I find version control to be very useful and keep everything in it. From avatars for forums to plans for engines in the Z, to my writing, to my dotfiles (.zshrc, etc) and config files (vhosts for apache), and on down the line, it's got everything. The problem is, the repository is damn huge. It has gotten to the point where 'svn stat' (those of you about to say "use hg!" or "use git!" can.. git.) is taking a very long time. And, worse, I just found another 198mb of cvs repository I thought I'd lost that I now have to cvs2svn and svnadmin import. So it will be even bigger, and of course I don't organize things now the way I did in 2002, so it will take considerable time just cleaning up this new stuff that is, frankly, precious.
It's like finding a pile of your kids' art from when they were twelve. Or maybe I'm a narcissistic DINK.
07 March, 2009
06 March, 2009
dammit
The Urban Circuit needs not quite a rewrite, but a lot of fixing, and some chapter reordering. I thought I had a lot more material than I did. Skonkworks has a lot of content, but I'm just not ready to write that book. I'm going to cannibalize it like I did Limits and get some short stories out of it. However, Skonkworks (not its real name, naturally) is a lot more palatable and involves no "...ultraviolet feasts for the forensic apes..."
Meh. Meh, bang!
but, note, he writes.
Meh. Meh, bang!
but, note, he writes.
The transition to userless workstations
I am now 100% "userless." All the users on these machines are in the directory (OpenLDAP and krb, via Leopard Server). I log in to icarus and thunder with users from the directory, which is great. But for some reason this only works once. After that, they're unable to log in. I think this is because their home directories get un-auto-mounted when they log out, and wont re-auto-mount them when they log back in.
But until I see otherwise, I'm the only dude using Kerberos on a Mac, so I don't expect anyone to have the answer to this.
Oh. And leave the network (e.g., take a walk with a wireless machine)? Beachball city. Gotta fix that. Offline/cached files, or something. AD does this.
But until I see otherwise, I'm the only dude using Kerberos on a Mac, so I don't expect anyone to have the answer to this.
Oh. And leave the network (e.g., take a walk with a wireless machine)? Beachball city. Gotta fix that. Offline/cached files, or something. AD does this.
05 March, 2009
No, seriously, we tied up a fifteen year old girl because she was crazy.
Choice quote:
Via ProMed (see above link for the rest)
Centuriano Knight, the regional health coordinator for the RAAN told The Nica Times yesterday [3 Mar 2009] in a phone interview that 34 people have reportedly fallen ill with grisi siknis in the river community of Santa Fe, 7 people in the nearby community of Esperanza, and 2 in the neighboring community of San Carlos. The outbreak of grisi siknis, which has no scientific explanation, is the largest case of collective hysteria since a massive outbreak in the RAAN community of Raiti in 2003.
Ask yourself: would this work in Southeast DC?
The strange illness apparently affects young people more than old, putting them in a trance and giving them super-human strength, according to Knight and other witnesses. "A 15-year-old girl with siknis can overpower 6 or 7 men," Knight said. "The men can't detain her, and have to tie her up in bed sheets."
Via ProMed (see above link for the rest)
Centuriano Knight, the regional health coordinator for the RAAN told The Nica Times yesterday [3 Mar 2009] in a phone interview that 34 people have reportedly fallen ill with grisi siknis in the river community of Santa Fe, 7 people in the nearby community of Esperanza, and 2 in the neighboring community of San Carlos. The outbreak of grisi siknis, which has no scientific explanation, is the largest case of collective hysteria since a massive outbreak in the RAAN community of Raiti in 2003.
Ask yourself: would this work in Southeast DC?
Icarus restore
Short: netbooting; mac software.
Built a netboot image for icarus, my Air. Determined to get it right (like with jumpstart and kickstart, no point in continuing unless you know it works. Every time. Perfectly.) Here's the (startlingly large) list of software I've installed from the Leopard baseline:
My user account lives in kerberos-land, which worked for the first time, perfectly. I wonder what happens when I go off site. I'm way too lazy to find out right now. If it works right, though, other than network assets not being there, krb shouldn't have a problem with my tickets until they hit the expiry, which I set myself, comes up, in which case, I'll have to log in as a local user. A lot like AD.
This is, incidentally, by design. Guess who was first.
