DRM does not work.
DRM SUX and EA SUX
- EA is now laying 1k+ people off. (source)
- Technology is one of the least hit by the current recession. (source)
- SPORE was the most pirated game in 2008. (source)
- Spore had the most controversial DRM in 2008.
- EA denies piracy is linked to their DRM. (source)
Coincidence?
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.
Valid XHTML?
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Why write valid (x)html / css?
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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.
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.