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# Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:00:00 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00) ( dasBlog )

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# Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 5:18:57 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00) ( )
My vision o f God depends opon the state of my character. Character determines revelation. before I can can say “I saw also the Lord,” there must be someting correstponding to God in my character. How willing am I to to see along the line of my prejudices only. I have to take action to cut those presumtions out of my life so that I can see God and let it mold my character. What things to do I have to give up today to put God first?
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# Monday, July 11, 2005
Monday, July 11, 2005 4:13:39 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00) ( Mac Sucks )
If it's not clear by now, I'm not a Mac user. Things with the Mac OS frustrate me much quicker than Windows, DOS, Unix or anything else.

I have a Windows 2000 Server at work which provides VPN access for me and the rest of my users. You connect to it by firing up any vanilla VPN client, pointing the IP to 'secure.xyzcompany.com' and entering your Domain username/password. Viola. You're on. You can resolve server names, access internal web-applications, or even check your email via the Exchange protocal instead of using IMAP over SSL. It's magical and it's slick, everyone loves it. Except me and my new Mac. When I connect with my windows box, there's an option to "use the remote gateway". This makes sense to me, because I know what a gateway is, and I even know why I would want to disable that. It's also in a very convenient and logical place. You open the properties of the VPN connection, find the networking page of the config, select Internet Protocol from the connction items, then click properties. Of course we want to be using Automatic IP and DNS via DHCP, but I also have all my advanced properties just a button click away,  There's the checkbox for my use default gateway. The Mac Setup however is somewhat more crazy. They have this little application called "internet Connect" within the Applications folder. You make your VPN, and then you're supposed to know that you access options from a menu called Connect. Wait, connect means connect, not Options for connections... WTF?! Send all traffic over VPN connection? Um, yeah... call me crazy, but isn't the standard name for sending traffic to a different endpoint called the "gateway". So much for standard names.

So. The problem would be solved, except that I still can't resolve names with my mac. For instance, the public DNS namespace of the company is XYZCompany.com. The internal namespace is XYZCOMPANY.LOCAL. This way, you HAVE to have acess to the internal nameservers to get any good info out of us. Works great with windows, where when your primary connection's DNS fails to resolve, windows looks at the other connection's DNS servers for some useful info. For some reason, Mac forgot this nicety. Sigh. Anyone who knows how to make this work could certainly email me and show me the error of my ways.

EDIT

You can actually add resolvers for the lookupd process to go through by adding plain text files to /etc/resolver/
this directory doesn't exist by default, and you don't have access to it if you're not currently root
Enable the root account via the NetInfo Manager application in /Applications/Utilities.
Name the file XYXDomain.EXT and add lines as follows
XYZDomain.com <-- filename
XYZDomain.com           <-- root domain, same as filename
subdomain.XYZDomain.com <-- optional subdomains, one or more
10.10.20.3 <-- domain server IP
After creating this file, kill the lookupd process from the shell, use the gui activity process, or, because you're lazy, just reboot. Of course, one really should use this as an excuse to bust out the good old fashioned vi or emacs and go to town. *I'm a vi guy*. Eww. Flex those command line brain muscles! Now, question why you did that. Requirement? no. Feels good to be a geek and do it for the implicit sake of it. Yeah.
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# Thursday, July 07, 2005
Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:54:23 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00) ( )

My last version of the Google Search wasn't so elequent as it should have been. It was hard-coded to use only the first 9 input variables. This one can go until it runs out of variables.

The syntax is pretty easy,

gs word1 (word2 word3 word[n])(no really, this time it works!)

gs.bat
@echo off
IF "%1" == "" GOTO Syntax ELSE GOTO Run
:Run
SET Q=
:LOOP
SET Q=%Q%+%1
SHIFT
IF "%1" == "" GOTO ENDLOOP
GOTO LOOP
:ENDLOOP
start http://www.google.com/search?q=%Q%
GOTO End
:Sub
:EOF
:Syntax
ECHO You must specify at least one word to search for
ECHO gs word1 word2 wordN
ECHO Example: 
ECHO >gs Flying Saucer 
ECHO will Open your default browser with a parameter of http://www.google.com/search?q=Flying+Saucer
pause
:End
:EOF
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Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:51:44 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00) ( )

I needed to use my google search to do more than 9 words the other day. I realized the script needed work.

@echo off
IF "%1" == "" GOTO Syntax ELSE GOTO Run
:Run
SET Q=
:LOOP
ECHO %1
SET Q=%Q%+"%1"
SHIFT
IF "%1" == "" GOTO ENDLOOP
GOTO LOOP
:ENDLOOP
start http://www.google.com/search?q=%Q
GOTO End
:Sub
:EOF
:Syntax
ECHO You must specify at least one word to search for
ECHO gs word1 word2 wordN
ECHO Example: 
ECHO >gs Flying Saucer 
ECHO will Open your default browser with a parameter of http://www.google.com/search?q=Flying+Saucer
pause
:End
:EOF
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# Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:23:11 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00) ( )

Sometimes, I just can't let my daily-readership of web-comics be completely un-partisan. The issues at hand came from this comic, http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20050628.


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There are two issues I want to bring to Scott's attention.

The first topic is the depiction of Christ condoning homosexuality as an acceptable practice. I can't find anywhere in the Bible where he said something like that. Here's some quick examples of what the Bible says against the practice though.

Lev. 18:22 "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination"

Lev. 20:13 "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them"

1 Cor. 6:9-10 "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

Rom. 1:26-28 "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper."

So the question is Kurtz, why would you have made this claim? Is it for art's sake? Are you letting the work speak for itself? My conclusion of the art speaking to me is that you believe the standpoint of God to be in agreement with it. The word of God from the Bible says you're wrong. Are you man enough to admit it?
The Second topic is slightly less drastic, but none-the-less cuts to the core of your world-view. Is using God's name as a cuss word really a big deal? Happens to be that it is. Read Exodus 20 when God gave the 10 Commandments to the Israelites.

Ex. 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Scott is right that the dude needs to a chill pill and take a different approach. We're never taught to approach people out of disgust, but out of love as Christ did. Also, very right that there are people dying in the world, and there's more important things to take a stand on. What I don't understand is the lack of humility, or admission of something which is genuinely sin. The guy in question may not have had the best methods, but the end result could have been reached just as easily with a softer heart on the receiving end. Should we all be able to keep our speech clean, and free from using the name of the One who gave us life and using it to express digust? Yes. Especially for someone with as much wit and imagination as Scott.
Scott is in an amazing position to influence his readership. I pray that he could come to a relationship with Christ and that it would also be visible to his readers.
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# Monday, July 04, 2005
Monday, July 04, 2005 9:23:39 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00) ( Mac Sucks )
I very much hating the concept of having a Mac to test UI designs for web-applications in. It's not anything big, but today... the Mac OS sucks because by default, tab only gets you through the text-box and list box elements. What about radio buttons, combo/drop downs, and buttons? For the love of all things right and easy why restrict the user and make them move their hand to the mouse after typing??? Microsofto doesn't do that. They don't even give you the option to take away that privilidge from the user. We're Apple, we're special. We enjoy sticking it to the user. We assume that since they purchased our product, they want a trimmed down product anyway. Yeah... This is why I'll never switch.
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Monday, July 04, 2005 9:20:25 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00) ( Mac Sucks )
Today the Mac OS X is different than Windows XP because it comes with the Quicktime player. This player does not have full-screen capability by default. You must pay an extra $30 for the privilige of full screen viewing pleasure. Microsoft has had this ability in Media Player for as long as it's been released for no extra charge.
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