Oh, and having Leopard Server at the gateway (Echo Base, naturally, 10.3.14.1/24, the krb'd wirefree domain, is natted through LS) is splendiferous. All those patches are just hangin' out on the network, waiting to be added to a netboot image or added the old fashioned way. I don't gotta download jiggabytes of updates.
So, it's fast. What I can't get over (other than how obtuse Sketchup's interface is) is the absolutely huuuuuuge collection of apps I have installed on this thin, thin machine. I still haven't decided whether to install Lightroom and Photoshop CS4 after realizing tonight just how beautiful some of our Maui pictures turned out and what Photoshop can do with a NEF that Aperture and iPhoto <sound of spitting/> can.
And, so far, I've achieved, OS included, my 32gb target for the netboot image, and I'm using OpenDirectory to keep track of disk quotas (restricting me to 24gb so I know well in advance that the 1080i porn is filling up slash again.
Built a netboot image for icarus, my Air. Determined to get it right (like with jumpstart and kickstart, no point in continuing unless you know it works. Every time. Perfectly.) Here's the (startlingly large) list of software I've installed from the Leopard baseline:
- Office 2008 (word, excel)
- iWork 2009 (keynote, numbers, mathtype, endnote)
- iLife 2009 (iWeb)
- Scrivener
- The OSX Server admin tools
- XCode 3.2
- Chax & Warp
- Radon
- Google Sketchup 7
- Trolltech QMake/QT
- Last.fm
- Transmission
- MenuMeters (disk r/w lights for the menubar)
- Meteo (weather for the menubar so I know whether I can/should ride)
- (probably will install Songbird & rebuild & reinstsall)
My user account lives in kerberos-land, which worked for the first time, perfectly. I wonder what happens when I go off site. I'm way too lazy to find out right now. If it works right, though, other than network assets not being there, krb shouldn't have a problem with my tickets until they hit the expiry, which I set myself, comes up, in which case, I'll have to log in as a local user. A lot like AD.
This is, incidentally, by design. Guess who was first.
Oh, and having Leopard Server at the gateway (Echo Base, naturally, 10.3.14.1/24, the krb'd wirefree domain, is natted through LS) is splendiferous. All those patches are just hangin' out on the network, waiting to be added to a netboot image or added the old fashioned way. I don't gotta download jiggabytes of updates.
So, it's fast. What I can't get over (other than how obtuse Sketchup's interface is) is the absolutely huuuuuuge collection of apps I have installed on this thin, thin machine. I still haven't decided whether to install Lightroom and Photoshop CS4 after realizing tonight just how beautiful some of our Maui pictures turned out and what Photoshop can do with a NEF that Aperture and iPhoto <sound of spitting/> can.
And, so far, I've achieved, OS included, my 32gb target for the netboot image, and I'm using OpenDirectory to keep track of disk quotas (restricting me to 24gb so I know well in advance that the 1080i porn is filling up slash again.
04 March, 2009
Okay, so I need a $1600 amp for the Senn HD800's
So maybe this is a little better....
http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=17036+KT
http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=17036+KT
Those silly indians!
I only wish I could have preserved the font colors and faces. Seriously, I know a few real good recruiters. Maybe five. The rest of them are just dumb as stones. Here's one of them. And I'm going to protect the innocent and not give his name out.
Hi
Please put the things in writing requested of you below:
(1) Your willingness to work with us at $ 30 /Hr on 1099 all Inc.
(2) YOUR UPDATED RESUME FOR THIS POSITION
(3)Declaration: You have given Staffing Tree the right to be represented for this opportunity and that you will NOT directly / indirectly try to apply for this same job through any other party and that you have to go through Staffing Tree to be able to be considered for this job.
AGREE / DISAGREE:
(4) 1 Reference: Hiring Manager's name, Designation, Company's Name, email id and phone number.
Appended below are the job requirements and other job details regarding the project
My client in in CT has following position open for 6 months rate not to exceed $30/hr on 1099 all inc.
Key areas of responsibility:
• Create and maintain documentation in collaboration with corporate staff in order to facilitate the migration of existing corporate applications to a new data center.
• Coordinate, Perform and complete User Acceptance Testing to customer standards and practices.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical personnel.
• Work with applications using various platforms including client server, web based and UNIX back end database/data warehouse processing.
