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We're back !!! Fri Jan 31 18:05:12 CST 2003
Mood: Joyous !!! Music of the Day: Homer Simpson - Forbidden Donut
Well, I have both Shub-Internet and Yog-Software running now. Fixed up Shub with a new Athlon 750 processor from Discount Electronics from here in Austin. Now Yog was crashing alot too, but I think that was just the drive I slotted in there right before it started crashing. At least that's my guess. We'll see. So I've got both machines up, got GKrellM running on both machines, with Yog's on my desktop via an ssh tunnel to from Shub to Yog. So I'm feeling pretty good and geeky :) Now to just get everything else working fine. :)

Shub-inter.net Thu Jan 30 16:34:13 CST 2003
Mood: Slightly silly Music of the Day: Darkest of the Hillside Thickets: Goin' Down to Dunwich
Well, in my new copious amounts of free time, I went ahead and updated Shub-Internet's website. Just added some pages and a directory kinda thing. Eventually I'll have more up... especially when I have new motherboard and processor in her.
Dude, you no longer have a Dell Thu Jan 30 14:24:14 CST 2003
Mood: Feh Music of the Day: None
Well, as of this afternoon I no longer work at Dell. Not unexpected, not totally a bad thing...but the timing is damn off. Oh well, I get to put off getting the computer parts I wanted, and start beating the streets for a job. I also get to put off the stray thought about setting up my own colo/dedicated server for a while. *sigh* The best laid plans of foxes and men...
I wonder if she's single... Wed Jan 29 10:59:30 CST 2003
Mood: Boggled Music of the Day: None
    ATHENS, Greece -- Shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis's granddaughter is to become one of the world's richest teenagers when she inherits her share of the family's fortune.

    Athina Roussel will pick up an estimated $2.7 billion in cash, homes, companies, art, shares, a private jet and the Greek Ionian island of Skorpios when she celebrates her 18th birthday on Wednesday.

    http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/01/29/greece.onassis/index.html


I wonder if she likes longhaired geek foxes who bring their own redheads into the relationship. Hey Rhiannon, wanna go to Greece ;)
Post from Work: Tues Jan 28 16:53:51 CST 2003
GWNN munch to go to with Rhiannon, that is at least some fun. Even if my shy streak kicks very damn hard. I hate trying to make small talk.

Some more geek plans are rearing their ugly heads. I'm going to pull a 40 gig drive out of Yog-Software, once I move all the Mp3s on to other drives, and slot it in Shub-Internet as a /home drive. Then I plan to put a Pentium II motherboard and processor in the fulltower case, and start plotting to move the data drives in Yog to it. And also have the 4th machine in my Evil Cabal of Geek Old Ones. SCSI-Thoth. Maybe I should have it run FreeBSD, so it can be the Daemon Sultan. ;) I need help I think *giggle* I also want to rebuild Nyarlaptop to dual boot windows/linux again. Plus I have to clean major house in the office area. Drag in another bookshelf, restring cables in the rack, in general just clean up. Maybe I will sunday, on my short ass day off. I also need to get off my ass and work on all those new websites, plus setup one for Jade (aka the nice artist type who did the cyberfox logo) Plus work on Rhiannon's page. Plus hell, I need to work on mine. *ARGH*

Haven't seen any new movies since the Two Towers. Been playing with acidrip and burning CD's of avi's ripped from DVD's. Getting better at it, just wish it didn't complete drain my sysresources to do it...hard to surf when 100% of CPU is doing multimedia. And gods forbid Rhiannon is connected via Shub at the time. *shudder* Talk about brain drain. Oh well, hopefully in Feb we can afford Cable broadband, and I won't have to worry as much. Dialup is OK, I miss not getting movies and lots of mp3s and kernel updates, but it's good enough for email and chat and light browsing. But that's about all it's good for. Oh well, patience is a virtue. And about the only virtue I have left.

Yet another failed upgrade Thu Jan 9 19:47:31 CST 2003
Mood: Frustrated. Music of the Day: A computer laughing at me...
Ok, I spent a good chunk of today working on rebuilding my server here at home. Now that was an exercise in frustration. I'm not going to go into all the gory details, save to say I'm offering up a few goats to Shub-Internet tonight that my main Mp3 drive doesn't nuke. I'm also going to pick up a case/drive fan or two to keep things cool on the server, and hopefully on the chipset. Yes, I'm experimenting with dual CPU stuff. We'll see how things go. :)

Spam, the War to End all Wars Thu Jan 9 08:13:04 CST 2003
Mood: Sleepy Music of the Day: Porn to Rock - Track 1 - Madison - Man on the Moon
Hello all, just a quick note to post the results of my procmail hacking.

