I seen this in the shop window of a fancy dress shop near where I work.
Luton Estate Agents
Mike Willis are a bunch of cowboys. We used them to rent a flat for us. I have never dealt with a firm that lied through thier teeth as much as these guys. Here is a list of some of their failings:
1. Failure to pass on money from the tenant on more than one occasion
3. Failure to carry out spot checks on the property as agreed.
4. Failure to advise us that there was a problem with the washing machine for over 4 weeks.
5. Failure to arrange an electrician to complete works on the property.
Do not use Mike Willis for anything, they are by far the most unprofessional firm we have ever dealt with.
Vanishing software
I recently came across this article.
Making that vital development decision
please don’t go off and read it. I was looking forward to reading it until I read the first paragraph.
I believe that within five years, all software development will be based on one of two virtual-machine technologies: Sun’s J2EE, which is based on its JVM (Java Virtual Machine), and Microsoft’s .NET Framework, which is based on the CLR (Common Language Runtime).
I made the interesting parts bold.
This article was written in “Jun 13, 2002”. What this means is that in a couple of weeks time 80% of all development work on the planet will cease. No more work will be carried out on Linux, Windows, macintosh, not to mention more than 80% of all dynamic websites.
After reading that sentence I was unable to continue. Anyone who believes something like that or expects me to is hardly qualified to make a rational judgement about J2EE or .NET.
Debian and ymessenger
If you get a dependency problem with ymessenger on debian ie.
debian:~# dpkg -i /home/harry/ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package ymessenger.
(Reading database … 156541 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ymessenger (from …/ymessenger_1.0.4_1_i386.deb) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ymessenger:
ymessenger depends on xlibs (>> 3.3.6); however:
Package xlibs is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ymessenger (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ymessenger
Convert the rpm to a deb package using alien as follows
alien -c /home/harry/rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
then
dpkg -i ymessenger_1.0.4-2_i386.deb
iGoogle
I just noticed that if you click on iGoogle from that point forward if you go to the normal google page it redirects you to iGoogle. What were they thinking.
Tandem Canada
Some people are mad and some are crazy but there are some people who we are unable to categorise. I know two of these, it’s Jennies parents. If you are wondering why I think they are doo lally have a look at Tandem Canada.
I am insanely jealous. Paul’s a fit bugger and has been cycling longer than I have been alive but it’s has to be Pauline that takes the biscuit. She didn’t start cycling until a couple of years ago.
Is DMOZ dead?
It has been more than three years since I tried to upload UKlug to DMOZ. I submitted UKlug to it again today. I am not expecting much from DMOZ. Is it just me or is DMOZ either dead or dying. I got burned a few times asking people what was going on with my listing but because it is a free service they treat you like the scum of the earth. Not a particularly pleasant experience.
Working at Yahoo! is like drinking from a fire hose
Stick with me I will get to the Yahoo bit in a minute but you need to understand a few things first.
I would say one of my main motivations in life is avoiding boredom. I abhor boredom
From webster: to regard with extreme repugnance
I could not agree more. I loathe it.
There are various reasons for this not least of which is I have absolutely no reason to be bored. There are a million books I haven’t read, a thousand technologies I haven’t investigated a billions trees I haven’t seen, a million paths I haven’t trod and 6 billion people I haven’t met….. you get the point.
So when I am bored I have got to ask myself if I am really bored or am I just being stupid. That brings me to my other motivation. Eradicating my own ignorance, I do this with extreme prejudice. I do not consider myself stupid or ignorant but if there is one thing I do know I don’t know enough.
Now that you understand a bit more about what motivates me you know why I joined Yahoo. As I mentioned in the title working here is like drinking from a fire hose. The amount of stuff going on is staggering and the scale of everything is vast. It’s the perfect place for me.
Delete /dev/md0
If ever you make a mistake with software raid and you want to start from scratch by removing /dev/md0, the following command is a good place to start.
mdadm -S /dev/md0
Then create the array again as normal using something like
mdadm –create /dev/md0 –level=5 –raid-devices=3 /dev/sd[abc]1
Test::Harness Confused test output
If ever you get this error when using Test::Harness check to make sure that you are not printing anything that is interfering with it. See:
Test Anything Protocol
Test/Item/m_find_using_term_ids….ok 2/90Confused test output: test 2 answered after test 2
Test/Item/m_find_using_term_ids….ok 3/90Confused test output: test 3 answered after test 3
Test/Item/m_find_using_term_ids….ok 4/90Confused test output: test 4 answered after test 4