tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31406542011-04-21T10:42:55.314-07:00The sounds of silence.Assorted musings and other un-noteworthy snippets of thought.mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1085932817433354112004-05-30T08:48:00.000-07:002004-05-30T09:00:17.433-07:00 On a side note about life
So I go on this "date" with this girl, again another indian girl but about 20 years old. And it turns out that she's the type thats into drugs and liquour. I couldn't stand her, the attitude or much else about her, so I left. I have zero tolerance for that sort of people and I cannot be bothered to waste my time with girls like that.
And having given up smoking mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1085931799996166022004-05-30T08:29:00.000-07:002004-05-30T08:43:19.996-07:00 Hacking up Thttpd
So i'm hacking up thttpd for work. Its fun. Modifying its really_check_referer() to do a wierd sort of mix of authentication-ish database check for users so they can get their files without having to log in. It really ties into another project I am doing with DRM to allow files to be generated on the fly. Either way, having to do this project made me realise that somethingmephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1085448017977696842004-05-24T18:03:00.000-07:002004-05-24T18:20:17.976-07:00????? ???????
Well, the title says its all. if you can understand it at all of course. :) a new language that caught my fancy. I seem to be back to being my normal smart self. It feels good to be me again. the neurons seem to be firing quite well. So the point of this will be that i am focusing on my university and i'm going to MIT for my postdoc. screw this plebian bs with being a drone mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1085368112661068002004-05-23T19:32:00.000-07:002004-05-23T20:08:32.660-07:00 Bad day
So yesterday sucked. Never going out on a semi, pseudo, non-date or even date with an Indian girl again. Atleast not that particular girl. I mean I really do not appreciate someone touching me in that sort of a manner on the first date. Although guys are not supposed to mind and even though i'm not a male model-ish dude, I am pretty good in the muscles department, but still DON'T like mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1085254697012092902004-05-22T12:12:00.000-07:002004-05-22T12:38:17.013-07:00 All good things....
Come to and end. So, we sat down last night and we chatted. I was honest, said things I had saved up in my chest and hid for 4.5 years and for once in my life the words tumbled out and there was honesty. There is so much I have done which was not so good and just as many good things but my life seemed like it was negative sum. But after yesterday, the honesty has helped. I mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1084730743573708642004-05-16T10:54:00.000-07:002004-05-16T11:09:29.356-07:00Life.
Now although i dont believe i know what life is about, I think I have a general gist of what not to do during.
I am considering this date that someone has asked me out on as early as saturday, next week. Should be a good way of forgetting the loneliness that seemed to envelop me since the event.... I am not the only workaholic, this girl seems to be similar to me in a bunch of respects. mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1084630052842703522004-05-15T06:52:00.000-07:002004-05-16T10:53:52.870-07:00Introspection
Ok. So its done. I have lost the love of a good woman, one who was dedicated to me and understood me while putting up with my idiosyncranicies and eccentricities. Does it hurt? Damn right it does. Do i show it? Am I going to mope and cry? Hell, no!
I have a business to run, work, school and my consulting. Why the would I let something affect me and make me not functional? But it mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1072419151245253072003-12-25T22:12:00.000-08:002003-12-25T22:52:09.200-08:00Unmanaged code for the Windows Media format.
Whats up with microsoft not giving users a managed extension for the windows media format libs. Hey, if you want people to use .NET, you either give them the same stuff you give the unmanaged coders or they wont use it. I mean this is annoying. So now i have to take this god damn "sample" wrapper they have for C# and extend it, till it meets my needs.mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1065953521999863542003-10-12T03:12:00.000-07:002003-10-12T03:12:02.003-07:00New York.
Not the best place in the world I should say. But....the broads are nice. Its great to look at them but to be honest, I miss my girl too much everytime i see one of those "hot chicks". I would really like right about now to be in her arms, snuggled up to her hearing her even breathing as she sleeps beside me.....That would be great, fuck the "hot chicks". Plus she is really hot mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1065026124522351572003-10-01T09:35:00.000-07:002003-10-01T09:35:24.200-07:00Blah, life.
