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I think the pictures speak for themselves… The Cupcake Incident

I was doing a simple {% codeblock %}tcpdump -w file{% endcodeblock %} today in the course of a little packet sniffing. I opened the output in ethereal only to find several of the packets had “[short frame]” in the summary. A quick google found the answer, but maybe if I had just read the output I would have figured it out earlier: tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes 96 bytes doesn’t get you too far with certain protocols… Using a {% codeblock %}-s0{% endcodeblock %} gave me the packets I was looking for. ...

What the heck is going on?? In the past 12 hours, I have received 40 new comments, all of which are spam! But here’s the odd part. This is not your common spam like “shop at jim’s casino” spam. This is…complimentary spam..cspam, if you will. This is spam that says “nice site” and “great design” and is sometimes in a foreign language. Now that wouldn’t even be so bad, but what makes it worse is that somebody is going to a great deal of trouble to put this spam here. The 40 comments come from 40 unique ip addresses! ...

I keep trying to hit Alt-W…weird.

I’ve had to disable comments temporarily as I started getting some really odd comment spam today… You can still post them, they just won’t show up right away. It’s coming from multiple ip’s so this is the easiest for now. And since I’m going to be away from the computer for a while (w00t fireworks), I figured it would be best. Enjoy the show and see you later!

I just saw the new King Kong trailer and it looks awesome! The trailer itself gave me chills, which is a pretty good sign.

Well I’ve done enough posting for today. I got a new shower curtain yesterday that I need to go put up before this morning disappears. I love Restoration Hardware, but man is their stuff expensive! Luckily I got that sucker on sale.

I did it. I’m in the process of replacing Debian on one of my boxes at home with Gentoo. Ok, now calm down out there..it’s not the end of the world. Up is still up and down is still down. For at least the past four or five years, I have been a diehard Debian fanatic. In my formative college years, I pretty much tried every distro known to man - my hobby on the weekends was installing operating systems. My first linux experience was with RedHat in my freshman year (and I had some problems of my own). After three weekends and thirty installs, I finally got my redhat system perfect…and then my hard drive crashed! Nevertheless, I was hooked. I progressed from redhat to SuSE to slackware with many in-between and ultimately settled on Debian. ...

I must be in some sort of mood this morning. I figured since my last post was all Gentoorific, I’d post a little bit about my Windows XP install as well. I just found my personal install notes, so I’ll paste them in here. I re-install Windows on my laptop every 3-6 months on average. I install all kinds of cruft and it usually starts to get pretty bogged down after 6 months. I also love the feeling of a brand new laptop install and use it as an opportunity to upgrade software that’s essential to the system and gets easily broken. So here goes! ...

I played paintball today for the second time in my life - a place called Blast Camp in Hobart, IN. This place was great! It’s an old naval base and they’ve got about 10 courses to play on - some in old buildings, some outdoors, some with trenches. You can rest assured I was booking it through those trenches. I can’t wait to go again. I didn’t get hit too bad, like some other people. But I got a couple nice hits. ...