I was Bought my Microsoft.

I have fallen to the powers of Microsoft. This is my last Post. So Long Fare-Thee-well readers. I shall now move out of the USA as part of the Buy out contract from Microsoft, I take my 100-Grand and My Lovely T-Shirt I got with the Buy out and Bid thee Adu.

Cheers!

Work Drawing...

No, this isnt me.. Its.... well a long story. Mr. Wonderfull's Son

Two or 10... Hmmm Interesting.

42 Times. Once in the right Direction. Twice In the other direction and three times a twinkie. Why is it that 1 can not be enough, but 3 is a crowd. If I can get Whole Sliced Peaches for a $ 1.75, why is it that Jimmy cracks corn. How do you crack corn, anyway. So back to 42. It's said 42 is the meaning of life, or the answer. So My question, is what was asked to get the answer. Was it how much does this Pearing Knife set Cost? Or Is it, How much the Doggy in the window really is? Or is it just the answer when you Multiply 6 by 7. Either way I will never know if its 42 licks to the center of a Tootise pop.

I actually hoped I would have something more meaningful and factual. Well, I could tell you that that the answer is "2 b" ("to be").

Something like that. I'll post something more meaningfull and useless. Oh and I'll try to fix the comments button too.

To Unlock or Not to Unlock... This is the Question...

Got an email today regarding how to unlock your car if you locked your Keys in the car. No, this isnt done by calling OnStar or Triple A, as I thought it might be.

These types of email are all over the place and find their way around the net. I personally don't think so. For one, a Cell phone is a different Frequency than your car's security alarm and the Lock/unlock remote.

But, Here's the email anyway.

"LOCKED KEYS IN YOUR CAR"

This is ingenious... If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone on your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your
car door and have the other person at your home press the unlock button
of your key fob (clicker), holding it near the phone on their end.
Your car doors will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.
Distance is no object you could be hundreds of miles away,
and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote"
for your car, you can unlock the doors (or trunk)!
Editor's note: It works fine! We tried it out, and it unlocked our car.

And no, this is Fiction. For one I went and tried and secondly I did a google search for this story and came across this. So, thats that. Don't Believe everything you get in an email. The best way to get into the car.. Use a "Slim Jim" or a Wire Coat hange. They work fine, I know this from experiance.

Truth or Fiction Site

Bon Echo.. Echooo.. echo

Bon echo alpha release 1 is the newest release from our friends over at mozilla .
I plan on installing this one and messing around with it. I'll post screen shots later.

Check it out here

Na Na Na Na Na Posting... Posting... Batman!

Yea, I need to post more often.

Window Tinting and Wireless...

They don't mix.

So don't put a Wireless connection behind a Very Dark Tinted window. Unless you dont want the outside world to use your connectiong. I've learned this from experince. and also looked it up on the net. Heres one link for it.

Yes, I racked my knoggin on this one. Trying to setup two Access points to act as a bridge to use a VoIP Phone. One AP was set up in a Gazebo (sp) and the other in a Building that has a big window, in-which is very much tinted. Closed the door to the room and bam, Connection lost. Arrgg.. WTF. Before all this both AP's were testing and worked fine. So, when they were put in place, they had a low signal. I check to make sure the distance was not a factor, which it was not. Low and behold it was the damned Tinting on the Window. Good Times

Hacker Gains Root access to MAC OS x in 30 min.

Yep True... and about damn time...

Although Gwerdna said that Mac OS X contains unpatched vulnerabilities that would permit a hacker to infiltrate Apple's operating system, he said that the relatively small number of Macs in use -- in contrast to the vast number of PCs running Windows -- is the reason more hackers do not try to exploit them.

Very interesting and funny read.. Althought it was a contest theres still a lesson to be learned...

The lesson here is that if we look at Mac OS X and compare it to, say,
Windows XP, we find that, in terms of the number of vulnerabilities, they are actually quite comparable," said Vincent Weafer, senior director at Symantec Security Response.

Read On...

More Cow Bell Please....

Check out other Voice Mail [Link]

Enjoy your Spagetti

I got this email from Mr. Wonderfull this morning.

http://techrepublic.com.com/2300-10879_11-5896894-1.html
I hope ours will look like that by the month end.

Yep. That was it..

You can never have enough Chuck Norris...

I see you...

I am a Jedis' Apperentice...