Amount of spam email in my inbox: 0
Amount of false positives: 4
Total emails: 308

That's a 100% success rate on spam blocking, and a 1% false positive, all from friends not using their standard email addresses. Which have been now added to the 'friends' list. I'll probably have some more FP hits, but since I archive the spam too...it's not a big deal. This is so cool. Thanks to Tom Gilbert for making procmail pseudoeasy to use ;)

New Screenshot. Wed Jan 8 21:28:54 CST 2003
Mood: Bored Music of the Day: Hentai squishy sounds...
Ok, I'm bored...and since Tom Gilbert posted a few screenshots, I decided to post one myself.



My usual, Opera, Eterm, and Rose McGowan . But I'm also showing off a background stolen from Tigert and modified with The Gimp, as well as Xine playing La Blue Girl (link not work safe). Hey, what can I say...I like smut. :) And girls with green hair (just not as a much as I like redheads :) I've also been hanging out at #SuSE alot. I actually like helping people out once in a while. And it makes a nice change from sales. Sales has been utterly getting on my nerves the last few days. Not much else going on, hoping to get some work done on the network this weekend. Been doing alot of reading, just finished Nightmare's Disciple, a Lovecraftian serial killer novel. I've read it a few times before, and it's quite good. Need to read more Lovecraft stuff. Insanity makes the world fun. :) If your curious, check out the page I'm looking at in the screenshot, The H.P. Lovecraft Library. This is a large collection of Lovecraft's works in HTML or PDF formats. I'm slowly snagging them all for myself...

Well, that's all for now...laters gators :)

Rumor Mill Wed Jan 8 19:20:56 CST 2003
Mood: Bemused Music of the Day: Michael Schenker Group - On And On
Wow, I haven't been in the rumor mill in a long time. It seems that the reason I left DFW was because I 'hacked into something at Verio'. Which is funny, since I haven't worked there in 3 years. Just to make sure everyone is clear, I left DFW to move in with Rhiannon, a cute redhead, not because of anything else. So, if you hear anything about me and moving please inform the person to the truth.

Vulpine

Happy Birthday Shub-Internet Tue Jan 7 19:19:05 CST 2003
Mood: Insane Music of the Day: Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
quoting from SJ Games Daily Illuminator:

    Turns out the Net is a bit older than we said yesterday. Walter Milliken, who should know, advises us:

    "The Internet is considerably older than 20 years -- that anniversary is the cutover date when all Arpanet hosts had to abandon the Network Control Protocol (NCP) in favor of TCP. The Internet Protocol itself was in use well before that; when I joined BBN in 1978, Internet Protocol version 2.5 was in use to monitor and control the Atlantic Packet Satellite network.

    "Looking at the old Internet Experiment Notes (IENs) at ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/ien/, I find that the note series started in July of 1977; that's probably the first official notice of the current Internet as a concept. The first appearance I find of the current Internet Protocol (v4) specification is IEN 41, in June of 1978.

    "Certainly the Internet was a going concern when I came to BBN in Dec. 1978.

    "Personally, I'd put the birth of the Internet in either 1977 or 1978, if it doesn't trace back earlier as a concept inside DARPA. But there were definitely multiple live networks connected by the Internet Protocol at the end of 1978, since I actually worked on the network monitoring software for them . . .

    "So the Internet is definitely at drinking age, and would even be able to run for President in a few years."

So happy birthday Shub-Internet, may your tenticles grow deeper into our hearts and minds and homes !!! Ia! Ia!

Btw... Tue Jan 7 19:12:08 CST 2003
Mood: Happier Music of the Day: Chastain - Destructive Ground
Routes are looking much better...

