Archive for January, 2006

Auctioneer

Published January 31st, 2006 in General. 1 Comment

My first day back in wonderful South Dakota was spent at a local auction. In case you’ve never heard such a thing, you’re in luck now! Shot on location in Platte, SD!
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Google Video Plugin Test

Published January 30th, 2006 in General. 0 Comments

Testing 1, 2, 3…
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Unruhig / Anxious

Published January 24th, 2006 in General. 0 Comments

[DE]
Das bin ich…
Am Freitag werde ich in die USA fliegen (um sechs Uhr morgens… das ist aber ein anderes Thema). Endlich kann ich meine Freunde/-innen und Familie besuchen!
Zusätzlich sitze ich gerade vor einem riesigen Haufen von Hausaufgaben. Wenigstens werde ich etwas in den Staaten zu tun haben. “Herr Iedema, was haben Sie gestern gemacht?”
Egal…lass das […]

Site Update

Published January 23rd, 2006 in General. 0 Comments

/me puts away the toolbox and grabs a coke…
Phew…ok, the site’s internals just went through a major overhaul but I haven’t touched the design. The photos page is actually, finally, prettily and stabily linked with my flickr account!! All of the posts have been switched from categories to tags for organization. I […]

3DMark06 Results

Published January 22nd, 2006 in General. 4 Comments

So I just ran 3DMark 2006 on my workstation. I have nothing to compare this to so I’ll just post and hope that my six month old investment is still OK.
3DMark Score: 1664
- SM2.0 Score: 639
- GT1 - Return to Proxycon 5.183 fps
- GT2 - Firefly Forest 5.472 fps
- HDR/SM3.0 Score: 579
- […]

I’m Moving!!

Published January 19th, 2006 in General. 0 Comments

Due to a slow building up of frustration with my hoster, I’m moving my website to:
mriedema.wordpress.com
and my e-mail address to:
mriedema@gmail.com
My old address and website will be active until May. All new posts will be put up on the new website.
See you there,
–Michael
OK…so I moved back after settling down and realizing that the new host […]

thehouse.reunion()

Published January 9th, 2006 in General. 24 Comments

What y’all think?? Comment away

Snort Router 2.dumb

Published January 2nd, 2006 in General. 0 Comments

From an article on Slashdot covering an aspect of the WMF Windows exploit:
“…the exploit is arranged in such a manner that it cannot be detected by most intrusion detection systems (the snort rule will peg the CPU on your router) nor filtered by packet-inspecting firewalls (it spans two or more ethernet frames).”
Why oh why would […]

MetaBlog: Question + Service + Congrats

Published January 2nd, 2006 in General. 0 Comments

The EDGE Annual Question: “What is your dangerous idea?” (link) via BoingBoing
What’s so bad about Microsoft? (link) via digg
List of sites to assist in transfering/hosting large files (link) via digg
Cory Doctorow Becomes a Full Time Writer (congrats!!) (link)

The EDGE question is a fascinating one. At 72,000+ words it’ll take me awhile to get through […]