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May 31, 2005

day 4

I have now been alone for 4 days...the dishes are piled in the kitchen, I haven't vacuumed yet, and the mailbox is sitting in the garage half stripped. I had these crazy ideas of sitting around being lazy while Jen's visiting her mom but honestly there just isn't enough time in the day. Especially thanks to a rusty 80 dollar mailbox (oh...don't worry I'll be posting about that soon...grrrr) and work being a freaking nightmare. We really need to start pushing ACL's via LDAP...this router based deployment is a nightmare to update :( Oh man that paint remover...wow I am so light headed.....I even have the garage door open and a fan blowing...must be powerful stuff.

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May 29, 2005

carry on dancing

- Do you wanna ride the Disco Elevator? You know you wanna.... -Ooooooh, secret wall tatto's. As opposed to the usual secret bodily fluid residue I find in all the hotel's I stay at.... - 1, 2, 3, 4 I declare a kitten war!
- Insanity test. If you start laughing while listening to this you are insane. - Old Japanese Legend of Zelda video. You seriously have to see this to believe it....

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May 27, 2005

Paying the high price of AntiVirus

At what point does the cure become worse than the disease? Over the years it has become common for me to kill as many tasks as possible on my PC in order to give the latest and greated video game all the resources it needs. This has often made me wonder "why is all this crap running?" Enter into the picture Norton Antivirus/System works. One of my favorite and most trusted friends over the years since my 486sx 25mhz packard bell computer first succumbed to the Stoned.empire virus back in 96'. Back before the internet was a household necessity, these 3 floppies gave me the power I needed to keep my computer running. Win Doctor, Disk Doctor, Degrag, AntiVirus, it was the whole kit and kaboodle in one. Over the years though, Norton has seemed to let itself go. No longer the slim, quick program I fell in love with, now it's gotten larger, slower and spead itself all over my computer. Today my Antivirus subscription expired, another underhanded tool used by companies to force rotating upgrades and guarentee revenue, so I did what most people wouldn't consider. I uninstalled it. Here are screen caps of my before stats on my system:
And after installing Norton Systemworks, Live Update, and Norton WMI. The last two I had to do manually as they were still in the add/remove program section of the control panel. Just another example of virulent programming. Below are screen caps of my system after a reboot and before running any programs:
The end result was my page file dropped from 231mb to 159mb and the number of running processes dropped an amazing 10 from 33 to 23. That means that 10 processes on my computer were simply there just for Norton Antivirus. Nearly 1/3 of my comptur was being dedicated to simply stopping virus's before I had even had the time to launch Internet Explorer....why I must be using the safest computer in the world!!! As computers become faster and more disposable, I'm forced to draw the conclusion that it is not in the industries best interest to make better code. Just keep making it larger and more invasive so they can't change and so they keep upgrading.

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May 26, 2005

I really hate DNS

can anyone explain why my freakin photoalbum is randomly not working?????

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May 25, 2005

Always working...

Making some DNS changes...so if the site is acting weird that's why...

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May 24, 2005

Tear it up, rip it up, kick it up


- The most annoying thing in the universe, crazy frog. And as a bonus an animated flash movie about him. - I know our neighbors are bad, but thank god they aren't this bad. -Does anyone else remember SuperTed?
- What happens to Reality Show rejects after the camera's are turned off? -Everyone's got Star Wars fever it seems, here's another cute Lego Star War's mini movie Revenge of the Brick. I haven't seen the movies and don't plan to but will be playing lego star wars someday.... I've been working a lot of late nights/early morning relating to a big project going on a work for Yahoo. I tell you I can't wait until it's all over and I can go back to sleeping. Staying up until 830am really messes with your head, but honestly, isn't it a bad sign that I was able to drink two cups of coffee and go to bed like 45 minutes later????

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May 23, 2005

Tales of Symphonia

Me and Jen just started playing this great RPG called Tales of Symphonia. The really cool part is you can have up to 4 people play along.
I mean, you look at the game and think it's a kiddy game, but then you start playing it and it's surprisingly hard and deep. There's a lot to learn here....now the only problem is finding enough time for both of us to play it :( - Clientcopia, learning to deal with idiots that darwin hasn't reached yet. Kind of like I work with fools, but in tiny bite size easy to carry pieces. Yes David, I did steal it from you.
- A Video of a cat falling from a tree. Of course he lived....do you really think i'd put it up here if he hadn't.

- Hapland2! Prepare to kill yourself with frustration!
- Ever wanted to see a Volkswagon GTI catch on fire and burn? Kind of sad really...

