Tag: Complaints

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Updating Ubuntu over ssh can be dangerous

Setting up network-manager (0.6.5-0ubuntu16.7.10.0) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf ...
Auto interfaces found: lo eth1 eth2 ath0 wlan0
iface to disable = eth1
iface to disable = eth2
iface to disable = ath0
iface to disable = wlan0
Disabling interface: eth1 ... done.
Disabling interface: eth2 ... done.
Disabling interface: ath0 ... done.
Disabling interface: wlan0 ... done.
* Reloading system message bus config...
...done.
* Restarting network connection manager NetworkManager

And that’s all it wrote. I do not like NetworkManager – it is a piece of crap

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I’m back and working again (web-wise)

My old hosting provider downgraded me to an older operating system and facility so I’ve just made the leap to another provider.
I will not be recommending the old hosting provider any more.
hosting has been changed to fix the willing

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Support people and blocked numbers

I tend to not answer the phone when it turns out to be a blocked number, however more and more I need to answer the phone because it’s a confirmation of a support meeting.
Leave a bloody message

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Natural sorting order

Over at Coding horror, we have an interesting article about ‘Alphabetical Sorting‘, which is one of those problems that us computer programmers can’t seem to get around. I have one that’s even more evil than that. It’s language-based sorting for names. For example in Irish, we have a lot of bits that get added to the start of names (for example Mac, Mc, O’, D’, h). It’s even more fun than simple numeric sorting. The phone book doesn’t even try on this. I think it has people inured to the fact that they won’t have their name in the right place in the phone book.

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del.icio.us where are you

I can’t access del.icio.us from the house. Works from the office, and most of the time from the USB widget.
Hasn’t worked for weeks.
NTL ireland?

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Whaddya mean no https

Leopard is not spiffy:

$ lwp-request -x https://mail.google.com/mail/
LWP::UserAgent::new: ()
LWP::UserAgent::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::send_request: GET https://mail.google.com/mail/
LWP::UserAgent::_need_proxy: Not proxied
LWP::Protocol::http::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::request: Simple response: Internal Server Error
500 Can't connect to mail.google.com:443 (Invalid argument)

Update 2008-05-06: How I got it working for me. It’s not the cleanest, but it works!

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Been sitting here waiting for an iWork serial number

I could have sworn I paid for the damned thing a few hours ago, and I still have yet to receive the damned serial number so I can print my work. I got a serial number for textmate within minutes of paying for it. What’s so difficult about Apple that it takes them so long to get their asses in gear over this?

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Parrotry error….

parity error
***Hardware Malfunction

Call your hardware vendor for support

NMi: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error

*** The system has halted ***