Resume Amusements While working on the arcter-resume this evening, I came across resumania, an archive of shall we say, "poorly worded" resume items. Also, lets not forget about the classic, this McDonalds application.

Pre-emptive Happy Canada Day! Well, I know it's still a few hours off (for this side of the world anyway), but a very happy Canada Day! Mucho thanks to my buddy illiad for the cute Oh Canada Dust Puppy that will grace the top of this page for a few days!

So how is everyone going to be celebrating?

Mondo Backup under Gentoo Mark has written up his impressions of using the mondo backup software under gentoo.

Mitnick Testified Against Sprint This should really be in the "funny" section, but... Anyway, there's a great article on securityfocus about how Mitnick (Free Kevin!) is testifying against Sprint in a hacking case, saying that their network is exploitable, how he exploited it, and they are arguing back that it's not, trying to prove his innocence as it were. It's a great read, with a few surprises towards the end :)

Gnome 2 Review OSnews has a review of the new GNOME 2 environment. I hate to say it, but I agree with him on a lot of his points. I'm in GNOME 2 right now, and while it's usable as a desktop, it's nowhere near as nicely integrated or mature as KDE, and feels far less featureful than the GNOME 1.4 release. Hopefully now that it's out there, the developers, users, and usability people will fix all the silly little bugs that are there (ie: applets not obeying Fitts' law (though the menus on the panel do), lack of decent config options for many things, and letting go of the "less is always better" mentality towards preferences, as well as adding some better tools to use within the GNOME environment (I can configure my kernel from withing KDE3, but I can't even control a sound server or pretty much any system stuff from the stock gnome2 tools).

Anyone else have any opinions on the new release?

Gates Interview Robin passed this on.... an amusing FOCUS Magazine Interview with Bill Gates and the whole "Microsoft Code Has No Bugs" thing. Worth a guffaw or two.

How to Disappear How to Disappear, a tutorial via wired.

Geek Humor Page Mike's Geek Humour Collection is worth at least a glance or three. The origin of /dev/null was particularily amusing.

New Key for Secure Web Server Just FYI, if you head to this site in https, or it the old or new webmail, you'll see that the server key has changed. This is due to the admin (that'd be me) being a bonehead and only creating a year long key originally, and then that same guy (that's me again) not knowing how to extend the cert's expiry date (someone care to enlighten me?). Anyway, just to let you know it's all good. BTW, I'm following these instructions to create the cert, and if there's a way to make it so I don't have to change the key/cert but extend the expiry date, please let me know.

(Pssst... the root CA for ufies.org (for OE users) can be found here)

GNOME-2 Review An article on linuxandmain.org that has a new review of GNOME-2, and what is wrong with KDE3. I don't totally agree with him on the problems with KDE3, but I haven't used it as long as GNOME.

Addiction Anyone? Frozen Bubble happens to be my latest. I noticed it in a LJ article where it mentioned a bug filed against it. Damn them! Course, it gives me something to do instead of lying in bed and wishing it wasn't so damn hot I couldn't sleep.

Two Towers Trailer Well, I'm sure you've heard it already, but Tig happens to have a local copy of said trailer.

Ogg to do Video Well, kinda. According to this newsforge story, Ogg Vorbis will be teaming up with On2 to use their open source V3P video compression software to create an open source solution to rival MPEG-4. Good stuff, something predicted (and bitched about) by others long ago :)

Audiogalaxy Article There is a great article on k5 about Audiogalaxy and their little stint with the RIAA. I didn't realize that to comply with the 3000lb gorilla^w^wRIAA they have to block all songs, even the ones that have no copywrite violation, such as geeks in space, and pretty much anyone who is sharing their own music. So basically here is a great example of the RIAA fucking over everyone. Hope I don't sound too bitter :) AG is/was a great system.

Webby Award Winners Here is a list of the winners and nominees in the latest webbies. Congrats to all!

3D Wallpaper Graphics Alchemy is a pretty cool site, with some nice full size wallpapers for your enjoyment.

Neverwinter Nights Review Found a review of Neverwinter Nights that gives it very high marks. Might want to check this one out....

.mov comes to Linux Thanks to Christophe for throwing me this tidbit. The sorenson codec, available before only under mac and windows, is available native via Xine .9.11. Here is the slashdot story. Xine is in debian unstable/testing for your enjoyment!

Spiraling Perl It's been a while since I wandered over to PerlMonks, but I did this monrning, and in their Obfuscated Code section I found a fantastic program that outputs it's own code in a continuously spiraling.... erhmm... spirale. It's very cool, well worth the cut and paste to watch.

Chamber of Secrets Trailer Online Seems a trailer for the second Harry Potter movie, the Chamber of Secrets has snuck online. There's a teaser and a 30s teaser, in windows media, quicktime, and real. Just FYI, the 30s teaser is just the first 30s of the teaser, so don't worry about downloading it.

Next from the RIAA Random funny that I found via ars, the next big thing coming from the RIAA!

Movie Review Just FYI, I threw a review of the Bourne Identity up on the movie review page. It's got lots of spoilers, but they are hidden by text color (white on white). Go have a look.

