Cognitive Displaysia

Real Programmers

2009-11-05T09:33:00.000-08:00

The Magic Bullet

2009-09-28T20:54:00.000-07:00

Putting faith in its place

2009-09-22T16:22:00.000-07:00

Great video.

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

2009-08-18T16:56:00.000-07:00

I recommend seeing this movie.

We did, and it was everything we had hoped.

Poetry

2009-07-28T19:19:00.000-07:00

Hot

2009-07-28T19:12:00.001-07:00

Greed

2009-07-25T09:35:00.000-07:00

Not Everything in America Has To Make a Profit

Today's vim Command

2009-04-02T11:02:00.000-07:00

:%s/^[\ \t]*\n//g

We painted

2009-03-25T21:01:00.000-07:00

Who wants to guess what color we painted the bedroom?

Credit Crisis Video

2009-02-22T12:08:00.000-08:00

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Stupid Technology

2009-02-12T19:40:00.000-08:00

More Uptime

2009-01-16T13:58:00.000-08:00

...and this, before upgrading the OS.

lib8:~$ uname -a
Linux lib8 2.6.8-3-686-smp #1 SMP Sat Jul 15 08:52:57 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
lib8:~$ uptime
13:51:15 up 744 days, 6:44, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Uptime

2008-12-30T10:52:00.001-08:00

I needed to document this before upgrading the ILS software.

ook:~$ uname -a
SunOS ook 5.9 Generic_118558-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
ook:~$ uptime
10:42am up 661 day(s), 13:45, 1 user, load average: 2.36, 1.73, 1.23

Below freezing top 5

2008-12-14T18:07:00.001-08:00

The temperature has been below freezing today. Here's my top 5 list.

5. Two dogs running around the back yard like maniacs, eating the snow and wrestling

4. Bad holiday movies (including a Doogie Howser episode), Alaskan Oatmeal Stout, and a warm fire

3. Almost no traffic on 33rd, while most of those on the road are chained up and driving s-l-o-w-l-y

2. People in SUVs doing donuts in the parking lots during the local on-location news reports

1. A guy on Alberta St. wearing boots, a hat, and a strategically-placed sock standing in his front yard to pose for a picture

Winter Weather?

2008-12-13T09:25:00.000-08:00

If you believe the weather forecasters (are they called meteorologists any more?), we're in for a weekend of cold and snow. I thought I'd left this behind in the Midwest.

Maybe we'll get lucky again.

Scotch Tape

2008-12-03T09:35:00.000-08:00

"New Rule: The rest of the world can go back to being completely jealous of America."

For those who would rather watch, YouTube provides.

How I Use Windows

2008-12-01T20:34:00.000-08:00

Using Windows at work means compromise. It doesn't always work and the UI often gets in my way, but I can often limit my Windows application usage to this list.

Launchy

PuTTY

Pidgin

Firefox

Thunderbird

I made this list because I told myself I wouldn't resort to installing Cygwin, despite my mind urging me toward familiarity.

So I am cheating a bit. A Debian GNU/Linux server is heavily involved in my day.

Perfect

2008-11-26T20:08:00.001-08:00

Interesting

2008-11-25T15:02:00.001-08:00

It's an interesting speech...

Vote for Lando!

2008-11-04T11:40:00.000-08:00

A Public Service Message

2008-10-23T09:17:00.000-07:00

"It's all kinds of constitutional, baby!"

I can't wait to start my new job...

2008-09-28T19:10:00.000-07:00

...so I won't be spending so much time finding things like this.

It's only been a month, and I found something pretty quickly after receiving notice, but being unemployed sucks.

Solaris - part 3

2008-09-05T07:33:00.000-07:00

Of course, the same drivers as posted previously work with Solaris 10 (x86).

Debate

2008-09-02T16:13:00.000-07:00

Solaris - part 2

2008-08-22T17:32:00.000-07:00

The 3Com driver is tcfe, available on the same site.

root:# /usr/X11R6/bin/scanpci -v | grep 3C920
3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller [Tornado]
CardVendor 0x1043 card 0x80ab (ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7N8X Deluxe onboard 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller)