Gary’s Posterous

A bit boring, but I have joined gdgt.com, my profile page is:
http://user.gdgt.com/garysims/

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My hosting provider had ALL there severs hacked a few weeks ago and as a result some of my sites have been down... The hosting company restored all the servers but either inserted code that the hackers used got copied over or the security weakness remained in the servers and they got hacked again.

They tried getting brand new servers but all the hosting data was lost. As a result the company shutdown (but they did get a migration deal from Hostgator for the customers to move there)... Some of my sites are still down and I doubt I will rejuvenate them as they weren't doing very well anyway...

The biggest casualty seems to be Earley Christian Fellowship as it has dropped out of Google's index which makes me fear it go dropped as Google saw it was hacked!!!

I hope that in a few days it will be back in again!!!

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Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop."

 Customer: "Ok."

 Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"Customer: "No."

 Tech Support: "Ok. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"

 Customer: "No."

 Tech Support: "Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"

 Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'."

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Since I do quite a fair bit of blogging I thought  would start a blog about blogging! I've named it Blogging and..., as a style thing each post will start with "Blogging and ...", for example the first post was called Blogging and How To Create a Free Blog at Blogger.com, the next Blogging and What is Wordpress? You get the idea...

Blogging and... helps you build a successful and popular blog. By providing tutorials, tips and articles along with community participation you and Blogging and... can create blogs worth reading and blogs that have the potential to make money.

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Two atoms were walking down the street. One atom says to the other
one, "I've lost an electron! The 2nd atom replies, "Are you sure?"
Says the 1st atom, "I'm positive."

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I wrote a little email to someone recently about how long I have been
using Linux and I though I would cut and paste a section from the
email and post it here!

 I've been using it since kernel version 0.96 which was was back in the
early 90's... In about 2002 I switched 100% over to Linux due to the
releases of OpenOffice.Org, FireFox and BibleTime. With these apps and
a few others I was able to switch and had no need for Windows at
all... Then in 2007 a terrible thing happened someone gave me a Mac!
Of course I had to start it up and bam! I switched to OS X but mainly
using the same applications like OOo, Firefox and now BibleDesktop
(instead of BibleTime).

 I still keep my fingers in the Linux pie, I like and use CentOS a lot
and I like Ubuntu Server as well, in fact I was writing a book about
Ubuntu Server but time constraints killed the project about half way
through.

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I have taken a guest blogging position on rGadget.com. My first post is Arrington’s CrunchPad in the Shops by November; Real Competition for Apple’s Unnamed iTablet and my author profile is here.

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I've signed up to Identi.ca, you can see my profile at http://identi.ca/garysims
 
For those who don't know, Identi.ca is an open source social
networking and micro-blogging service where users can send text
updates (called dents) up to 140 characters long in a similar way to
Twitter.

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It was once said that the computers on Apollo 11 had less computing power than a modern pocket calculator and now we can read to machine code and see! The code for the Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC has been transcribed, by Google, from scanned images of printouts for both the Command Module (codenamed Comanche054), which reached moon orbit and was the return vehicle; and the Lunar Module (Luminary099), which took astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon.

Google also provide a virtual AGC which is an emulation of the on-board Apollo guidance computers, along with some ancillary items needed to make the emulation do something interesting.

You can see the Google Blog entry about it all here.

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Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high
school diploma to fix one; a reassurance to those of us who fly
routinely in our jobs. After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form,
called a 'gripe sheet,' which tells mechanics about problems with the
aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems; document their repairs
on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next
flight.
 
Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are
some actual maintenance complaints submitted by UPS ' pilots (marked
with a P) and the solutions recorded (marked With an S) by maintenance
engineers.
 
By the way, UPS is the only major airline that has never, ever, had an Accident.
 
P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
 
P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
 
P: Something loose in cockpit
S: Something tightened in cockpit
 
P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.
 
P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
 
P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.
 
P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.
 
P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That's what friction locks are for.
 
P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.
 
P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you're right.
 
P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search
 
P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right and be serious.
 
P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
 
P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.
 
P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a Midget
pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.

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