Typical Male Robots Caught this this morning through staticred, it's a 30meg divx avi (works through aviplay or mplayer under linux) that is wonderfully animated and hilariously funny! He also has an earlier animation, The Geek and Loaf-fu.

Some Movie Reviews Just wandered over to PWOT and found a couple of movie reviews, done in the distinct... erhm.... "style" that we're familiar with from PWOT. Here's one for Episode II and Scooby Doo.

Best 404 Ever Foz thew me this one, and I have to say, best 404 ever! (flash btw, and there is a naughty word at the end, but other than that it is safe for work)

NLMs.... almost.... As my fiends will tell you, this is a favorite subject of mine. However, I found something that is even more over the top, curtesy of alltheweb (via the /. story). Anyway, go check out this story.

Openoffice.org 1.0 Review OSNews has a review of openoffice.org 1.0. It's got a good look at the features, pros and cons, as well as the differences to staroffice. I've heard at least a couple of people say that it works just fine as an office suite, and at if someone like say, Apple, were to include it on their systems, in addition to or instead of MS office, and if it were to become the defacto standard on Linux systems, people might begin to see that they have an alternative to microsoft. Take into account the recent changes in licensing from microsoft, and you may see a shift. I'm not saying it's great, or fantastic, the only choice or even a perfect alternative to the "standard" that microsoft office, but from what I've seen, it's good enough.

Vipul's Razor 2 Released A new version of the spam reporting and analyzing software Vipul's Razor has been released. Version 2 of the software has many funky new things to offer. Now if only the .deb was updated!

Gettin' Nasty The latest issue of the brattiest academic 'zine on the net, nasty, has hit the stands. Lots of articles, poetry, and fiction for you to sink your nasty teeth into.

Bad Blonde Joke I know it's bad, but kudos to H for passing this along. I'm allowed to post it because I used to be a blonde. Read on for more... A blonde, wanting to earn some money, decided to hire herself out as a 'handy-woman' and started canvassing a nearby well-to-do neighborhood.

She went to the front door of the first house, and asked the owner if he had any odd jobs for her to do.

"Well, you can paint my porch," he said, "How much will you charge me?" The blonde, after looking about, responded, "How about $50?"

The man agreed and told her that the paint and other materials that she might need were in the garage.

The man's wife, inside the house, heard the conversation and said to her husband, "Does she realize that the porch goes all the way around the house?"

The man replied, "She should; she was standing on it. Do you think she's dumb?"

"No. I guess I'm guilty of being influenced by all the 'dumb blonde' joke emails we've been receiving."

A short time later, the blonde came to the door to collect her money. "You're finished already?" the husband asked.

"Yes," the blonde replied, "and I had paint left over, so I gave it two coats."

Impressed, the man reached into his pocket for the $50.00 and handed it to her.

"And by the way," the blonde added, "it's not a Porch, it's a Lexus."

Computer Myths Revisited This page on vmyths has a fun look back at the propaganda and paranoia that was around the Michelangelo scare of 1992. I remember this as well, and saw a couple of newspaper stories on it. I think I even let my dad convince me to leave the computer turned off that day, as he knew we had some..... "aquired" software installed on our system. Found via the slashdot story.

Gentoo FUQ Stoyan Zhekov has started a page entitled Gentoo Frequently Unanswered Questions. Anyone out there who is using, or interested in, the gentoo linux distro may find this interesting.

Posted by Arcterex at 08:18 AM

Getting Ready for GNOME Written by drobbins@gentoo.org, an interesting article for developers on getting ready for GNOME-2.

E2 Softlinker for Windows Saw a C!'d post on e2 today about a auto-softlinker for windows (it's a VB program). Go read the node or just go and check it out.

Look back at Doom There's an article with a cool look back at the game that changed the face of video games, Doom.

Blogging in NYC Interesting project over at http://www.nycbloggers.com trying to get a map of the bloggers in the area.

Nautilus 2.0 Released Not sure what the changes are yet, but I got the following from the gnome-announce list:

The Gnome hackers and a cast of thousands proudly present, after years in the making, the final Gnome 2 releases of:

- Nautilus, the Gnome file manager

and the sidekick helper library:

- Eel, The eazel extension library

Availible for download now at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/[...]/nautilus-2.0.0.tar.gz http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/[...]/eel-2.0.0.tar.gz

Internet Pr0n and You [Via Fark] Apparently internet porn is considered cheating, according to some quack from Oprah. Wonder if all the pr0n spam I get every day is enough to get me divorced (and no, I did not sign up to them or one of their "associated sites"!).

Hardware In! Yup, it's all in.... hopefully ya'll will see a difference :) The one thing that didn't go in was the new hard drive (as a hot spare for the raid array), due to driver problems. I'm going to be upgrading the kernel to 2.4.19pre-something tonight and see if that fixes it. I'll also need to do some more hardware stuff in the next few days (ie: putting proper brackets on the HDs and moving things around so the cables aren't stretched. I'll post when I take the box down again for hardware, but be expecting a reboot or two tonight. Huge thanks to Fred and his people for making this possible!