Mr. Wonderfull calls me to his office today. (One of many times) Shows me he's having problems connecting to a pc at the northern california dealership. But before I continue, I must explain how we conntect to each other. We have a VPN connection between both dealerships, so in-essense I can conenct to 192.168.100.xxx (workstation) from 192.168.50.xxx (workstation). We use Remotely anywhere to Remote to each station. Now normally there isnt any issue with connecting to each other. But when you have another Nic card installed, and its directly connected to a DSL connection, IE will connect through the DSL rather than the Networked connection. So naturally, if you try to access 192.168.100.xxx, it will not connect being its not going through the VPN that has been setup. I explain this to him and disable the DSL connection for the time being. Upon thinking about why he has or needs a second Nic card I engage in a small conversation with Mr. Wonderfull.

Me: "So, why do you need a second nic card anyways?"
Mr.W: "Because..."
Me: "Why? theres really no need for it, your pc doesnt have any bandwidth load problems..."
Mr.W: "I need it, and When you are ready I will tell you why I have it, until then you do not need to know."
Me: "..."

I walk out of the office and think to myself, Am I some sort of padawan? That answer just doesn't make sense. "When I am ready?". What the hell kind of answer is that.

I need to stop asking "Why?" with this man, he is simply amazing with the things he comes up with.

Command Prompt A to Z

This is a really nice reference for those of use who still use the cmd prompt in windows. From arp (Address Resolution Protocol) to xcopy. This reference goes through them all, so if theres a problem your having with them check out this handy reference.

Link: Command Line A-Z

Yea. I get some Layer 8 swagg.

I won the past Caption contest for week of Feb 6th - 10th 2006. See me and all my glory!

Actually, I've made 1st before, but did not receive any swagg :(
But its all good. [ See past win here ]

Click the image to see the article from Networking World.

I'll post what I get when I get it. :)

Then will be now soon...

Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now, now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then!
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.

Very Interesting.

Voice Mails and Messages from the Beyond...

Well not really from the beyond just from Mr. Wonderfull.

So, I come strolling in to my office and sit down and notice a note on my keyboard..
(If you have listened to the voice mails you know how he his.. This just adds to the fun.)

If you think his Voice mails are great have a look at the notes he leaves me.

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"Chad can you come to my Office, please."

I get up from my desk and walk to Mr. Wonderfuls office and This is what happened.

MrW moving a few things "When you move something, put it back. You know I am finicy (anal) about this."
Me: "..."
MrW "Thats it, I just wanted to show you this."
Me "Thats it?... Thats all you wanted?"
MrW "Yes"
Me walking away "O... K...ay..."

I shit you not, a total waste of about 3 to 4 minutes. Thanks, I want that time back.

Sorry, I must Bitch about this...

Ok, Everyone knows about Take-Two, the creators of Grand Theft Auto, are being sued over a hidden sex scene where the player can control what happens. Now, As a gamer (not as much as some) this game doesn't bother me, Nor do I see a reason why people should put up a stink about the game, or any game for that matter. Everyone know what Drug dealers do, Pimps do. So why bitch about it, you see it in movies, on the news on tv. So why complain about it when a video game does it. If you feel the content not correct for your kids then don't buy it for them or dont even allow them to buy it and or play it. Easy as that, As a father of a 10 year old who also shares a passion of video game playing, he knows these types of games are off limits until the is older and more mature. If you feel your kid plays them, then let them know you dont want them playing them. There are a lot worse things in the world, and if your kid doesnt know the difference between a game and life then you need to limit the amount of time and game type he or she plays.

What gets me about this whole thing on sueing them over the Hidden Sex scene, there are worse things in the game other than the hidden porn scene. Sex/porn is an easliy accessable through other means, TV, Video, Internet. Which would you perfer, your kid watching porn or actually going out and having an active sex life.

Here's part of an article I was reading that got me started on this post.

The game, released in 2004, is one of a series in which the player takes the role of a criminal who commits murder, deals in drugs and pimps prostitutes in a virtual Los Angeles. However, the makers, Take-Two Interactive Software, may have stepped over the line by embedding a game within a game called Hot Coffee in which the characters have explicit sex under the control of the player.

With a game like this how can you say that you steped over the line by adding sex? Something thats natural, non-the-less something thats hidden in game. Usually these things are not known by average players until it is spread via forums and in this case the Media (news). Which in my eyes is more violent than any movie or game. You don't see anyone going after an author for a really sexual or violent book do we?...

The point of the legal actions are mainly based on the rating being off. From Mature 17+, to what should have been on it Adult only 18+. How can you differ from a year? Kids these days see sex and talk about or are even active, What so different from acting it out on a game than watching it or even going out and doing it.

Enough of me rambling, the News is on, time for my daily dose of Violence.

Article Source: guardian.co.uk