus. You guys should have stayed with Unix 🙂

Geek Stuff:
Oops, I think I might have upset RoadRunner, I came home and found that I couldn’t get an ip address from road runner on my firewall 🙁 I wasted most of the night trying to work out if it was the new firmware I just loaded onto the firewall or something else. I tired getting an IP address using my laptop (worked), tried getting an ip address on my firewall from my internal networked (worked). I finally changed the MAC address on the firewall and BOOM it worked. Hmmm me thinks they banned my MAC address for some reason. Oh well I have an internet connection again so I can’t be bothered spending an other hour on the phone with them I will just wait a week and see what happens.

I got stumped by Circuit City last night. I went out to buy a cable modem since they were having a special on them. She scanned in cable modem and then asked me for my telephone number. I said “no”. she said, “I can’t continue unless you give me your telephone number”. I said “You have to be kidding”. She then said “do you have a work number I can use”, I gave her my works main number and then saw a nice list of people pop up on the screen of people who had done the same thing. Is it to much to expect that I don’t want to give out my telephone number. I mean I just wanted to buy something?

 

Hmmm not sure if this icon I want. If you don’t ready know Irn Bru is a Scottish soft drink. Look at my web page for more details. The bottle in the picture is a recyclable glass bottle that you can return and get some money back. After leaving my student flat I got back about 5 pounds (That’s Pounds Sterling). One of my friends was in the UK a few weeks back. He didn’t think very much of it when he tried it 🙂

Its time to rip another CD, I picked up a cd over the weekend that I thought would be good. I am sucker for celtic music. I looked at the title “Roots, reels + rhythms” then looked at the bands and thought “I know Capercaillie and Tartan Amoebas”. I was hoping it would be more ceildh type music turns out to be more well, emmm, I not quite sure. The CD says that it is “A totally modern celtic experience”. Lets just say that I am trying to decide wether it gets added to my play list.

Hehe my first post.

Greek Stuff:
I bought a cable modem today. Assuming I get the rebate it should pay for its self in 10 months. This gave me the opportunity of phoning technical support and spending 5 minutes trying to get something other than the engaged tone. Then probably 30 minutes to an hour getting them to enable the stupid thing. After spending many hours on the phone with there technical support I have learned a few things.

1) don’t tell them you have a anything other than a windows machine directly connected to the cable modem

2) They consider resetting the modem switching it off for 5 minutes, during this time they say they are doing something to your account *cough* bullshit.

I eventually got the required non flashing lights so I got off the phone.

I also found out that there servers got hit by Code red worm. I wonder if they need a security engineer at Road Runner 🙂

Anything past this point came from my web site. Since I am going to replace that page on my web site with LJ I thought I should copy over the old entries (All 4 of them) 🙂

If someone said they had a website called kittybrain.com and said they had an idea of putting a web cam on their cat and making it the star of the website. You would call them crazy right? If you click the link you will see that this is exactly what one of my friend is doing. I met the addorable cat a few months back and spent ages with a ribbon in my hand playing with him and the other cats that live there. The lucky cat has a custom made harness that the wireless camera is going to be attached to. All I can say is I love it and I hope it works.

Don’t people get it? I don’t want junk mail. I came home tonight and there was at least three pieces of mail asking me if I would like a credit card. I didn’t even bother opening them. I then looked at my email boxfor a website I run and I see emails with subjects, “Secrets Of Wealth Creation”, “Stock market taking you for a ride”, “Add 1-4 Inches To Your Penis…Guaranteed”. Those were just a few of the many waiting for me to delete. Every where I turn people are asking me for my email address. Emm NOOOO! I am not going to give you my email address even if you are going to give me a dollar discount. I am at the point where I filter all email on my personal account. Your email has to be in my address book otherwise you get dumped in my junk folder. On one of my email addresses I just deleted 81 junk emails. Thankfully I have convinced MCI World com that I really don’t want to change long distance and I really do not want to speak to you ever again.