TDSS Fake Partition and Internet Redirect
Anyone that does tech support on a workstation level, may be familiar with a strain of a Windows viruses known as TDSS. TDSS is not commonly able to be detected by most anti-virus scanners out there, and can be contracted through a bad web link or even attached to an email. A brief overview of TDSS can be found over at the Trend Micro website. Trend Micro is known for both consumer retail produts, as well as business level products that deal with malware, spam, and firewalls. Kaspersky, another anti-virus product, has a free tool that is able to remove most versions of the TDSS virus called TDSSKILLER. This free utility is quick to find and destroy the TDSS virus, but a new strain has surfaced that has to be removed manually.
20th Ohio Cup
The Labor Day weekend at the 20th Annual Ohio Cup has come to an end. All in all, a great weekend of vintage base ball. Saturday proved challenging do to the high heat and humidity, and Sunday was no different with the onset of rain and storms.
The Ohio Cup, 1860s Style
In anticipation for my first Ohio Cup over at the Ohio Village, I came across a small article from Atlanta that advertises the event. It reminded me of how big the Cup is. The article states that there are around 30 teams involved. I received the playing schedule, and there are 5 fields with a total of 42 games played on Saturday and 29 on 4 fields, Sunday. The event is not small by any means by these numbers. A quick look at some of the teams playing in the event, shows people travailing as far as North Carolina and Missouri. Looks like this is a bigger deal then I thought.
Old Times
I was working on blog integration between Facebook and Twitter on the abbyandsean.com website, and I noticed this link referenced by WordPress in my dashboard.
Muffins vs. Cannons
On Friday July 22nd, I played an 1860's base ball game against the Capital Cannons, a team composed of the Ohio Senate and House. The game was played partly for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and there are some photos of the event at The Columbus Dispatch. I am not in any of those photos, however, I was in a news clip broadcasted on our local NBC news channel. In that video, you can see me rounding 3rd base at the 1:13 mark of the video. The game was also broadcasted live on ohiochannel.org, and we expect them to re-broadcast it on there as well as WOSU-TV in Columbus. When I know of the re-broadcast, I will post it here and on Twitter.
WordPress and Dresses
Visit Abby and Sean dot Com
I just finished the major coding for the website: http://www.abbyandsean.com. This is a wedding website based off WordPress that I made to help celebrate the coming wedding of Abby and I. I also can officially say, even to know it has been up and running for around 2 months, that http://www.dersoldat.org is close to being done as well.
Abby and Sean dot com has a completely custom wordpress theme while Der Soldat dot Org is using lightword which is found in the wordpress themes section.
A Switch
A few weeks ago, or perhaps months, I saw that there was the release of Gnome 3.0. I had also seen that Ubuntu had released 11.04 Beta. Feeling like I needed to get my fix, I went ahead and wiped my old 10.10 partition and did a fresh install of the Beta.
Streaming Technology
The other day Abby and I where watching TV and she mentioned that she saw a new trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2. Having and Apple TV 2, I decided to stream the trailer from my iPhone.
Blogging Again!
I never thought the day would come. I have thrown the old Linode account up and began hosting my blog. This time, with WordPress instead of my own hand written code. I lost a ton of old code from back during my prime in Linux. That also included the old posts. The only ones that I might be able to save may come from advogato.