Trixxy SEO practice

A friend was zooming around teh intarwebs and caught a site that was totally legit execpt for some nasty nasty links in the sourcecode. He asked me what was going on and I noticed that before the links was a quick javascript: <script>document.write(String.fromCharCode(<<numbers
here>>))</script>

Results? <div style="display:none;"> then after the links another String.fromCharCode that closes the div.

Evil, but smart.

Toshiba laptop take two

I installed a variety of Slackware distros on the laptop with varying
degrees of finding the hardware and playing nice with the other
distros already installed. It seems that VectorLinux is the smoothest
of the slackware distros at the moment and Ubuntu is still the
slickest linux distro of them all (I use plain slack and debian for
servers, but when I would like something already fairly setup, I would
rather go with a desktop distro).

I've decided that having XP on this would be a good idea (as most of
my clients run XP) so I'm actually writing this from XP right now
(gasp!). The CD that comes with the laptop does not have drivers for
the network card or working drivers for the wireless (as well as a far
amount of other hardware). I had to resort to using Toshiba's website
to download drivers for 75% of the hardware that is on this thing. The
ACPI support still doesn't seem to be quite right as I can't have the
laptop go to sleep when I close the lid (you would think this would be
a given).

Next up is a reinstall of Ubuntu and VectorLinux and then hoping that
I can get on my WPA2 wireless from linux.

Cheers on Saint Patty's Day

New Toshiba laptop (U200-ST2092) and Vista Home Basic 1st impressions

My new laptop came, a customized U200-ST2092. This thing is as light as they get. I'm not digging to much on the 12.1" widescreen, but that seems to be all that is available. I am glad that the fan output is on the side and not (like all Dell laptops) on the bottom. The hard drive is pretty exposed on the bottom, I would hate to see it near any water!

Starting up for the first time had me run through Vista installation and then promptly blue screened. It was beautiful. After the initial BSOD, it started up fine and jumped into Vista. Without a whole lot going on, my Core 2 Duo processor and 1GB of memory are pretty maxed out. It could be the amount of extra programs running in the background or just the bloat of windows products. I mean, just as Microsoft finally gets their act together and releases XP SP2 they gotta throw this OS onto every unfortunate consumer who would like a new computer.

I guess now I just have to decide what distribution of Linux to install over Vista...stay tuned.

I hate "blogosphere".

In my not so humble opinion, every time I see someone use the word "blogosphere" their IQ drops 20 points. Multiple times? Good as a being technologically retarded. It makes me want to bash their head against their keyboard so that maybe their idiocy might sink in. There are some memes that just don't need to exist. Podcast and its friends "Artcast", "Blogcast", "Vodcast" are other meaningless words that stump anyone without tech-savvy english as their primary language. I thought after high-school we, as adults, were above creating our own "hip" language that uncool people wouldn't understand. I guess I was wrong.