October 2008
A Gem: manybooks.net
Wed, Oct 29, 2008 - 10:18am — AlexThis last weekend, while discussing H.P Lovecraft I was informed that copyright has lapsed and that his collective works have just entered the public domain. Because I'd rather enjoyed the few Lovecraft stories I'd read, I decided to see if I couldn't find some some of them online. What I found in fact is a site that not only fulfills my Lovecraft needs, but does so while impressing the hell out of me at the same time: manybooks.net.
Bill Watterson, Come Back (Please?)
Wed, Oct 22, 2008 - 9:50am — Alex
But really, who doesn't? Pearls Before Swine is an excellent comic, but I'm with Rat on this one. I wants my Calvin & Hobbes back.
Airport "Security"
Sat, Oct 18, 2008 - 9:14am — Alex
I've been saying for years now that so-called "Airport Security" is a sham. Ever since 911 the TSA has been making it increasingly unpleasant for the average traveler to fly. Barriers and layers of useless procedure now stand between you and the gates, not to mention at least one shoe removal.
Mozy - DirectoryIterator Error
Tue, Oct 14, 2008 - 8:57pm — AlexThis last week I've noticed that our family server was was responding very slowly. Some investigating turned up a rampage logd process that was gobbling up 40-80% of my poor old G4's CPU. Killing the process did no good, it just respawned. Turning off Timemachine (a known culprit of rogue logd processes) didn't help either. A look at the console turned up the true culprit: Mozy.