The last few days have been busy, getting ready for this weekend. Talking to people about getting stuff moved and writing notices, making a few exceptions for people who need to be up, other things we can take down at the same time, etc. Then there's fixing things that broke before or making other policy changes... And tracking down a suddenly broken kiosk machine. Turns out some idiot swapped out the NIC (a PCI 3C905B) with an ISA version of the same card. Seems to work fine for us which is nice, but the old NIC is now useless and probably tracked on the local network. Given the history of most of our computer thefts, the culprit will probably try to register it on resnet or something, although this was someone who had the guts to go into the library with a screwdriver and replacement NIC and swap it out. They even moved the dust cover over to the old slot. They did leave behind the WoL cable, which is sorta funny. Last night was way too late reading work stuff and poking for the weekend. Tonight was a good break with movie night. A decent number of people came over and we watched Fletch. My Dock locked up today. Sorta weird, since that collapsed into Finder and then the Apple Menu. Of course then the WM locked and even Alt+Tab wouldn't work. I managed to open up a terminal window and kill it off, which also killed the window management and made all my minimized windows reappear. I realized this is the second time for that today. Earlier all my minimized windows suddenly restored when the background switched. I though it odd, but maybe it was predicting. This machine has only been booted for 5 days, what the heck is up with it? I also noticed that certain window/ui stuff was having weird lags today too (like a short beachball on opening a dropdown). I wonder how open that WM code is in there - I've been really annoyed that focus-follows-mouse isn't avaiable too, so maybe I'll have to go hacker mode for a while and fix it. Maybe I can start poking while waiting for stuff this weekend. Doing some miscellaneous new domain registration stuff I noticed that gandi now has some interesting antispam stuff available now. Sorta interesting, but obscuring the physical name and location may be a bit far... For fun stuff on one of the mailing lists I'm on there's been a "WTF?" thread for the last day or so which started off as oddest things found under a raised floor but has sort spread into odd computer stories. A short time ago someone posted this story. Enjoy.