Downtime Yup, time for some more downtime. This time, however, it's planned :) I'll be installing some new hardware (thanks to fred) to make this box a hoss-box, wonderfully fast, and more importantly, stable (all components are server quality). Around 3:30pst (that's in a bit over two hours from now) the box will go down, hopefully for no more than an hour max, for a bit of sugery.

New Debian Based Distro TelemetryBox is a new distro out there, based on debian. It has a few interesting features. You can run it live from CD to test things out without touching your hard drive, and boots up (apparently) full configuration (via webmin) over a browser. It also claims to have "...network diagnostics, X and complete gui, E-mail server, list server and firewalling functionality all bundled together for easy installation" (blatently ripped from this debian planet story).

Read on for more of my tale.... I'm currently waiting for telemetrybox to finish installing under vmware, but I have played with their system running from CD. It has some problems, like being unable to configure X as the XF86Config is a symlink to a file on the CD, and no idea where the webmin link is. The default web page has some interesting things built in though, squirrelmail, mantis (bug tracking system) and mailman are all there built right in. They also have a nifty configuration system to do pretty much all the config right in the browser. This includes (as advertised) things like ACID, nessus, snort, netsaint, ipaudit, a port and ip scanner using nmap, with the ability to dump results right into nessus' config, and other nifty stuff.

They have some problems in the vmware drivers, so I had to fake out the webserver by adding the IP as "testbox.telemetrybox.org" in my hosts file before it would recognize the admin user properly, but after that happened, it was much easier to deal with. End result, it's woody with a nice admin interface, but still worth a look, if only to be able to mess about with nice preconfigured stuff :)

MFS (Mozilla from scratch) Want to build a fully optimized mozilla, built for your hardware? Check this article out. Via an osnews article. I finished compiling mozilla 1.0 for my athlon with gcc-3.1 only to get "unresolved symbol" errors. Bah. Maybe you'll have better luck.

Build Your Own South Park Character Via WWDN comes a page where you can build your own south park character using a nifty little flash thing.

Video Joy From Fred comes a couple of hilarious videos. The first is a flash that is great for an early morning giggle (if you get up a 11:00am that is). http://hellsgate.online.ee/~mait/fahrschule.swf

The second is (yet another) mastercard spoof (has naught words in it though) that can be found here (it's in .asf form, so linux users will have to use mplayer or aviplay to see it).

Not Exactly a "bug" This tail (spelling intentional) makes me really really want to secure all the sides of my computers back on!

New Webmail (BETA) Hey all you webmail users, there's a new version of IMP out that looks quite nice, and I have installed at https://ufies.org/horde2. This is not the final address, but I'd like some feedback from users on if it sucks/rocks and should it stay/go? I don't know if old address books can be pulled over to the new system or not, which is a potential major sticking point.

Oh, another mail related note. I have a system called pop-before-smtp going now. The way it works is as follows. The system will watch for people authenticating themselves with pop or imap (or pops/imaps) and when it sees that, it will open up their IP as a valid relay for SMTP for a limited amount of time. End result? As long as you get your mail first via pop or imap, you can use ufies.org as an outoing smtp server. This is new, and will be removed if there's any abuse (which I don't expect there will be), and feedback is appreciated :)

Perl - Apocalypse 5 The perl weenies in the crowd are sure to already know that Apocalypse 5 from Larry Wall is out, so you can ignore this.

The Hair Just in case anyone was wondering, yes, I did it.

Cat Quotes Had an inspiration for a search and found a decent page of cat quotes.

Cool Program of the Week: Earthviewer My good thanks to Yohimbe for introducing me to Earthviewer, quite possibly the coolest program I've seen in a long time. Sadly it's windows, but on the upside, it's extremely cool. Basically it's a GL program that allows you to zoom in from the point where earth is just a marble to street level. It uses a combination of different satallite photography and terrain information (make sure you hit the "terrain" button to get the moutains popping up) to give you images of the earth for pretty much everywhere. The really highly detailed stuff is only really in the US, Japan and Afganistan (go figure), and not all terrain is high high high detailed, but you can zoom in on cars in london or Tokyo. Combine that with handy "bookmarks" of points of interest, the ability to just type in an address and have the program zoom there, the ability to show or hide details such as roads, bars, hospitals, lodging, and countless others.... oh, and a cool tilt function, in combination with full 3d (zoom, move, tilt, pan, rotate) control. The program is a 14 day trial, but man, it's cool. Due to the GL it is very smooth as well... seems to have a big memory leak unfortunatly, I left it running while watching Slap Shot on DVD and found it had consumed about 400 meg of memory! Anyway, enough babbling, go check it out!

Doom III Interview Just some link propagation about the doom III interview over at the Daily Telefrag.

25 Sexiest Movie Moments Via fark, the 25 Sexiest Movie Moments (safe for work).

Free Space Sim Wow, how cool is this? A free, high quality space similuator that allows you to orbit a shuttle, see mars, the moon, earth, all in beautiful high res, 3d accelerated glory! Granted, the driving can be a bit complicated, and it's a bit crashy, but still well worth a download or even just a look.