Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Igor's LiveJournal:

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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
7:48 pm	He was born in the U.S. Or was he? It remains an interesting mystery, and one that should be solved sooner rather than later. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
1:29 pm	true or not? If this video has some truth to it, which I think it most likely does, then thungs are about to get a whole lot worse, instead of better. Yay for headed down the shitter express! (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
2:08 am	U.S dollar headed down the shitter? It looks like this is further proof. This pretty much echos the editorial I linked to in a previous post; the faith-valued dollar is fast headed down the path of no return, and back we go to the gold standard. Can we say "history repeats itself?" (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
6:08 pm	The Dell failtop Because that is exactly what this thing is. First the cooling issues, and now I find out that this machine may or may not have a bad PCI controller. First some seemingly driver-related problems with communicating with my Cardbus wireless card, and some kernel "PCI0xxx (where xxx is an I/O address) int A disabled" messages later, it points to either the card itself getting flaky, or a bad controller. Unfortunately for me, I won't know which it is until I get my new laptop, since I neither have an Expresscard to Cardbus adapter to test the card in Tracy's machine, nor a second Cardbus card with which to do some more testing. So yup, up shit creek until further notice as far as that goes. Itunnel works thankfully, well enough for me to establish an Edge/3G connection if I need it whilst traveling. (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
6:57 pm	Yeah, I caved in after all. I restarted the BBS at lava-net.com port 23. Everyone come check it out! It has some old popular favorites on it, including Kanons and Katapults, Barren Realms Elite, and some others. If I find that the board is getting some traffic, I may just add some more doors. (Comment on this)
5:32 pm	BBSs? So I seem to have re-discovered BBSs apparently, along with most of the games I used to play back in the early 90's. And, the Gameland BBS hadn't gone away, the telnet port was just switched to 24. I wonder how long it will be before someone throws me a bunch of chemical weapons in Barren Realms? Only time will tell. Not sure if I should restart my BBS; I may just end up doing that. (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
6:20 pm	Not entirely sure what to think of this. It should be interesting watching regardless though. (Comment on this)
Friday, October 16th, 2009
7:43 pm	I have finally done it! So I have finally purchased my new laptop! I did add the full HD 1920X1080 display, 5050 GB hard disk, and 8 GB of RAM. The rest is as according to the base configuration. I can't wait to see how this thing plows through building LFS and Gnome; hopefully Gnome doesn't take 15 hours to build, which is about how long it took on this old Dell I am currently using. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
8:09 pm	linkage And this is why the Flu shot can be bad news. It really can't be good to injest something that contains 25 times the amount of mercury that is even rated safe for human consumption? I didn't think so. As a result, no H1N1 or Influenza vaccines for me! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 25th, 2009
12:59 am	I lol'ed over this one. So when is ISO coming out with the new standard that is going to regulate the number of transistors that can be manufactured onto next generation CPUs? Because holy shit, the world will end if there is a 0.000000000000001% chance of one of those transistors sparking and starting a little fire. In which case, one should observe propper grounding procedures. (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
3:24 pm	More govt crap I am becoming increasingly against public, government perpetuated education. Here's why. If that isn't socialist indoctrination, I don't know what is. Imo education should be left to the private sector, so that as much choice as humanly possible becomes available as a result. Do you want your kids to become well versed in the ways of science in technology? No problem, just send them to the local all-technical school. Or if militarism is your thing, just call the local military emphasis institution. Etc etc. No wonder an increasing number of individuals are becoming accepting of the current federal government and its ways, it's all in how you present your propaganda. And, nothing better than to have your children pass all the propaganda they get in public school to future generations right? </sarcasm> . Until we get rid of this monstrosity that steals our income, suppresses our ability to conduct freedom of expression (puritanistic indecent exposure legislation anyone?), we will never truly be free. Edit: And as if the above news story isn't enough, Youtube video. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
