links for 2009-06-16

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Anonymous Pro Cool, might have to check this out. (tags: revisit-font) Edward Cullen/Robert Pattinson – THE DEFINITIVE INDEX – The Sims 3 "Are you lost in a sea of Edward Cullen's and can't decide which one to download? Are you thinking, "Geez, I wonder if anyone has made an Edward Cullen yet."? Have you been dreaming of making an entire town just of Edward Cullens? Or are you just feeling like if you see yet another Edward Cullen you will implode!? Below are the 140+ Edward Cullen/Robert Pattinson sims made since launch. Click on the picture you like and it will link you to its download page. My favs are by knox and fieryfemale. How about yours?" OMFG. AT&T signals …

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Simplification

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I’m on my way to Peru (hooray for vacations!). In preparation for the hike on the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu I needed to get a new sleeping bag. My old one, a Coleman bag circa 1892 or so, was lost to the Appalachian Trail (AT) last fall. Which was fine, since it was heavy. Really heavy. And not super warm, either, which I discovered when the AT turned into a winter wonderland. 60° and sunny? Nope! Picking a new sleeping bag is sort of daunting. You’ve got a number of different materials, shapes, and sizes to choose from. What impressed me, though, is recent efforts to simplify temperature ratings for consumers. The new EN 13537 standard actually takes into …

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Alice Peacock

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Some friends of mine and I have been following Alice Peacock for years. I’m not quite sure anymore how we got started listening to her, but she’s great. You may have heard her songs on the radio, or on a Hershey’s chocolate commercial. I saw her in Madison, WI last Friday. I didn’t have her newest CD so I bought one. Being me, I decided I didn’t want her to sign it in the same way every artist signs a CD, and so: Nice! It’s cool what happens when you ask people to do something a little bit differently.

LMGTFY

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At least once a day I have this conversation, usually with one of the same four people: “Hey Bob, do you know what ‘pam_tally(sshd:setcred): unknown option: no_magic_root’ means?” “Have you tried searching for the answer yourself?” “No. Why?” <uncomfortable pause goes here> As such, I adore the creators of “Let Me Google That For You.” http://lmgtfy.com/ (hat tip to my friend Terry Bradshaw for finding this one).

Windows Losing its Default Printer

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For months now my Windows Vista, and now Windows Server 2008 desktop has been losing its default printer every night. I haven’t been able to figure it out until now: it’s the Remote Desktop Client remapping my printers when I connect from home. There are three fixes for this: 1. You can tell your RDP client to not map printers, in the “Local Resources” options tab. This is easy but you have to remember to do it. 2. On the host side on Windows Server 2008 you can go into Administrative Tools->Terminal Services->Terminal Services Configuration, right click the RDP-TCP connection, pick “Properties,” and disable it under the “Client Settings” tab. 3. On the host side on Windows Vista you can …

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links for 2009-06-11

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Sports: Seven years after starting to pump iron again, Madison's Jim Ray owns a world record I bet you folks don't work with a world record holder. 🙂 I've actually been lucky to work with two. Jim Ray, the world's strongest sysadmin, and Joe Detmer, the world's fastest sysadmin (he has, or at least had, a running record in the decathlon).

Easiest Way to Get Rid of Malware

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Q: What’s the easiest way to get rid of malware on Windows[0]? A: Not to get it in the first place. A couple of other observations I made while cleaning a friend’s computer: 1. The malware was detected by my friend because it was closing windows. Any window that could be used to fix the infection was closed by the malware. That doesn’t seem to be a very productive strategy for staying installed. 2. The Avast BARTPE CD creator rocks. Luckily, a part of my organization that does more desktop support for customers has a license for it. It’s really nice to boot off a CD to fix everything. 3. I started with the Avira free antivirus scanner. It is …

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links for 2009-05-22

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iPod Earbud Revelation Is Shocking – ABC News This happens to me all the time — I've stopped using the Apple In-Ear headphones because of it.

links for 2009-05-18

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Achenblog – Astronauts At Safeway Self-Checkout This paragraph reminds me of of my work as a sysadmin, and the general lack of credit sysadmins get when things just work: "This is sort of like fixing a car that has been sitting in a field for 8 years. NASA has this problem — the things that they do are really really hard. And yet often to outsiders it looks relatively easy. But it looks easy because a) they train like crazy, and b) they throw a lot of top resources at it. So they solve these problems fixing the Hubble, but that's because they've been practicing for _years_ and they have 200 people on the ground looking over every procedure. They …

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Back on the Horse

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Hey, what’s this? It’s a blog… and I seem to have a login to it. 🙂 Some of you have emailed me, wondering where in the heck I’ve gone. It’s not a long story: 1. Work has been nutty lately. I can safely summarize it by saying “be careful what you wish for.” For a long time I’ve wanted to get more involved with project management and higher-level decision making in my organization. Now I long for the days when it was just me, vi, and a dark room. 2. My hobbies have been nutty lately. I decided about a year ago that I’d like to try producing a play with my theater company, Strollers Theatre. I’ve done that now. …

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