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06/28/03 12:10 AM: Apple Store
A new Apple store opened in Chicago yesterday, up on North Michigan Avenue. I took the train into the city to meet Adrienne and some of her friends for the grand opening. I arrived around 5:45, and by then the line was wrapped around the building several times. I had never seen anything like it. I felt bad coming about 15 minutes before the scheduled opening, as others had been waiting there for much longer. The problem was that, due to a fire, the train line that connects my town to the city had been knocked out of service. I had to go to a different train station, and the train ended up being late. Oh well, at least I made it there.
The store is amazing, and I ended up buying one of those iSight webcams. I couldn’t resist. Adrienne brought her tibook, and we sat around for awhile playing around on the wireless internet access (when we could get it to work). She had brought her iSight as well, and was showing people from around the world the Apple store in Chicago. Technology continues to amaze me.
I would have pictures posted, but I decided to bring my film camera, and completely forgot to also bring my small digital one. So, I need to get the film developed, and then scanned, and such. By then, of course, everyone will have forgotten about the Apple store opening.
In any case, it was a good day. More days like that are in order.
01/28/03 12:04 PM: Sorry
I know I once said I wouldn’t make it a habit of posting these, but it’s only the second time I’ve ever done it, so you can deal with it. I thought this one was clever.
12/22/02 08:49 PM: OS X!
Well, I went and did it. Yesterday I became the proud owner of a new iBook. Yeah, I’ve become a Mac user. I shall state now that those who are not interested in computers should probably just stop reading now, as the rest of this post will be me talking about my new computer.
First off, the thing is tiny. It is so small, yet so powerful and portable. I love it. The keyboard is so nice, too. In fact, it’s one of the nicest keyboards I have ever used. It’s the perfect size. The 12” screen is not at all too small, at least for me. And it’s brilliantly bright. You can see some pictures of the iBook here. Also, those last two are some screenshots from when I was playing around with XDarwin.
This brings me to the next thing. The great thing about OS X is the ability to run *NIX applications. Since OS X is built on BSD, the possibilities of running *NIX programs are endless. I installed this handy utility called Fink, which allows you to eaisly grab ported apps for OS X. I also installed XDarwin, which allows me to run programs that require X11. I’m also running OroborOSX which is a window manager that looks like Aqua and makes running Aqua and X11 programs side by side almost seamless.
There are things with the XDarwin I haven’t completely gotten working yet—such as copying and pasting—but I can work on that tomorrow or something. I was just pleased to get XChat and the GIMP working. This is not to say I don’t like OS X or Aqua, that’s not at all true. I love Aqua, and I believe that OS X is by far the most advanced and also best OS out there. It’s by far much better than Windows XP, in my opinion.
Oh, and Office v.X is pretty nice also… Entourage > Outlook XP.
11/01/02 07:28 PM: Good old UIS
Well, something went amiss with the University’s internet connection tonight. For example:
saxa:~# traceroute www.roark.us
traceroute to www.roark.us (209.15.54.202), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 141.161.107.1 (141.161.107.1) 1.332 ms 1.104 ms 1.011 ms
2 INT-RTR1.gtunet.georgetown.edu (141.161.100.1) 1.132 ms 1.089 ms 1.148 ms
3 A4-0-0-400.Q-RTR2.RES.verizon-gni.net (207.68.19.197) 716.345 ms 683.386 ms 688.331 ms
4 P10-2.Q-GSR1.RES.verizon-gni.net (151.200.255.22) 746.802 ms 711.046 ms 714.605 ms
5 dca-edge-01.inet.qwest.net (63.148.64.221) 793.432 ms 749.929 ms 751.976 ms
6 dca-core-03.inet.qwest.net (205.171.9.85) 787.819 ms 774.763 ms 729.368 ms
7 dcp-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.209.50) 810.784 ms 780.842 ms 839.671 ms
8 sl-st21-ash-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.19.17) 767.470 ms 718.072 ms 667.096 ms
9 sl-bb26-rly-15-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.2) 734.132 ms 721.901 ms 728.733 ms
10 sl-bb23-atl-10-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.64) 743.886 ms 689.660 ms 679.960 ms
11 sl-bb25-fw-4-3.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.61) 859.429 ms 790.241 ms 768.207 ms
12 144.232.11.25 (144.232.11.25) 719.811 ms 724.858 ms 764.259 ms
13 sl-bb21-kc-13-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.118) 742.047 ms 742.222 ms 755.845 ms
14 sl-gw8-kc-0-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.23.12) 817.617 ms 784.964 ms 751.107 ms
15 sl-hosting4u-2-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.17.98) 730.626 ms 699.255 ms 741.272 ms
16 net2-vlan1-sup1.KCY.hosting4u.net (209.15.116.247) 745.254 ms 652.478 ms 720.090 ms
17 alpha.logicstorm.net (209.15.54.202) 674.375 ms 666.509 ms 674.492 ms
For those who don’t understand, well, then I guess you won’t understand.
10/26/02 07:38 PM: Server Troubles
The company that hosts this site moved their servers around, so for a while the site didn’t really work at all, and then for a while my posting backend was broken. In any case, I think it’s fixed now. I like how they never sent me an email about this, such wonderful customer service.
