So, being in the military, I get one of these nifty little dealies. I never bothered to look into them, but I saw a USB reader for $25 when they shipped us out for training, so I figured, what the hell.
I haven’t bothered to get really into smartcard hacking (yet?), but I have got it locking and unlocking my screen (and other assorted fun things when my friends plug their cards in).
Source - requires Chipcard::PCSC
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Okay, I finally found a decent picture of me in that parade. Yay.
(That’s me in the back.)
Twitter’s fucking down again, which is too bad, because I just wrote a mail handler to tell me who’s following me. Woot, looks like it just came back up.
And, finally, I need reports on the new version of the RTL8187B driver that Mister Adams sent me, please. Does it compile? Does it work? Does it turn your computer into Oprah?
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I’ve put up the contributed version of the RTL8187B driver I received from a Mister Adams that supposedly works with the 2.6.24 kernel. Note I haven’t tried it yet (I’m not in a hurry to upgrade from 2.6.22, even with that local exploit going around), and the only other person I sent it to reported a kernel panic. Use at your own risk.
Also, I was lucky enough to get called up to be in the Holiday Bowl Parade in San Diego in 2007. This was pretty much the only picture I could find (that’s me in the back):
If anyone else happened to be there and snap a couple, think you could send ‘em my way?
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So, I’m in cammies for a few days.
I spent the day sacrificing my lower back for my country. The next few days are likely to be the same.
Why can’t the Corps ever make anything LIGHTWEIGHT? Why does everything have to weigh four hundred freaking pounds?
Anyway, I’m taking Monday off, and then I’m going to start getting the site back on track. Hopefully.
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See, there are a hell of a lot of Lance Corporals in the Marines. You go in a private (you’re a private when you’re a recruit, they just don’t call you that), and you get PFC (I think it’s) 6 months after the day you went into boot, then Lance Corporal another 6 or 9 months, I forget which. After that, you have to start earning it. So, like I said, there are a hell of a lot of Lance Corporals in the Marine Corps.
Since we’re all nonrates (e.g., not NCOs), we can all pretty much talk to each other like human beings, and since none of us ever know what the hell’s going on at the upper levels, the one guy who happened to be taking out the trash at the moment the First Sergeant said “we’re getting out early on Friday” feels compelled to tell everyone.
We call it “the Lance Corporal Underground”. And it’s usually wildly inaccurate. We might as well be asking Miss Cleo what’s on the agenda for the unit next week.
Someone took this a step further and took it online.
I thought it was hilarious.
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So, I realized that the Simpsons movie comes out the 27th — which, regardless of what I told my civilian boss, I will not be in another state for.
You’re god damned right I’m going to see it.
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I wrote a few Javascript functions to streamline loading stuff in the sidebar (basically the same way the tagboard does it, but less bloated), then realized there’s nothing really to load, except for Google ads, which don’t seem to appreciate loading that way (I haven’t looked at it, but I assume it doesn’t want to get loaded without a referrer or via createXMLHttpRequest() or something).
D’oh!
Anyway, starting within the next week, I’m more or less unplugged for a month of annual training. (One of the more fun parts of being a Marine: getting paid to blow stuff up.) I may still have access to a phone, or I may be busy for 28 straight days. I dunno. I’ll probably update once or twice more before I head out.
(Edit: Yes, it’s supposed to be two weeks. I volunteered for extra duty because of my billet(s) — and because I have a lot more fun being a Marine than a civilian.)
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Me and Girlface went to the San Diego County Fair.
Turns out their “salute to heroes” is getting them in the door and overcharging for everything. Oh, and there was a planter with a plaque that said “thank you”.
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