Another dull, boring update.

· Dad’s wedding went off w/o a hitch. Even with David and I being involved.

· Finally got the 4Runner back last week. Got the A/C fixed with a new hose ($94 from Toyota dealer !?!) and a new set of brushes in the alternator.

· The DS3 install at iGiles went well, considering. Now if Frank would just stop hogging all the bandwidth with BitTorrent downloads…

· I’m planning on doing absolutely NOTHING for July 4th. I don’t even want to watch fireworks. I’d rather sleep, imo. Or catch up on all the work I’m behind on.

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Legislature won’t vote on cable theft this year

Legislature won’t vote on cable theft this year
By KATHY CARLSON
Staff Writer, The Tennessean

A bill pitting telecommunications and entertainment companies against some of their customers won’t come up for a vote in the General Assembly this year, its sponsors said yesterday.

Backers said the bill was needed to update state law on the theft of cable and other telecommunications services.

Opponents – many of them computer professionals and enthusiasts who mobilized via the Internet – said no new law was needed and the measure as originally written threatened privacy and civil liberties.

entire story

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Random nothingness for a Tuesday

[1] Temporary Decrease in Performance Occurs When You Right-Click a File or Folder in Windows Explorer (from Tracey via Frank)

[2] Audioscrobbler.com :: Discover new music based on your listening habits

[3] I found a screw in my right rear tire yesterday. A quick stop by Stewart’s Tires this morning revealed that it didn’t penetrate all the way, so they pulled it and all should be fine.

[4] Hard Drives Instead of Tapes? 70 TB Backup RAID

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Give a monkey a typewriter…

Typing monkeys, but no Shakespeare
‘Experiment’ modeled on aphorism yields a big mess

ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON, May 9 – Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will make a mess.

complete article

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Does MS finally get it?

Q&A: Windows Server 2003 kernel guru
Looks like they are serious this time around about not making another lame-duck server product. From what I’ve seen in limited testing of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, it certainly looks like a huge improvement.

In other news, @miklm.com mail is working again, as I transferred it to the iGiles mail server. I’m still debating whether I’m better off getting one newer server to replace the two aging HP boxes, or whether to just repair regan.

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