Standard Mischief » deranged rants http://standardmischief.com/blog Life. Liberty. Pursuit of Happiness. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:41:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A textbook example of “blog-fu” http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/02/03/a-textbook-example-of-blog-fu/ http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/02/03/a-textbook-example-of-blog-fu/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:00:33 +0000 Standard Mischief http://standardmischief.com/blog/?p=1657 If anyone is unclear about the concept of “blog-fu”, this is the picture perfect example.

Blog about an upcoming uncomfortable medical procedure, the annoying and inconvenient pre-procedure preparations, and crack a few jokes in the meanwhile and then “bleg” for any advice.


Get back 68 comments, mostly all advice, all within 24 hours.

]]> http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/02/03/a-textbook-example-of-blog-fu/feed/ 0 RSS feed and site going down in support of the fight against SOPA/PIPA. http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/01/18/rss-feed-and-site-going-down-in-support-of-the-fight-against-sopapipa/ http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/01/18/rss-feed-and-site-going-down-in-support-of-the-fight-against-sopapipa/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:46:50 +0000 Standard Mischief http://standardmischief.com/blog/?p=1642 I probably ought to have posted this a tad earlier.

Update: …and we’re back. Updates later.

]]> http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/01/18/rss-feed-and-site-going-down-in-support-of-the-fight-against-sopapipa/feed/ 0 Nice to see the WordPress crew sticking to their release schedule http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/01/05/nice-to-see-the-wordpress-crew-sticking-to-their-release-schedule/ http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/01/05/nice-to-see-the-wordpress-crew-sticking-to-their-release-schedule/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:00:58 +0000 Standard Mischief http://standardmischief.com/blog/?p=1635 Which is (roughly):

Release candidate #1

Release candidate #2

Release candidate #3

Big Incremental release! Everybody upgrade! Features! Bug fixes! Cool Stuff!

…

Emergency Bug Fix Release! Upgrade before the bad guys get up to speed!

 

 

Seeing as how my php-fu is mighty weak, and how WordPress is free and generally fabulous I really ought not to complain.

Anyway, the command line one-liner for those who installed via subversion is:
svn sw http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.3.1 .

(subversion instructions are here)

]]> http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/01/05/nice-to-see-the-wordpress-crew-sticking-to-their-release-schedule/feed/ 0 indefinite detention without habeas corpus signed into law http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/01/02/indefinite-detention-without-habeas-corpus-signed-into-law/ http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/01/02/indefinite-detention-without-habeas-corpus-signed-into-law/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:00:57 +0000 Standard Mischief http://standardmischief.com/blog/?p=1609 How’s that Hope and Change working out for you in 2012?

The absolute worst shit was that the bastard pulled it off on New Year’s eve. What, did he somehow think we would be too busy celebrating or something to see that big black stain on his legacy?

0bama now joins 322 congresscritter bastards who voted “aye” and the 13 fucking weenie congressthings who voted “present” in unambiguously violating their oath of office.

Now can we judge them all based on the content of their character?

]]> http://standardmischief.com/blog/2012/01/02/indefinite-detention-without-habeas-corpus-signed-into-law/feed/ 0 SOPA Suporters list appears to have been pulled http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/12/26/sopa-suporters-list-appears-to-have-been-pulled/ http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/12/26/sopa-suporters-list-appears-to-have-been-pulled/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:00:51 +0000 Standard Mischief http://standardmischief.com/blog/?p=1616 The list was (formerly thoughtfully provided by your government) here (dead link)

Anyway, I found it on MegaUpload [1] as well as probably hundreds of readily (“reddit-ly”) available web forum posts. Ya think GoDaddy has ever heard of the “Streisand effect“?

The newer, revised, list seems to be available here. Besides noticing GoDaddy has gone AWOL, I haven’t done a diff on the lists.

old pdf uuid from metadata:
<xmpmm:documentid>uuid:fdd029c3-bc32-4436-a9b1-b701c2c7f458</xmpmm:documentid>
<xmpmm:instanceid>uuid:0fd4b62d-9cb6-48e9-ae20-616c4fcc13db</xmpmm:instanceid>
new pdf uuid from metadata:
<xmpmm:documentid>uuid:7ccb4a5c-a57e-4a7c-9cac-402f9b1d04fa</xmpmm:documentid>
<xmpmm:instanceid>uuid:a9633dc5-e621-4bcd-abdb-56f6c70287e8</xmpmm:instanceid>

[1] You’ll need to enable javascript and wait a few seconds for a free download unless you have more than the standard mischief at your disposal.

