"Better Vulpines through Technology."

"Eeeney-Meeney, Chili-Beanie, the spirits are about to speak!"

New Email	Tue Feb 26 17:51:22 CST 2002
Thanks to Amythest for the new email address. Check out my email page. :)

News of the Weird	Sun Feb 24 13:11:32 CST 2002
Just a few links of weird crap...felt like sharing ;) Man Gets Stabbed With Swordfish: Well, you knew sooner or later this would happen. Or is that scooner or later. National Slacker Day May Be Too Much Effort: Ok, now that's just wrong... Travel Pod Makes Science Fantasy a Fact: Welsh ! In ! Space !!!! wink Yes, I am that bored at work...

Queen of the Damned

Sun Feb 24 00:09:10 CST 2002

Well Friday I went to see Queen of the Damned. I liked it. Alot. Anne Rice fanatics will not like it, it's a mix of The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned, cutting lots of the backstory and plot. But I liked it, plenty of violence, lots of vampires, the story moved alot better than any of her books. It needed alot more backstory explaining IMHO, but I can understand why they didn't... would have made the movie rather slow. Aaliyah played a rather good Akasha, and the sexy redhead (every movie should have one) was played quite nicely by Marguerite Moreau. Always nice to have well acted eyecandy ;) Go see it, unless you take vampirism seriously...

Argh !!!

Tue Feb 19 17:14:08 CST 2002

I hate when I'm a moron.

Going though my home machines, and tweaking up security. I'm behind a fairly stable firewall, so I've been lax. So get my nazi hat on, and start locking crap down. Lock down Fennec, my fileserver,

hosts.deny ALL:ALL

While working on hosts.allow I suffer a major brainfart, and forget how to open up my internal IP block. Ask Squeaker, and somewhere in there I log out. Telnet back in to the box...bounce. And this box has ssh issues,

ARGH !

I really, really, REALLY need to reformat this box and redo the / partition, too many b0rked things. But that has to wait til I get home and console in.

Lesson of the Day: Do not play security nazi remotely...always better to console in.

Kernel update

Fri Feb 15 19:17:08 CST 2002

Not a big news, after having some issues with X crashing, I decided to update my kernel, see if that helps any. Plus in general I've heard alot of people have issues with 2.4.14. So I snagged the source, updated my kernel, and procede to see Lilo barf. :( After much arguing, I finally reinstalled an old 2.2 kernel from SuSE's ftp site. And somehow that fixed lilo. I'm confused, but happy. So now I'm running 2.4.17...and from what I hear, 2.4.18 will be out soon...oh well, the price I pay for being cutting edge. Well, semi-cutting edge...I haven't started messing with 2.5 yet. Yet.

Happy Valentines Day	Thu Feb 14 14:08:47 CST 2002
For those who like hallmark holidays, happy VD Day...err Valentine's Day. ;)

Internet Junkie

Wed Feb 13 13:48:51 CST 2002

Are you Addicted to the Internet?

79%

Hardcore Junkie (61% - 80%)
While you do get a bit of sleep every night and sometimes leave the house, you spend as much time as you can online. You usually have a browser, chat clients, server consoles, and your email on auto check open at all times. Phone? What's that? You plan your social events by contacting your friends online. Just be careful you don't get a repetitive wrist injury...

The Are you Addicted to the Internet? Quiz at Stvlive.com!

Collateral Damage and Legend of the Rangers.

Mon Feb 11 17:42:40 CST 2002

Well, I kept up with my movie addiction this last weekend. I went and saw Collateral Damage on Friday. It was...ok. The plot was fairly obvious, and darn it all, Arnie didn't have any uber cool lines. Not a catchphrase in sight. And we all know that's why we see Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. On the plus side, Arnold actually does a bit of real emotional acting in this movie, which was a shock. I'd recomend this as a rental movie, unless you just need to see something explode.

