Samuland - Sam's Blog

For Mark... Happy Birthday! My friend Mark whom I met in England has been on assignment in Thialand for what seems like forever! Today is his birthday ... Happy Birthday!!!!

Well Planet of the Apes was as good as the first and that is saying alot... I really liked it, I got a bit confused at the end so if any of you see and care to explain how that ending worked let me know!

Friday, July 27, 2001

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Going to see Planet of the Apes tonight I'll let you know how it goes... don't worry I'll won't spoil any thing ... unlike Matt Drudge! &*^%#%&*^ spoiled the show on his headline a few days back! Luckily I misssed it that day!

Well my favorite DSS site took a header... www.hackhu.com is gone damn... another one bites the dust.

For those of you who grew up in Houston and used to go to Astroworld, here is a site that has all the old rides that have come and gone... very entertaining...

Thursday, July 26, 2001

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Real short blog today, sorry. I've been hauling machines and rebuilding systems all damn day today and yesterday, I only have about 13 to go. Anyway if anyone of you knows how to make a ghost boot CD please let me know I'd sure save a ton of time if I could do that.

Well my light saber is finaly ready hope to have it and the conversion kit in the next week or so. My fathers day present is finaly on the way as well. See It It only took about dozen phone calls and emails. "it was swirling around on the server somewhere..." WTF does that mean.

I promised some dvd links so I'll start with this one. dvdpricesearch.com This search engine will find you the best price on any DVD shipping included. It will even divide orders if you order more than one, coming back with a report like get Tron from Buy.com then get Jaws and Christine at Dave's DVDs and that will be your best combo. Very cool... more to come in later posts...

i.am.sam

Tuesday, July 24, 2001

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I sit here today feeling whipped... I've worked on this javascripty thing for a week now and I finally got it to work. Now I have to implement it... normaly I'd be happy about this but today... eh. Also Angie, Dade and me were gonna go to Galveston on Thursday spend the night, have some fun but now Angie can't get off work, and next week is Dade's orientation for starting school and ther

Monday, July 23, 2001

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Saturday we did it... we took Dade to see Jurrasic Park III. I was pretty unsure about it since was PG13 and all but I read a few reviews and decided to go. There was only one scene where I needed him to turn his head so I did the old grabing his popcorn trick and got him to look away long enough for the gore to pass. Overall the movie was not great but not bad either. Next up Planet of the Apes... I'm very ready to see this one, Dade will stay home for that... the original really creeped me out when I was little.

I took my extension ladder to G's to help take the dead vines off his house Saturday and look at the damage to his new car. Etension ladders and me usually equal injury, it's long story but we came away injury free. As for his new car, well it's more than door ding but not horrible. Still sucks that you can't keep a car new for more than 5 days in this city!

My dad has finaly entered the world of DVD(as soon as I hook it up)! Yea!!! now if I could just get him to get a Tivo...
Well Halloween is officialy down to double digit days away so for all you non-Halloween nutzos out there that still like to go costuming, now is the time to start thinking about a costume. Check out these sites for a neat start to a cool costume...
http://glowire.com/ or http://www.coolight.com/ or http://www.elwire.com/

and if you want something more traditional. Get a great idea from here.

and if you'd just like a SCARY mask try Death Studios.

that should get those creative juices going...
in the words of Jack Skellington... "I bet I could improve Christmas time!" i.am.sam

Saturday, July 21, 2001

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Did anyone see the 'stros last night :) ooohhh baby this race is heatin up! Angie had tix to the game thru her work, it was a power mangers day or something so I told that's ok you go network with your people... well she knew she was in trouble when she found her seat... front row third base line at the bend... s'ok I'll get over it. #$%^$%^^%$^&*%#$$^&*(^$^&@@

I took Dade to see a 3d-Imax yesterday and he loved it. I think it had to much motion sickness stuff in it but the graphics and 3d-ness was quite good.

Oh yea my worm adventure apparently was going on around the world at the same time. The Code Red worm whacked the crap out of tons of machines Thursday and made the news on Friday, I saw it on CNN, in the Chronicle, on TechTV, USA Today, SlashDot and heard it on the radio. Apparently it was set to flood the White House web site with a Distrubuted Denial of Service attack at 5p Pacific. To bad the White House found out and moved the server to another IP number first. HA! I feel so privelidged to be part of such a news worthy event... uhhh not really.

For those who want to know what a DDOS(see above paragraph) attack is go here. This guy wrote it up in the best way I have ever seen. It is very good reading and fully illustrates the fact that internet is really a volitile fragile place, and that a 13 year old kid can flat out knock you out and there is nothing you can do about it. Have a read.

Ok have you ever wanted to know about movies looooooong before they are out, try this link. Warning they spoil movies by telling the plot sometimes, but they always tell you they are gonna spoil. They have stuff like what is happening on the new Star Wars movie and insights to the new movie called ALI ... a movie about Cassius Clay(Muhamed Ali) starring Will Smith... yep the skinny Fresh Prince! Anyway have fun, but be warned there is some graphic language sometimes.

Ok add this to my technolust wish list... mmmm wi-fi too...

