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Forever?
Client: Dave, when I get in first thing I log into my laptop, then I go get a cup of coffee. By the time I get back, if I’m lucky it’ll be ready. It literally takes forever to login.
JustAnotherDave: Is that a metric forever or an imperial forever?
Client: *blank stare*
Recap
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything of any substance so I thought it might be prudent for me to post a bit of a recap of the last little while.
I took my brother and his gf to get Lego Star Wars 2 at EB games Wednesday night. They did the right thing and bought a legit copy. I picked up a cheap copy of the incredibles game (though the original, not the second one which was a two player that I thought I was getting and carla wanted to play…) A few minutes after we get home pete comes down saying he can’t get it installed.
After a few minutes of yelling at it, I start googling for the error and we realise that a large number of people are having issues with this release. It’s a know problem that Lucas Arts hasn’t released a patch for. Luckily, there is a fix for this, and we can thank the pirates for it. They fixed this a little while ago, and basically we copied all the files off the cd, replaced one of the files, burned that off and installed from our new master. Works like a charm.
Go Lucas Arts, you cocknobs.
Went to Edson yesterday for a pitiful amount of work. Though I did get to listen to a number of great interviews from IT Conversations. There were to guys I listened to that had incredible passion for what they were talking about (Asterisk and Identity on the Web), and while listening to them I was thinking to myself, I remember when I used to sound like that. Fast forward a number of hours and I’m on campus waiting for Carla to finish up so I head up to RATT and meet up with some LSD folks. Lo and behold, I find myself preaching for damn near an hour on the history of the open source movement. That made me rather happy as it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten to rattle of the tale of serendipity that is the coming together of the GNU project and the Linux kernel.
When I get a change to sit down again, I think it might be time to impart on the world my thoughts on the shooting in Montreal. I’m going to warn you all now, there’s going to be a lot of seething anger, and I’m going to bring up a lot of shit about Columbine that most people have forgotten. And I’m going to become part of what I hate. I’m going to take what should be a time for mourning and turn it into “current event focused prosumer generated content in the blogosphere”. I think I’m going to go puke.
There are no stupid questions
Just stupid IT consultants asking what an RFC is.
Update: I thought I should add an anology. So, I was talking to a Catholic priest the other day, and he asked me what I meant when I refered to the Holy Scripture.
It might be nagware
But at least it’s pretty nagware. I present to you the new WGA activation nag screen:
I hate wireless
I spent 4 hours on the phone, 2 with the senior support staff at Linksys, and I’ve basically learned that even though I had everything setup correctly, if I set back to defaults, and then slowly add things back the way they are supposed to be, it will all work finally.
This isn’t particularily a difficult setup, one router to cover the main floor, then 2 access points at the begining of the hallways hardwired to the router, two access points further down in repeater mode.
Associate with the router and it all works fine. Associate with the access points and you can’t ping the router or get out. Associate with the router, keep a continuous ping going and walk down to the other access points, and you stay connected. As soon as you stop that continuous ping, the router falls out of your ARP table and you can’t find it again.
Associate with the router, and you can ping all the access points, hardwired and repeaters.
Fucking black magic is what it is.
I should just note
Not 10 minutes ago I managed to walk into the door of the office. Not through. Into.
My hand slipped off the handle on my way to my car. My head met the glass. Punishment for not getting as much done as I should.