Pretending it is still yesterday…
05 Jun 2004Just because Kim wrote the URL in my english folder, and because there are some very cool pictures up in her gallery, a behemoth link to her site: http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/l/i/lithanya/
No progress on the HP front – I’m thinking there is something screwy with my parallel port – perhaps it IS time to bother taking this mobo back… hmm. Onboard sound frazzled a few months ago, and I’ve been putting off replacing it – perhaps parallel got cooked simultaneously? Shrug. It wouldn’t be a problem, but for the fact that I’m unable to locate the USB cable for the damn thing. I’ll have a look around later for that, I guess.
As best I can tell, the Platform Seven streaming media server is still down — so, even if a recording was made, it couldn’t be uploaded until Monday at the earliest. I’ve had enough of a whinge about IT @ SACS in recent days, so I won’t say any more, other than that I think an outage may be in connection with paranoia over certain other… system compromises. Pure speculation, so don’t bother attacking me over that statement.
Even if I don’t give them abuse about it, another site hosted on the same server probably will — as malicious as this may seem, the longer it is out, the better – lower QoS means that people are more likely to start jumping up and down, making noise, and generally demanding that certain problems be resolved. Well, that’s the theory, anyway. I’ve sent emails to staff at SACS before and had them arrive four days late – whilst iiNet’s mail servers aren’t wonderful, if there was that kind of a delay, then they send out NetStatus messages about it, which didn’t happen, so I’m assuming it was a SACS problem, and not iiNet’s. The worst thing is, people haven’t jumped up and down that much about it. Brewing discontent, perhaps, but we’re yet to hit a stage of open rebellion.
When THAT happens, it will be most interesting to watch. Call Ticketek on 9266 4800 now. Err… okay, maybe not.
As alluded to yesterday, I was planning on writing a song about a certain series of events which have been happening over the past week. It doesn’t say anything more than what I have already, but some people may find it vaguely amusing, so what the heck.
To the tune of Pete Murray – So Beautiful:
Built this box just the other day
Installed FC1 booted away,
Hackin’ about j00,
Hackin’ the net j00′re in,
What you up too where you /bin?
(Just hackin’)
And all the packages j00 wear,
And the users in your /home
Shouldn’t chown you
Now you tell me why it’s so
You bigger than mighty Windows,
(At least you think so)
God my fingers burn,
Now when I think of hacking your lair
You have changed so much that I don’t know,
If I can login and tell you I care
And I would love to bring you down,
Set your uptime back on the ground
Throw my mouse down on the desk,
Turn my head, start to stress,
(They’re coming after me)
Compromises are so sweet
Always so much fun, so l33t
(At least I thought so)
Now you think j00′re so damn fine
j00 can’t rule the ‘net no not mine,
I don’t think so.
God my fingers burn,
Now when I think of hacking your lair
You have changed so much that I don’t know,
If I can login and tell you I care
Now the scan that you’re in,
And the users that login
Just get to me,
But j00 think I’m not as cool,
As j00 are so skillful
Well who j00 fooling
Well I’m here to tell you babe
The game j00′re in is just a game
So damn pretentious
God my fingers burn,
Now when I think of hacking your lair
You have changed so much that I don’t know,
If I can login and tell you I care
And I would love to bring you down,
Set your uptime back on the ground
You think you’re so skillful
(So skillful)
Sincerest apologies to Pete Murray and Sony Music Australia.