Random Access Memories

While it’s horrible that someone bombed the Boston Marathon there are a few things that I need to stand on my soapbox and say “no more” to.

#1 Having it on every news channel still after 24 hours and explaining it’s repercussions around the USA accomplishes what exactly. Here in Seattle do we really need to step up police patrols? This is just the connected world making the media and law enforcement concerned that they are going to miss something. Of course they’re going to miss something, they’re human, perfection should never be expected.

#2 There isn’t anything I can do about it from several thousand miles away, so I refuse to allow it to get me down. Is that cold? No, it’s simply logical. Sure, I’m empathetic to the victims but I refuse to feel bad because I can’t run and help with the investigation or donate blood to the victims, etc, etc.

#3 I’m seeing the same knee-jerk fear that happened after 9-11. I refuse to live my life in fear from day to day. Bad people are always going to do bad things, that does not mean that my life is going to be better if I cower in fear because of it. Nor am I going to agree with giving up civil rights over it.

Use your brain, it’s your best weapon. Do not give in to fear, uncertainty and doubt.

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Calculate A + B – (C + D + E – F – G)/H and convert the result to hexadecimal.

A = The decimal value found in the third octet of the subnet mask for a network with a prefix size (CIDR notation) of 23.

B = The total number of IPv4 addresses in (all address ranges) reserved for private networks as defined in RFC 1918.

C = The DHCP Option Code for MTU Timeout.

D = The exact time when GPS selective availability was turned off, expressed in POSIX time.

E = The output of the following command when run on the default “hosts” file from a copy of Windows 7, Server 2008, or Server 2008 R2 and copied to a system running a recent linux distribution or Mac OS X: sed ‘4,8d’ | grep -cv ‘c[ao].*m’

F = The ascii character code (in decimal) for the portion of a line break (EOL marker) in Windows format that’s NOT present in the UNIX format.

G = The number of different FSMO roles that can be transferred using only the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in in Windows Server 2003/2008.

H = The permission mask in absolute mode for changing a file’s permissions to “-rwxr-xr–” in unix.