The Life of Lou Ruppert

Lent and the Easter season are over, which means no more mandatory daily blog postings. I intend to keep up pretty regularly, but only when I have time to sit down and write something worthwhile. The last couple weeks’ postings have suffered as I’ve gotten more and more overwhelmed with [...]

I’ve been worried for months about the mirror on my bedroom door. It has four clear plastic clips that hold the whole thing on the wall. One of them broke when I was having a bad day. Because broken mirrors are not fun to clean up, I kept thinking about needing to [...]

I just got back from a contract that went way longer than I expected. I applied SP2 to a Windows Server 2003 machine that seemed swap-bound, and it took six hours to complete! Dang.
Today’s healing service was pretty good. Despite being in a bad mood when I arrived, and thinking that people [...]

The Bosnian family I visited in my trip through Europe in 2004 was in town this week, so I finally got over to visit them tonight. I love those people. They are really hospitable, and very hard workers. The husband, the guy I know through my friend Dean, has a really good dry [...]

I received a couple of the following message today. The greeting differs, but the basic text (other than the randomized bits at the end) is the same:

Ahn nyeong,

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Warning! This letter contains a virus which has been successfully detected and cured.
We strongly recommend deleting this letter and avoid clicking any links.
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[RBN Networks Antivirus]

Days after the [...]

Kicked in the Gutsy
I got together with a friend of mine tonight and tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on the music studio machine in our church. It was a disaster at first. Here’s what happened:

The initial patch update didn’t work because the capplets-data package seemed to hang indefinitely
Installing the auth-ldap-client package [...]

I had to meet with another student today about the Trojan. I guess nobody wants to really believe that their mac is infected unless someone shows them in person. We’ll call this student Manni, for lack of a better name. It’s not his name. Manni’s mac had the same problems as [...]

We didn’t really do anything for Palm Sunday in my church, but I thought it was worth reminding the world via my blog title. The sermon was a good lesson on people being willing to make tons of noise and spectacle about something, but rarely willing to actually back it up with real action [...]

I remembered while we were waiting to start the parade that I was in a parade back when I was in high school too. I was in the Civil Air Patrol, and we marched in a parade in one of the small towns near high school. This was a better experience, though. [...]

Tomorrow is the St Patrick’s Day parade. I’m marching in it with my local chapter of Toastmasters International. It’ll be the first time I’ve been in a parade since I played the clarinet in grade school marching band. It’s a longer parade than the two blocks I marched as a kid, but [...]