dsandler.org ≡ 2005 ≡ June

14 Jun

2005

The West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center has issued a warning regarding possible tsunami activity resulting from this evening’s 7.0-Richter quake off the California coast. (Also: USGS link #2) However, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is much more reserved with respect to other Pacific coastal areas. (Full texts after the jump, since it’s time sensitive)

Update 23:45:

SUBJECT - TSUNAMI WARNING BULLETIN - FINAL
BULLETIN NUMBER 2
ISSUED 06/15/2005 AT 0409 UTC

...THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH STATUS IS CANCELED FOR
   CALIFORNIA - OREGON - WASHINGTON - BRITISH COLUMBIA -  AND
   ALASKA...

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14 Jun

2005

penny-arcade.co.uk

≡ 10:21 am ≡ art

Whoa. Since when did Gabe (of Penny-Arcade) become John Allison (of Scary Go Round, and Bobbins before that)? (Scroll down to the new FF, Gabe, and Tycho shirts to see what I mean. Or simply examine the image I burgled, seen at right.)

14 Jun

2005

Buy Now is “Awful”

≡ 12:47 am ≡ macintosh my software

Hey, looky: the Buy Now saver got a mention on the SomethingAwful forums.

13 Jun

2005

Security.

≡ 4:56 pm ≡ email hee misclass

Dan: But I need your password to do that.

Alan: [redacted].

Dan: Seriously, your password is [redacted]?

Alan: Dan, everybody’s email password is [redacted]! Have you not gotten that yet?

13 Jun

2005

Khaaan: the next generation

≡ 1:00 pm ≡ hee scifi

Old school; New school. Discuss.

Update: Amar reminds me that the creators of the second of those clips cut their teeth on another classic film line.

12 Jun

2005

One for sorrow, two for joy

≡ 12:37 am ≡ ling music

Wait, wait. If a “murder” is an animal collective noun (in particular of crows), then does that mean the song title “A Murder Of One” is meant to suggest a group, a flock, consisting of just one person/bird/etc.? (Sort of like the old “army of one” motto, but, you know, poetic and stuff.) Because, you know, that Adam guy sure likes his crows. Update: Apparently I am the last to this particular zoolinguistic party.

10 Jun

2005

Mapinguari

≡ 4:37 pm ≡ cryptozoology erin scifi tv

Erin found something very interesting on the Oceanic Air website. Warning: “huge” spoilers for season 2 are here (and on Wikipedia).

10 Jun

2005

Fischerspooner

≡ 3:07 pm ≡ game music

[2:58] <dsandler> Hmm. Fischerspooner is like the rock band that Mega Man and Samus Aran never put together.

10 Jun

2005

jwz switches

≡ 2:23 pm

After bellyaching and whinging about Linux for years, jwz stopped. “Dear Slashdot: please don’t post about this. Screw you guys.”

09 Jun

2005

A new spam attack?

≡ 10:15 pm ≡ email spam

I’m starting to wonder if spammers are starting to deliberately send malformed emails in the hopes that mail clients (like Mail.app) will fail to run rules, including “send to Junk”, if the message can’t be parsed. I’ve been getting a lot of emails with high-ascii Subjects and Froms of late, incorrectly encoded (made only worse by DSPAM, which seems to create more trouble when it encounters character encoding trouble).

09 Jun

2005

NWA

≡ 9:35 pm ≡ hee music

Nina Gordon, formerly of Veruca Salt, covers “Straight Outta Compton” by NWA (mp3). Outstanding. [via Marco]

09 Jun

2005

Quantum entanglement of Tiger windows.

≡ 2:32 pm ≡ macintosh

Open a multi-windowed, multi-drawered app like TextWrangler.
Get a couple of windows going.
Close a document drawer by dragging, rather than clicking the toolbar button.
Now try dragging one of your windows. They’re all stuck together! Example: 11MB QuickTime movie

08 Jun

2005

apt-get install spider-sense

≡ 3:41 pm ≡ geeky

Installing debian 3.1 “sarge” on the cluster, and discovered that the sudo command has a little extra language in its standard first-use warning message:

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: #1) Respect the privacy of others. #2) Think before you type. #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Update 6/13: Here is the change in the sudo sources (code diffs) that introduces the quote. Apparently it was created in RedHat’s version of sudo and then added to the main distribution.