Category Archives: Unfiled

It’s not because I hate or dislike those on my Blogger Roll.  I’ve actually been meaning to go and update it and add those who have added me recently.

For some reason the filter at my place of employment, which as I have stated will remain nameless, has become a bit aggressive.  The upshot was it alerted me to a issue with a friends site. 

Going back to the filter though, it blocks sites which contain links to sites it has deemed “malicious”.  So in other words my site is guilty by “association” by linking to their “malicious site”.  The thing is that’s a great way to block a bunch of sites merely because they link to what is normally an honest site but has been hacked. 

Well I have discovered that someone in my blogger roll is also one of those “guilty by association” type links.  I think I have found who it is, and I will email them if it’s confirmed tomorrow.  I have reposted the blogger roll with the potential link disabled, if my blogger roll disappears tomorrow it means my hunch wasn’t successful.

That said, my site is currently off everyone’s radar and I’d rather keep it that way, so I’m not about to email to bitch and cause my site to appear on a radar.  I wish there was a utility with this particular filters site to plug in a url and have it list the offending links.  Instead it just blocks, no feedback, and you’re stuck guessing which site is the bad link.  Which is why I’m not a fan of WebSense.

A 15-year-old Steilacoom girl is kicked off an amtrak train in the middle of the trip to Portland.

It wasn’t because she misbehaved, but because she was too young to travel without an adult. Her parents are furious at the way Amtrak handled the situation and decided to Get Jesse.

Someone was obviously on a power trip.  Whoever thought that was a good idea obviously is a prime candidate to go work for the TSA.  Now someone may say they were right, I however, thanks to personal experience can call total BS on it.

Summer after 5th grade, when I was only 11 years old I rode the train to stay with my aunt and uncle in Salem.  So I rode the train from Tacoma Washington, to Salem Oregon, the same exact train.  Without my parents or anyone else accompanying me.  I was NOT thrown of the train and the conductor saw my parents saying good bye to me as I got on the train.

I swear there are some people in this world who just have absolutely no ability to think whatsoever.  Even if somehow the rules changed, who thinks it’s a good idea to kick a kid off a train anywhere but her destination.

God I hate stupid people.

Update: A friend pointed me to this, informing me that the policy was changed October 2011.

The new policy establishes 13 as the minimum age of an
unaccompanied minor allowed to travel on its trains, the agency
said.

Emphasis mine.  So she was above the minimum age per policy.  I’m also sure said policy says nothing of dumping an unaccompanied minor in a strange place anywhere other than there destination even if this policy is some how violated.

Yeah I get lots of spam.  That is only one of 5 digests of the stuff that gets picked off before getting to my inbox.  Some of the stuff in there isn’t totally spam, but there’s no reason for me to actually pull it out.

That little bastard though in the red box is just all sorts of fail.  One I don’t live in NYC.  Two, I wouldn’t live in NYC.  Three if it’s a no reply, why the tacked on gibberish.  Four, the last time I was in NYC I was a minor and had a bus driving my ass around.  Five, how in the name of God did the city of New York get my email address?  If it was a ticket for a vehicle they’d have the registration address, not my email.

The airline tickets in there are also hilarious considering I don’t fly anymore because of the TSA.  The sad thing is they’re sending enough of this garbage out that for some people it get’s through, and the unlucky people who thinks it’s real and click on it.  Don’t click on stuff in random unsolicited emails!

I got an email last night regarding my RO exam, for the RO class I took at the end of March. 

So without further ado.  Here’s the beginning of Kevin’s email.

I have graded your exam and am pleased to report that you scored 94/100.  I have forwarded your application to NROI/USPSA for processing.  Congratulations!

Not as high as I would like, but I won’t complain since I did it while sick as well.    All my screw ups were for missing additional rule or rules depending on the question.  Now to go back and start hunting for them.

At least I passed.

Ry got his scores as well.

The Latah County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an early Monday shooting of 28-year-old Kayla M. Sedlacek at a rest area 10 miles north of Potlatch.

…

The Mineral Mountain rest area has been locked down since deputies responded to the shooting reported around 4 a.m. by the victim, who was shot while inside the women’s bathroom there, said Sheriff’s Lt. Brannon Jordan. He said the woman is a Latah County resident, but would not disclose her city of residence or name at this time.

Yeah, did you see what I saw there?  Evidently someone missed that memo from the Sheriff’s office.

Details are sketchy on what happened currently.  This definitely falls under the “It can’t happen here” column since it was out in a sleepy rural area.  Sadly this appears to be a case which the Brady Campaign would latch on to.  It appears that while using the restroom she was attacked and lost weapon retention and was shot with her own weapon.  However while many would think this could be a random case of violence, it appears not.

The Pullman Police Department has an open investigation into a stalking incident reported by Sedlacek.  Detectives from both agencies are collaborating to determine if any similarities between the cases exist.

Sedlacek believes the suspect in both cases is the same person, whose identity is unknown to her.  Based on this information the Latah County Sheriff’s Office does not believe there is a threat to the general public concerning this event.

Remember, while one would always like to maintain distance between you and a threat, it isn’t always an option.  Be prepared to fight for your weapon and be ready to fight like your life depends on it because it most certainly does.

So my computer locked up last night which was odd.  It has never actually locked up.  Usually it may reboot itself or give me a BSOD, but never a full blown lock up.

I turned it off and didn’t think much of it.  Crap happens, I figured maybe some stray neutron caused a really weird SEU.  I have high density RAM in here with no ECC (at the time I built the computer I didn’t really think about it) so SEUs happen but normally result in a self reboot, not a total lock up.

So I get home from work today and push the power button… nothing happens.  Power turns on, screens stay off, no post beep, nothing other than the fans and power light.  I start pulling it out and I realize I haven’t cleaned it for 4 months.  Out to the garage I go and use the compressor to clear it out.  It was pretty nasty but all the fans worked as expected.  Inside the case while dusty wasn’t actually the worst I’ve seen.  Outside the case though was pretty bad but again, fans were free and not gummed.

Bring the case back inside, try again.  No go, same exact behavior.  Well, time for a full troubleshooting regime.  First up, yank the second video card and clear the CMOS.  Yeah it’s changing two things but I have to yank the card to clear the CMOS.  Hit the switch, still no joy.  Pull the primary video card and swap it with the first.  Hit the power button.

*Beep* Press F2 for setup.

Turn it back off, awesome it turned on, now to try the other video card again just to make sure.  Insert the card, press the button and… nothing.  Pull the card, press the button, and, *Beep*.

So I’ve at least found the problem.  Got my box back up and running, but am now down a video card and monitor.  Initially when I built this box I planned on doing SLI, then I found out it doesn’t like doing multi-head support.  I do development more than I game so for the most part I had a way over the top second video card.  Though it did make system configuration much easier having the same card.

It also appears that the sound card is also dying.  It is not driving the audio output correctly.  My USB headset still at least is functional.