More intrestingly, I also watched the newest Bab5 spinoff pilot, Legend of the Rangers. Was pretty good, in my not so humble opinion. I especially liked the main Minbari character, aka 'Hero's mystic buddy with the sarcastic attiude'. I hope this series goes better than the last Bab5 spinoff...and I get to see more episodes.

New Email	Sun Feb 10 23:03:06 CST 2002
Yet another new email address, thanks to Wes for pointing this out. Check out the email page.

State of The Fox Address

Thu Feb 7 18:39:24 CST 2002

Hmm, call this a status report of non-geeky (or only quasi geeky) stuff going on in my life. Not alot, been fighting my depression on and off since the year started. For those who don't know, I have Clinical Depression. So I have periods of low to moderate grade depression with no cause. At least no outside cause. So, if everything is going great in my life, I can still be sad. It sucks, but it's been fairly under control for a while. Now I have been avoiding prescription drugs to control it for years...I don't like drugs. For a while I was on Saint John's Wort as a herbal control, but after it stopped working very well, I dropped off it. So I've been controlling it by diet, exercise (yeah right), and willpower. But the last 2 months have been bad...I tend to cycle badly in the winter, I guess not enough sun...so starting last Sunday, I went back on Saint John's Wort. Now, suppostedly St John's takes 4-6 weeks to take effect. But I've noticed a small change already. I don't know how much of that is psychosomatic, and how much is actual effect...but I hope it keeps up. I don't like being sad. If the St John's Wort doesn't work, I'm going to go ahead, see a doctor and see about a more 'medical' option. (Yes, I wrote this on a website, I'm willing to see a doc if this doesn't work...now don't faint. ;) Most people who know me in RL know I don't deal well with doctors...but I'm tired of being a sad fox, so if I have to, I have to...Now if anyone knows a redheaded female doctor with a fondness for long hairs...let me know ;)

New Email Address	Wed Feb 6 20:08:52 CST 2002
Well, I got me a new email alias. Since I'm using Foxwerks.cyberfox.org alot, I decided to setup an alias for that. What can I say, I'm bored. 79 aliases down...another 421 to go ;)

New Script in Foxwerks	Wed Feb 6 19:51:56 CST 2002
Well, just cause I'm bored, I updated my journalism script so that anyone can use it. Originally it was full of hardcoded links to stuff, worked good for me, not so hot for anyone wanting to use it. So I replaced all the hard code with variables, commented it just a tad, and put it up on Foxwerks. Go download it, here.

FoxWerks

Mon Feb 4 23:37:33 CST 2002

Well, I have yet another new project. I've written a number of scripts that make my life easier, including a random sig generator, a mail backup script, a generic backup script and the script that sets up all the news on this page. I'm slowly rewriting each one into a format that's generic, with detailed install instructions. Go to foxwerks.cyberfox.org and check it out. The only script up is the mail backup, check em out.

Additional note, the term FoxWerks is stolen happily from the Skunk Works, where most of the advanced aircraft designed in the US were developed. Well, I'm not much of a skunk...so I changed the term ;) Sue me.

The Mothman Prophecies

Mon Feb 4 17:33:17 CST 2002

I just saw The Mothman Prophecies last night. I knew it was going to be weird, and it was weird...but it was also slow. Molasses slow. Tax return check slow. Basically a reporter is haunted/stalked by a extra-human being that predicts disaster. Weird things happen to him, and the people in a town in West Virginia. It's a pretty good movie, but the plot just drags...but to be honest, I dont know how they could have sped it up without making it alot more confusing. I also didn't like some of the camera work, lots of odd aerial shots that faded out to blurry images, like we had a Moth's eye view. It was ok the first time or two, but then it got annoying. Now I read something about good ol' Mothy in a book on cryptozoology (the study of mysterious or legendary animals), and I think they got alot of the details right....but it's been too long since I read it. Hmm, maybe this will start a trend, and we'll see something about my favorite Crypto... Chupacabra. :)

Elvis in Space	Mon Feb 4 17:24:38 CST 2002
If the world isn't surreal enough. Check this out. Elvis has come home from Alpha Centauri. :)