Oh, the irony
ClamAV, and anti-virus suite for Linux (which has no known viruses) has a remote vulnerability. This is just too funny for words.
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Joke Time
An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in an anecdote, indeed an anecdote quite similar to many that you have no doubt already heard. After some observations and rough calculations the engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing. A few minutes later the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily as he now has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper. This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of an anecdote, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humour from similar anecdotes, but considers this anecdote to be too trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone funny.
Goodbye TechTV, we loved you while you lasted.
Well, we were all afraid this would happen, when Comcast bought TechTV. Yesterday, they gave notice to the entire TechTV staff. This doesn’t mean that they won’t re-hire specific people, but it gives them the right to fire everyone. Already, the message boards are teeming with horrified and angry responses. I don’t think Comcast really understands the number of geeks who love TechTV.
Of course, although rumors are flying, no-one knows, possibly not even Comcast, what shows and which on-air personalitites are going to be kept. One things seems for sure: the entire operation in San Francisco will be shut down, and moved to the G4 studios in LA. This means that anyone who does get offered a job at G4 will have to move to LA to do it. Seems stupid to me, as all tech takes place in the Valley, and none in LA. A tech/gaming channel (G4 is a gaming channel, and it sucks) should be based in the Valley, not in LA, but there it is.
Will any of the TechTV we love survive? I doubt it. I bet that, even if they keep a few of the shows, they won’t be the same, or nearly as good. It’s a sad thing, since I watch more TechTV than anything else.
Oh well, I should probably cut down on my TV watching anyway.
Yet Another Music Service
So, Sony has launched it’s own music download service, and, get this, it only works with Sony products. This means Vaio computers, Clie handhelds, and Sony MD walkmen. This is, in my opinion, pure stupidity. I mean, where do they think they’re going to get a market for this? Not a single MP3 player will support this music, and the MD market is much much smaller than the MP3 player market. Does Sony think their new music store will drive MD sales the way iTunes drive iPod sales? That would imply that MDs were desirable at all, but the largest disks (and the brand-new-and-therefore-fearfully-expensive one) only hold 1 GB. That’s nothing compared to MP3 players. Look for this service to fold soon, or maybe just hang on with a tiny market share, held afloat by the few MD owners who won’t switch to iPods.
Comment Spam Blocker
I’ve installed a comment spam blocker on all of our blogs. The way it works is to search the URL entry for domain names of known spammers, and then block the post. If you get an error message when you try and post a comment on one of our blogs, re-enter the comment without the offending text (the error message tells you what it didn’t like), or email me and let me know what it’s blocking that it shouldn’t.
We now return you to your regularly secheduled blog.
Join Ross
“Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.”
Some implementations provide a “-a” flag that prints the information on all configured interfaces.
In a way, this isn’t indicative, because I’m at work. If I was at home, there’s a whole shelf of non-fiction next to my seat on the couch, and I would have the fiction I’m currently reading somewhere near me, so it probably wouldn’t have been a computer book. However, I am at work, so the book in question is Stevens (although I have the Second Edition, not the Third).
