Patrick’s Rants

This guy has a collection of the funny videos and what-not that can be found on the ‘net. These are large files that take a while to download so if you have the time and the patience there is some pretty good stuff there.

PS - Not entirely safe for work.

I have a project in the works that calls for a machine that sits quietly on my server shelf that is continuously updated from two other servers. Its sole purpose in life is to be rebooted should one of the two servers die. One of the servers is a Windows based server, the other a Fedora based Terminal Services machine. Without adding another Windows server license to the mix, this machine must simply copy the Windows install and the Linux install.

As part of my research into whether this is even possible (which it very well may be) I have run across some other interesting software. There is the utility site Magical Jelly Bean that will retrieve your install CD code from the Windows registry, and a couple of other little sofware gems. Then there is Last Bit Software that sells password recovery tools for those documents that you forgot the password for. Need to open that spreadsheet that your cubicle-mate password protected and then forgot? This should help. Also Access databases, Word documents, the list that it should work on is huge.

Finally, there is TGRMN Software makers of an intriguingly inexpensive piece of software that should keep a backup totally synced. It even supposedly uses a database to track document/file changes. This one looks like it has some promise. I will have to give this a review once I have time to get it installed and tested.

In my inbox sat this gem:

At the end of the tax year the Tax Office sent an inspector to audit the books of a synagogue. While he was checking the books he turned to the Rabbi and said, “I notice you buy a lot of candles. What do you do with the candle drippings?” “Good question,” noted the Rabbi. “We save them up and send them back to the candle makers, and every now and then they send us a free box of candles.” “Oh,” replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way: “What about all these matzo purchases? What do you do with the crumbs?” “Ah, yes,” replied the Rabbi, realising that the inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. “We collect them and send them back to the manufacturers, and every now and then they send a free box of matzos.” “I see,” replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all Rabbi. “Well, Rabbi,” he went on, “what do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?” “Here, too, we do not waste,” answered the Rabbi. “What we do is save up all the foreskins and send them to the Tax Office, and about once a year they send us a complete dick.”

We are in big trouble when our bombs are smarter than our president

Most people have seen the bumber sticker that reads:

In case of rapture this vehicle will be unoccupied

meaning that they believe they are going to heaven and you are not.
Today I saw the response to that:

Come the rapture can I have your car?