Max Payne
Bullet time is so 2001
Games don't translate to the big screen well. The same normally applies in the opposite direction. I believe that this is just as entertaining as watching someone else play the game. While watching "lets play" vides is something I commonly do, it is because I lack the patience (or skill) to do so. In this case, I've played the game, and there was little replay value. This movie is a replay, with little value.
I told you so.
Hard drive is filling up.
I have cacti running to monitor over nine thousand systems for some company.
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.
...and it does so damn well.
[12/19/2008 12:31:06 AM] syn says: [link to server monitor graph removed, you would not be able to access it.]
That... may be a problem.
[12/19/2008 12:34:40 AM] unbeliever says: y?
[12/19/2008 12:35:06 AM] syn says: it'll be a problem in.. about a month or two.
[12/19/2008 12:35:18 AM] unbeliever says: last guy said 4 weeks
[12/19/2008 12:35:19 AM] unbeliever says: 2 weeks ago
[12/19/2008 12:37:14 AM] syn says: ok...
No one listens, and so it became a problem today... imagine that.
My wife comes running downstairs: We have a problem, some server is full and we can't do our job. She was able to portray the severity of the situation. No one she manages could work. I find it cute when she tries to talk technical.
- Jobs restored: 30 minutes.
- Full resolution: 50 minutes.
- Total cost to the company: $15.
I hate myself.
Ya, screw that. I'm billing for the total time of my script to run. I'm am monitoring it... for the past seven hours (and counting).
Also, a shoutout to The Guy for assisting in password management and providing a file destination.
Under pressure.
The first president, black.
I don't care if the new president is black, white, brown, yellow, or green. As long as he is American, and has the same "American dream", he is welcome.
If he messes up, I'm sure people will blame his heritage. If he does well, the glory will likely be taken from him.
Just tossing this out here so that I can say "I told you so" later. I could take time to write out an essay on why I believe Americans are or are not ready for a half-black president. I'll wait and see what happens before I bother.
I'm ready.
Show us what you've got. Build from the ashes of Bush's reign..
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And I Told About Equality
An It's True
Either You're Wrong
Or You're Right
I bet the oil companies are pissed.
sysinfo.sh
#/bin/sh
# ORIGINAL INFO (credit where deserved)
# simple script to give a summary of system information
# Author: http://www.pixelbeat.org/
# Changes:
# V0.1, 16 Nov 2005, Initial release
# V0.s, 22 Oct 2007, Tweak to ensure cdrom info shown.
# Comment out partition info as a bit noisy.
# V0.syn1, 19 Jan 2009, Added free space info and colors.
Magic – Update
This is my life.
Read this first.
So I spoke to the person with the issue. I was able to resolve the issue, but not in a manner that was acceptable to him. To relieve tension, I won't be requesting payment. I fixed it.. but then his neighbors (I assume they own/pay for the internet connection) wouldn't have internet. So my resolution was solid, and my proposal valid, but because someone is stealing internet... It failed due to human elements.
Que sara, sara.
That `70s suck
Eric who?
I've been watching season eight of "That `70s Show".
It sucks.
Spoiler : no Eric Forman. Kelso is missing for 3/4ths of the season.
Valid XHTML?
I WRIET HTML!1!!!1!1 LOL
Why write valid (x)html / css?
DA IMPORTANC3 OF PROP3R (X)HTML SI COMONLEY SEN AS A COMODITY BY W3B PAEG DESIGNERS
THIS!!!!11 OMG LOL SI FAR FROM TEH TRUTH
FALEURA!!11! 2 PROPARLEY D3SIGN A PAEG ONLEY SHOWS UR IGNORANC3 2 DA LANGUAEG U CLAME 2 KNOW
WHIEL!!1!1 OMG LOL UR PAEG MAY MAEK SINCE 2 U IT MAY NOT 2 OTHERS DUE 2 DIF3R3NT DEVIECS BROWSERS OR SCREN SIEZ
A!!!!!1!! OMG PROPERLEY FORMATAD WEB PAEG WIL DISPLAY PROPERLEY ON A TABLET PC OF ANY SIEZ ON A WIED-SCREN LAP2P OR AV3N ON A MOBIEL PHONA!111111 WTF
If you understand the above and fail to see the analogy, go back to AOL in your IE based browser and sit in the cesspool that is your filtered Internet. Your stupidity is not welcome here.
Working Marriage
Oh no! Not like that!
My wife and I work together at a job that is remote.
My position is less glamorous than her position, and pays much less. I make up for this by working another job, and using my position at her place of work as a means to make some cash on the side.
I am technical, she is not. I make bloops and bleeps, and she makes people work. Our positions in no way have anything to do with each other. I couldn't begin to do her job, nor could she begin to understand what I do. Completely separate.
Recently she was told to go ahead and get the information I requested a(n) (un)reasonable amount for. Why? Who knows. It isn't her place to speak and understand technical lingo. All I know is that suddenly I was berated with questions concerning my proposal and asked to provide information prior to acceptance of the aforementioned proposal. I was taken aback that my own wife, the woman that I love with all my being, was being pitted against me. I reluctantly provided the requested information, and indirectly explained that I was hurt.
I fail at indirectly explaining I am hurt.
She is now very upset with me. Mending a broken network is my expertise. Sadly that skill doesn't transverse into marital mistakes. Perhaps time and humility will mend the situation.
Magic
From Wikipedia:
Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three "laws" of prediction:
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Tomas Edison: inventor of the dark magic known as incandescent light bulbs.
This is true. Sadly the same laws of magic are applied. When you know how magic is preformed, it no longer is magic.
It becomes a "trick".
People love magic, but hate being tricked. The psychology of this is could be argued for days, and I'm sure I'll eventually get to it.
I recently billed myself at $200 to accomplish a job. A job that I was confident that no one else at a company I am contracted for could preform. This is where the magic is. I have an uncanny ability to resolve network issues.
I was scoffed at for expecting so much for my magic. It was "unreasonable". Instead said company decided to pay two people (at an hourly rate) over $200 collectively to fail at accomplishing the task. I looked upon them with a large ego and even greater smile. Last night, they use my wife to get the answer. I demand $200, same as prior. I then provided resolution with in ten minutes of my wife messaging me.
Now I look like an ass. Why? Because I demanded $200 for five minutes of labor. They choose to disregard the fact that the resolution was solid, and that they had already wasted more than a week's time and $200 to fail miserably at the task.
I'm upset. Not because they were too proud to realize that they needed assistance until pushed to realization by their own incompetence, but because they used my own wife as bait. I have provided a service that is obviously worth $200, as it was paid to others to not complete the task in a weeks time. I accept that even I have flaws, and expressed that I do not expect payment if my submission does not resolve the issue.
... yet I'm the bad guy.
The conflict this caused between my wife and I is a post in its own.