(vulpine@shub-internet) (pts) (19:10pm:01/07/03)
(~)> traceroute smail.wyvern.org
traceroute to smail.wyvern.org (66.227.42.141), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 as3.io.com (206.224.86.3) 139 ms 129 ms 131 ms
2 gw.io.com (206.224.86.254) 129 ms 129 ms 130 ms
3 209-99-107-65.texas.net (209.99.107.65) 140 ms 119 ms 130 ms
4 lc1.gw1.aus1.texas.net (216.166.60.1) 131 ms 129 ms 130 ms
5 bb1.gw2.aus1.texas.net (216.166.60.18) 120 ms 130 ms 140 ms
6 67.97.233.149 (67.97.233.149) 149 ms 139 ms 130 ms
7 V20.rp0.dlls.broadwing.net (216.140.4.210) 129 ms 129 ms 141 ms
8 DLLSTX9LCE1.wcg.net (206.223.118.83) 129 ms 140 ms 140 ms
9 dllstx9lce1-yipes.wcg.net (64.200.226.118) 130 ms 140 ms 134 ms
10 66.7.164.118 (66.7.164.118) 137 ms 139 ms 131 ms
11 66.227.42.141 (66.227.42.141) 140 ms 140 ms 129 ms

Yep, much nicer now. Thank you Shub-Internet and TACNI :)

Day From $UNDERWORLD Tue Jan 7 19:06:06 CST 2003
Mood: Tired... Music of the Day: Wolves - 05 - Peyote Healing
Well I had a butt-kicker of a day today. Started with getting up late for work. Started to call my boss to tell him I'd be behind, can't find his #...or remember his name. Oops, damn migrating managers. Ok, hop in the car with breakfast provided by Rhiannon (thanks babe), haul major buttock to work. Get there, figure out I don't have my badge to get in the building. Scream. Alot. Go to the security desk, track down a manager for my dept. Get a 'temp badge of shame' and go to my cube, heat up the breakfast...and promptly drop it on the floor. Scream again. Sit down at my cube and pray that the day goes by quick...

Lucky for me, it does...and it was a good day all in all. But ruddy red gods of the Abyss...the morning was SCARY !!! Hopefully that's all my work related bad luck for the month.

Procmail Foo Mon Jan 6 20:48:02 CST 2003
Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: Kingdom Come - Stay
Short post, with a lot of help from Tom Gilbert's website and lots of tinkering with procmail, I now think I have control over my spam problems. :) Woohoo :) Basically, if people don't email me via one of my billon or so email lists, or email the main email addresses I use, or aren't one of the people I consider special and trustworthy enough to let though the gates, they get shuffled off to a archive file. Lets see how well this works. :)

I WANT !!!!!!!!!!! Mon Jan 6 19:16:29 CST 2003
Mood: Envious Music of the Day: Shub-Internet's envious sighing.
I want this geek's setup. He has 7...count them, 7 monitors for playing EverCrack. Sony flatscreens at that. I want 8 flatscreens...I sure the hell won't use them to play EverCrack. :)

The packets, they be travelling. Mon Jan 6 19:10:14 CST 2003
Mood: Annoyed Music of the Day: Shub-Internet's laughter
Well, it seems today that due to some routing foo a few hops upstream of us, the packets routing from Austin to Dallas, went by way of Chicago and Miami. Now I've seen some weird routs before, sometimes it happens. But circumnavigating the Eastern US and going through Dallas _twice_ before finally comming to rest is a bit much.

