The online home of Appleman1234 / Benjamin Southall

Hey everyone,

How are we all ? Sick ? Tired ? Exhausted ? Flat out like a lizard pulverised on asphalt from a road train of commitment ?

So much has been happening, ulrica (my laptop) seems to have gone a bit crazy and requires some serious slanting  (between 45% and 85%)to get around BIOS freezing, I think it is related to grounding the USB ports, as the BIOS used to have a bug of freeze when a USB device was plugged in, but I downgraded the BIOS to fix that and now the BIOS freezes when it thinks that the usb isn’t grounded, I think.

I have various assessment due including two group projects that were due this Friday and are now due Monday and a Differential equations test next Thursday.

I have been busy setting up services on a custom Gentoo Linux Harden Xen guest image that I made for the ITN771 group assignment, in the process I found a bug in OSSIM related to nessus scanning that will be hopefully patched in the next release.

I have also been helping various colleagues with debugging in Python and C and this was quite enjoyable given the amount of stress I have had to deal with lately….

I remember so much of what happens from my dreams / premonitions, it is quite unnerving and things and encounters that normally would be unusual or strange seem so familar.

I had an interesting discussion with an atheist again about logic systems face to face in the room of Green, it was a refreshing change from the misunderstanding and cynical debate and mockery that I have come to expect.

I have also had a chance to reflect on the morality of death and human life via the media references I have the delight of being overexposed to like a spectator being inflicting with an entire naturalist colony streaking at a public or sporting event. These movies were The Swamp (Korean, mystery thriller, vengenence flick about wife catching best friend having affair with her husband), Unleashed (Starring Morgan Freeman as the awesome blind piano tuner that liberated the main character from slavery and killing ) and Godforsaken which featured a good kid in the wrong crowd with good intentions but the wrong loyalties which eventually cost him his life.

People are so oblivious to the effects of their actions on other people and the consequences…

It hurts, and caring hurts, apathy is safety but it has its cost as well.

I would write more but I am so stressed and I don’t want to vent any more than I have already.

Did you ever take a chance on a moonbeam ….

Stay well

Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234

Hey everyone.

This has been a long time coming, but here it is, it will probably be disappointing as I don’t really feel like talking but meh. Lol I rambled on a whole bunch of interesting , funny and random stuff as usual.

Enjoy