BiggAndyy the Magazine

There is nothing better than hearing the Range Master call “Ok, let’s light’em up!” at the Knob Creek Night Shoot. And then to feel the force of hundreds of automatic weapons from .17 caliber to 40 mm all firing at once. The night becomes day even before all the pyrotechnics begin to go off downrange.

No fancy music playing over the sounds of the firing line. No crazy dropins or scrolling text. Just the night shoot for a couple of minutes.

A court in Sydney, Australia has ruled that linking to sites outside of the local domain is illegal and constitutes copyright infringement and piracy. See story here (Is It Now Illegal To Link To Other Websites?)
Lunacy!

That is what the “INTER” in internet means, INTERCONNECTED networks! If linking between sites is deemed piracy then the so called Internet 2 will be more like an apartment building than a superhighway of information. Data and sites will be pigeon-holed into compartments rather than freely and openly available to all on a Neutral playing field.

This isn’t a “cry wolf” type scam like the government wanting to tax each piece of email sent in the U.S., this is the real deal. Too many interests have too much money wrapped up into throttling the internet for them to give up the fight. And this round seems to be going to the bad guys. By purposely writing in vague legal mumbo-jumbo, the lawyers can make ANY hot linking appear as illegal, not just to MP3s.

Keep this one on your radar folks. It isn’t going to go away. They want to take away a Neutral Net and they want to do it under the guise of making the Internet more secure.

What better way to help celebrate the Christmas Season than with an Easter video clip? This timeless classic of cinematic wonder will delight you till Easter actually does come around.

Merry Christmas, and Happy Easter.

This CD has saved my hide more than a few times. In every case it has been our department has absorbed the function and machines of a smaller office or program here at the University. We not only get machines for current employees but their inventory of salvaged machines they keep for parts, storage, or for eventual recycling back into the active rotation.

By the time I get the machines all the network administrators and server operators have long been let go or reassigned. I have been reassigned in the past, it isn’t the greatest experience. But a worse experience is realizing that the administrator password for all these systems is wrong. And no one is around who knows or is willing to admit they know it.

I don’t even ask anymore. If I come across a machine I don’t have administrator rights on I reboot with Petter Nordahl-Hagen ’s Offline NT Password and Registry Editor. Burn to a CD and anytime I have a machine I can’t get into pop it in, reboot, and presto! I can reset the administrator password to anything I want… even null (the best setting BTW).

But don’t listen to me. Visit the site, download a copy and use it the next time you have a problem. One caveat, it isn’t perfect. It did ruin the registry of one machine I used it on. But I found out that machine had hard drive issues to begin with so I don’t really think it was the program’s fault completely.

My Christmas Gift to all you new Windows Administrators out there. Merry Christmas.

Wishing you have a wonderful Christmas Day with plenty of friends, family, and especially Jesus Christ in your midst when you gather to worship Him on the celebration of His nativity.

I prefer the classics in art and when I saw Sandro Botticelli’s “The Mystical Nativity” I wanted to share it with everyone who stops by. If you are wondering what the text reads above the clouds in this painting:

I see
The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee:
My heart is at your festival,
My head has its coronal
The fullness of your bliss, I
Feel - I feel it all.

If you also notice the season in which this nativity scene takes place. For much of history the evidence was disregarded about the times and descriptions of the Birth of Christ in the Bible, but the Bible makes clear that Jesus was NOT born in cold December. Botticelli’s attention to those details makes this piece of art stand out from the crowd.