For those of you who loved dack.com's Web Economy Bullshit Generator back in the day, you will be pleased to know that there is a new BS generator for "Web 2.0". Web 2.0..hmm.. this O'reilly-infused buzzword was probably generated over at dack.com now that I think about it. So go on and play. Before you know it, you'll be blogging about "tagging user-contributed folksonomies." Folksonomies? Sounds like a ripe target for NSA 2.0.
Not that I dislike the idea of Web 2.0. I've always been a minimalist when it comes to technology and design.. I digg Web 2.0. I just cringe a bit when I stumbleupon silly stuff like "fjax." How does that go? Everything in moderation....
I recently used "tar" improperly and inadvertently created a file which seemed near impossible to delete. The file started with two dashes; it was named --exclude.tgz. I issued each of the following commands with no luck:
boudreaux:~ # rm --exclude.tgz
rm: unrecognized option `--exclude'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
boudreaux:~ # rm "--exclude.tgz"
rm: unrecognized option `--exclude'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
boudreaux:~ # rm "\--exclude.tgz"
rm: unrecognized option `--exclude'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
boudreaux:~ # rm *tgz [it was the only tarball in the directory]
rm: unrecognized option `--exclude'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
I was just about fed up so I messaged my friend Larry, a Unix administrator, to ask for help. He initially recommended some of the above techniques but, as you can see, each of them failed. He then gave me this magical command which instantly worked
find . -name \*.tgz -exec rm {} \;
Perfect!
My friend Dave pasted this awesome code to me. It comes from The Daily WTF, a website dedicated to whack coding.
I.like(bigButts) && I.canLie(false);
otherBrothers.canDeny(false);
when (girl.walksIn())
{
if (girl.hasIttyBittyWaist() && roundThing.getLocation()==your.FACE)
{
you.getSprung();
}
}
I recently installed Microsoft CRM Server in a lab environment. The install went smoothly.. every test passed successfully. But when I loaded up the Deployment Manager, I kept getting the error:
The specified Microsoft CRM Server is not responding. This might happen if it is currently unavailable or is not a Microsoft CRM server. For more information contact your system administrator.
Uninstalling/reinstalling didn't help. I researched a little and found that perhaps MSCRM didn't like the fact that I didn't add the server alias "mscrm" to DNS. I also saw that some people were able to log in to MSCRM from any computer other than the server itself. I decided to add a CNAME alias to the DNS that points to my computer's name and try to login from a different server. It was then that I noticed I couldn't reach my CRM server at all. I checked and sure enough, even though network settings didn't a lock, my firewall was on. I would imagine that since I tried logging in locally that a firewall wouldn't care but apparently it did. I turned off the built-in Windows firewall and was instantly able to login to the CRM server.
Google shows that many people have this problem, hopefully, this post may help you or someone you know 
And now to go and play with this good-lookin CRM software...
Update: You can now download Windows Server 2003 R2 here: microsoft.com.
Today I attempted to install Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack (adminpak.msi) but the installer instantly quit with the message "Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack can only be installed on Windows XP Professional with QFE Q329357 applied, or on Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 or later, or on computers running Windows Server 2003 operating systems."
When researching if R2 needed a different version, I came upon the page "Windows Server 2003 R2 Administration Tools Pack (x86)." Judging from the title, I'd assume this was the file I was looking for but these files are actually for other OSes that want to manage the new services which come with R2. The only place I have found the adminpak.msi for 2k3 R2 has been on the CD itself. You can find the file within your i386 folder on your R2 CD.
I'm setting up Gallery2 for my other blog and I had the hardest time finding the binary directory for ImageMagick. a 'whereis ImageMagic' returned nothing useful. Then I ran
rpm -ql ImageMagick | grep /bin
and saw the following:
/usr/bin/animate
/usr/bin/compare
/usr/bin/composite
/usr/bin/conjure
/usr/bin/convert
/usr/bin/display
/usr/bin/identify
/usr/bin/import
/usr/bin/mogrify
/usr/bin/montage
/usr/bin/xtp
I entered /usr/bin in the Gallery2 ImageMagick configure settings and everything worked 
This is a bit recycled from the last post but I'm reframing it so that Googlers can easily find the solution.
I've gotten Bluetooth to work in Windows Server 2k3. Here's are the steps:
- Download the bt_stack_rtm.exe and extract to a temporary directory. Navigate to that directory and, within the ENU directory, copy Q323183_WXP_SP2_X86_ENU.EXE and place it in C:\. This file the XP SP2 Bluetooth Update
- Extract the contents by doing the following: Start -> Run -> C:\Q323183_WXP_SP2_X86_ENU.EXE /x
- Download update.inf and place it in C:\Q323183_WXP_SP2_X86_ENU\update. It basically changes the OS requirements.
- Download btfiles.zip two files that seem to be missing from the update. Extract them to the C:\Q323183_WXP_SP2_X86_ENU directory.
- Change directories into C:\Q323183_WXP_SP2_X86_ENU\Update and run update.exe
The ini provided works for Win2k3 R2 (R2 comes with SP1). If it doesn't work for you, you will need to tweak the update.ini file. Double click the ini file and play with the variables NtMinorVersionToUpdate, MaxNtBuildToUpdate, MaxNtMinorVersionToUpdate, MinNtServicePackVersion, MaxNtServicePackVersion, ThisServicePackVersion. Thanks to steeleprice.net for the heads up.
If this all works out for you, you should now see the Bluetooth in your Control Panel. It is listed under "Wireless Link."
The US Government, as requested by the MPAA, threatend the Swedish government and forced them to break their own laws by seizing a pirating website.
It is now being reported that the Swedish Department of Justice received what amounts to orders from the U.S. Administration, who had in turn received 'requests' from the MPAA, to shut down Pirate Bay. Orders went straight top to bottom, from the Swedish minister of Justice, to Secretary of Justice, to Chief Prosecutor, etc, to the policemen doing the raid...
"this is even worse than I had possibly imagined. We have a situation where not foreign corporate interests, but foreign governments, pressured by their corporate interests, manage to get young people arrested for something that is not breaking Swedish law”.
Read More Here.