Screw committing to anybody else, that was just something I thought about in passing. To be honest, I would never really leave this place cuz I love this place and a lot of the people I work with. I have decided to stay right where I am. Haven't had a lot of time to post recently but I do now and then when I have the time, like today.
So we are moving our datacenter again, great! mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1060224693165999952003-08-06T19:51:00.000-07:002003-08-06T19:52:22.980-07:00Long work day.
What am I doing up so late? Designing a database. Exciting!? Well, it has its ups and downs. This house is really noisy, just the way I like it. Full of life, tv outside, mom in the kitchen and my trance....loud.... Ah trance, I love that sound. Di.fm has some pretty good music.mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-1060170146986768542003-08-06T04:42:00.000-07:002003-08-06T04:46:07.356-07:00Life, mistakes and consequences
So, I had an exciting business trip and it was great. I had a couple of job offers and I have actually commited myself to one of them. The one I took up allows me to be anywhere while working at the company and studying full time at university. Although I have no idea how this is going to work out, I have no choice but to continue university and keep going. Its mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-101482692002-02-26T09:09:00.000-08:002003-08-06T04:28:39.006-07:00A poet
I'm now a published poet. A published poet. Man, I never thought that would happen. Now I will wait for my 15 minuted of fame.mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-87111342002-01-15T05:03:00.000-08:002002-01-15T05:03:13.753-08:00A Slave to my Humanity?
bound by the chains,
forged of our desires.
chained to our humanity,
slaves of our own making.
Limited, flawed, imperfect.
Our minds are slaves,
slaves of our mortal manifestation,
no space to grow.
Caged,
like a tiger in a cage,
conciousness moves in a bound circle,
till one day,
we no longer feel,
the longing and the urge,
to be free,
slavery,
our existence,
no release mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-60158222001-09-30T13:01:00.000-07:002001-09-30T13:05:55.000-07:00No one is flawless
Long time, no update. Not that anyone reads this thing, which couldn't be more convenient. This way I have a diary that no one could read because it doesn't exist, atleast to the people to whom the words here would matter. How often is it that you find out something that crushes your spirit, something that brings down your very faith in the people who matter most to you? And mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-57814522001-09-19T07:18:00.000-07:002001-09-19T07:19:30.000-07:00Avoiding Infection by W32.Nimda.A@mm
Step One:
DON'T USE INTERNET EXPLORER. If you browse a web site
running Nimda, IE automatically downloads the infection vector, the
wav file readme.eml. If you get infected, the worm finds all email
addresses in Outlook and your web browser and emails the worm to them
all. In any browser, disable Javascript.
Step Two:
If you use Windows Active Desktopmephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-57811422001-09-19T06:58:00.000-07:002001-09-19T07:12:54.000-07:00Removal of W32.Nimda.A@mm
How to remove the W32.Nimda.A@mm from Windows 95/98.
1) boot in DOS mode
2) edit system.ini file in c:\windows
3) look for this line
shell= explorer.exe load.exe -donotloadold
replace it with
shell=explorer.exe
4) goto c:\windows\system
a. run attrib -s -h riched20.dll
b. run attrib -s -h load.exe
c. del riched20.dll, 56kb (check the mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-56826582001-09-14T05:39:00.000-07:002001-09-14T05:39:34.473-07:00Existence
Do you ever wonder,
what it is you're missing.
The prickling,
at the base of your conciousness,
the sense that everything's not right,
not all things what they appear to be.
Would the universe still exist without you,
would you exist if someone else didn't exist.
Do we exist,
or are we figments of our own imaginations,
creations of conciousnesses,
thoughts given form.
Like cloudsmephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-56763902001-09-13T20:17:00.000-07:002001-09-14T10:50:39.000-07:00Bah, Life.
