Land of the Lemmings, v2

Since I’ve been helping Jim try to setup a simple firewall for a class, this presentation from the last time I helped him out is quite apropos.
I’m sure there are errors in it, but hey, it worked.

For those of you without rear wheel drive vehicles (with light beds or too much torque or, even better, BOTH!): Learn to turn like a big wheel! (via Jalopnik).

This has to be one of the best End User License Agreement clauses ever:

Lots of searching on the web yields very little about Skype that isn’t “it’s the greatest thing ever”, but there is this blog post where the author talks about the fact that Skype makes open hosts on the Internet into “supernodes” to facilitate conversations between computers behind firewalls and NAT devices. Smells a little fishy to me.

looks like the newest portage (2.0.51) comes with stricker dependency and blocking checking. As usual, the forums are all over it.

Oh yeah, just what I need, a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado once owned by Wayne Newton! Let me get my captains hat and raise the mainsails. I wonder what kind of mileage a vacuum line hell, smog addled 500 cubic inch V-8 gets? (via Jalopnik)

Well, I caved late last week and ordered a new Shuttle SB81P, a 3.0 Ghz processor, a couple of 200GB SATA drives, 512MB of RAM and a cheap Asus CD-S520 CDROM drive. The build was very simple, following the instructions in the manual, but I did run into a couple of snags.

1. The Asus CDROM tray is just slightly taller than the opening provided. A little filing and sanding solved that
2. The SATA connectors are formed with the wires coming out on what seems to be wrong side. (very minor)

Now, I think I’ll wait with the gentoo install until this weekend (but, I’ll be using these instructions.)

In case you didn’t see it, here’s a roundup of the various links to videos and transcripts:
Videos:

• Wonkette
• BoingBoing

Transcript