Oh yeah, I forgot to mention in my last post that my birthday is coming up, this Thursday, in fact. If you’re one of the people out there that thinks I need to be given a gift, then feel free to select an item from my Amazon or ThinkGeek wishlists. If you don’t feel like getting me anything, that’s fine too, since I probably forgot your birthday already.
Yup, another weekend come and gone. This one was fairly busy. On Saturday, I managed to get the HTPC up and running in the entertainment center. I was having some issues with the onboard ethernet, but it fixed itself once I disabled ACPI. I’ve also gotten the framebuffer TV out stuff working, but it still needs some adjustment to make it look decent. Hopefully I’ll spend some time with it over the next couple of days and get it to my liking.
Saturday afternoon, Matt and I went to see 28 Days Later…, which is kindof an odd little zombie movie. Not as much random zombie-related horror as I was expecting, but it was still a fun movie to watch. It’s rather refreshing to go see a movie that doesn’t rely on billion dollar special effects every 10 seconds to keep things interesting. Probably not a must see movie, but definitly worth a rental.
After that we wandered around for a bit, and ended up grabbing Matt’s hard drives out of his system, taking them to Manchester, and hooking them up to my PC so I could swipe a bunch of his music and stuff. While waiting for that, we broke out the old THPS3.
On Sunday, Matt and I went out to Newmarket so I could fix one of SimPro’s installations out there. Once again the Belkin router that we’re tapping off of for Internet access decided to forget it’s port forwarding settings. I’m not sure why it keeps doing it, but it’s getting annoying. We were also wardriving for the trip out there. Picked up a decent amount of stuff, which I have mapped.
After getting back, Matt and I parted ways, and I picked up Andrea to go see a movie. We ended up seeing The Italian Job, which was pretty good. Again, not a great movie, but I thought it was fun to watch. Not really all that much to say about it though. Afterwards, I took Andrea home, then wandered home to fiddle with my computers for a little while before heading off to bed.
I had a much better posting written up yesterday, but Windows crashed on me, and I can’t remember half of what I wrote. Ah well.
Let’s see, what have I been up to? Friday night I assisted on another upgrade at JLC, mostly because doing upgrades for them is my way of keeping Hindenburg connected to the net. It wasn’t as bad as usual, we just swapped the hardware in the web server, and everybody was happy. Still lasted to about 5am though.
Saturday, I woke up having no plans. Andrea called me, asking if I wanted to go into Boston, which I had suggested a few days earlier, but she had declined. So we did that. We were looking for Pix Poster Cellar, which used to have a store front near Harvard Square. We were under the impression that they still had a store, but at a new location. This turned out to be incorrect, as their new address was in an office building, though we didn’t figure this out until we were standing at the building. After that, we hopped back on the T and went to Harvard Square, poked around the Garage Mall, and I ended up buying The Wee Free Men, a new Terry Pratchett book. Then we wandered across the street to Urban Outfitters, where Andrea bought a pink velvet Buddha.
On Sunday, I was supposed to go to Marci’s party thing, but managed to lose the location of the event, which makes it rather hard to get to. That, and not having contact information for any of the other people involved. So instead I wandered over to Matt’s house to check out his freshly painted PC. It was looking pretty slick at the time, and will hopefully look nice once it’s all dry and reassembled. We also stuck a red cold cathode into Vincent, which is glowing quite nicely as I type this. The kit was pretty easy to install, and even came with a little rocker switch to turn the light on and off from the front panel. Hopefully I’ll have some pictures of it up soon.
After that, we went down to Lowell to see The Hulk, which was perhaps the most disappointing of any of the Marvel movies done so far. If you want to see a superhero movie, go see X2 if you can find it in theaters, or just rend X-Men or Spiderman, it’ll be a lot more fun.
So that brings us to Monday. Started off normally enough, went fairly well up until about 11:30, when someone decided to launch some sort of DDoS attack on Hindenburg. This caused me to wander over to JLC to check up on things. I didn’t get much information about it, but apparently it was targetted at Hindenburg’s SSH port. So I upgraded OpenSSH to the latest version, and hoped for the best. So far, things have been fairly quite. I’m guessing one of the people who IRC from the box pissed off some script kiddie. Ah well. If I find out who, their account will go away rather quickly.
Oh, I also registered a new domain name, though the registration isn’t complete yet. Within the next day or so, 2bithacker.net should be up and running. Not 100% sure what I’m going to use it for yet, but I liked the sound of it, and it’s a little less tied to a gamer thing as chocobo.cx.
Update complete. Carry on.
