Yes, I know I’ve discussed religion before and also placed that movie to George Carlin. But some people somehow still feel the need to ask me what my religion is. So, I felt the need to rant again. Here goes.
To be quite honest, I think that IF there is a god, he pretty much created the world and everything like I’d expect a college student. He took 6 days, which is obviously way too little to produce anything of quality and made it a piece of junk (et voila, we explained why everything sucks). Of course, when he delivered it to the teacher as if it’s one of those volcano projects, he knew it wasn’t good, so he tried to fix it. Considering they had already lost that damn arc that Noah built after he had tried to wash everything away to perform a rollback to a previous version, he decided that he’d give them a bunch of rules engraved in brick while the people he wanted to use as a proven build to move away from the rest so he could take care of business.
Of course, not everything went as planned and he ended up playing a GM in his own wicked game, banning an entire city with the nickname “So dumb”…which sufficed a namelock, but considering they were doing stuff he didn’t want, it warranted a ban for the entire range. Of course, players decided after a while that their GM was better than GM Mohammed and friends. It ended up in a bloody mess with half the server being torn down.
Seriously, even religion seems a silly game. Nobody should be bothered to play the game. Uninstall it and go play something else.
Me and my hun went to the fantasy fair last weekend and bought some fun stuff. A new coat for me, a parasol, dress, bracelet and … some torture device they call a corset.
Now, I’ve seen Pirates of the Carribean and know that you shouldn’t put those things on too tight (mind you…my girl. Not on myself). Still, the salespeople told us someone ended up fainting after putting it on too tight. Something with Darwin comes to mind.
Anyway, even though it’s fun to pull her strings and torturing her by making sure she can’t get out of it by putting it on quite tight, it produces a more troublesome issue: the corset is hard and isn’t cuddly, being quite annoying to me. A girl should be cuddly and not some hard thing under her clothes (apart from those obvious things).
So, girls who scream to burn bra’s…wear a corset and your boyfriends may very well start burning those instead. Cuddly is important factor y’know.
I really don’t know why, I don’t know how, but somewhere, something went horribly wrong. I have run out of power cables and have 4 hard drives running in Miko (my workstation) now. Fortunately, I have found a way to make the disks do something useful, because it’s way too much disk space than I need to fill. I’m considering to do an OS install on the first disk and make the remainder of disks run as a RAID5 setup. Miko has strangely been degraded from high-end workstation to TV/fileserver (mediacenter). Unfortunately there are no drivers for the wintv card for w2k3, so it’s rather pointless to install w2k3 or even w2k8.
Another unfortunate side-effect of Miko sitting besides the bed is that clothes tend to stack on her, blocking the air flow, meaning poor little Miko overheats quite fast (even after having installed an extra cooler) and hangs herself to prevent heat damage. When the availability allows me, I’m going to move Miko closer to the router and place a smalltower under the bed and install the wintv card in there.
(update: I bought a file storage appliance running RAID1, so Miko is now back to being a happy TV and doesn’t crash all that often anymore)
I’ve installed Vista…again. The first time around, I downright hated it. I like having matters in my own hands, so network configuration annoys me to no end, along with the fact that because the "welcome screen" can’t be turned off into the good old logon screen, which disables adversaries from finding all user accounts.
Guess what! I STILL hate it. It still has the same network discovery nonsense (I’m at "network place 23" by now), I still can’t turn off the welcome screen, the virtual machine blew up and Nessus still finds holes and the UAC still whines about everything and it still has trouble with drivers (try making WMP use a different driver than DirectSound)! I have bought a new laptop a while ago and threw Vista off the minute it came in and installed my good ol’ XP Pro. I’ve seen some of the promo’s for Windows 7 (Vienna), but I’m not convinced yet. But as the saying goes: Don’t talk trash about stuff you haven’t tried yet. So I’m waiting for Windows 7 to turn "gold", try it out and make a fair decision. However, I suspect that most experts will say the same thing as they did with XP and Vista: Wait until SP1 before even considering to change.
I’ve been stalling posting here for quite a while again, so it’s time to catch up with this thing again. More so, because I renewed my webhosting last week.
First of all, I’ve kicked off Tibia altogether. I simply can’t put myself to it anymore. I do keep in touch with some friends from the place, but don’t see myself playing anymore. And with that said, I’ve moved everywhere and nowhere, playing more games than is really sane. But finally I have arrived at this weird game from some French business called Dofus.
