During the week I get up, go to work, come home, eat dinner. What should I do with the rest of my evening? I have no homework, I have no significant other demanding attention. TV sucks ass. I'm angry and bitter at the world and what better way to unwind and release some of that anger than smacking some punks around in World of Warcraft?
It was either online gaming or find a tall tower and a sniper rifle.
Because it's there, and because I can! Where's your sense of adventure? Where's your scientific curiousity?
Okay, so maybe I have a really geeky sense of adventure, but still... This kind of thing really is for people (like me) that like to turn on every experimental option when compiling their own kernel "just because".
If I monkey with/etc/hosts (or whatever the Winduhs equivalent is), can I silently redirect *.cddb.org to my choice of freedb mirrors without causing undue pain and hardship on myself?
Build a wireless tracking device (a la "Aliens") out of a spare laptop and a wireless PCMCIA network card and you'll be able to track down and frag your fellow cube farmers like the dogs they are.
The idea of government schools encouraging students to rat out their peers just makes my skin crawl. Government schools seem to be taking on parental responsibilities at an alarming rate, with the hysterical reaction you could only expect from a bureaucratic institution managed by a popularly-elected committee.
Why not encourage students to rat out their parents for suspicious activities as well? This would certainly create a much safer home environment for government-educated students. You could create a special law enforcement unit just for this purpose. Just for kicks, we could call them the "Thought Police".
George Orwell may have only been off by a few decades, after all.
What a chronically overworked sysadmin would really like to see is a graphical, gee-whiz, easy-to-use utility to organize and edit rulesets without having to delve so incredibly deeply into the guts of the syntax. I've looked over at Freshmeat, but nothing has really rung my chimes.
It's not that I don't _care_ about system security and upgrading to the latest packet filtering gadgetry, it's just that I'm chronically short of "Round Tuits", and this huge pile of Luser Requests doesn't seem to be getting any smaller.
Suggestions?
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I'm a divorced, unattached, middle-aged man.
During the week I get up, go to work, come home, eat dinner. What should I do with the rest of my evening? I have no homework, I have no significant other demanding attention. TV sucks ass. I'm angry and bitter at the world and what better way to unwind and release some of that anger than smacking some punks around in World of Warcraft?
It was either online gaming or find a tall tower and a sniper rifle.
It's all in the Brownian motion, baby.
Because it's there, and because I can! Where's your sense of adventure? Where's your scientific curiousity?
Okay, so maybe I have a really geeky sense of adventure, but still... This kind of thing really is for people (like me) that like to turn on every experimental option when compiling their own kernel "just because".
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If I monkey with /etc/hosts (or whatever the Winduhs equivalent is), can I silently redirect *.cddb.org to my choice of freedb mirrors without causing undue pain and hardship on myself?
Build a wireless tracking device (a la "Aliens") out of a spare laptop and a wireless PCMCIA network card and you'll be able to track down and frag your fellow cube farmers like the dogs they are.
Sounds like a legitimate business expense to me..
...and the clocks were striking thirteen.
The idea of government schools encouraging students to rat out their peers just makes my skin crawl. Government schools seem to be taking on parental responsibilities at an alarming rate, with the hysterical reaction you could only expect from a bureaucratic institution managed by a popularly-elected committee.
Why not encourage students to rat out their parents for suspicious activities as well? This would certainly create a much safer home environment for government-educated students. You could create a special law enforcement unit just for this purpose. Just for kicks, we could call them the "Thought Police".
George Orwell may have only been off by a few decades, after all.
What a chronically overworked sysadmin would really like to see is a graphical, gee-whiz, easy-to-use utility to organize and edit rulesets without having to delve so incredibly deeply into the guts of the syntax. I've looked over at Freshmeat, but nothing has really rung my chimes. It's not that I don't _care_ about system security and upgrading to the latest packet filtering gadgetry, it's just that I'm chronically short of "Round Tuits", and this huge pile of Luser Requests doesn't seem to be getting any smaller. Suggestions?