I just got Civilization 4 in the mail yesterday.
Amazon sure shipped it quick. I am thoroughly enjoying this game. It plays reasonably well on my laptop, and I haven’t run in to any bugs so far. It’s very similar to the past Civilization games, but now breaks up the monolithic “government” entity into multiple groups, [...]

This has been covered on many sites before — massive ssh attacks. There’s not a whole lot you can do about them except employ firewalls. Anyways, here’s a stat to throw out at ya. Over the past 24 hours we’ve logged 743427 failed or illegal login attempts for sshd network-wide.

I sure enjoy this new show on Comedy Central. I am kind of bummed it appears to have already gone in to re-runs after it’s first week, however. Unless I just got a bum feed, Monday night’s show was a repeat of some show last week. If it was a new one, anyone got a [...]

Gmail is pretty sweet. I moved all of my personal mail to gmail a while back, and have been enjoying its interface. I like that I can search my emails offline, with Google Desktop. There’s just one problem:
1/3 to 1/4th of the mail sent to me is misclassified as spam.
It’s mostly mailing list messages, such [...]

Moving from FreeBSD to Linux, another issue that came up is that apparently Linux’s default terminal information allows the use of the “alternate screen buffer” from vt102 or some such thing. This is what causes less and vi to clear the screen when you exit, screen to not allow you to use xterm’s scrollback buffer, [...]

If y’all want a URL shortener, without ever having interstitials, swing on over to http://dpk.net/t/post . Obviously, there’s no way I can guarantee the privacy of the URLs sent through it. But there ya go.
Edited: What I mean by that is that someone could conceivably guess the URLs given out by this tool, and go [...]

A co-worker of mine, Russell, has got the motivation and the lack of experience to really make it as a Bush White House appointee. I urge you to write to your representative and senator today. Let’s make this happen people!

Washington state legislature passed a bill to fund hundreds of transporation projects, funded by a $.03-.09/gallon gas tax. In case you haven’t ever visited Washington state, we have some of the worst traffic ever, and of the major cities I’ve visited recently, some of the hardest to use public transit (it’s mostly centralized in Seattle [...]