Rick's b.log - 2010/02/15
It is the 24th of November 2024 You are 18.224.70.11, pleased to meet you!

b.log2 - what's new?

• The entry you are currently reading is highlighted in yellow in the calendar. See? 15? Yellow!
• Date ranges are now validated, so bogus dates no longer have effect. Thanks Rob! ☺
  The calendar will 'default' to the current month.
• Month summaries now show the date as yyyy/mm/summary instead of as yyyy/mm/00.
• At the bottom of the right hand panel are one or two links.
  The upper, if present, is a link to the next entry. If a summary or the last entry, this won't appear.
  The lower link takes you back to the top of the page so you can use the calendar.
• Styles adjusted so it looks the same on IE as Firefox. Good ol' broken IE!
• The comment entry form has been tweaked to be a little less wide so it should display correctly on a display that is 800 pixels across.

Publicité

Today's pub brought the idea of trendy modern man into the realms of the takes-the-p!$$. I mean, we guys are supposed to be soft and emotional and know how to cook an aubergine... but, come on, what the hell? I said, what the hell?

It is pleasing to see "ultra-mini notebooks" (I guess they have not heard of the expression "netbook"?) being more prevalent. I mean, I was never really taken with "my laptop has a 15 inch screen" and "my laptop has a 17 inch screen". It was like penis size therapy, and when your laptop is larger than a table placemat, it is time to rethink the practicality of it. This is why I'm soooooo in love with Azumi (well, she's deadly-but-cute but I meant the eeePC!). It is large enough to be useful, powerful enough to get the job done, and small enough to be damned convenient. Mom got me a cool-bag which is exactly perfectly to-the-centimetre the right size. And being small I don't have too much worry about screen/body flexing. It seemed an issue of concern on a device larger than an LP which is but a centimetre thick, but the eeePC is quite chunky for its size, so it is a sturdy little thing.

Here is a girl lying on her bed to use a small computer (she'll have a duff back if she keeps that up!). It's a page of add-ons, such as the USB harddisc mentioned. All the girls are extremely cute and look like they're either studying or about to study. The boys, on the other hand, are playing computer games. Social commentary from SystèmeU?

And this reminds me of a publicité from the Intermarché group a year or so back in the early Autumn ("ready to return to school" promotions). The fact being horrible abuse of the legalese notice "Suggestion de présentation" - or serving suggestion.
Here, look:

And there was clueless old me thinking it was Lucille and Alyssa...

When good ATMs go bad!

[wonky picture - taken with my mobile phone and digitally fiddled to be the right 'shape']

Here's a little something to ponder. Installing security update MS10-015 (aka kb977165) released last Tuesday will create the error message PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA on computers infected with the TDSS rootkit (worrying bit of software, here's a description).
Cash machine. Evidently runs some version of Windows.
Same fault report, days after the release of the update.

Your comments:

can't say, 11th September 2011, 03:44

you'd take a dump in your drawers if you knew the shit that flies with atms  think they are secure and safe? think again