To anticipate and prevent
So for those of you living under a rock, there was a terror plot in the UK that was foiled. The problem is that they were going to use liquid’s for the bomb, so the UK has banned carry ons. In the US they banned all liquids. I was watching Anderson Cooper 360°, and some…
While watching the Discovery channel an unusual commercial came on. Normally I wouldn’t mention this, but it really was unusual. See, the commercial, was for the CIA. Yes, I mean the Central Intelligence Agency, the guys that work for America to spy on people. You’ll all be happy to know that the CIA is an…
I’ve been making changes once again to the blog. First and foremost is that I’ve truncated the main page from 15 entries to 5. Realistically I don’t think anyone cares much for more than the top 3. As my current plan is to post once a day, every weekday — 5 entries on the front…
It amuses some of the information I find on the Internet. Just remember everyone, you should believe everything you read on the net. Especially if its a “how to” guide, and the authors bio sounds authentic — because they’ll know what they are talking about. (As a note, I make no claim that every piece…
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This evening on my way home I looked up at the sky and thought “a storm is coming”. It wasn’t anything overt that really gave it away, its simply that once you live somewhere long enough you learn the weather. Of course this evening we got some lightning, the part that was surprising is that…
The key with Vista is extreme RAM usage. A “clean” install of Ultimate ed w/ no other software running will take between 600 and 700 MB of RAM. Shutting down all non-essential services and even a few really important services will leave the machine at 400MB of RAM usage. I’d suggest that machines run with…