Links, from various people

[ibneko]

(Namely porsupah and selphish)

MD Judge Strikes Down Gay-Marriage Ban!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage_maryland

All the recent news about subdomain hack-protection, now summarized in amusing quick statements:
http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/4599893.html
Malicious Security Crackers: "We used to take an account and try out about 40,000 passwords on it in about 5 seconds to see if it would unlock. LJ doesn't let us do that anymore. Damn that LJ! We'll show them! Here, have a malicious script!"
Malicious script: *takes 5 most commonly used passwords, tries them on 40,000 different accounts*
4000 LJ accounts: *unlock*
Malicious Security Crackers: "Score!"
LJ Geeks: "O RLY."
LJ: *stops allowing even remotely easy passwords*
4000 LJ users: "Hey! That was a perfectly good password! Why'd you make me change it?"
LJ Support: *facepalm*

LJ Geeks: *write more code*
LJ Admin: "Release the code!" *pokes server*
LJ Server: *falls over* "Error 500! Ow!" *can't get up*
LJ Admin: *blush*
LJ Addicts: "OMG ERROR 500!!"
LJ Support: "We know."

Bantown Crackers: "Hey, cool security flaws in Javascript, IE, and Firefox!"
Security Flaws: "How are you gentlemen?!"
LJ: "What happen?"
Bantown Crackers: "All your base are belong to us."
LJ Admin: "Subdomains for everybody! Fuck off, craxx0rbitches."
Free Users: "Yaaaay!"
Paid Users: "...no fair. Like we ever use voice post."
Permanent Users: "STFU, n00bs."
LJ Admin: "What they said. Suck it. Security reasons. Plenty of other sites out there."
Early Adopters: "Where's the LOVE?"
brad: "STFU, n00bs."
_____xo_so_em0_x_xx_____: "MY UNDERSCORES! WTF!"
LJ Support: "You got a rename token, so suck it."
so__________gratuitous_x_x_x: "WTF? They got a free rename token and I didn't?"
LJ Support: "It's called restrictions on what subdomains can be named. Your username still works. Deal."
so__________gratuitous_x_x_x: "OMG THE HYPHENS!"
note_to_cat maintainer volunteering in Support: "Suck it."

Bantown Crackers: "We still got cookies, yo."
LJ Admins: "Oh no you don't."
All login cookies: *expire*
Bantown Crackers: "Well, fuck. Eh, more suckers to hack out there."
All previously logged-in users: "WTF? We're logged out!"
LJ Support: "Big frickin' deal. Log in again. Duh."

The half of LJ that wasn't paying attention: "...Dude. What did they do with the passwords and URLs and shit? How come I got logged out? Somebody? Anybody? Bueller?"
LJ Support: "OMG HEADACHE."

For the geek inclined, an article/page on Mac's firmware system (equiv to PC BIOS)
http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_boot.html

...Again, yes, I'll post more about my actual life/current state of being at some near point in the future. Hopefully. I doubt people are actually curious anyhow, but I still need to record what's going on. Somewhat. Brief highlights include Job seeking (one interview, one opportunity missed.), T.I.S. work for 4 hours a day (and developing creative ways to tell the customer, "I don't know."), First week of classes (and several letters warning me of my current class selection)

Comments

[crowbaress.livejournal.com]

Local copy? Does that mean a live performance?

[ibneko.livejournal.com]

No, it just means that it's a local files that I have on my hard drive, because iTunes is stupid and doesn't support searching for files that are (or aren't) local, and I have a stuff on DVD and external hard drives.

But yes, I have copies of his live performances (Including Live at El Ray and Superhero, which is also a live recording). I picked them up, as part of his discography... mmm, relatively recently. You want?

[crowbaress.livejournal.com]

I have Superhero but not Live at El Ray (Isn't that a DVD?)

I've been trying to track down his new CD - The Craig Machine, but so far I only have a few tracks.

Dirty, dirty man. But so damn funny.

[ibneko.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't know. The site I get them from doesn't post any video (strictly forbidden).

Got The Graig Machine. Dropping it onto yousendit... er, probably tonight.

But yes, so damn funny~

Hm, ok, found torrents to DVD copies and DVD to avi rips.. will try to download them all~ although I think $10 on amazon would be worth it... We'll see..

[shanrina.livejournal.com]

Why would you get letters warning you about your classes? Are they that awful?

[ibneko.livejournal.com]

http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=24122A74FJ17J231HB9UUIFHUR

[tinkleneko.livejournal.com]

ok.... yay MD...?

Haha. Victor "officially banned [me] from making anymore faces" after I screwed up this smiley ^_^ and made it into ^_6. hahahaha. He's a fun kid. I ought to get him to come over to our house sometime in the summer =D
... He thinks he's not being a good brother. Says a good brother ought to be watching out for his other siblings (esp. the younger ones) all the time.... which I don't think is true according to our relationship. haha. Anyways, I'm cold. Isn't that nice to know? =DD

[crowbaress.livejournal.com]

Rawk. Thanks much!

[ibneko.livejournal.com]

Hehe, you're welcomes.

[ibneko.livejournal.com]

Just for future reference, leaving completely unrelated comments will not get you any replies. Post stuff like this in your own journal - that's what it's there for.

[ibneko.livejournal.com]

Just that the workload is expected to be a bit rather tough, and my grades from last semester weren't that pretty, so it's a warning that.. I should do something else instead, but I think there's a pretty good chance that even if I do take a gen-ed class, I'd do just as badly, 'cause gen-ed classes tend to be more memorization-based, which I suck even more at. -.-;;