Well, my vacation “started” at 5 today. Of course, I’m on call starting tomorrow and going until NEXT Friday. And yes, I’m still working now. No idea how long this will take. They’ve known since April (at least) that these servers were being replaced. When did they get in the office? I really don’t know [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Techno’
Work stuff
This post is going to help me troubleshoot something at work. I need a web page that I can change to make a test fail. The application does a lot of things. One thing it does, that I’ll test here, is look for a key word on a page. My key word is ansible. Anyone [...]
chmod calculator
So there’s something up with this script not wanting to run on the blog. The chmod calculator can be found http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/chmodcal.shtml
I’m about to show Valerie just how big of a geek she’s marrying Sunday.
Below is an app to figure out the correct chmod values. If you know what that is then this will make [...]
I am Iron Man!!
Holy crap does this look cool.
It’s also up much bigger and clearer at the Apple site.
NASA – Media Telecon: Bizarre Star
NASA – Media Telecon: Bizarre Star
More comments later.
Microsoft's AutoVista
For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, “If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would [...]
image test
I was looking through the image plugins for Wordpress trying to find something to do with Flickr. Yahoo photos is going away since they bought Flickr. Flickr has an easy way to post photos by email. Anyway, I found a plugin called enlarger that looks neat. We’ll see. Here’s a [...]
Homepage
I know, I know… it didn’t last long. I told you it wouldn’t. In case anyone is interested, I’ll keep this as a test site. It may or may not change much soon, though. Like I said, I started going to college. We’ll see how much free time I get [...]
The Four Curses of the IT Biz
The Four Curses of the IT Biz | Shark Bait
The Four Curses of the IT Biz
Topic(s): Floundering Users
Submitted by: renman – Wed, 01/10/2007 – 19:25
The four curses of the IT biz are:
1) If you do a great job, nobody notices. They only notice when things go wrong.
2) Nobody outside of IT really knows what you [...]
Know your System Administrator
The four major species of Unix System Administrators
1. The TECHNICAL THUG. Usually a systems programmer who has been forced into system administration; writes scripts in a polyglot of the Bourne shell, sed, C, awk, perl, and APL.
2. The ADMINISTRATIVE FASCIST. Usually a retentive drone (or rarely, a harridan ex-secretary) who has been forced into system [...]
