Cryptome
My 3-CD set of the Cryptome archives arrived today. Everything from June 1996 to December 2004 for $25.
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Slackware 10.1
Slackware 10.1 has been released. I curse Patrick for not having 2.6 as the default kernel, but maybe next time.
2.6
I’ve finally upgraded my kernel to 2.6. With the help of the Gentoo 2.6 Migration Guide, it’s quite simple. Boot times are much faster.
Constitution? What's that?
I saw a headline in the newspaper today (I think it was the Herald): Constitution Likely to Settle Governors Race. Likely? Isn’t the constitution supposed to settle everything? Isn’t that the whole idea of America? Isn’t that why we pay a bunch of old farts to sit around and feel important all day?
Some days…
Inauguration
People all over the world are mourning the ascension of Bush to his second term as president... that's something to feel encouraged about, even as all this pomp and circumstance of the inauguration goes on. -Howard Zinn
The Puzzle Palace
I just finished reading James Bamford’s The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America’s Most Secret Intelligence Organization. If you have any interest the intelligence community, spys, or privacy, read this book. It has more information than I ever thought the NSA would possibly let out. (The fact that they did let it out frightens me. What are they hiding?) I can’t emphasize this enough: Read This Book. You’ll be amazed.
At the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such [is] the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology... I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America... That is the abyss from which there is no return. -Senator Frank Church, 1973, referring to the NSA's SIGINT technology
LiveJournal is down
Our data center (Internap) lost all its power, including redundant backup power. We're currently dealing with bringing our 100+ servers back online. Not fun. We're not happy about this. Sorry... :-/ More details later.
Another reason why everybody should find some free hosting and Wordpress.
Edit:
"... there was a recent rash of suicides related to the "gothic" subculture Friday night. The cause of these suicides is still unknown, but is believed to be related to the recent and total server farm crash of livejournal.com." The InterNAP facility where LJ hosts their gear apparently had a total and catastrophic loss of power today somwhere on or after 1530MST today. They're still working on recovery.
Virus Found
I stayed home today. Just woke up a few minutes ago.
I think I’ll watch Akira today.
Back into the system tomorrow.