http://blog.louruppert.com Sketchbook of a mad scientist Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:32:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every now and then, there's a story in the news about some lady who has over forty cats in her trailer. The media does a big story about the mess, and then the issue gets forgotten. I found out today that there's actually a term for this sort ... http://blog.louruppert.com/index.php/2008/06/27/cat-hoarders/ 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 ... http://blog.louruppert.com/index.php/2008/03/23/easter-goodness/ 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 ... http://blog.louruppert.com/index.php/2008/03/22/mirror-clips-and-demon-possessed-light-fixtures/ 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 ... http://blog.louruppert.com/index.php/2008/03/21/a-brief-moment-of-healing/ 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, ... http://blog.louruppert.com/index.php/2008/03/20/reunions-and-preparations/ 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, +-------------------------------------------+ Warning! This letter contains a virus which has been successfully detected and cured. We strongly recommend deleting this letter and avoid clicking any ... http://blog.louruppert.com/index.php/2008/03/19/the-rbn-antivirus-trophy/ 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 ... http://blog.louruppert.com/index.php/2008/03/18/overcoming-discouragement-and-the-new-spam/ 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 ... http://blog.louruppert.com/index.php/2008/03/17/more-on-the-mac-trojan/ 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 ... http://blog.louruppert.com/index.php/2008/03/16/palm-sunday/ 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 ... http://blog.louruppert.com/index.php/2008/03/15/parade-report/