1:21 am	testing123? Yup, I am still alive. There hasn't been a whole much to report as of late; consequently, I guess a lack of updatage. Random facts: I hope I can get my laptop fairly soon. Beyond the base specifications, I will probably have a Core2 Quad Q9000 put in, 8 GB of DDR3 SDRAM, and a 500 7200 RPM SATA hard disk. That should make for a kickass Qemu virtualization machine, as well as anything else CPU-intensive I plan on throwing at it. I am getting more and more fed up with this Dell Inspiron 600M failtop by the day, mostly because of cooling issues. Speaking of cooling issues, I am quite surprised that this thing still runs properly, and yet here it is. I have started listening to Free Talk Live, and I rather like it so far. I guess at heart I have always been a Libertarian, and I didn't really figure it out until now. Robert Murphy's Politically Incorrect Guide To Capitalism, helped push me in that direction (initially). And in other random news, I hope this case gets ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, given that the bank really did fail to secure the online account access properly. Like Bruce Schneier says in his blog post on the case, the key to eliminating this sort of fraud is to authenticate the transaction, not the user. The major credit card companies already do this, and the end result is a fairly low percentage of fraudulent transactions. Why can't the banks do this? Oh I know why; it's because they are too busy getting ass raped by big government bailouts, to where the customer is quite secondary (in other words, they don't really give a shit anymore). Seriously though, someone has to fix this problem, and the free market is the best way to do it. I think I am done rambling for now though, I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 18th, 2009
12:59 pm	I have gone the way of the Apple. At least for now, that is. I have obtained an IPhone 3GS, so that I can see how I like it, and consequently if I decide to keep it or not. So far, it has provided a very unique experience, with regards to gesturing in order to efficiently navigate the screen. And then I think to myself; if I wave at the phone, can it make my coffee? I think not, but one can always dream anyway. Sending SMS messages is still not something I have mastered yet, mostly due to the fact that I haven't quite memorized the keyboard orientation yet. I still have the N73 in case I decide to ditch the IPhone, but for now I'm playing with it, and seeing what comes of it. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
3:24 pm	Metered usage is stupid Was talking to a few friends/acquaintances of mine yesterday about the possibility that all ISPs will eventually have implemented usage-based billing, and their thinking is that this will be the case in about 5-10 years, including on dedicated links. On the other hand, I do not possess this belief. While I can see this somewhat making sense in the case of shared media i.e., cable connections, this really does not technically make sense when applied to a dedicated link. In the case of such a connection, the ISP provisions you at a given maximum rate that you pay a flat fee for, you only send and receive data at a maximum of said rate, and that's it. The only additional costs incurred in this case would be maintenance, and overall constant costs associated with running the overall network infrastructure. You wouldn't have the problem that is all too often experienced on shared cable networks, where one of the users can use all available bandwidth on the link constantly, and the ISP would need to allocate more bandwidth to the rest of the customers on that node, in order to increase throughput for the customers that are using somewhat less bandwidth, but still want their page loads to remain relatively fast. This sort of network management does incur additional costs, which is why I can somewhat understand the rationale of the cable companies; on the other hand, if their reasons are purely based on pushing non-TV customers to their cable TV offerings by metering their internet connections, that in my opinion is a death sentence for them. If it doesn't affect them at present, it will definitely start affecting them in the future. They will eventually have to face the fact that they are in the business of bit delivery, not content. A couple of links that can demonstrate the above points are this, and this. (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
4:30 pm	Happy mother's day? I was sitting online, and amaena pointed me towards this. I haven't stopped laughing yet! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
10:37 am	Lol How stupid can it get? Apparently, it's not over yet; rather amusing nonetheless though. (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
2:33 pm	I lol'ed at this. Perhaps if I lol enough, I might be able to turn it into something useful. (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
3:10 pm	Can hardware really sing? Apparently, yes they can. I was talking to garrettk17 yesterday, and he found some quite amusing Youtube videos. Here is one rendition of Starwars by a floppy disk, some Bethoven as performed by an HP Scanjet, and a singing Commodor 1541 floppy drive. And what do you know? Easter eggs on Easter! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
8:36 pm	Yay network outages...Not. I haven't been up to much lately, except having to deal with these intermitent network outages; fortunately, they are not on my end. Some stuff at the local CO seems to be having issues (perhaps it's a wavelength card gone bad or something), and a Verizon tech told me today that they should have everything resolved by tomorrow morning. Hopefully my server doesn't disappear off the net again, but it could happen. (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
1:14 am	update Yup, because I am oh so creative when it comes to subject lines. Not a whole lot has been going on lately, except work pretty much. Although, I have been on rather something of a programming craze lately; I started reading through a C++ tutorial, and sort of re-learning what I started learning of X86 Assembly back in 2002 or so. I probably won't be doing a lot of major coding in Assembly, but imo it's good to still retain the knowledge when or if it becomes necessary to use it at some point. Plus, I get to play around with it if I get bored sometime. Hey, it might be fun to write to random memory addresses, to see what I get. (Comment on this)