Terminally Incoherent

Every once in a while, I visit fubar - mainly because Justin likes to post pictures of Jessica Alba, Kristin Kreuk, Scarlett Johanson and Grace Park (even though he claims to hate all of them except Scarlett ). Anyways, recently he posted about Grace Park and Kristin Kreuk starring together on some Canadian tv show, where they have some lesbian thing going on.

Naturally I decided to do some googling to see if I can find more pictures. Didn’t find anything interesting from that show - but I did find a very interesting captures from Romeo Must Die. I didn’t know she was in that movie, but the screen captures look hot. She is only credited as “Asian Dancer” so I assume that she is only on screen for few seconds

I actually pulled this composite screen capture from google cache - the actual website seems to be down. If anyone has high-res versions of these, please let me know

Here are some other shots of the same scene. Again, not hi-res.

Update Wed, July 05 2006, 01:53 AM

I adjusted the picture dimensions - they got messed up during the move from the old blog. Anyways, this is the post that generates the most traffic to this site. Note to self - post more lesbian kissing pictures in the future.

Tags: grace park, kristing kreuk, edgemont, grade park and kristing kreuk, grace park kissing, grace park hot, grace park romeo must die, romeo must die, fubar

Call of Duty Program Folder

So I have been playing COD online the last few days. Yesterday we had a small power surge around here. Nothing big, but enough for my machine to die and reboot. It came back just fine which was good, but for some reason the game would crash every time I tried to start it in multiplayer mode. This was the weirdest thing I have seen lately.

I digged out my CD and reinstalled. After the whole lengthy process of reinstallation, the game crashed again! Furthermore the first time I run it the damn thing asked me if I want to start the game in “safe mode”. This was a fresh install, so I just knew that there must be some persistent config file somewhere.

I went and scanned through the registry, but I didn’t find any COD entries. Good to know that the game does not mess up registry. Next stop was the program folder. That’s where I found two suspicious looking files one was servercache.dat and the other one was __CoDMP. They certainly looked like persistent files that would store info between sessions. The servercache.dat obviously stored information about game servers, and the __CoDMP file seemed to be responsible for that “safe mode” dialog. It seems that it gets created every time the game starts, and then removed if the game shuts down properly. I don’t have it on the screenshot here because the game ended nicely this time.

I was willing to bet one of these files was causing the crash. I moved both of them out of the game folder, and lo - game started properly. So, if anything like that ever happens to you, go ahead and delete these files.

Tags: call of duty, call of duty multiplayer, call of duty crashing, call of duty multiplayer crashing, cod crashing cod mp crashing

Recently I helped my brother to buy a new computer (he is clueless about these things). Nah, we didn’t build it up from the ground - I’m to damn lazy for that. He had this machine for few weeks now, and he now makes me dig out all the older games that I used to play, but which could not run on his old PC.

The other day we digged out Call of Duty. I must say that multiplayer mode in that game is much more fun if you are playing with someone who sits within a earshot of you. We were sitting there yelling out stuff like “Cover Me!” or “They are coming from the West!”. Ah… It brings be back to the good old days when we used to take over my high school computer lab on the weekends to play Quake fortress

You see, we knew the school’s sysadmin - he was actually a young guy straight out of college. Before he came on board, they were running ancient 386’s with DOS + Norton Commander and Win 1.3. This guy actually brought the lab up to speed, put in new pentium machines with win98 on them and networked them. We still didn’t have internet connection (at that point, in Poland internet access was a luxury) but the setup was perfect for multiplayer gaming

I think the poor guy got fired for doing these gaming sessions in the end, but that was long after I was gone, so I can’t really feel bad about it.

Anyways, this is what I’m doing instead of working on my thesis or doing schoolwork. Sigh.. You know you are swamped with work, when you feel guilty for spending one evening playing games…

This is too funny! Apparently Jack Thompson is under investigation by the Florida Bar Association. I say it’s about time!

This is what happens when you mess with people running a popular website - you get trapled by spontaneous net activism. Never underestimate the power of teh geek! I really hope they disbar him because, for one I’m sick and tired of his bullshit.

It turns out that my university was keeping private information (including names and ssn’s) about over 9,100 of undergraduate students on a publicly accessible server for several months. The information was apparently indexed by google and easily accessible to anyone. This was already covered in Star Ledger, and on 1010 Wins. Way to go MSU!

I never expected much from this school, but this is kinda scary. Our IT sucks, but I believe they do have enough common sense to prevent things like that from happening. I think the problem here is the lack of proper user training. I am willing to bet someone in the administration got a new toy from the IT guys, and decided to use it inappropriately…

At least the grad school has enough sense to train their employees properly to prevent shit like that from happening. Undergrads were not so lucky. I’m very tolerant towards technophobes - I do laugh at them and ridicule them behind their backs, but I am perfectly willing to cater to their needs and fix whatever they break. But at some point, you have to admit that technological illiteracy == lack of competence. If you can’t figure out how to properly use a computer, you should not be using it for important work. Period.

But then again who knows - the IT dept never showed much competence anyway. Below is the conversation I had with one of the student-drones sitting in the CSAM IT room:

Me: “Did you guys know that pegasus is an open relay?”
Drone: “A what?”
Me: “The SMTP server… It has no authentication… Anyone can use it.”
Drone: “Oh, yeah… That’s how it’s supposed to be. You can’t use it from the outside.”
Me: “Okey… As long as you know about this…”

More often than not, they are aware of the security blunders - they just don’t care. I can’t imagine them not caring about ssn leakage though…