What the hell, humanitarian dating?
This is going to be a very short rant. Please, anyone, describe any and all events that led to a dating site just for humanitarians. I can see some potential misconceptions, since we have vegetarians. Some people may therefore confuse humanitarians with cannibals. Has it gotten that hard to meet people who just want to [...]
Explaining race conditions
It can sometimes be difficult to explain abstract concepts to people who don’t have programming backgrounds. I was working on a really simple single system image cluster for someone, all that we had left to complete was the cluster announce mechanism and heartbeat configuration. The design called for a completely automated / self-recovering setup. Even [...]
What a week (and its only Tuesday)
Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. What a crazy week this has been and its only Tuesday! As a present, my wife got me a little hibachi grill that is safe to use on our concrete balcony. She also got me some charcoal and tongs! I began drooling while thinking about grilled burgers and [...]
Enough with this ’2.0′ craze!
It all started with `Web 2.0′. Through the magic of some curious DOM fiddling and clever callbacks it became easy to simulate the behavior of desktop applications via any modern web browser. This was neat. Then, someone decided that Web 2.0′ was a catchy name to imply a web page with shiny graphics and rounded [...]
New names for the OLPC?
Now that Microsoft XP is the new `official’ operating system for the OLPC units, I suspect that the meaning behind the OLPC acronym or the acronym itself will change. Some suggestions are already floating around: OLPC -> One License Per Child OBSPC -> One Blue Screen Per Child OBNPC -> One Botnet Node Per Child
Spaghetti Code
Programming Pasta | RavenCore Today, I enjoyed the most inane conversation of this year for sure. If you thought that “spaghetti code” was bad, read this. Corey blogged our conversation. Sometimes diving into nonsense helps keep your sanity. Its funny, laugh.
Goofing off in epoch proportions
I just finished re-writing one of my tools that will be included with my extended ext3cow tool set, something to help translate epoch (UNIX stamps) to standard calendar dates. The tool also settles races, telling you which file in a group has the latest modification date. For those of you who don’t know about the [...]
It always happens when you need to pee
I’m in the process of trying to re-construct what’s left of my home directory. I did something extremely brainless today (I knew better) that went horribly wrong. I noticed that I was rapidly running out of room on my root partition, when I did my initial install I just lumped everything into / , saved [...]
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