There she goes, my beautiful world
Don’t worry if your eyes glaze over reading it. My eyes glazed over writing it.
I’ve been wanting RonPaulCoin(RPC) for some time. I’m not bullish on the currency, in fact, I think it’s a bad idea. Naming a currency after a personality, especially a living one (Teslacoin could be kind of cool) is a terrible idea. But especially because Ron Paul is such an anti-fiat-currency goldbug, I thought it would be funny to have one RonPaulCoin.
Back when RonPaulCoin was trading around $18 it was too much, even for the novelty. I … Read the rest
Totally unrelated to The Vampire Rule,1 today I got a practical lesson in PHP request precedence.
I’ve seen for years recommendations not to use the superglobal $_REQUEST along with a variety of explanations why to avoid it. These explanations stem from the possibility that one could be confused about the source of the information from $_REQUEST and end up getting some data other than the data one expects to see. It was exactly this reason that I have been … Read the rest
In case anyone is curious what it looks like when I try to get something done and my full focus isn’t on the task:
sanctum splicer$ sudo chown -R g+x .
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
chown: g+x: illegal user name
sanctum splicer$ sudo chgrp -R g+x .
chgrp: g+x: illegal group name
sanctum splicer$ sudo chmod -R g+x .
sanctum splicer$… Read the rest
My Moto Guzzi has been running pretty rough lately. It wouldn’t start on my trip into San Francisco for a doctor’s appointment the day before Independence Day and I had to get it trailered back to Alameda. A couple of months ago I had a similar-seeming issue which was an electrical problem, but this did not seem electrical. The starter motor turned the engine over with vigor but the darn thing would not catch.
Next on my list of usual suspects … Read the rest
It’s way past time for the rear brake pads on the Guzzi to be replaced. I’ve been putting it off for too long thinking that I don’t really use my rear brake that much anyway. Of course, that’s terrible reasoning for at least three reasons.
First, it’s terrible reasoning because I ought to use my rear brake. The front brake is always going to do more work, but why not let the rear brake do its part too? Novice riders … Read the rest
It’s probably a bit late in the game to be reviewing the performance of a four year old product, but one more set of benchmark results in the world can’t hurt much, and may shed some light on more general questions about RAID performance in different configurations.
Testing was performed on an 8‑core 2008 Mac Pro with the Apple Mac Pro RAID card and four 15,000RPM SAS drives. The drives were formatted in between tests and … Read the rest
The first rule of Photoshop club is: don’t let Photoshop use the system disk as a scratch disk. It’s a good rule of thumb and it has helped many people get much better performance from their Photoshop systems. It’s helped even more people think they were getting better perfomance from their Photoshop systems.
The principle is straightforward: Photoshop is prone to using more memory than the systems on which they run have. When modern operating systems run out of memory, … Read the rest
I admit it. I hate Microsoft Office. I’m constantly appalled at how bloated and complicated it is even to do simple things. I won’t write in Word, mostly because I’ve never been able to simply sit down and write with it. Maybe I’m too easily distracted? I know I don’t have the time to try to figure out how to simplify the interface by getting rid of useless toolbars and turning off annoying pop-ups that second-guess what I’m trying to … Read the rest
I was teaching myself C out of the Kernighan and Ritchie book (second edition, so you know I’m a poseur johnny-come-lately) when I tried to pick up Java. This was 1996 and my head was filled with «what if» scenarios that are still as absurd today as they were then. You know, like «what if all applications were OpenDoc components written in Java?» Which is second only to «why can’t we all just get along?» in it’s naïveté. But anyhow, … Read the rest
For background, please read the article from news.com.
I don’t know why I care much about the fate of Apple, but I’ve been trying to follow this story along, and I am hopeful about Apple’s future. Although I still wouldn’t buy a Mac for myself (we’ll see how their NeXT-generation machines look? I’m keeping an OpenMind on this issue 🙂 ), I think that Apple has been a great presence in this industry and that it would be a … Read the rest