Remember that project for ASAP? The one I kept talking about. The one in MS Access and Visual Basic and required those MagTek Scanners in order to work really well? The one I have been working on here and there over the summer at about 7 hours/week? They decided they didn't need it. I refuse to let the project go unfinished though. I mean, I did get paid for it, so I intend to have a functioning product when school starts. I feel bad though that they paid me all this money and then aren't going to use it. Sigh.
There is some other bad crap, but we will gloss over it in favor of more interesting stuff. Yesterday, H and I hung out with Shiru, and did more animegamethings. On the way to her house, H and I went by a red billboard that had me laughing. I always find the funniest stuff when I am in the car with her. Anyway, this said: "Your money says "In God We Trust". Support the Church of Jesus Christ." I didn't know what to make of it. I still don't. One the way back to the Sacramento suburbs, I checked it, just to make sure I didn't just see things the first time. If I get a chance, I may even find a way to get a picture.
Speaking of web sites, I am going to start my redesign of Felocity.org when I get back to school. I have some ideas for it, but all of them need some serious work. I like the simplicity of this site. I might try something a little more stylish, but with the same contrast idea where it is easy to read and stuff. Expect someone from One Piece involved, and no, not Kuro (although that did cross my mind).
Since this entry has everything to do with nothing, I will leave you with this juicy IRC bit. For many of you, this requires little explanation. For some of you it might, but since it is past 3 am, I doubt you will be getting it. I don't claim to be an expert on philosophy by any stretch of the imagination, nor do I claim to know everything about networking. I do however think that prodding someone to the point where their knowledge consists of opinion and watching them pass it as fact is fun. So I prodded, poked, and otherwise jabbed at the convo until I was adequately amused. That and I hate "linux is the world!!!111" people more than I hate dumb Windows users. Power Linux users that don't know shit act as if they almost circled the geek globe, returning back to a pre-newbie state, yet able to babble for hours on end about how Microsoft is horrible, how bill gates dines on mortal flesh, how linux is christ in the third coming, etc. These people annoy the living fuck out of me because their arguments are never founded. Sure, I like *nix. I use it for a lot of things. I even think more people should move away from MS Office into things such as OpenOffice. However, it isn't funny that the W32.Blaster spread like wildfire and got into so many machines. Bah, enough of my ranting... go read this for yourself.
After this conversation, I went over to GRC to see what Steve had to say on the matter. He confirmed what I had thought, the virus only targets windowsupdate.com and all systems use windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Because of this, Microsoft only has to point windowsupdate.com to 127.0.0.1 and the big "attack" that was with the virus goes (you guess it) nowhere.
Clearly we are dealing with a special breed of virus writing genius. If this person had ever touched anything 2k or better, they would have known the system level address that is used. A special breed of fucking genius indeed. o_O
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