]]> http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/12/26/sopa-suporters-list-appears-to-have-been-pulled/feed/ 0 “Greylisting” D’oh http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/12/24/greylisting-doh-godaddy/ http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/12/24/greylisting-doh-godaddy/#comments Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:23 +0000 Standard Mischief http://standardmischief.com/blog/?p=1612 Transferring a bunch of domains away from GoDaddy because of their anti-consumer stance on SOPA?

Don’t forget to turn greylisting off for those domain email verifications. Otherwise the transfer could take days to accomplish.

]]> http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/12/24/greylisting-doh-godaddy/feed/ 0 details of a “zero-day” WordPress exploit http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/12/21/details-of-a-zero-day-wordpress-exploit/ http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/12/21/details-of-a-zero-day-wordpress-exploit/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:00:45 +0000 Standard Mischief http://standardmischief.com/blog/?p=1602 Here

I think he covers all the bases pretty well, and I have nothing much to add. His post is dated 01aug2011, but I’ve never heard of it from any of my feeds until my webhost sent a tweet out today.

]]> http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/12/21/details-of-a-zero-day-wordpress-exploit/feed/ 0 cinched my vote for [NAME REDACTED] http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/12/14/cinched-my-vote-for-name-redacted/ http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/12/14/cinched-my-vote-for-name-redacted/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:00:10 +0000 Standard Mischief http://standardmischief.com/blog/?p=1597 The top of the hour [major national news] reported this morning that the polls for the upcoming Iowa Poll currently has Gingrich at 40%, Romney at 23%, and “the reminder of the Republican candidates total 10%”.

It is simply un-fscking believable that a “major news outlet” could be reporting a difference from other polls that is well over five times the normal margin of error, let alone pretending that one of the four people in the United States with a reasonable chance to win the Presidential election in 2012 simply does not exist.

I’m not sure if the Maryland primary is going to be relevant this year, but I’m downloading the form now and will mail it in to switch my party affiliation today. March 13, 2012 seems to be the deadline here in Maryland if you wish to vote in the Primary Election.

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ETA: The first bit of light rain started at about 11 AM today. Peak of the storm is predicted for 2 AM tomorrow.

ETA: First beer at 2:30 PM

17:13 update: We’ve got high winds and sometimes heavy rain, but no lighting as of yet. That means I’m comfortable leaving my main power on, though I will be switching to the laptop shortly.

06:44 next day: Never lost power. No lighting, no exploding power transformers. Buying dry ice as a magic amulet against power loss worked again!

X• Hit the ATM up for some cash, enough for a few days
X• Make sure vehicle gas tanks are full.
X• Check around outside of house and take trashcans and any loose items inside.
X• Charge up everything: phones, laptop, those car batteries I keep handy as an ersatz DC stick welder, those extra gel cells I have lying around.
X• Sort through my LED flashlight collection. I’m going to need it.
X• Clean out gutters.
X• Tape an X across windows to limit the spread of any broken glass.
X• Pack the empty space in freezer with water bottles to form ice.
X• Pick-up that dry ice if possible
X• Fill tub with water, then shut off the water main. I can use the tub water for flushing, and by sealing off the main I trap gallons of potable water in case a “boil water” order goes in to effect.
X• Unplug main computer, NAS, etc. to protect against lighting strikes. Leave the wireless router powered up and use laptop for storm progress data.
• Throw main breaker at some point before the peak of the storm if lighting is present. You know you will lose power anyway, might as well protect your equipment from lighting strikes too.

]]> http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/08/27/irene-todo-list/feed/ 0 Irene is a big deal http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/08/25/irene-is-a-big-deal/ http://standardmischief.com/blog/2011/08/25/irene-is-a-big-deal/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 03:00:02 +0000 Standard Mischief http://standardmischief.com/blog/?p=1539 The earthquake wasn’t, the aftershocks personally haven’t been even noticed, but Irene is another story altogether.

We haven’t even had a real hurricane since Agnes, and that was back in 1974. While Agnes stalled over the area just north of home and rained for several days straight, Isabel, a mere tropical storm from a few years ago took my power out for 4 days and had most of the traffic lights fscked up for over a week.

Now if you will excuse me, I’m off to score some dry ice.

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