The original numbers on Do Not Call List (which hasn’t worked as well as hoped) were to expire after five years. But the FCC has decided that they will not be removing numbers from the list. Sweet!
Month: October 2007
If Your Going To Counterfeit Money…
…at least make sure it’s money that was actually created at one point.
They stand accused of creating perhaps the most audacious and incompetent forgeries ever. An international gang tried to defraud the Bank of England out of £28bn using fake £500,000 and £1,000 notes, Southwark crown court heard this week. There was one problem: £500,000 notes have never been produced by the bank.
Thanks Neil T. for the link.
Gmail Finally Adds IMAP
It doesn’t look like this has been enabled for Google Apps for Domains yet (which we use at work), but for regular Gmail accounts, it’s still very good news.
Stupid Crook For The Day
If you’re going to steal a printer that’s used to print driver’s licenses, don’t call the manufacturer for help with it.
Scary Product For The Day
In case you need to store a rifle for quick access while you sleep, here’s your product and here’s your commercial:
Three words: What the f**k?
Office Pranks For Geeks
When I get some free time at the office (doubtful), I’m going to start playing with the default “Ready” messages on our HP printers.
Note To Self
If anybody in the office tells you that the fancy Ricoh copy machine’s display says “Empty Toner Waste Bottle,” don’t volunteer to empty it. Ever.
Now excuse me while I try to get this black powder out of my hair, fingernails, and pretty much my entire outfit.
My Kids Are Spoiled Rotten
I briefly mentioned that my dad had won a raffle for a fancy new playhouse down at the Bend Fall Festival. Since my parents are trying to sell their house, they obviously didn’t want to put it at their house, so they gave it to us. After moving all the firewood out of the way, the trailer was still too wide to get to our backyard, so we had to roll the thing on pipes. Having moved much larger objects on pipes (sheds and hot tubs, for example), it went pretty quick as I knew what I was doing. I had completely forgotten how impressive and cute this thing was — and a little girl’s dream come true. We got some bricks in place and shimmed the thing up to make it was all level, attached the deck, and my little girls couldn’t have been more excited. Read on below and you’ll see why:
Geekdom Link Dump
Some more random geek links, mostly for my reference:
- Create a simple invisible folder (not secure) for your
porn collectionprivate files. - The worst thing about Macs is their fans (agree with this 1000%).
- Sync your schedule with Google Calendar, including a few shareware options for syncing with Outlook and iCal (the GCalDaemon is also a popular choice and is freeware). Now if I could just figure out an easy to sync up Outlook, my Blackberry and GCal…
- 25 Tools to Compile an In-Depth Dossier on a Competitors’ Site (most of these I knew about, but there were a few I didn’t).
- Installing an Ubuntu monitoring system with Cacti, Zenoss and Smokeping.
- Need to crack any password from about 100 file formats and programs? Here’s your program.
- More uses for old PCs.
- Most computer repair companies don’t know what they are doing.
- Installing Domainkeys on a cPanel server.
- Dump Outlook and Your Smart Phone.
- Find updates for programs on your systemTemporary e-mail PHP script (based on Guerrilla Mail).
There’s An Air-Force Radar Station in Christmas Valley?
Apparently, though it has long been decommissioned. Some morons tried to steal a bunch of copper wire from there, but their truck couldn’t handle it.