http://kurt.mosiejczuk.net Hope, Love and Super-Science Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:35:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So last Friday I had a sore throat and felt crappy.  I was coming down with something.  And while at that moment I might have been able to make it to work, I realized that before long, I wouldn't be getting anything done, and I'd be spreading what I had ... http://kurt.mosiejczuk.net/2008/10/02/the-inovation-bug/ Please do not make it hard for me to make your software available to my faculty and students. As awful as I find the whole flexlm license server thing to be, it is much better than other methods.  Dongles are bad for client systems.  In a university, you are just asking ... http://kurt.mosiejczuk.net/2008/10/02/dear-software-vendors/ Hi!  My name is Kurt.  I have the most amazing wife in the whole wide world and I haven't updated my blog since February.  Luckily, my fantastic wife is also the moderator of this blog and was able to open up a window for me to be able to write ... http://kurt.mosiejczuk.net/2008/05/30/kurt-age-3/ So, I was out on Friday and sick all weekend.  I was back at work today, although if you had asked me Sunday night whether I would be at work Monday morning, I would've told you there wasn't a chance.  (although in less polite, and more whiny, terms). But, after my ... http://kurt.mosiejczuk.net/2008/02/18/recovering-from-the-plague/ Not that any of this stuff gets through, but I've noticed lately that the spammy attempts coming to my mailserver at work often have the pattern of dw[domain]m@[domain].[tld] Such as dwrenfem@renfe.es, dwstnm@stn.nu, etc. Now, I've already got greyscanner running on that host looking at spammy behavior, but I think I want to ... http://kurt.mosiejczuk.net/2008/02/18/interesting-spam-trend/ So, yeah. I stayed home sick today. Wednesday I felt like I might be coming down with something... maybe. Just an irritated throat. Thursday, same deal. But not sick enough to stay home, especially with lab that night. By yesterday night though, I just ... http://kurt.mosiejczuk.net/2008/02/15/medic/ I'm thinking maybe I should've just stayed home.  High winds today.  Fortunately, unlike last time, we didn't seem to lose any of our roof.  Driving to work was entertaining.  Not so much with slipping.  But, very high winds. Finally, I get to work and as I get out of the car, ... http://kurt.mosiejczuk.net/2008/01/30/a-great-start-to-the-day/ If you read Pamela's blog you will have read about the fact that her engagement ring went missing this week. She was miserable about this, and we did a fair bit of searching the house for it to no avail. What upset me most about the loss was ... http://kurt.mosiejczuk.net/2008/01/20/ring-found-wife-happy-again/ So I had my midterm practical in Routing and Switching and my midterm exam in System Admin 1. No grades back yet, but I think I did well on both. I actually finished the practical with time to spare, something I didn't think I was going to manage. Today ... http://kurt.mosiejczuk.net/2008/01/20/classes-and-milk/ I've definitely been remiss in updating my blag. In my defense, I'm taking two classes and dealing with the crush of requests not only from the normal work stuff, but the senrior projects that have started this quarter. The classes are going well, I just took my midterm in one class a ... http://kurt.mosiejczuk.net/2008/01/15/an-update-on-classes-houses-and-cars/