Well I have finaly decided on a PDA... I know I'm so behind the times, but anyway Toshiba has come out with a new Pocket PC color PDA. It is as thin as a Palm Vx almost, and has a Type II CF card slot and an SD mem card slot, no sleeve needed. Just drop one of these 5G CF cards in it YES! It's running a 206Mhz processor that is the same as the iPaq. Considering Toshiba's track record with laptops I think I'll be in line to get one of these gems on August 20th. that's all for now... i.am.sam

Thursday, July 19, 2001

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Ok where do I begin! What a day what a day what a day! Some you know I run a web site for my company that supports about 50-60 other sites around the world. i.e. if we go down they go down, so that is baaadddd news. At about 9:55a today we went down. No problem I thought I'll just restart the server, that happens every once in a while. I restart and everthing comes back to life, we be happy! ummmm wait a minute 15 minutes later blamo everything is dead again! ok restart again... 15 minutes and blam...
WTF

Ok read the net install the latest updates to NT4, the roll up security patch from M$ and restart... this will fix it... 15 mins pop! uggg! ok read read read read... gotta love the old deja news that is now google groups. Install the exception viewer, ok done restart and watch... 15 mins pop. Ok turn off all indexing restart, 15 mins pop. ... yada yada yada... you get the idea.

Shoot ahead 5 hours it's now 4p have I been at this all day! Damn it! Ok there is a place next door that does hosting maybe they know whats up... little walk down the hall, little explanation, look of sheer disbelief as they finish my sentences! huh same problem your just started 2 hours ago! ughhh
WTF.
Wait your ISP is having it too! oh man this is getting out of hand.

For all of you people that have no idea what I'm talking about we now know 4 seperate servers that are completly independant from each other all having the same symptoms. All have started today and on one of the machines(that is running newer software) there is a message...

"Hello! Welcome to http://www.worm.com! Hacked by Chinese!"

ahhh believe it or not a feeling of relief now washes over me. It's not really just me. I have not been a complete retard... I quickly call my service provider and get the top man there. He informs me this worm is running wild on the net right now and sends me the patch. Patch installed, restart the machine, it has been going for 28 minutes as I write this now.

want to read about it here are 2 stories off the wire...
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010718/tc/new_worm_targets_microsoft_web_server_1.html
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AL20010717.html

Breathe in breathe out, this is what they pay IT people for right, to figure this stuff out... I had visions of spending the night here before... now it's time to go home soon, what a day... it feels like I worked about 20 hours today! ughh damn worm writers...

I can't let you go without a small little gem I picked up before all this started...
Alot of you have DVD players now, I bet when you went to the store to buy that favorite movie and found out it was not on DVD you said WTF well... you may want to have a look here. They have stuff that no one has... now I'm not saying do something illegal here but hey information is free, right? The newest DVDs Jurassic Park III yes the one that came out in the theaters 2 days ago and Final Fantasy which is 2 whole weeks old, and my fav the Indiana Jones Trilogy, yep it ain't out yet, but hey information is free, right? Maybe in the days to come I'll post some other good DVD sites there are a bunch!

thats all for now... after I pick up all my hair I'm going home. cya i.am.sam

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What a fireworks show last night! Did anyone see the Astros Cards game... damn! Bagwell goes for the cycle and the scores were astronomical(Astros won 17-11)! Fun stuff! Anyway, we went to the first real meeting of the home owners association last night. I have one thing to say about that... what a bunch of tight asses, sorta. Anwyay there were about 4 or 5 squeaky wheels that wanted to run a shoe string budget and not pay the money proposed($100). It was kinda funny when we actually voted since it came out about 70-4 in favor of paying the dues... it just goes to show you there is a blow hard in every crowd.

Ok for those who still don't know ICQ is an instant messaging service that I am on along with about 20 million other people. Well I know there are other IM services out there but look at the ratings and you'll see why I use ICQ. Anyway my number is 2565823 at work and 2610755 at home. They now have the ability to set up SMS and thanks to VoiceStream I am set up that way. You got send me a message right to my phone, and if I can figure it out I will be able to reply from my phone right back to your computer! Technology is so cool! If you have buddies online you'll love this stuff. One suggestion I have is make sure you check the box that requires your authorization to be added to a buddy list and that you only get message from your authorized buddies. I use it daily and it works great!

more later, gotta get to work
trust your technolust... i.am.sam

Wednesday, July 18, 2001

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Those who know me know I like Cirque du Soleil and a performance is coming to Texas! Dralion will start having advanced sale duckets very soon, I highly recomend it. I have seen Mystere(twice), O and Quidam, and I would see any of them again in an instant! Cirque is a circus like nothing you have ever seen I really don't know how to describe it, it is very original, it is often very funny(get there early), it has incredible music that you cannot believe is live, and you are damn sure that someone is going to die in every performance. See it once and you will be hooked! They are coming to Dallas and Houston for sure check the site for more places... I am so psyched about this!

Angie,Dade and I went to Wings again last night and it was DAMN good... gotta love those 2 for Tuesdays! Tonight is the 1st the meeting of our new home owners association. I am going to make sure my Halloween rights are protected... my friend L thinks I should try to be on the board, I'm not sure about that, but maybe.

Well I finally got my phones datacable to work with this software. If you have a Nokia I recomend it. Voicestream still will not let me change the startup logo but hey at least the op logo is mine now!

Messages on the Halloween-L list are starting to pick up steam again I'm getting about 150 or so per day and I'm really feeling the heat to get working on my H projects... time is a-wastin' now was that thing supposed to take 120v or 12v ... just plug it in and see what happens. p.s. if you hear a loud boom followed by a loud hiss coming from Baytown later tonight that meant I got the wrong voltage... that's all for now. i.am.sam

Tuesday, July 17, 2001

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Short and sweet today...

Can't get your S.O. to ummmmm, hum a tune... try this. There's alot more on this site that you should like if you are male!

Ok are you having Napster withdrawal, I used to like WinMX but I have found something better. Morpheus uses the Kazaa engine and yields the best results I've seen so far... can't find the link to download it try here.

In the spirit of putting in here what I am looking at ... This place has some very cool theme kits for partys. Oddly enough it's called Stumps but hey don't judge a book by it's cover there is some really cool stuff here if you need to outfit a dance or something.

trust foo
i.am.sam

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