And then I fall in the trap of getting in yet another MMORPG. I never seem to learn. And without too much fancy footwork, I find myself in some kind of rank once again. I just never learn. And Tibia is a well coded program in comparison, IMHO.
I’ve been very lax about updating my site for the past 2 months. It has had everything to do with how much I enjoyed working at a city hall (as temp again). Apart that I could really use the money (bought myself a Vostro ), it has been an enormous relief how things move over there in contrast to the Ad:Gen matter I was shelled up against before.
The first day on the job, 2 mails (the first had a few typo’s, so my colleague sent it again) went around the place with my picture on it, so that everyone would know a new admin was in town. Everyone just kept greeting me at every 5 meters. Although it may seem a lot of time “wasted”, it does create a positive atmosphere that improves work and cohesion between the team. With the Ad:Gen project, it was a club of 30 grumpy people on a stack, resulting in “the best” that the best individuals could do individually. In other words: A major waste of time.
There’s quite a lot of things I enjoyed there, but I’d have to go in to details, but I’m feeling rather lazy right now (negative influence of grumpy faces all around). Maybe some other day. In the meantime, some tunes (reasonable this time) to get the mood up again after this frustrating day.
Today has been a bit different. Yes, I know the song from yesterday is an annoying and loud sound thingy that is claimed to be music. I personally don’t like the song,which is the whole reason it’s there.
Now to the point where today has been different. Not a single person had a login problem, which is quite noticable in the stats and the amount of coffee I drank today. Unfortunately, someone decided it’d be a good idea to send 1.33GB to a printer which clogged up the entire queue. Aside from where the hell that user got that disk space from (I can already figure), the mere fact that someone thinks a printer just parses away with that stuff is mind boggling. I also wonder what the heck was 1.33GB anyway. Just for comparison:
A text file: Usually 1kb or 2. No more than 64kb. (notepad restriction)
An internet picture: 1kb (Nullfix logo!) to 250kb. Lightweight is key.
A professional picture: Around 512kb up to 5mb, depending on compression and camera.
A movie: Depending on length and quality, between 20mb and 700mb.
My entire C&C Tiberium Wars folder: 1.33GB
Considering it was one file, I can only suspect that someone was trying to print a house…full size. For some reason, Peanut’s quote comes to mind: “WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?”
I’ve been holding my latest job for the third week now. Considering my colleagues went on vacation one week after another for three weeks, along with the fact that I only have two, I’m sitting pretty much alone in a large hall. Although I could turn the radio on, I’m too lazy to turn it on plus it would only be a waste of energy because I really don’t notice whether it’s on or off.
Even though user problems tend to be an interesting selection from the /dev/random pool, the time of specific problems are pretty much the same. Leaving aside the regular trip to the coffee machine, the day runs something like this.
Boot system, log in, open up consoles (especially the user management tool).
Take calls from users who can’t log in anymore (password expiry, account expiry).
Take calls from users with random calls. Usually phones or printers.
Lunch.
Nap.
Go home.
Although I don’t actually take a nap, there is plenty of time for it considering people get to “business as usual” in the noon. And when Iget this strange urge to turn on the radio, it may sound something like this. (WARNING! DO NOT CLICK BEFORE TURNING SOUND DOWN!)
Note to self: Do not hold horn above hook. If dropped during a lengthy (and utterly useless) troubleshooting session of the tech support of the manufacturer, things may get out of hand in a hurry.
I know I’ve been working out, but handling the Dell XPS M2010, which weighs about 18.3 lbs (about 8.3 kg for you metric people), such as flipping it upsidedown to handle the battery is just stupid. Note that these guys actually call it a laptop, which I find very hard to agree to. Not only does the weight and size of the thing require it to have a leather/foam handle (it’s the foot of the screen if you’re looking) to carry it around with, but the keyboard comes loose too as it is only held back by the clamps on the topside and some weak clips on the middle of the “laptop”.
The clamps of the laptop are electric, meaning that if you lose power, it will not close and will cause the keyboard to just fall off if you then pick it up considering the clips that hold the keyboard from the inside are not strong enough to hold the weight of the bluetooth keyboard. The only actual reason I can figure for someone to get this, is to have the “mine is bigger than yours” factor. I quite like my back in one piece and stick to a normal system or an actual laptop. Not some thing that does a poor try to be both.
And yet…some people use it. At least their secretary has me all figured out. So here’s her quote about me: You don’t seem like the kind of person who listens to Frans Bauer. NO KIDDING!
Cheers, Drek
