This again. Security through obscurity, AKA, bullshit. Just because your software doesn’t detect a virus/rootkit/malware etc, does not mean you’re not infected. Anti-virus is only one toll that you should have in your armoury ie. a good software firewall such as Zonealarm….malware detection like Spyware Terminator, regular windows updates and good old common sense like […]
When I checked yesterday, I didn’t yet have themes available, but they’re there now! I told L. about Gmail’s new themes a couple of days ago, and he thinks they’re unnecessary and make text difficult to read (Windows 3.11? Seriously?), but I think they’re pwritty! Though Terminal looked terrible with my GTK theme, and I […]
I have a bunch of old files that are in Real format. I was still running Gutsy back then. Helix can’t open them, and I couldn’t remember what the hell they were, only that I’d “liberated” them from BBC and for that reason, they might actually be useful, so I installed Real Player; I think […]
After I lost Valerie, I moved Olena over to Val’s old house. I took some of her stuff along with her, but when I did, I forgot about an ootheca. Chinese praying mantises overwinter as oothecae here; the female deposits the case, and the little dudes hatch out when warm weather comes in spring. I […]
When I forget, the entry I had to change to get paragraph spaces to show in the Manticore WP theme: } div.entry-content p{ margin: 10; padding: 0; } The original values were, for some reason, both zero. I did try a margin of twenty, but that didn’t seem to make a difference. Zero to ten […]
Jesus H. jumping Jesus Harold Christ. Yes, yes, yes–I get it! She takes riding lessons and TKD, and something else I don’t remember. You have an iPhone, so you can send mail anywhere, anytime. I get that, too. Please stop sending me 500 photos a week. I like the kid, but FFS, if I was […]
I think I was talking to L. about how Hollywood always gets computers wrong. Maybe I was just thinking about it–don’t remember–but since he’s a living, breathing database of almost every movie that’s ever been released, I described the scene and hoped he’d know what movie. Unfortunately, he didn’t. All I could remember was that […]
This can’t be real. If I saw this sign somewhere, I would have absolutely no idea what it meant. In the instinct of self-preservation, I’m pretty sure I would not deliberately drive off the edge of the road and into the water. Does this mean I should, or shouldn’t? 🙂 P.S. In the event that […]
Problem: If I turn on the overhead light in the bedroom, it smells like an electrical fire is about to start. Solution: power down everything in the room, then turn things back on one at a time and monitor the results in an effort to see what, exactly might be overloading the wiring. Turns out […]
Such a shame that stupid, frightened and probably inbred white dudes can’t grasp the irony of, in an attempt to beat up an illegal immigrant, instead, beating up a boy who has more right to be on this continent, and indeed, in this country that their white European-descended arses. (“Liberated” from CNN) — A jury […]