Somewhere I found images of the Windows 3.1 installation floppies, so I decided to see how fast 3.1 loads in a virtual machine.

I thought this would be a simple task, until I realized there wasn’t much I could do with the 3.1 floppies until DOS was installed on something. I located DOS 6.22, installed it in a VM, then installed Windows 3.1 on top.

When the machine was done, Windows loaded in half a second. Lack of network drivers, however, ends the experiment right here.

i meet and chat with yourwith billions of dollars of profits. None had done better than Im very hot woman, who is looking to meet you, or chat in skype with webcam!
my e-mail for you hot reply: (weird email address removed to protect .. the spammer?)

I want your answer! You bad lady

I’m finding this one really confusing. Is it about sex? Or some kind of financial deal?

This year I’ve been really impressed with Nullsoft, makers of Winamp. This week I tried out Winamp Remote, and am now able to stream my audio and video from my computer to anywhere that has an internet connection.

Winamp Remote appears to be a branded Orb client, but having never tried Orb I can’t be certain. Regardless, it’s an easy way to remotely access audio and video content from your home computer.

An agent runs on your computer, that you will need to point at the location of your audio and video files. Then, from anywhere, login to the Winamp Remote website and browse your media in what appears to be a web-based Winamp client.

Winamp Remote (which is still in beta) supports a plethora of platforms, including the Wii and PS3, and even a mobile phone. After installing it, my PS3 automatically found the Winamp Remote server on my network. The client recognizes whether or not you are connecting from outside your local network, so it won’t use your internet connection if both client and server are in your house.

The streaming portion itself can be configured to stream in the following formats: Windows Media, Real Media (people still USE this?), Quicktime, Winamp, Flash Player. I tried out Windows Media and Flash. With Windows Media I experienced buffering, pixelation, and audio issues. Flash worked much better, and seemed to have better video quality, however seemed a bit too buggy for primetime. Attempting to pull the seek slider to a different part of the video, in either direction, either took too long to work, or didn’t work at all. I had hoped this would work like the YouTube player, as I’ve never seen this work properly using Windows Media or Quicktime streaming.

Regardless of the streaming method, viewing this content on anything but a computer monitor is not recommended, unless you’re really in a bind. The video quality is much like watching something slightly better than a YouTube video in full screen.

These issues aside, this is very easy solution to accessing your media remotely. Since it is beta, I’m wondering if AOL/Nullsoft will charge a fee to use it in the future. Depending on the cost (and my abilities to set something like this up myself) I might just pay for it.

Overheard in the Tim Horton’s line:

“You know this coffee has nicotine in it??” “That sucks. I hate smokers”

I really have to bite my tongue when I hear obvious urban legends, but I understand how constantly correcting people I don’t know can make me seem like a total asshole. Anyways, this one has been disproved by Snopes.

The SQLSERVERAGENT service depends on the MSSQLSERVER service which failed to start because of the following error:
The operation completed successfully.

I found this personal message a user had sent me via our error-log messaging system.

EVENT # 7371689
EVENT LOG System
EVENT TYPE Warning
SOURCE IAS
EVENT ID 2
COMPUTERNAME [REMOVED]
TIME 11/9/2007 10:35:04 AM
MESSAGE User FUCK YOUR INTERNET was denied access.
Fully-Qualified-User-Name = [DOMAIN]\FUCK YOUR INTERNET
NAS-IP-Address = X.X.X.X
NAS-Identifier = [REMOVED]
Called-Station-Identifier = X.X.X.X
Calling-Station-Identifier = X.X.X.X
Client-Friendly-Name = [REMOVED]
Client-IP-Address = X.X.X.X
NAS-Port-Type =
NAS-Port =
Proxy-Policy-Name = [REMOVED]
Authentication-Provider = [REMOVED]
Authentication-Server =
Policy-Name =
Authentication-Type = Unauthenticated
EAP-Type =
Reason-Code = 8
Reason = The specified user account does not exist.
BINARY DATA 0000: 00 00 00 00

Dear User: Your complaint has been received, however due to the lack of technical details, and the inherent physical impossibility, we are unable to process your request. Your comments have been forwarded to the wireless network administrator so we can laugh about it.

For the first time ever, the school is closed because of snow. It’s a good thing, too. It took two hours to dig my car out. It’s 4:45PM, and the plow still hasn’t shown up. I’m stranded in my own house!

That large mass to the right is a BBQ

Our landlord doesn’t shovel the steps

My car is free!

It’s a little late but I thought I’d show off a few previous costumes, starting with the most recent, a banana!

Next year I plan to paint this costume brown and be a piece of shit.

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I had heard through the Internets that Tom Green has a new show, streamed live from his house on the Internet via tomgreen.com.

I tuned in one night to find Tom Green talking to Bob Odenkirk (admittedly not as hilarious as David Cross but funny enough) and was instantly reminded of the day I discovered both the Tom Green Show and Mr. Show, playing one after the other on The Comedy Network at 3AM. I had sat and watched, amazed at how hilarious these shows were.

Just under the video window on the Tom Green web site was a toll-free number, so I called it, hoping to share my thoughts and thank the two for existing to create those shows. To my amazement, somebody answered and asked me what my question was. Nervous, I explained that I wanted to tell the two about the time I discovered their two shows a number of years back, and just tell them they were awesome, or something. I then realized that I didn’t have a question to ask, and so did the guy on the other end of the phone. He then suggested I ask how they got together again, which didn’t make much sense to me. I told him I’d make it work and he instructed me to speak loudly if Tom starts talking to me and put me on hold.

Man was I nervous! I was on hold for about 10 or 15 minutes but it seemed to last forever. Since everyone who was on hold could just barely hear each other, I passed the time by yelling “HELLO, TOM GREEN HERE WHAT’S YOUR QUESTION?” every time I heard someone faintly say “hello??”. Two people actually started asking their question. FOOLS! I was the one that got on the show!

The person who initially answered the phone didn’t hear my name right, because Tom and Bob thought my name was “Tyfon” instead of Tyson.

I had decided by this time to ask them if they know each other “in real life”. I think I did pretty good, even though, since there was such a delay I couldn’t tell who Tom was talking to at the time, and answered a question he had directed to Bob

Once they were done answering my question, the phone broke and they ended the show.

NOBODY gets in!

This is a screen cap of a virtual machine test server we have. I’ve never seen this happen before. Logging into the console session via terminal services (mstsc /v:x.x.x.x /console) and logging off again fixed it.