Monthly Archives October 2009

More Mustang stories

Last time I updated you on the Mustang, I said that the starter was the fault for it not wanting to.. well..  start.  I figured while the car was up at the shop I would have a new header and exhaust put on it as well.  I caught a lot of heat for that, saying [...]

Apple Tablet (To be called Slate?)

For those of you that have been living under a rock for the past year, you probably have not heard the rumor that Apple is supposedly making a “Tablet” Computing device.
The first really, kind of, official note about that came out today by way of a speech given by the New York Times.
Bill Keller speaks [...]

Google Chrome for the Mac released

Kinda.
Google released a “developer preview” of Google Chrome for the Mac finally.  Actually, you’ve been able to get a hold of it for awhile, but the copy that you could get, from Google, was essentially the developer developer preview.  It worked, but only in some areas.  I was using that for a long while, and [...]

Some New Apple stuff

Like every other retailer getting ready for the Holiday season this year, Apple, on the back of the biggest Quarter in Apple history, which saw their stock jump almost 10 dollars in one day, announced a few new products into the pipeline yesterday.  Let me just share a couple thoughts on these and then we’ll [...]

Fix for the Mustang

For anyone who was wondering, the Mustang was fixed by putting a new starter and cables on it.  The starter bench-tested good, (meaning it spun when power was applied) but wasn’t strong enough to turn the flywheel.  When you put it on the bench next to a brand new starter, the new starter turned about [...]

McAfeee Avert Labs Blog: W32/Xpaj Botnet Growing Rapidly

Read the below on Google Reader, figured it was easy enough to write some SNORTĀ® rules for:
alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:”VIRUS W32/Xpaj Botnet infection”; flow:to_server,established; uricontent:”up.php”; content:”a=g2″; rev:1; sid:1000000;)
alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:”VIRUS W32/Xpaj Botnet Infection”; flow:to_server,established; uricontent:”stamm/”; content:”stamm.dat”; depth:0; within:9; rev:1; sid:1000001;)
alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET [...]

Tungle Makes Cross-Calendar Scheduling Simple

This is a great idea.

Tungle Makes Cross-Calendar Scheduling Simple [Calendars]

via Lifehacker by Jason Fitzpatrick on 9/30/09
If you’re looking for a web-based application for scheduling meetings, you’ll find no shortage. Want that application to sync to common calendar applications like Google Calendar, Outlook, and iCal? Prior to Tungle you were out of luck.Tungle combines the best [...]

Well, it’s broken down for now (the Mustang that is)

This past weekend I went up the Hershey AACA car show in Hershey, PA.  In my Mustang…
……and got to Lancaster, PA. Car died at a Gas station and wouldn’t restart.
Tried to jump it, one click, nothing.
Had it towed to Pep Boys (hey, it’s Lancaster) and wound up troubleshooting most of the car myself. They eventually [...]

Scary

This is from xkcd.com of course, but how true is this?

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Painting the floor in the Garage

I’ve been thinking for awhile about doing this, but I just had too much stuff in the Garage at the time.  Well, after a huge cleanout over a couple weeks, I decided to go ahead and paint the Garage floor.  It’s not a huge pain as people make it out to be, it’s just time [...]

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