The reason why I haven’t moved this site over to my own server is that I prepaid a year of hosting at this provider. I figure I might as well use it. However, each time it has problems I feel more and more like moving it sooner rather than later. Oh well.
In non site related news, check out this piece by Peggy Noonan, entitled Paul Wellstone: An Appreciation. Here is an excerpt:
“But here’s what I really want to say. Democracy requires warriors. It requires leaders. It requires people who will go out there and fight for their vision of a better country in a better world. It requires men and women who will go into politics, and who will, in going into politics, in a way lose their lives. Or lose the relaxed enjoyment of daily life.”
08/29/02 05:56 PM: Finals done
Well, the subject says it all. Today was the last day of final exams for Summer quarter. I’ve got a couple weeks off and I intend to enjoy them.
I installed the Redhat Linux “null” beta on my laptop today and got a USB Optical mouse for the laptop as well. Needs some work and I need to get my wireless network going with Linux, but I can dual boot between Linux and WinXP on there just fine so I am pleased with that.
08/25/02 07:15 PM: Weekend…over.
I’m glad to hear that dave’s all moved in and getting settled into his new home for a few months. I was most impressed that Georgetown has a 802.11b wireless network that dave can access outside his residence hall. Nothing like picking up chicks outside while still being on IRC chatting. Okay, that’s probably a bit excessive.
Anyway, my weekend has been like most others, a total waste. I downloaded the new RedHat beta but I really need a Partition Magic version that supports Windows XP before I install it on my laptop. There is a post on slashdot about some KDE/Gnome thing in the new beta and they naturally all get all bent out of shape about nothing. Bottom line is they made the GUI stuff look pretty damn impressive and are converging functions into some standardized user interfaces. This is nothing but good news for Linux on the desktop, and I must say it looks pretty nice in the screenshots.
Okay, enough geek talk. On to more important things. There’s three band’s albums that I am greatly looking forward to their release: SR-71, Disturbed, and Chevelle. Should be some good stuff.
06/06/02 11:43 PM: LogicStorm is back
Been busy with a little project, sorry.
LogicStorm is back! (The company I used to run that closed down in Jan of 2001).
Ah, how sweet it is.
dave is dave@infinity.logicstorm.net * Dave Stroup
dave using infinity.mo.us.mysteria.net LogicStorm Communications, Kansas City
dave is an IRC Operator – Server Administrator
dave has been idle 17secs, signed on Fri Jun 07 01:37:25
dave End of /WHOIS list.
Yeah… I’m a computer nerd. After all I won “Mr. Cybersurfer” as voted by the student body. This is what’s expected of me!
05/17/02 03:03 PM: PGP Signature
Due to the fact I don’t want people impersonating me, from now on any email correspondance that I send from dave@whichwayup.org will be PGP signed. This will cause the email to look uber-stupid with all the—-BEGIN SIGNED MESSAGE—- and all, but I suppose it has come to this while the stupid Klez virus is around or whatever.
SO… if you get an email from me, and you want to verify that it is indeed from me, here is my PGP Public Key:
——-BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK——-
Version: PGP 7.1.1
mQGiBDzlfFQRBADUtxudtUHGg07XEHuYipZ0mzkgUnvkM8aIS40vSEBCa72N6tlz
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9hl6yBW2qO3qIztnA/zc95CETZ8qrli+eJMJQRj2NIX80MKMXPXyta1U7QCg/z5V
BZZYqqVCzdIvdRuAU7RkClEEAL2KC46y/MiG7t1PV1zbpmn/8TZXLvj7vWSarJ78
AhTvsq2BUbGYnEstL4SV0w81C8Xw7XCna0FJTy/x2p4gntGKgm3QEYswBG+8eSIU
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9Vlf3HZSTz09jdvOmeFXklnN/biudE/F/Ha8g8VHMGHOfMlm/xX5u/2RXscBqtNb
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QYg9
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05/17/02 02:34 PM: How Lovely
I like it when virii forge their return address and send out viruses.
Know what this means? I suppose from now on I will have to go get PGP and sign all my email so you’ll know if it’s really from me or not. SIGH
I know I didn’t send the infected mail, because if you look at the return path, it originated at ac99e537.ipt.aol.com.
To: dave@whichwayup.org
From: Mail Delivery System
Subj: Mail Delivery Failed
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
kevin@whichwayup.org This message has been rejected because it has a potentially executable attachment picacu.exe This form of attachment has been used by recent viruses or other malware. If you meant to send this file then please package it up as a zip file and resend it. ———This is a copy of the message, including all the headers.——————The body of the message is 131473 characters long; only the first———102400 or so are included here.Return-path:
Received: from ac99e537.ipt.aol.com ([172.153.229.55] helo=Qpzwpszn)
by chick.nocdns.com with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1)
id 178p7W-0000Nx-00
for kevin@whichwayup.org; Fri, 17 May 2002 17:18:39 -0400
From: dave
To: kevin@whichwayup.org
Subject: A humour game
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=FCtZNX30m45U2nq8v
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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 17:18:39 -0400
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This is a very humour game
This game is my first work
You’re the first player.
I expect you would like it.
