Category: Daily Life

I’ve done away with the Did You Pass Math plugin (at least temporarily) so that people can comment without having to compute. Instead, I’m trying on Spam Karma 2. My worry is that Spam Karma will produce too many false positives; that is, labeling legitimate comments as spam. I did not have the worry of false positives with Did You Pass Math but I fear that false negatives were too frustrating to readers. I just wish Spammers would go away.

Last night I was up but only semi-conscious and in no way eager to get out of bed to make the appropriate post at the time. Cathy had pointed out to me that we had an outstanding time last night. At 1:23am we had 1:23 4/5/6! Won’t happen again for 100 years.

The dollar value I can assess to lost productivity to myself and my client because of the CWS CoolWebSearch (Inet20001) malware and viruses is ridiculous. Virus Writers and malware writers be damned! The stress of trying to remove this mess has taken time off the end of my life I’m sure. So not only are they stealing my money, they are killing me!

That said, today’s challenge. Take a windows 2000 workstation that would boot to the windows login screen then restart after reporting "svchost.exe The application failed to initialize properly. 0xc0000142" Booting to safe mode produced the same error (turns out this is from a copy in c:\temp\svchost.exe). Long and short. The machine did not have enough memory to run the Windows Ultimate Boot CD but did run the Linux Ultimate Boot CD and a virus scan showed some potentials. Notes taken. Damn Small Linux refuses to delete files from the hard drive. Go to the magic toolbox and pull out 6 floppies that are a modified set of Windows XP boot floppies with a Windows 2000 registry repair option (search MS.com) Registry repaired and files deleted from within DOS. Reboot reveals I missed much. Persistence prevails. (I’d go more detailed but I was cruising on a web application this morning and didn’t intend to have a 12 hour speed bump).

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We bring you HTTPanties for the discriminating woman who would prefer a web-savvy and somewhat-direct approach in the romance department.

These panties are W3C compliant.

And for those of you saying, "huh?" I present the definitions from the w3c:

All my life I thought I was doing right
It hurts so bad to find I was wrong.

"I know I’ll find it because I’ve been there before."

Whoever said "money can’t buy happiness" was never poor.

April 24th is a very critical day for us. We need good karma sent our way.

So if the IRS freezes my assets, does that prevent the mortgage company from foreclosing my house?

Yesterday I added the WordPress plugin Did You Pass Math? That means that unregistered users will see an question at the bottom of comments like "What is the sum of 2 and 3?" If you get it right, you can post a comment.

Wow. I had written a really long post here. Which is good because I was being whiney. Can someone put up a test comment?

Kristyk who turned me onto WordPress (which Knoxjon uses) has an interesting antispam setup for her comments. When commenting, you have to answer a random math question “What is the sum of 9 and 3?” Registered users don’t see the question. Michael Silence gets rid of all comment spam by requiring registration to post a comment. Now, where do you register?