My personal advice
"Don't write shitty code." -Sims
Tuesday 04 November 2008 at 08:53 am
Why remove such a valuable resource? I could not find them on their servers anywhere. One use of md5sums is to calculate the md5sum of all the data in a file. Then after you copy the file, you can calculate the md5sum of the copy. If the md5um of the original matches the md5sum of the copy, then the two files are identical. If they are different, something must have happened to corrupt the data during the copy opertation.
This is very handy to verify if the file you've just downloaded is not corrupt. Why ubuntu doesn't have the md5sums for their CDROM iso image files on their website is beyond me.
If they do exist, please point me to them.
Monday 03 November 2008 at 03:07 am
So, my site isn't down as I thought it was. Anyone who came here might have thought I fell of the planet. I did, but that's not the reason why there is no recent news. I can't access this page from my ISPs BS connection. So now I'm tunneling through an SSH connection.
Sarcasm aside, here is something ammusing from my SVN logs:
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Thursday 09 October 2008 at 12:54 am
Look, I really don't want to be annoyed and upset. I really don't want to have to deal with your crap.
OK, that didn't start out too well. Let's try again.
I've come here to vent. On a day to day basis, I can usually ignore those people that would normally annoy me. In fact, I can even work with them from a distance. I might even be able to share a chuckle with them from time to time. However, coding is an entirely different issue, and when I have to deal with shit code and botched systems, it's really not good for my health.
Not many people will read this. Of those that do, only a few will probably share the same sentiment. So, I guess writing this is more of an exercise in venting. After all, the rest of the day might be more tollerable. In the slight chance that you are a programmer, you may learn something, or you may just have a good laugh.
Please, dear programmers all over the world, listen up. Don't write shitty code. It's just not natural. It's corny. It's awkward. It's not cool. If you do, you are a looser. There have been many books written on the subject. I don't need to repeat anything. So, just don't write bull shit. OK there it is. I think it might boil down this: You're just not cut out for it and you're bull shitting your employer or whoever. I know you can make some money doing something that many others cannot. However, that is no excuse to program. Program because you're lazy. Program because you're creative. Program because you like systems. Program because you like numbers. Don't program because you need money. Don't program because you think you are clever. Because if you are doing that, you are probably pissing off the rest of us who have to come along and deal with your kludges. I may have to hack together something here or there. However, I don't go making systems if my knowledge of the subject is poor, and I surely won't sell it. Large software corporations come to mind. Damn those greedy fuckers.
OK I'm done. Have a nice day!
Thursday 02 October 2008 at 08:19 am
OK, so this is my MS rant for the day.
So you go throught the trouble of turning off the animated character(A.K.A. making the dog jump off a cliff). Then you "Change files and folders search behavior" to "Advanced"(my ass). Then you are using the "Search Companion", as it's titled, in Windows Explorer and you use the "A word or phrase in the file" field, it will not return... well it's broken... or maybe it's a feature.
Stupid turd.
OK good night
Tuesday 19 August 2008 at 08:17 am
I usually don't go picking on software developers, but what the what is this? I find while snooping around an old company PC in need of an overhaul. The last "IT guy", as they affectionatly refer to him, used this machine, and it is filled with such junk as the "War FTP Daemon".
From the War FTP Daemon help file:
"About War FTP Daemon 1.70
I started writing War FTP daemon back in November 1995, after realizing that there was no decent freeware FTP server for Windows. In fact, at that time there was no freeware FTP server at all, - only a number of crippled shareware servers, that really didn't impress me too much."
What a dim wit. What a load of pure turd. Or maybe he's just blatant liar. Fumb duck.
OK wait up. Maybe 1995 was really the darkages. However I do remember using an ftp daemon with the ubiquitous Redhat.
Friday 01 August 2008 at 11:51 am
Or something along the same lines.
I've always been a proponent of keeping meticulous spending records. I've never been really sure why. I've always said that I need to know how much money I can spend or how I can save. Analysis is great. However, I think I now know the real reason.
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Thursday 17 July 2008 at 2:54 pm
Or maybe you can see it. What makes something look beautiful? Is it some random quantity? What makes harmony or disonance between notes? Maybe your eyes can fool you, but my ears do not fool me. The timed intervals, and the proportionately spaced frequencies paint pictures that your eye can never see. What of the sound of nature? Or perfectly proportionate green trees of all shapes and sizes? Can you see the numbers in the flower? Or what about the human figure? A face? A body? What factors in the system do you adjust to change a character? And what disproportions can be measured in relation to beautiful proportions?
Count the numbers of this resonating sound.
I wonder how long humans will continue to worship the imperfections of their fantasies. Numbers are good enough for me. ;)
Monday 07 July 2008 at 07:37 am
...read this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7487060.stm
(A standard anti-greed rant goes here.)
Wednesday 02 July 2008 at 08:55 am
...and maybe yours too.
So I was sitting here at my desk in this hot office because some of the staff do not want to have the air conditioner on because they think it's cold. When it's hot, I get tired. So I was thinking about OTRS and if the ability to change owner really was such a necesarry permission and how important it was. My first though was that it wasn't such an "elevated" permission or ability. Mind you, I'm thinking this as I am half asleep dosing off. Then I think about file ownership and how realistically only root can chown. Suddenly one thought sort of vaporised the other. That is all happening as I am slipping deeper into sleep and my brain waves are slowing down. So the end result was obviously more lucid and visual.
The thoughts were like white hot rings. Not sure what the hell that means. It's just the last image in my mind before I woke up. You see, I was so amazed that I might have "seen" a thought process, I pulled out of the sleep. I guess I had been wavering on the threshold of sleep for about 10 minutes by then and fighting it off.
That probably explains why we have a tendency to become attached to our ideas. Because changing opinion, destroys a thought. One thought conquers the other. At least in my brain it did. Or was it my mind? Hrmm... not sure. I'll let you ponder that. ;)
Wednesday 02 July 2008 at 02:25 am
OK, so when I use the big orb thingy to Orb >Send > Email, Excel and and Outlook is locked up until I've sent that email. I tried it with Word - same thing.
I don't read the marketing hype, but if you do, see if they included the above occurence... And they sell us this stuff. :/
I used to always trash talk Billy G. - until I read this:
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp
Rock on dude, but your software still sucks - sorry.
