Today was Brandon’s first birthday that he has missed. I hope that he knows that I love him very much. I have just written this on the 30th and back dated it. I miss my brother.

I was promoted to the Rank of Sergeant. Just wanted to let people know. And the reason why this entry is so short, is NOT because I am not excited about it. It’s because I have better things to do right now ;–)

Sgt jd.mubix

Duder,
CONGRATULATIONS!

Mia Kei Duder
Born October 13th 2005 @ 1:55 PM CST
6lbs 12 Oz – 20 Inches

Our hearts go out to you and yours. We wish you the best of luck.

jd.

P.S. Sorry it had to be a girl ;–)

Most of us in the industry know what the slashdot effect is. But for those who don’t. Slashdot.org has such a following, that, when a news article is posted on Slashdot, so many users click on the links provided that a unintentional DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service attack is created, where the news site is taken basically killed by all the traffic that it instantly has to deal with. Well Digg.com has again, unintentionally, created it’s own Slashdot effect. The name for this effect is simply being “Dugg”. Digg.com’s first victim?

Worlds first web site hosted on a psp! – R.I.P.

jd.

I did a search on Digg.com and was suprised to see that not a soul has written about ShmooCon 2006. I guess all you west coasters only care about DefCon. That is discrimination and WE DON’T HAVE TO TAKE IT!. Back to reality. Well if you don’t know ShmooCon is basically the DefCon for the east coast and is being held in Washington D.C. . Registration is limited, unlike DefCon, so hurry and whip out those Paypal accounts. If you had registered before October 1st then it would have only cost you $75. Blame everyone else for not digging it. Here is a quick like to registration to save you lazy people out there a click:

REGISTRATION FOR SHMOOCON 2k6

Hosted by the Shmoo Group (SUPRISE SUPRISE SUPRISE!)

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The registration and price-break schedule are as follows:   
  
* $150 - October 2, 2005 - December 31, 2005  
* $300 - January 1, 2006 - January 13, 2006  
  
Save yourself money and a seat by registering early, please. Once ShmooCon is sold out,
there is NO way to register. Thanks.  
  
Keep your PayPal receipt as backup registration confirmation. Final confirmation from ShmooCon,
to include your badge pickup mechanism, will be sent out to to all ShmooCon registrants on New
Year’s Day. This additional confirmation will be sent to the PayPal email address initially used
for registration.  
  
Government credit card holders who do not wish to use PayPal will be provided an alternate
payment & registration mechanism after October 2nd. We apologize for any inconvenience and
de-facto increased prices for Feds.  
  
ShmooCon registration fees do NOT cover your hotel accomodations at the Marriott Wardman
Park Hotel.

jd.

For those of you who do not know Whitedust.net is the leading independent ‘hacker’ portal. Yes that’s right! All of you Skiddies out there, you may not know who you are but WE DO, this site is NOT for you. Now that that disclaimer is over:

Ladies and Gentlemen,
If you have been luck, you’ve already seen them on /. or even on digg.com. Whitedust.net is an awesome site that has great articles relating to security and other such things. The articles come from staff and the community alike. Check them out, and if you don’t want to, do it anyways.

jd.

Security oriented Linux Live CD “WHAX” is supposedly merging with Auditor.

Quick history of WHAX:

• Whoppix based off Knoppix: Awesome CD
• Whoppix gets a name change and base distro change: Not broken, don’t fix it.
• New WHAX website gets hacked: ironic.

Sep 9th… We (WHAX) are merging with Auditor, we need a new name: Anyone up for a downhill run?
STILL NO UPDATE! What’s going on guys?

jd

I have stolen a sneak peek at one of the errors that have ALREADY come up in Microsoft Windows Vista.

Take a look:

scary eh?

jd

My wife and I did our first ultrasound today and IT’S A BOY!! When you decide that it is a good idea to send cash and gifts (jedi mind trick) … just email me at jd.mubix AT g m a i l DT c o m . In the mean time, start saving, my son is going to college, and yes, you are required by law to pay his way through college and any credit card bills he may incur going to frat parties and gaining his higher education ;–)

we are expecting Feb 24

jd

p.s. Sorry for the delay in writing. It’s been a rough two weeks.

Ok, yeah you’ve got me. This is old news. But COME ON! Someone needs to send a Marine Drill Instructor over to the Army and woop these guys into shape! The windows version of America’s Army version 2.4 came out May 16th 2005. That is a 127 days (4 months) at the time of this post. Where are the Linux and Mac versions?!?! We are still stuck in version 2.3. They haven’t even release an update so we can at the very least run linux servers! They are loosing a very large user base because of this HUGE gap that is going on. Someone needed to say something. Hopefully they will here my voice. On this forum, no mod can lock me out. I will be patient, because I like the game, but my patience and countless other’s patience is wearing thin. Who knows, Microsoft (aka Bill) could have made a deal with the Army. But who am I to speculate.

jd