For some reason, no one has filled this out yet. Don’t be scared…I know you are dying to show me the pictures of you and the squirrel.
So what?
Stopping SOPA by Appealing to Your Mom
The whole anti-SOPA saga has been hindered by the fact that it’s hard to understand the issues unless you are a geek. For that matter, the whole SOPA sags is an issue because it was written by people who clearly don’t understand its ramifications, and are not geeks.
A brilliant idea was born on Reddit which takes the issue and makes it something easier to get the gist of, and in a way that many people will help to perpetuate: the email chain letter. Here, complete with spelling and grammar errors, is what you can copy and paste into an email. Send it to your mom and ask her to send it to everyone in her email list.
ATTENTION!!!!! A NEW BILL BEING PASSED BY CONGRESS THREATENS TO REMOVE FACEBOOK!!! THIS DOESN’T MEAN NO MORE FACEBOOK, IT MEANS THE END OF YOUTUBE, GOOGLE, YAHOO NEWS, AND MANY MANY MORE!!!! THIS IS AN IMPORTANT BILL THAT CAN’T BE PASSED BY THE GOVERNMENT BY ANY MEANS NECESSERY!!!!!
This scary new bill is called SOPA will censor the internet! This will cause massive damage to what makes the internet so great for everyone! Youtube, Facebook, Myspace, Yahoo, basically the whole internet is upset that Congress would do something like this! This threatens our first amendment rights and MUST BE STOPPED!!!
If you think this doesn’t matter, than think about this. The internet belongs to the people and is a great way to get across the message of the almighty! As you and I both know, there are way too many athiests in power right now and I’m sure they would love nothing more than to stop people from spearding the message of GOD! If your a Christian, please stand up for what is right and pray with your family and inform everyone you know and pray with them to that this bill does not make it past Congress! It would not only do great damage to help the spreading of the message of GOD, Jesus and the holy spirit it would hinder all kinds of free speech as well!!!
So as you can see SOPA will basically kill the internet!!! Please stand up for your first amendment rights and inform everyone you know!!!! Call your repersentatives and tell them to say NO!!! America is the land of the free and that includes the internet!!!!
Spread the word, stop SOPA!
Crain stuff for sale…again
20 years later, people still seek out Crain merchandise, amazingly. This Shirt Killer site just released new shirts with the artwork from the Speed LP on them. Pretty slick! Go get yourself dudded up and relive a part of the 1991 Louisville music scene.
Declining Movie Theater Attendance Explained
Seems pretty obvious to me. If you factor in how cheap it is to watch Netflix, or how you can often get free movies by way of your local cable provier’s “On Demand” type service, it’s even cheaper to stay at home.
Dump GoDaddy Day
It’s here! If you haven’t done it yet, this is the day to officially dump GoDaddy and move your domains and hosting to another, more anti-SOPA company.
Here is an article explaining how to move your domain name(s) to a new registrar.
Here is an awesome domain registrar to move your domains to. Use the coupon code SOPAsucks for a discount.
Wondering what this is all about? Read a little history on how GoDaddy managed to piss off the entire Internet.
VMware – RHEL / CentOS 6.2 – Network Issues
Howdy folks,
I just grabbed CentOS 6.2 (don’t know if it’s an issue in 6.0, 6.1), but an installation with the “Basic Server” within VMware Fusion 4.1.1 delivered no IP address etc. when leaving DHCP/NAT as the default.
Finding: Seems, either something is goofed in the dhclient or NetworkManager (now default for RHEL 6.x).
Fix: I brought the network interface up “ifup eth0”, then ran “dhclient eth0”, obtained an IP and ran “yum update -y”, after which (I noticed dhclient was in the updates), I was able to reboot and all worked well.
Not a big deal, as you could have just manually configured your network script, but maybe it will help someone. 🙂
Stop SOPA now
I’ve censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet–a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit: http://americancensorship.org/posts/10253/uncensor
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WordPress Image Map Problems
I had many issues trying to get a good old-fashioned HTML image map to work in a WordPress page or post. It seemed that WordPress kept trying to add extra <map> tags around all my <area> tags. I couldn’t get it to stop!
After being led astray by such issues as wpautop() and the need to use various plugins, I finally figured out how to embed HTML image maps on my pages.
The trick is that you can’t use pretty, nicely formatted HTML because WordPress tries to automatically close tags and do various other things to your code when it detects new lines.
So instead of something nice like this:
You actually need to remove all the extra spacing and use something messy like this:
SNORT Subscriptions for the rest of us!
Just wanted to point out that SourceFire allows us common folks to purchase official SNORT VRT licenses on the cheap. At the tune of $29.00 a year, yeah, I’m game.
Have fun!