The overmind is dead
After having had my windows 2k box run stably for the last 1 month, tonight it has died again. I hate windows and Microsoft, partially because there is no way of recovering even from the slightest system file problems. My latest installation died when I was trying to install Chillisoft's ASP parser for apache 1.3.20 and it did something really bad to my system mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-56687052001-09-13T13:24:00.000-07:002001-09-13T13:26:35.000-07:00Stupid, stupid, stupid...
You probably wonder why the title reads what it does. Well, look at the US reaction to this whole thing. I understand that not just the US but all of humanity is extremely pised off at this point, but does it justify us acting like a wounded animal. Why do we need to eradicate anything that stands as the slightest threat? Is it not possible for us to sit down and take mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-56665552001-09-13T11:28:00.000-07:002001-09-18T21:42:41.000-07:00The Aftermath of the WTC Attack
Pictures of the Aftermath of the attack
Source: Times Of India - Photo Gallery of Attack Aftermath
Tokyo stocks inch higher on rises in Europe
Source: NewsAsia
Tokyo stocks ticked cautiously higher by midday on Thursday after losing almost seven percent a day earlier, as gains in Europe brought some calm to a market still in shock from the U.S. terror mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-56658162001-09-13T10:49:00.000-07:002001-09-13T11:45:51.000-07:00Today's Noteworthy Tech News
'Mafiaboy' Loses Liberty After Internet Hack-Attack
Source: Excite News
A Canadian teenage hacker nicknamed "Mafiaboy" was sentenced to eight months in a youth detention center on Wednesday, a move welcomed by prosecutors as a strong message against the world's hacking community.
Judge Gilles Ouellet ruled that the 17-year-old Montreal teenager committed a mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-56378762001-09-12T05:20:00.000-07:002001-09-12T13:02:39.000-07:00A Reflection on Yesterday's Tragedy
That rant yesterday night was very liberating. That feels so much better. Now that I am in a less malicious, nasty mood, let me say that I am outraged by all that has happened yesterday. No matter what anyone says about the US inviting this on themselves, I think this was one of the most despicable events that will forever scar the human species. The effects mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-56299762001-09-11T19:25:00.000-07:002001-09-12T11:51:16.000-07:00Rant version 1.0.0.0
This is going to be one of those long drawn out rants where I complain about working with idiots.
Have you ever noticed how the sub-human chimps and idiots seem to proliferate in the IT field. Well, I have, since I have to work in IT with idiots. At this point in the conversation I'm screaming and the nerve in my forehead has begun to pulse with an evil red colour. Think redmephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-56280012001-09-11T18:06:00.000-07:002001-09-12T11:02:03.000-07:00A quote for Proper Perspective
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb", "The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
- Nostradamus, 1654mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-56269462001-09-11T17:22:00.000-07:002001-09-12T11:02:55.000-07:00A StoneCold Analysis of Today's Events
Personally, I think from a very cold, dead sort of perspective that the attack was very efficient. Well planned and executed without the slightest hiccup. The best part of it being that they would never catch the people who were behind the attacks. There are various reasons for this:
1. The people who had anything to directly with the attack are dead. With mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-56262902001-09-11T16:54:00.000-07:002001-09-12T10:44:43.000-07:00Terror attacks hit U.S.
• In the first attack, a plane hits the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapse.
• About an hour later, a plane crashes into the Pentagon, part of which later collapses.
• American Airlines tells CNN that it lost two planes, both en routemephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3140654.post-56187522001-09-11T11:49:00.000-07:002001-09-11T16:51:31.000-07:00Well, I finally got a blog. I have been wondering for a while what this is all about, so I decided to get one and find out. So, here we are.
Since I might possibly be the only one in CS in the University of Waterloo with no webpage, I have wanted to build a webpage for a while. But being too lazy to put in all the effort that goes into building a webpage, I decided to use a blog and then build mephistohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00682180913931012650noreply@blogger.com