This has been said a million times in a million different ways, but the whole point of this exercise is to ensure that Bush’s war continues until it’s time for him to cut brush permanently. The surge can’t have worked because then it could start ending, and the surge can’t be not working because then it would a tragic waste of lives and money, so the surge is working just a little bit.. but might work a little bit more soon!
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good luck with that. As Gruber points out, if you run the same OSes as everyone but Apple, where’s your secret sauce? Dell *is* a cheap PC company. Always has been, back when they were PCs Limitedor you just recast the whole sentence. It’s an abomination no matter why gyrations you try to make the subject and verb agree.(tags: writing daringfireball)[yawn] and lawyers wonder why people harbor such negatives feelings toward them? Would frivolous actions like this have anything to do with it?
end of an era
If things go according to plan, when this system next boots, it will be totally rebuilt. I’m not even sure I need it for anything, other than its normal-sized parallel port connector.
The final task was to move the cacti SNMP monitoring system off it, and there have been some issues with MySQL5 and cacti. Turns out all that was needed to turn on MySQL4 compatibility mode.
That can be done on the commandline for testing and in my.cnf to make it stick.
[mysqld]
sql_mode = ‘MYSQL40’Everything else — apache, mysql, etc. — has been running a Shuttle XPC for the past few months. The Athlon cost $1000+ and the Shuttle, with dual cores and a bunch more memory and disk, cost $0, for comparative purposes.
The old box — a 700 MHz Athlon with a mere 256 Mg RAM and 100 Gb of disk — has been running since March of 2001 or so, here at my house, and from April 2000 to Jan 2001 at my doomed startup. About 2600 days or so. I suspect my electric bill will be lower, and the noise will go down a bit as well.
quote of the day
The tragic pussification of G.I. Joe:
What do you do with a grown man who is willing to work himself into such a lather because a fifty year old toy is failing to honor the past the way we expect our pop culture icons to? No, GI Joe is not f**king sacred to anyone, not any more than the X-Men or even Batman. This is not a travesty of historical revisionism, hell, it’s not even worth the kind of sputtering mouth-foaming that would be more appropriate for discovering a Starbucks in the middle of the National WWII Memorial. It’s just a new version of GI Joe that is designed to do what GI Joe was always designed for -to bringing money to Hasboro Toy Inc by the barrel full.
shut up and sing, I mean play
Matt Hasselback gets sacks by political activists:
“Politics can be very mean and dirty. The things politicians say about each other, and what activists say, I had a brief glimpse of that for a couple of days. If I ever had any questions about whether I wanted to run for office, I now know the answer — I don’t.” Matt Hasselback, Seattle QB
Hmm, let me see if I understand how this works. Natalie Maines expressed her feeling about the president from the lip of the stage at one of her concerts, to her fans, and she’s attacked as anti-American. There was even a movie made about it.
But two Seattle football players go to a political rally for a president who is deeply unpopular in Seattle, give him a Seattle Seahawks jersey, essentially endorsing him on behalf of Seahawks fans, and Hasselback is surprised at the reaction?
How is it OK in one case but not t’other?
In related news, the Seattle Times magazine has a big piece on the rise of what they call country music, which to my ears is just bad rock ‘n roll with twangy accents. The fans are quick to claim moral superiority for their preferred flavor of music, saying it’s all about family and faith, but I always wonder about people who profess a love of family and faith that strongly. The article quotes a couple of proponents who downplay the drinkin’ and cheatin’ reputation associated with country, but how far off the mark is that? Carrie Underwood has a big crossover hit that suggests it’s not far at all.
I hate cables
Specifically non-USB or Firewire cables. I have an old laserprinter, in all its parallel-port-requiring goodness, that I need to use and the machine it needs to be connected to doesn’t have a full-sized parallel port. So I need a way to connect the small DB25 HD15 to either a full sized DB25 or perhaps I can find a cable with a small DB 25 HD15 on one end and the proprietary HP connector on the other. Apparently, what I seek is a “half-pitch parallel” connector. And from what I can find, a gender/size-changer that takes the full-sized DB25 to its smaller counterpart is my best (only?) chance. So a female HD15/female DB25 it is.
quote of the day
Rich people always want more money and powerful people want more power, but you can’t give a happy man anything. He’s already got it all.
Give him a listen.
totality
This is the last of several pictures and the best of the lot: I won’t share the rest.
conscious living
I have been reading this Zen habits site for a week or so and it was starting to bother me: I felt like I was being lectured or admonished, gently but repeatedly. It seemed like everything that was recommended as Good was the opposite of what I was doing. On the verge of unsubscribing — who needs that much aggro? — when this was the link of the day:
Design Your Life: What Would You Do If You Had Nothing To Do?:
What would you be doing tomorrow if you retired today?
Let’s say you had a blank day staring at you. You didn’t have to work. You could do anything at all (although money is still a limiting factor). What would your perfect day be like?
These questions are more than just hypothetical questions to ask for fun or idleness. It’s an exercise meant to get you thinking about designing your life.
Well, that’s an obvious question or exercise that I think I am ready to tackle.
Continue reading “conscious living”recycled quote of the day
“Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.”