(~)> traceroute smail.wyvern.org
traceroute to smail.wyvern.org (66.227.42.141), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 as2.io.com (206.224.86.2) 129 ms 118 ms 118 ms
2 gw.io.com (206.224.86.254) 120 ms 139 ms 130 ms
3 209-99-107-65.texas.net (209.99.107.65) 140 ms 129 ms 130 ms
4 lc1.gw1.aus1.texas.net (216.166.60.1) 130 ms 139 ms 140 ms
5 bb1.gw2.aus1.texas.net (216.166.60.18) 140 ms 129 ms 120 ms
6 67.97.233.149 (67.97.233.149) 140 ms 149 ms 140 ms
7 P2-1.c0.ftwo.broadwing.net (216.140.4.69) 140 ms 129 ms 130 ms
8 p5-0.c0.ftwo.broadwing.net (216.140.17.21) 140 ms 129 ms 130 ms
9 P2-0.c0.gnwd.broadwing.net (216.140.16.34) 160 ms 138 ms 150 ms
10 P2-0.a0.chcg.broadwing.net (216.140.14.66) 210 ms 156 ms 160 ms
11 p0-1-0.p1.chcg.broadwing.net (216.140.14.150) 140 ms 159 ms 150 ms
12 aads.verio.net (206.220.243.34) 160 ms 159 ms 160 ms
13 p4-3-2-0.r01.chcgil01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.3.66) 160 ms 161 ms 150 ms
14 p16-2-0-0.r01.chcgil06.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.70) 190 ms 166 ms 170 ms
15 p16-0-1-1.r20.dllstx01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.85) 180 ms 189 ms 180 ms
16 p64-0-0-0.r21.dllstx01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.3.41) 170 ms 176 ms 170 ms
17 p16-2-0-0.r00.stngva01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.35) 211 ms 208 ms 210 ms
18 p16-0-0-0.r02.stngva01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.15) 190 ms 189 ms 190 ms
19 p4-1-0-0.r00.miamfl01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.110) 220 ms 220 ms 210 ms
20 ge-1-1.a03.miamfl01.us.ra.verio.net (129.250.26.199) 460 ms 369 ms 260 ms
21 fa-3-1.a03.miamfl01.us.ce.verio.net (157.238.179.154) 230 ms 218 ms 220 ms
22 * * *
23 * * starbug.wyvern.org (66.227.42.141) 280 ms


Needless to say I was unamused. Now it's not Wes's fault, nor is it Tacni's but go a few hops past them and god knows how it routs. *thud* Oh well, live and learn. ANd if I learn who the admin was who caused this... ;)

Website Updates Sun Jan 5 20:18:25 CST 2003
Mood: Bleah Music of the Day: Robert_Rich_-_Seven_Veils_-_06_-_Dissolve
I got some updates done on Cabal23.net. Mostly adding a few pages to the various machines that exist here at Chez Cyberfox. Surviving the begining of the new year, wondering if this one will be as demented as last year. Gods I hope not. I don't know if I can handle another demented year. Oh well, it could be worse...it always can be worse.

Another Day, Another Manager. Thu Jan 2 21:05:23 CST 2003
Mood: Confuzzled Music of the Day: Testament - Practice what you Preach
Well, today was the first day with my new manager at Dell. My old manager transfered to India to help mentor/coach/develop a sales call center there. So now I'm on manager #4, I wonder if I can get him to go to India in under 3 months ;)

Not much else going on, looking forward to a weekend with few demands on my time, well save laundry and geeking and cleaning and...err, excuse me while I delete those thoughts, they'll bring me down. ;)

Hmm, on the positive side...Shub-Internet is running like a champ. Pricing out black hardware so that my drives don't look out of place. Boy is computer white ugly in a black case. :) So if anyone wants to give me a Plextor Plexwriter 48x/24x/48x CDRW drive in black, say as an early Bday gift, i'd be very appreciative. :)

One more bit of Shub-Internet news Wed Jan 1 19:35:37 CST 2003
Mood: Still Geeky Music of the Day: Silence...
Just one more bit of Shub-Internet news...she's got her own page. Check out the link on the frame to your right, or just go here. Enjoy :)

Happy New Year Wed Jan 1 16:53:29 CST 2003
Mood: Wondering Music of the Day: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Happy new year to all my fans *waves at the 5* I'm sitting here in front of Shub-Internet and watching Ghost in the Shell and wondering what this year will bring. The last year was another in a line of bizarre ones. I wonder how this one will be. Hoping it will be a good year. I have a few resolutions for the coming year.

  • #1: Stop being so negative about things.
  • #2: Get a better job.
  • #3: Keep geeking and enjoying it.
  • #4: Enjoy life more.
  • #5: Get into a slightly better shape than I am.
  • #6: Have lots of fun with Rhiannon.
  • #7: Run my own colo.
  • #8: In general, like myself more.

    I think I can do all that. And maybe a bit more. We'll see what happens. :)

    • Shub-Internet v1.1 Wed Jan 1 10:52:24 CST 2003
    Mood: Geeky Music of the Day: Mike Oldfield - Tattoo
    Well, I just finished switching cases on Shub-Internet. Antec makes some damn good cases IMHO, no real problems, it came with an abundance of screws and widgets, and everything worked like a charm. I especially like how the drives all have removable cages or brackets to mount in. If your looking for a new case, go Antec. Tell them the Fox sent you :)