• Work in a diverse technical environment on software written in-house as well as Vendor supported applications
Strong written and oral communications skills, self starter, able to take an assignment and work independently.
Senior Level Experience Required in:
- UNIX, LINUX, Windows XP, Windows Server
- Oracle, SQL Server
Hi
Please put the things in writing requested of you below:
(1) Your willingness to work with us at $ 30 /Hr on 1099 all Inc.
(2) YOUR UPDATED RESUME FOR THIS POSITION
(3)Declaration: You have given Staffing Tree the right to be represented for this opportunity and that you will NOT directly / indirectly try to apply for this same job through any other party and that you have to go through Staffing Tree to be able to be considered for this job.
AGREE / DISAGREE:
(4) 1 Reference: Hiring Manager's name, Designation, Company's Name, email id and phone number.
Appended below are the job requirements and other job details regarding the project
My client in in CT has following position open for 6 months rate not to exceed $30/hr on 1099 all inc.
Key areas of responsibility:
• Create and maintain documentation in collaboration with corporate staff in order to facilitate the migration of existing corporate applications to a new data center.
• Coordinate, Perform and complete User Acceptance Testing to customer standards and practices.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical personnel.
• Work with applications using various platforms including client server, web based and UNIX back end database/data warehouse processing.
• Work in a diverse technical environment on software written in-house as well as Vendor supported applications
Strong written and oral communications skills, self starter, able to take an assignment and work independently.
Senior Level Experience Required in:
- UNIX, LINUX, Windows XP, Windows Server
- Oracle, SQL Server
Review: Lidoderm 5% topical patches, Endo Pharma
First, let me say that Endo makes percocet and its common generic, endocet. They also make a beauty called norco (10/325 instead of the usual 10/750). So, let's look at something important here:
What we can't do here, folks, is compare Mylan, Sandoz, and Endo with DJIA or S&P or anything. Comparing Mylan (currently under hostile threat from Icahn) with Endo is useless as their charts are near identical and they have a very high beta. Furthermore, Sandoz, the only serious competitor in this market except perhaaaaaaaaps purdue pharma, is privately held.
So let's get to this review here, because that's what I want to talk about. I just wanted to get it out of the way that you have any choice in your pain treatment. They got you, folks, by the balls. I went to a neurologist today because I may have some neuropathy in my back with the damaged ribs &c.
Here is what he gave me. Lidoderm. If you've ever had a dental outpatient treatment, you've probably been given viscous lidoecaine (2.5%) to treat, topically, the pain you have in your gums. We give this to toddlers who are teething.
So let's get started right off the bat with THEY DO NOT FUCKING WORK. They can be coaxed into working a little more than zero by having constant pressure applied to them, like by sitting in a hard chair (the granite chairs in the DC metro being a perfect example).
But this offering, from Endo, is pathetic. I'll carry a few in the "bike backpack" for road rash, along with quik-clot. Otherwise, though, it's a worthless product for pussy doctors who don't want to prescribe Sched II. Hey, you guys in that group: I hope you get run over by buses. All of you. And nobody gives you any meds. Seriously, BUSES.
Pain, folks, is a great investment. Endo. They make the drugs that you can only get by begging a doctor for, and only when you desperately want them. What better product is there than that? Even tobacco and alcohol are easier to get hold of (hint: their stock is in the shitter).
What we can't do here, folks, is compare Mylan, Sandoz, and Endo with DJIA or S&P or anything. Comparing Mylan (currently under hostile threat from Icahn) with Endo is useless as their charts are near identical and they have a very high beta. Furthermore, Sandoz, the only serious competitor in this market except perhaaaaaaaaps purdue pharma, is privately held.
So let's get to this review here, because that's what I want to talk about. I just wanted to get it out of the way that you have any choice in your pain treatment. They got you, folks, by the balls. I went to a neurologist today because I may have some neuropathy in my back with the damaged ribs &c.
Here is what he gave me. Lidoderm. If you've ever had a dental outpatient treatment, you've probably been given viscous lidoecaine (2.5%) to treat, topically, the pain you have in your gums. We give this to toddlers who are teething.
What we are now also starting to do is give the 5% solution to people with, uh, this sounds real insensitive, and I apologize – I had four dry sockets, and that shit hurt – but they're giving this mickey mouse crap to people with real pain.
