Wargames: The Dead Code.  It was quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen (yep, worse than the Planet of the Apes remake).

Not only was almost every part of plot (should I even call it a plot?) clichéd, but every single computer-related reference gave me an additional gray hair.  To make matters worse, they bring back WOPR, and throw it into the whirlwind of the amazingly retarded technological crisis that doesn't make one ounce of sense.

And, topping it all off, Amanda Walsh is in serious need of a nosejob.  It was really distracting.

I need some asprin.

Apparently it's a word:

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Feeling stressed or anxious at an inability to access the Internet? Don't worry, you're not alone and now there's a word for it: "discomgoogolation".

[…]

The term comes from "discombobulate," which means to confuse or frustrate, and Google.

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL146220120080901

Bizarre.

This is great, for a couple chuckles:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.nanog/58244

Rain keeping me up
Tomorrow, work will be fun
I really hate Fey

It's a travesty!

So, I had configured hysteresis (see lab 3.0) with JUNOS for awhile, and decided to boot into JUNOS-ES to see if I could replicate the same configuration.  Unfortunately, everything but IPv6 worked properly.

Apparently, JUNOS-ES doesn't support IPv6 in flow context, and requires the use of the following command (under the security hierarchy) to force IPv6 to be processed in a packet-by-packet fashion:

forwarding-options {
    family {
        inet6 {
            mode packet-based;
        }
    }
}

Pathetic.  Just yet another product that claims IPv6 support, yet doesn't completely follow through with protocol feature parity.

So, I recorded every evening broadcast (except for the opening ceremony, which got accidently deleted) of the 2008 Olympics on NBC via MythTV.  It's too bad it was broadcast in 1080i, since sporting events are much better in 720p.  Here's the grand total:

/dev/sdg1             688G  430G  224G  66% /mnt/store

% du -s /mnt/store
450235940       /mnt/store

Yeah, I think it's time for us to ditch ol' MPEG-2 and replace it with something like H.264.  Much better compression and picture quality.  Too bad most STBs might need to be equipped with a fan…

After mulling over replacing the '98 Camry for a year or two, I finally pulled the trigger and picked up a 2009 Acura TSX (5-speed automatic with the technology package), on Saturday:

It's loaded full of goodies (Bluetooth, navigation, USB, etc.) and is fairly quick.  I think it might support A2DP through the "Bluetooth audio" function, which is supposed to enable streaming of music from a phone to the car's audio system.  I haven't gotten it to work, or found any mention of A2DP in the owner's manual, though.

I just discovered a beautiful thing:

% ping6 -nc4 radium
PING radium(2001:4830:122d:6:21f:1ff:fed0:fcd6) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:4830:122d:6:21f:1ff:fed0:fcd6: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=69.9 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4830:122d:6:21f:1ff:fed0:fcd6: icmp_seq=2 ttl=62 time=91.6 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4830:122d:6:21f:1ff:fed0:fcd6: icmp_seq=3 ttl=62 time=111 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4830:122d:6:21f:1ff:fed0:fcd6: icmp_seq=4 ttl=62 time=131 ms

--- radium ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 69.981/101.202/131.601/22.913 ms

radium is my Nokia E71.  And SIP seems to be listening on ::, too…