Mark / IL

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Just got my EOS 40D the other day, improvised some shitty lighting: behold, Hellraiser!

This is my server.

There are many like it, but this one is MINE.

My server is my best friend. It is my life.

I must master it as I must master my life.

My server without me is useless. Without my server, I am useless.

I must maintain my server true.

I must secure better than my enemy who is trying to hack me.

My server and myself know that what counts in security is not the ports we close,
the logs of our daemons, nor the firewall rules we make.

We know it is the uptime that counts.

My server is human, even as I, because it is my life.

Thus, I will learn it as a brother.

I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories,
its shell, and its uplink.

I will ever guard it against the ravages of spam and crackers.

I will keep my server clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready.

We will become part of each other. We will…

Before Theo I swear this creed.

My server and myself are the defenders of my department.

We are the masters of our enemy.

So be it, until there is no Windows, but UNIX.

Only in Israel can this happen — a Border Police (MAGAV) soldier fired a shot from his weapon, killing himself during the farewell ceremony held for Sarkozy.

WTF?

JPost article here.

After writing the previous post I realized that I made some modifications to my Destinator copy that several people might be interested it.

Since the 6915 has a square screen instead of the usual 240×320 rectangular one found on many PDAs, a slight modification to the UI files must be done.

The file can be found here.

Simply copy it to your Destinator directory (under Skin/All) and you’re set.

After almost 4 hours of endless tweaking, debugging and prodding of various hidden control panels in my iPaq 6915, I’ve come to a surprising conclusion: the Eyron-made Hebrew language support for Windows Mobile 5 seems to simply break the GPS software within it.

The symptoms I was encountering were extremely frustrating:

1. Start Destinator

2. Navigate to “Settings” then “GPS Settings”.

3. Watch the status title change from “GPS Device Connected” to “No GPS device found” in a viciously annoying cycle.

After a while, I’ve decided to simply perform a hard reset on my iPaq and reinstall everything piece by piece. Now, when you install Eyron Hebrew Support, it changes your UI language to full-blown Hebrew — menu items, input, etc. I usually set it to “English with Hebrew Support” so that I can read/write Hebrew content but still have a normal English UI.

Out of sheer curiousness, I started up Destinator — lo and behold “Valid GPS Signal”.

So, for some strange reason, if you set your interface language to “English with Hebrew Support”, no GPS for you. Otherwise, everything works as smoothly as possible.

Go figure.

After some research via Zap, I’ve arrived at this spreadsheet. It appears that getting 2 500GB drives will be the optimal choice with regard to price per TB. Even though the NIS/GB ratio is rather high, the final price is the lowest one.

Comments?

I’ve decided to build an HTPC for my parents (and myself). The idea is to have around 2TB of storage readily available over the network and have the box hooked up to the LCD TV in the living room. The following components are required:

• Case — I’ve purchased a Coolermaster CM-282 from SLG Computer Systems
• PSU — I’m considering an Enermax Liberty 400.
• Motherboard — I’ve decided to upgrade my own motherboard and use the old one for the HTPC. The new mobo will be a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R.
  
• GPU — I’ll probably get a Sparkle 512MB passively-cooled 8600GT from SkyPC.
• TV Card — A Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 seems the best choice (multiple price choices here).
• Hard drives — probably four 500GB Seagate drives (price comparison here).

Check out some of the latest vectors I’ve uploaded to my Dreamstime account.

Here it is — an old alarm clock I found laying around the house. (Yes, I know the white parts got a little overexposed, I’m still learning).