Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • The 4th

    July 5, 2001
    Computers, from Pitas, Movies / Films / TV

    The 4th was kewl… Chris, Annon, Melinda, and Edrick cooked. Probably a dozen plus there and hardly a dent in the food. Plan is to make another dent in it at lunch today. Looks to be fun. Finally got the hard drive for the 233 Mhz MMX, 64 MB RAM computer my brother gave up.…

  • WWWJD?

    July 3, 2001
    from Pitas, Humor / Weird, VSU Web Services

    What Web Would Jesus Design?

  • COBA

    July 3, 2001
    Astro / Climate / Geo, from Pitas, VSU Web Services

    Moved the College of Business Administration web site from the old design with a slightly improved version. Redesigning other COBA pages such as the Accounting and Finance. Also updating a professor’s course information. – – – – – Nice weather outside…. lightning, thunder, pouring rain. Wish I was at home… kick back on the porch and watch it. My…

  • OED Addition?

    July 3, 2001
    from Pitas, Geek / Nerd / Dork

    Do you think this will ever make the Oxford English Dictionary? term: cut To remove an object from a document and place it in a buffer. In word processing, for example, cut means to move a section of text from a document to a temporary buffer. This is one way to delete text. However, because…

  • Fishing

    July 2, 2001
    from Pitas, Quotes

    A quote for you: There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. — Steven Wright

  • eztech.valdosta.edu

    June 29, 2001
    from Pitas, VSU Web Services

    Scanning pictures to put up here. Set up a new web server: eztech.valdosta.edu. Will be my demo area for new sites. – – – – – This is an honor… Google has me ranked number one for the phrase “Best personal Web sites” – – – – – Here are those pics I promised. Think they turned…

  • Extortion

    June 28, 2001
    Cybersecurity, from Pitas

    Here is an extortion letter from a hacker to a company. So he figures out how to break into the system, sends a letter to the company that the vulnerabilities of the company are known to the hacker community, and wants $$$ to help fix the vulnerabilities. Sick

  • What kind of password do you use?

    June 27, 2001
    Cybersecurity, from Pitas, Humor / Weird, Metrics / Statistics

    What kind of password do you use? Your own name? A family member’s name? Your favorite sports star or actor? Tsk, tsk, tsk. Here is a SecurityWatch article on a poll in the U.K. which asked people about what password they use on their PC or laptop. – – – – – Such low amounts of…

  • Conflict is the gadfly of thought

    June 27, 2001
    from Pitas, Quotes

    [Conflict is] … the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates us to invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving, … reflection and ingenuity. — John Dewey

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