I’m sorry, in the last week I’ve heard ‘terrorist leaving out his recycling’ and ‘bag of sand is a bomb’. People could you try to get some effing focus here. The chances of it being a terrorist attack are slim at best. Look at the track record – you’ve been walking around for the past ~20 years and you’ve never seen a terrorist attack in person; what makes you think that it’s going to suddenly jump up and bite you on the ass. London had for many years lived under the spectre of IRA attacks, yet they still managed to do their business most of the time (barring the occasionally delayed train due to a suspect device). Honestly, tiny, piddly city in the US that thinks they’re so important – eh, no, you’re not. Get over yourself.
little (and big) grey cars in the rain
Jesus H christ on a stick! would you people please turn on your lights when you are driving in the rain. You are about as visible as a snowball in a snowstorm when it’s raining. Take a grey car, add grey clouds and a greyed road coutesy of the grey rain. You think you could possibly be more invisible?
This rant was brought to you by the rain on the N7 coming back into the city. I never realized there were so many grey/silver cars.
nview is in conflict with copernic
Let’s see. I have copernic desktop search, which injects itself into pretty much every process that’s running on my desktop.
then we have the nvidia nview desktop manager, which is pretty useful in a multi-monitor setting. It also insinuates itself into every process that runs on the desktop.
The end result … they keep hitting each other over the back of the head.
But not the remake… if you can call it that
The remake of ‘The Producers’ is practically the entire original movie – word for word, with some extra musical numbers. I mean they didn’t even try with this one. You would hope that they could at least try, but Matthew Broderick’s acting in this was cardboard to the point of annoyance, not a touch on the original Gene Wilder one (simply without compare). Nathan Lane was a bit better, but didn’t have the right level of desparation that Zero Mostel brought to the original one. Let’s just leave Uma Thurman’s role out all together, and Will Ferrell deserves to be clobbered for this one. Seriously, stick to the properly low-brow comedy like ‘the ballad of ricky bobby’.
This is the end….
Sorry, that’s about as good a title as I could put on this post. Seriously, what do you expect after a bank holiday weekend. It’s Monday, and if you didn’t have to work on Saturday then you don’t have to work today either – I love the official statement on this, it makes my hungover head spin.
Well, I could not make it to Kerry this weekend. I have my reasons. Rolling exhaustion is the most reasonable item on the list – I could not make it out of the office before 6.30, which makes traveling on the Friday a little difficult. Then I got drunk. Repeatedly. For the entire weekend. Some of you know why.
I am feeling seriously self destructive at the moment. I put on the smiles, and I tell the folks that everything is all right, but the reality is that I am not a happy camper. It’s been coming for a long time, I’m just a tad slow on the uptake.
Evil steam keeping the prices jacked up
Steam is a great idea. You get to download your games and you can play anywhere that you can log in to steam. The problem is that the prices of the games are a bit on the high side. For example today Eidos have announced a load of their games are now on steam. Hitman: blood money is $35.95. It’s cheaper to walk into your local game store and get it there.
For some reason the re-release on steam pumps the price up over what you can get in the stores. And then it stays there. You get the occasional reduction in price, but overall the price of each game remains reasonably static for it’s life on the system. Which is frustrating.
It took me months to rip my CD collection
It was in my last full-time job. I brought the CD collection into the office. It occupied an entire large box in the office. I was ripping the disc on my desktop and parallelizing the mp3 encoding to a bunch of machines in the lab. It was easy. Honestly. God what a nerd. I even had the automated rip then eject so I would put the next CD from a stack of them into the drive. It still took over a month… and then there was the great hard disk crash of ’05 – I had to re-rip them all and some of them got frelled from jitter.
Foo!
The thin strip of HD
Until they occupy more than a 3-row strip of DVDs in the local shop I’m going to skip on them (more of acceptable quantity of titles!)
AMT is handy….
It’s just a shame that you can’t use it easily on Linux due to the lack of a driver to communicate directly with the hardware. It’s the replacement for IPMI. Complete remote management of your servers (and desktops and laptops) through an always-on network connection (that is as long as you have power going to the box). All it needs is to be configured (not for the faint hearted) and then you need a machine to talk to it. Unless you’re using a half decent windows server box (something that can at least pretend to be a provisioning server), you’re screwed as you’ll only be able to use it in small bunnies mode (business :). You can make a local ISO image on your computer act like it’s in the CD drivce of the remote machine, you can PXE boot it from the command line (easy installs; easy cleanup!). It cooks, it cleans and it even sends out SNMP traps when something goes wrong (except of course for when the power goes out). It supports a watchdog (but it’s not as easy to program for as the linux watchdog). Unfortunately you have to talk to the damned thing over SOAP. I mean really, wot are you like? It’s like using a butcher’s knife to perform and appendectomy.
Bugs in the process
It’s funny – the game seems to occasionally have a double image problem. I got a pair of alex characters in the game. One that follows me around, the other that acts like a spoiled child, being grumpy and causing problems. Last time, she got killed by a closing door and the game ended without me noticing anything. I loaded up the autosave today and it turns out I went a hell of a lot further in the game than I remember – I was really tired so that could explain things. I was trying to find information on the super io controller for the s3000ah motherboard (an smsc SCH5027), but can I find a technical manual for it? can I Frell! I reckon one day with the book and I would have most of the work covered. Love the world of can’t tell won’t tell.