So, SCO has been hacked. Lest they wake up and fix it, the altered banner on www.sco.com is preserved here for posterity:
The site was apparently fixed mere minutes after I grabbed it. Guess I got there just in time. Of course, doubtless Darl McBride will try to spin this in court as further evidence that Linux is evil. (Hey, there's a connection, in his mind... probably the one with the flashing neon dollar signs on it.)
I am learning to hate Sprint with a consuming passion.
I had a service call in this morning with Sprint already because when I had to call State Farm Bank, I could barely hear anything. So here I am, sitting online, trying to load www.statefarm.com, and suddenly bam!, I'm not connected any more. Line just dropped with no warning. I start redialling, and I hear a faint knock on the door, look out the front window and see a Sprint van. I get up and go to the door, and by the time I get to the door he's backing out the driveway and there's a "Sorry we missed you" tag on the door.
You didn't "miss me", you asshole, you knocked and ran.
Ever since seeing Fantasia 2000, I can no longer listen to Sir Edward Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance March #1 without being assaulted by visions of Donald bloody Duck.
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest Michael Eisner's armpits and multiply.
So I glance in my spam quarantine, and there, at the bottom of the current list of three trapped messages, is spam from '"Wheeler Severin" <MerrieEitaro@bncollege.com>', subject "Late Payment: $264230"
Now, let's ignore for the moment the minor problem that "Wheeler Severin" and "MerrieEitaro" sort of, like, don't plausibly match up. Not remotely. That's a minor detail. I ask you, really now: How many people are there in the WORLD who are likely to believe that they somehow missed making a payment of over a quarter of a million dollars this month to someone they've never heard of?
"Say, honey, did you charge another executive jet on the AmEx card this month?"
"Oh, yes, Lear had it on sale! You're going to love the seat upholstery, it's just darling!"
[sigh] "OK, but I'm going to get rid of the green Gulfstream III this time, OK? Otherwise I'll have to call the contractor and have him come build another hangar, and it'll ruin the view from the back nine holes. We never fly in the green one anyway, because you always say it clashes with your hair."
I just got my hands on a CalComp Creation Station Pro graphics tablet. It's a really nice, big tablet, with a 12"-square working surface. I've been waitng for this for a few weeks now, and was hoping that when it arrived I'd finally be able to do some decent freehand drawing work anc create my planned Unixronin's Moai comprehensive mood-icon set.
There's just one teeny little technical hitch. I didn't think to ask what type of connector this thing had ... and, upon examination, it has what I thought at first was an InPort-type busmouse connector, but on closer examination appears to be a Mac ADB connector. We do have a Power Mac 7600 with a Sonnet G3 card that we could connect it to, but the only drivers I've been able to find for it yet are for Windows.
So, we may have a little difficulty getting this thing working......