[sdiy] Did someone Hack Google?

[KA4HJH]

>And just out of interest. I use Opera and NetBastard on this box and
>neither have a default home page set. Not even my own web site. Nothing.
>Nada. zip. Java and Java script are usually turned off and cookies blocked
>until I specifically allow them.

It'll really fun to install a new browser. The first thing I do is go into
the prefs and turn a whole bunch of stuff off. I completely delete the
homepage URL just because these programs keep finding their way to it even
if I don't ask for it (it's a feature, not a bug). Then I hide 75% of all
the helpful crap that takes up space on my screen.

I suppose if I were twenty years younger I'd download a bootleg copy of
Codewarrior and compile my own version from the source code while I'm not
busy writing the latest worm with a name like a porno star, selling spam
via spam, pinching zits, swilling Coke and scarfing down pizza (according
to a recent study most "hackers" fit this limited stereotype). Sometime in
the near future I may have to do this anyway, unless one of the gang here
decides to go into the browser business on the side and takes custom
software orders in between laying out PC boards and hunting for
discontinued chips.

The sad reality is that I'm sitting here getting a bit fatter, aching in
more places than ever before, and giving thanks that I'm not losing hair
any faster than I can pull it out. I'm dreading migrating to OS X where
I'll be forced to learn yet another cryptic OS if I want to get anything
done, missing all my favorite crutches that don't work in it, and trying
desperately to throw the Dock into the trash can. I haven't even picked up
a soldering iron in months. For those who missed it here's how much work
space is available on my workbench right now:

http://www.crowncity.net/ratcave/Bent/Workbench/Workbench1.html


>Recently, Maxim asked me to help beta test some new software/website
>features they were implementing. (Along with possibly thousands of others.)
>Unfortunately this little applett only runs on IE.

Is it actually in Java, the "universal language" that works across
platforms, OS versions, browser versions, political boundaries etc?


>Sadly I had to inform
>them that unless the pulled their heads out their asses I couldn't help
>them. What about the Mac users? What about the Linux users? And since M$
>products are rapidly becoming endangered species round here, the rule of
>thum is. "If you can't support it, I don't want it." And if more people
>took that attitude, then companies like Maxim would think twice about being
>proxy enforcers of the microsoft tax.

And we thought the big argument was over jacks. Welcome to the future.
-- 

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

"If I can't be God I don't want to play"--Aleister Crowley