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May 22, 2005

Star Wars III Parody

Saw this really funny parody film today, amazingly high quality work: http://www.ownagevideos.com/page.php?id=293 Still probably not going to bother seeing it...the parody was probably better...

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May 20, 2005

why can't everybody be like me?

I don't want to be that guy. You know that guy who's always complaining about the stupidest stuff and pissing off people, but I honestly just can't bare it anymore. Our fucking neighbors are rude bastardages. For the last fucking week, their son's piece of shit beater car has been parked in the exact center of the front of our house. Every time I look out my window I am greeted with the sight of 2000lbs of metal slowly returning to the earth in front of our house. Wtf mate? Why in god's name are they parking in front of our house and not their own? They don't even use their garage for their cars! They hang out in it like it's a freakin' clubhouse. It's slowly driving me nut's! The front of their house is completely empty! 100% free of any type of vehicle at all. There's nothing there at all except some bird shit and a pine cone.....so why the fuck park in front our our house???? I DON'T UNDERSTAND!!! I swear I'm not crazy. Neighbor 1 is always parking in front of our house..even on garbage day. And on the few random days that I do manage to park in front of my own fucking house, his father parks their fucking saturn there like 1 freakin' inch from my bumper....ARGH! And then, like every other weekend, neighbor 2 has somebody vising that parks on the other side of our driveway....like literally right up to our driveway. PARK IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE YOU ARE VISITING!! WHY IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD TO UNDERSTAND????!!!!! jesus, it drives me crazy. The sad thing is neighbor 1 are really nice people, they've even helped me a few times...I just don't understand why I have to explain this to them. It seems to me as a basic concept...like wiping your ass after shitting....i didn't have to explain that to them did i? then why this? There's only two solutions to this:
1. Start parking our cars in front of their houses. Let's see how much they like it after the first week.
2. Park both cars and bikes out there in front to block it all from everyone...thereby effectively pissing all over it like an animal.

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May 18, 2005

like my new header?


Juliet and Nibbler...in the same freakin' chair?

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May 11, 2005

Walking with a ghost

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Walking with a ghost

Heard this cool song today by Tegan and Sara called Walking with a Ghost, they have a sample copy you can listen to up on myspace.com. I really like the psuedo 80's rocktronica vibe. Kind reminds me of missing person's. I'm sure being identical twins means they can get away with some cool vocal tricks w/ out sampling. Whats up with myspace lately? Fannypack is up there too...it's like the new livejournal for popular people or something. I was watching some Anime monday, and as I was forwarding through some commercials I saw something I could not believe. Bling it on...self stick stupid little jewel bead things. Words escape me...so let's listen to some "customer" quotes from their site:
"bling lit up my world"
"i'm always stylin with bling"
"I love love love it...everything it does" and I remember this one from the commercial:
"with bling I made it sing" There quite simply is no god. As further proven by this picture of a monkey who feeds himself off your very soul! If only there was a picture of a cat so cute that it could restore my faith that there are good things in the world......wait! there is!

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May 10, 2005

Honda Insight EGR valve cleaning

I finished up cleaning the EGR valve on my Honda Insight today. Hopefully this resolves the herky jerky ness during lean burn that the car sometimes displays. If nothing else at least it shouldn't hurt anything, and gave me a good excuse to inhale some wd40 fumes :) (no worries...I have to many brain cells already) I followed the steps outlines in this thread at Insightcentral.net. There are some arguements about the necessity of the work, but once again the whole "can't really hurt anything" aspect won me over. The only thing that bothered me is nobody posted any good pics....drives me crazy but seems to happen a lot there. So...pictures of where the EGR valve is located and it's removal below: Just remove the engine cover at the 3 screws circled in the pic w/ a 10mm socket
Once the cover is off, you'll see the EGR valve in the lower right:
It may take some muscle to get the bolts off (12mm), I let it soak in wd40 for a while...not sure if it helped
Just an overview with the EGR valve off
Just turn it upside down, fill with wd40 (or carb cleaner) and let soak overnight

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May 09, 2005

How soon is now?

- How one artist’s big PR dream left 36 Corvettes in the dust in a Brooklyn basement. Pretty crazy if you ask me....but I bet they can't be worth all that much after sitting for so long. They'd have to be almost completely rebuilt to actually run.
- Proof once again that most big name computer tech support places are full of morons. She should have taken it to the Geek Squad....*snicker*....i'm just kidding...they're f'ing morons as well.
- devil clam...DEVIL CLAM!!!!!!!!
- Have a need to watch muscular, greased, body builders break dancing? Then today is your lucky day. Kinda cool...kinda creepy....
- Brand new amazing never before seen concept in FM radio!!!!! Play music!! "brilliant!"

