I just arrived home, back from Las Vegas/Death Valley. The biggest letdown was the cool 40-65 degree temperatures; I was hoping to get a tan. Due to the weather I have little to show for my trip, unlike many of those attending my school. Track starts this upcoming Monday, so chaos begins once again.
In other news I’ve been working on a new Web 2.0 style layout for Weblogs.us. I have included a thumbnail of the third revision, which is 100% implemental, but probably won’t be the final. Please comment on any changes to it that you would like to see.
16 Days Remaining
-John Havlik
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VoodooPC main man, Rahul believes it may be true. Why? Alienware is regarded almost everywhere as the best main stream Gaming PC manufacturer. Dell has had some success with their XPS systems, but the truth of the matter is that the XPS systems are lacking in some areas, such as choices and style. Michael Dell knows that his company needs to grow and appear to be a bleeding-edge company. Currently Dell can’t market the Dell brand as ‘cool’ because it really hasn’t worked yet, they have eliminated the Dell DJ, because it couldn’t make a dent into Apple’s iPod sales. What Rahul fails to mention is that currently Dell can offer you a more powerful laptop than Alienware, by what do I mean? You can get an Intel Core Duo 2.16Ghz processor with nVidia GeForce Go 7800GTX (Today it isn’t available for some reason but the 7800 variant is), plus Dell doesn’t make you pay extra for it to be a Centrino Laptop with the built in wireless. If I had to buy a laptop for college today I’d buy a Dell, even though I hate all the crap they pre-install onto your system, the choices they offer aren’t touched by the competition (Alienware only offers the GeForce Go 6800). Now the rumor mill is saying Dell is considering selling some AMD desktops, well this could fall in line with acquiring Alienware and continuing their AMD line of products. Others have seen this as a ‘problem’ but I see it as a disguised motive. Think what ever you want, I’ll still take the Dell laptop, dual monitor out (three monitors, including 1 DVI and 1 VGA and the built in LCD), 6 USB ports (Alienware only has two), 7800 vs 6800, and the list goes on…
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-John Havlik
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In honor of my 100th post, which was a few posts ago, I am doing a Duo Post Wednesday. Today as many know is Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting, probably my least favorite day of the year. It is also the first of March, signaling the countdown to my birthday in twenty five days. I also have another IP address to add to a the suspicious/malicious IP address list, this time it is 195.225.177.80, which came to my site 14 times via some search for some chemical compound, and tried going to article 514, which doesn’t exist, it would be good practice to watch this IP address suspiciously.
A while ago I noticed 10.x.x.x 72.16.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x IP addresses visiting my site. These Addresses are reserved for only LAN and non-internet use, which means the users are spoofing the IP addresses. I can confirm this in Shareaza with an increasing amount of p2p spammers spoofing their IP addresses, so by default I block all non-internet IP address traffic in Shareaza, and would do the same with my blog, but with multiple servers, the way JD has Weblogs.us organized may require letting those IP addresses through. What is really odd is that routers don’t forward 10.x.x.x, 72.16-32.x.x, 192.168.x.x.x addresses, since they are for internal use only, so how these people are spoofing them is interesting.
25 Days Remaining
-John Havlik
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Remember months back I wrote about how Myspace was a haven for sexual predators, well for all of you Myspace fans I must admit that the media, and many people I know agree with me. From a technological and standards viewpoint Myspace is nothing but malformed code and a breeding ground for horrible web designs. Well two Minnesotan High School Athletes have been suspended for incriminating pictures on their Myspace page. This is absolutely hilarious since many people give out way too much information about themselves on Myspace. Seven or so Myspace stories have hit the media in the last week, at least ones that I’ve read, and it seems that the so called experts are against Myspace since it is a danger. I love the fact that I was the first to warn against Myspace.
Here is the link: Myspace Warnings
-John Havlik
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Now that pesky, fast running Linux distribution finally has a proper installation program and LiveCD. I had tested the 2005.1 LiveCD installer, which always seemed to forget to compile everything, but it did a nice job at doing some little stupid things, like USE flags, which I used to get mtekktux up and running with the aid of the Gentoo Handbook and an ‘install’ CD. I will be testing 2006.0 on mtekktux2 (same hardware as mtekktux but a 866Mhz instead of a 800Mhz) and mtekktux3 (my old system, well a combination of various ones but will have 512Mb ram, 1Ghz P3, and dedicated graphics), in doing so I’ll set up a DistCC compiler farm to aid the compilation of software such as KDE and Open Office which take forever to compile on a single 800Mhz box. Mtekktux may end up running with MythTV on top of Gentoo for a media center computer mod that I am planning. Mtekktux2 is mainly for NAT and will serve as my RADIUS server.
I am also working on a mockup web 2.0 style layout for the Weblogs.us main page, just to see what it could look like, I’m planning to send it to JD once I get it completed, probably a week of work left, since I’m fairly busy right now.
Here is the link: Gentoo Linux
-John Havlik
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