Month: May 2007
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Notes on Windows 2000 Server Edition…
Windows should not be used for servers. End of discussion. OSes which have a Registry should not be used for servers. OSes which can only be configured through a GUI should not be used for servers. Three guesses why I didn’t get jack done today, why the entire office has no website or email, and…
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Leadership in educashun
Maybe their leadership was working too hard to go to school…
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MA’s haunted house law
Digging for an alleged MA/Medford statute that forbids renting out rooms in a single-family dwelling, and (unrelatedly) more than three unrelated people from living together, I came across this one. Apparently if a house is believed to be haunted, you don’t have to tell potential tenants/buyers that unless they ask. /me breaks out his infrared…
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Cars with Stupid Smarts
Note to self: Never buy a modern car unless you can disable all the “smarts†in a sneaky enough way as to not void the warranty. I’m sure the engineers who build in said “smarts†have the best of intentions, but it doesn’t do much good for confidence when a large, dangerous piece of machinery…
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And I thought couples in my tent sounded icky…
Had JK from work follow me home yesterday to borrow my tent for this weekend. So we’re on the couch shooting the shit for a minute, when all of the sudden…yyyyeah, holy loud moaning housemate sex one room over Batman. I didn’t know my housemate’s girl was a moaner :-P I guess that’s (per Murphy’s…
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Bulk update & APG testing rant
It’s been one of those weeks… seasons. There has been simultaneously so much, and so little, to report. Work is kind of the same old; it seems as though I’ve been spending record numbers of hours there, and yet, getting not a damned thing done. As for personal life, not much to report there either,…
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Trigger finger exercise
Got out of the house half an hour “early” today to mail some Drmn’ toys (turned out to not actually get to work any earlier, due to sucky traffic and the fistfight that almost broke out in the endless post office line today*). A couple guys and I nipped out for an early lunch to…
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A peek inside the Trancevibe “factory”
…mostly in photo album form. Click on the thumbnails for a larger image with description… Trance Vibe Assembly pics Not pictured: us Fluxing-off our actual panels, or screwing the depaneled boards into the finished product, or QA testing (with a pluggable test jig and motor…get yer minds out of the gutter). It turns out these…
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Protected: Darwin “Award” – dumb kid flips his bike, jury awards $41 mil
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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“You’ll always need something to fix.”
So I’ve been watching too much Lost lately. A lead character’s wife says this, as she leaves him for good. Beering with some friends last weekend, relationship and old-flame topics came up, and I kind of (re-)realized that I have yet to have a normal relationship with a normal girl, and be truly happy in…
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Fold or Scrunch?
I’ve seen this on a few of those ridiculously-personal-info-to-share-with-the-whole-entire-intarweb memes. Supposedly, this question, referring to one’s post-toilet cleanup style, is supposed to expose some telling detail about one’s personality makeup. Like you really wanted to know…I fold, and proudly at that: I know the approximate per-ply breaking strength, absorption rate, etc., and consequently, how many…
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Dear User, Something Bad Happened
I’ve figured out why the whole process of installing XP (sorry folks… the OS and its manufacturer are crap, but most of the good bread only works with their toasters) was such a nightmare. I gave a good hard think, and realized that of nearly a dozen error conditions that prevented this from occurring successfully,…
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09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Scenes a faire, or, the first digits of pi as expressed in various non-integer radices and rounded to the nearest integer. Any real or perceived resemblance to certain secret codes (yeah, yeah, generate your own damn volume key) are purely coincidental. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56…
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Verified by VISA
So while checking out at newegg.com with my dual-core bundle o’ joy, I got asked (or rather demanded) to sign up to “Verified by VISA” as a required part of the checkout process. So I grumbled, because it was another hoop to jump through between me and my new toy, and another damn password to…