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May 08, 2005

Mother's day

So...today is mother's day...and of course having a dead mother and all makes the day a little sucky. But rather than just sit around moping, I got off my ass and got some yard work done. May not seem like much but it's better than just giving up. I did do one thing in honor of the day. I baked a Harvey Wallbanger cake yesterday (cue the "and I did it all by myself" 5 year old voice). I have no idea what I'm going to do with a whole cake, but dammit I made it :)

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May 06, 2005

just what the truth is, i can't say anymore

Remember when you were younger, and the days just dragged on with nothing to do. When you had all that time and were so bored? I'd kill for a day like that now :) So much to do, so little time and the fact that I dug out the NES to play Super Mario Bros. 3 with Jen hasn't helped the timesink at all :) Stupid game is still addicting....honestly i'm surprised it still works. Had to play with it a bit though...but given the failure of the old Nintendo's, it's amazing it works. Plus yesterday we started gutting the master bath for the renovation. Basically pull everything out, fix the crap job the builders and old owners did, and redo it all with a few slight modifications. Here's an idea of what we did yesterday: Do I have to tell you which is the before and after? - Man's refusal to return digit found in custard kills bid to reattach.
- Student suspended over call from mom in Iraq.
- Don't try to surf a couch downhill. Did I have to tell you that? Make sure you check out the guy who dives out of the way leaving behind his friends.
- Think you have to much Bass in your car? Think again.
- Fat Dynamite. Napolean Dynomite with Fat Albert characters.
- The history of the internet.
- Last but not least, stupid roommate dacing brought to you buy Jeremy. Old but funny.

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May 04, 2005

i love my job

Have you seen the video for M.I.A. "Galang" ? It really reminds me of Nene Cherry's Buffalo Stance video. I've been hearing it a lot on Sirius lately. Speaking of which...we have Dish TV which comes with free Sirius channels, and I've been loving the Boombox channel lately 6061. Which only pains me more when I get into my car. FM radio is dead, the clearchannel processed crap they spew out is just horrible. I can't even bring myself to listen to it anymore. I wish I drove more so I could justify getting Sirius/XM in my car :( Then again I'll just be happy if I get my car back from the dealer and they didn't screw up the oil change again. - Mental note: Never dance in front of my webcam. - "The Red, Shiney, CANDY-LIKE Button!!" -Ren and Stimpy. Which reminds me...I want this sooooo bad. The big red button of Doom!

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May 03, 2005

5861 information

It's been about 3-4 years since I originally created the 5861 section of this site for supporting Ameritech DSL customers. Of course I didn't do it all alone, and had help from a lot of people, including the great help desk Convergys had in PA. As time goes on, and I move away from end user suppport that section of my site seems to kind of fade away into the shadows, so I am putting this post here for future visitors searching for information on the Efficient Networks Speed Stream 5861 ADSL modem. The link to the modem section is below: http://www.dennisjudd.com/tech.html Aside from the instructions on how to change the power supply, most of what I have to offer is all there under the 5861 section.

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May 02, 2005

super sharp shooter

Today's post is brought to you thanks to Jen and Pentax :) She managed to snap a few cute pictures today, and I think they are post worthy. We've been buying different types of apples for Ralphie and so far she really seems to love braeburn apples, so i guess that's what deer mice like. Just for comparison...here's a pic I took when I found Ralphie back in Oct 2004: Scary how different she look's eh?

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May 01, 2005

little fish, big fish, swimming in the water

- The code tree. Enter a url and it generates "tree's" based on the html coding of the sides and links to other sites. Amazing geeky fun.
- Beware the Egg Ninja's.
- Don't try to pay with a $100 dollar bill at Jack in the box, or they will have you "arrested". Of course the cops didn't arrest him...they just kept him detained for 30-40 minutes...but hey it's not like we have rights or anything.
- Life in the post 9/11 world, MP3 player and herbal remedies forces plane landing over security concerns.
- The most amazing company to ever do stuff. Huh? Inc does things better than they've ever been done.
- It's kind of sad that taking personal responsibility is news, but still you have to give credit where it's due. Thousands of screws cause dozens of flat tires when a box falls off a truck. Where the story lies is that the driver pulled over and made sure everybody got his name and business card to fix all their tires.
- Have you accepted Bob Saget as your personal savior and god yet?

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