So let's get started right off the bat with THEY DO NOT FUCKING WORK. They can be coaxed into working a little more than zero by having constant pressure applied to them, like by sitting in a hard chair (the granite chairs in the DC metro being a perfect example).
Otherwise, they're subject to the countours of the body, and to sweat. Within a few hours of applying them, you're left with a useless wet patch that feels not unlike a hairy lasagne noofle. Don't worry, as you worry with the fentanyl patches that the hundred mikes an hour might kill someone not tolerant, because these stupid noodle things couldn't anaesthetise a rat.
Endo's a great company, has always been a good investment, but I'm serious. I liquidated everything. Sooner or later I might be able to grow hydroponic opium right along my tomatoes and Savinas, and maybe sell it all as local produce.
But this offering, from Endo, is pathetic. I'll carry a few in the "bike backpack" for road rash, along with quik-clot. Otherwise, though, it's a worthless product for pussy doctors who don't want to prescribe Sched II. Hey, you guys in that group: I hope you get run over by buses. All of you. And nobody gives you any meds. Seriously, BUSES.
03 March, 2009
sky is falling. like, for real man.
Fidelity declined to give me a prospectus on any of my funds today. Co-incidentally (as in, at the same time, not suspiciously so), Sandy and I realized that the (very) high powered rifle scope and motorcycles are worth more than our portfolios, and more than they will be even if the market comes back thirty percent a year for two years, which will never happen.
Folks, I am officially getting 100% out of the market. I am keeping my rifle because the apocalypse is coming. I am keeping my car (the Z, the one with no motor in it) because anything with four wheels that can go is going to be worth more money when people realize there's nothing left in ^DJIA.And, by the by, I will never be investing with Fidelity again. Not because they underperformed, because everyone is. I am never investing in Fidelity again because I found out this way that they are about to be pwned by
So, really, is Tom DuBois going to have to channel Stinkmeaner and bust out some whup-ass? Save your money, they said? Fuck saving your money. Buy a rifle, buy a motorcycle, buy a car, stockpile ammunition, and never live below the third floor or above the fifth.
02 March, 2009
don't get me wrong, it's cool stuff
but I hope they laughed when they wrote this abstract (emphasis mine):
Summary: We present the first experimental demonstration of a feed-forward linearised uncooled laser at 5.8 GHz in a wireless-over-fibre system for the transmission of multi-channel broadband 16 QAM and 64 QAM signals over 2.2 km of single mode fibre intended for wireless LAN applications. We demonstrate that with such a linearisation scheme, a reduction of 20 dB is achieved in the spectral re-growth caused by a strong adjacent channel. Significant reduction in the error vector magnitude and improved constellation and eye-diagrams were observed. Intermodulation distortion is reduced by 13 dB when two strong channels are at +10 dBm input level.
01 March, 2009
Cuteness
This might explain it being unresponsive this morning. Hmmms.
Mar 1 00:00:00 thunder newsyslog[32007]: logfile turned over
Mar 1 00:00:11 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:00:11 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:00:41: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Mar 1 00:00:51 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:01:21: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:01:31 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:02:01: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:02:11 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:02:41: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:02:51 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:03:21: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:03:31 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:04:01: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:04:11 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:04:41: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:04:51 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:05:21: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:05:31 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:00:00 thunder newsyslog[32007]: logfile turned over
Mar 1 00:00:11 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:00:11 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:00:41: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Mar 1 00:00:51 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:01:21: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:01:31 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:02:01: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:02:11 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:02:41: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:02:51 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:03:21: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:03:31 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:04:01: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:04:11 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:04:41: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:04:51 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Mar 1 00:05:21: --- last message repeated 3 times ---
Mar 1 00:05:31 thunder kernel[0]: unknown SIGSEGV code 0
Just absolutely insane ideas, really
I'll have more to come when I've got 3-d models and the like (yeah, that insane), but right now, I wanted to share that I am actually happily living with kerberos at home, and that the directory administrator is using a very – very – lightweight web browser called Radon (which is awfully promising, in a way) because frequently all the diradmin wants to look up is "zomg why is shit borked," not "hey, I want to enter that pepsi contest."
To quote Colin, the software is tits. Which is to say, it's awesome, and nobody in their right mind wouldn't like it. Awesome stuff.