Saturday, June 23, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Quotes
"They muddy the water, to make it seem deep."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Love is something you do, not something you feel."
- Gordon Atkinson
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat."
--Confucius
(too cheem)
"The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper pictures of the garbage."
- George Carlin
(too true)
"Science is everything we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else."
- Donald Knuth
"Education is not the filling of a pail, it's the lighting of a fire."
- Yeats
"Being a graduate student is like becoming all of the Seven Dwarves. In the beginning you're Dopey and Bashful. In the middle, you are usually sick (Sneezy), tired (Sleepy), and irritable (Grumpy). But at the end, they call you Doc, and then you're Happy."
- Ronald T. Azuma
"That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."
- Larry Niven
"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft?"
-Christine Comaford (PC Week, 9/27/95)
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Installing Love
Found this on a forum =p
INSTALLING LOVE
Tech Support: Yes, .. how can I help you?
Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install
Love. Can you guide me though the process?
Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?
Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready.
What do I do first?
Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you
located your Heart?
Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now.
Is it okay to install Love while they are running?
Tech Support: What programs are running ?
Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge
and Resentment running right now.
Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt
from your current operating system. It may remain
in your permanent memory but it will no longer
disrupt other programs. Love will eventually
override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own!
called High Self- Esteem. However, you have to
completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those
programs prevent Love from being properly
installed. Can you turn those off ?
Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me
how?
Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke
Forgiveness. Do this as many times as
necessary until Grudge and Resentment have
been completely erased.
Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that
normal?
Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the
base program. You need to begin connecting to
other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.
Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, "Error
� Program not run on external components " What
should I do?
Tech Support: Don't worry. It means that the Love program is set
up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been
run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply
means you have to Love yourself before you can
Love others.
Customer: So, what should I do?
Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the
following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth;
and Acknowledge your Limitations.
Customer: Okay, done.
Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The
system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin
patching faulty programming. Also, you need
to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all
directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make
sure it is completely gone ! and never comes back.
Customer: Got it Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is
playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are
copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?
Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes
awhile,but eventually everything gets it at the
proper time. So Love is installed and running. One
more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be
sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you
meet. They will in turn share it with others and return
some cool modules back to you.
Customer: Thank you, God.
INSTALLING LOVE
Tech Support: Yes, .. how can I help you?
Customer: Well, after much consideration, I've decided to install
Love. Can you guide me though the process?
Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?
Customer: Well, I'm not very technical, but I think I'm ready.
What do I do first?
Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you
located your Heart?
Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now.
Is it okay to install Love while they are running?
Tech Support: What programs are running ?
Customer: Let's see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge
and Resentment running right now.
Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt
from your current operating system. It may remain
in your permanent memory but it will no longer
disrupt other programs. Love will eventually
override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own!
called High Self- Esteem. However, you have to
completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those
programs prevent Love from being properly
installed. Can you turn those off ?
Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me
how?
Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke
Forgiveness. Do this as many times as
necessary until Grudge and Resentment have
been completely erased.
Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that
normal?
Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the
base program. You need to begin connecting to
other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.
Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, "Error
� Program not run on external components " What
should I do?
Tech Support: Don't worry. It means that the Love program is set
up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been
run on your Heart. In non-technical terms, it simply
means you have to Love yourself before you can
Love others.
Customer: So, what should I do?
Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the
following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth;
and Acknowledge your Limitations.
Customer: Okay, done.
Tech Support: Now, copy them to the "My Heart" directory. The
system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin
patching faulty programming. Also, you need
to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all
directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make
sure it is completely gone ! and never comes back.
Customer: Got it Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is
playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are
copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?
Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes
awhile,but eventually everything gets it at the
proper time. So Love is installed and running. One
more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be
sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you
meet. They will in turn share it with others and return
some cool modules back to you.
Customer: Thank you, God.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Jung's Personality Test. .. rather, yet another personality test
| ISTJ - "Trustee". Decisiveness in practical affairs. Guardian of time- honored institutions. Dependable. 11.6% of total population. |
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
Sucky Singnet
So last month dear ISP Singnet sent a snail mail to me. Congratulations! In an effort to serve you, our distinguished customer better, we're going to bump up your 1.5mpbs connection to 3mpbs! For free! You don't need to pay a penny more! (Rephrase mine)
Contrary to nubs, who would rejoice and say yes! Omg! Singnet is the greatest! I was instantly aware of problems ahead, thanks to a similar move made by Starhub last year when I was on cable.
So the end of the month came and I got bumped up to 3mbps.
Any difference?
No.
Well there is... surfing became really slow. Just last week I would take 1 minute to render a wiki page on Firefox. Some pages are completely unloadable, giving the connection reset, or (in IE's case, a blank white page). Other websites have suffered a similar fate, having numerous connection reset messages, which I have to press refresh a few times to get it to connect to properly.
Oh you say, why not just use the proxy? It's faster and it loads the pages!
But it's dumb. I cannot type "google" into Firefox with the proxy set up. It would just give me a "Page not found .. not in proxy blah page".
Filed a complaint to Singnet. Wiki is like, well the basic basic access... If I can't even go to Wiki ....
Well lets say I'm perfectly aware of when my contract with them expires.
Contrary to nubs, who would rejoice and say yes! Omg! Singnet is the greatest! I was instantly aware of problems ahead, thanks to a similar move made by Starhub last year when I was on cable.
So the end of the month came and I got bumped up to 3mbps.
Any difference?
No.
Well there is... surfing became really slow. Just last week I would take 1 minute to render a wiki page on Firefox. Some pages are completely unloadable, giving the connection reset, or (in IE's case, a blank white page). Other websites have suffered a similar fate, having numerous connection reset messages, which I have to press refresh a few times to get it to connect to properly.
Oh you say, why not just use the proxy? It's faster and it loads the pages!
But it's dumb. I cannot type "google" into Firefox with the proxy set up. It would just give me a "Page not found .. not in proxy blah page".
Filed a complaint to Singnet. Wiki is like, well the basic basic access... If I can't even go to Wiki ....
Well lets say I'm perfectly aware of when my contract with them expires.
Of boys and men
So today, I learnt that a long time friend of mine transferred servers. Well this fact was not entirely unexpected, and logically it's a good move for him (for me too). However, the way it was done, and the way it ended... Would be lying if I said I didn't feel meh about it.
It started out as a disagreement, with me ending up ignoring him for a bit. It was a bad run, and I felt bad as my abilities were called to question. As a healer, it always feels bad when someone dies, whether through my own negligence or his own nubbishness. But anyways, so he sends a message about "this is my last msg to you" etc etc. And well, even though I apologised and threw the ball into his court, he didn't respond. Well so there, can't expect me to keep messaging him and stuff right? I have my own ego and pride too.
Actually, come to think of it, he reminds me of.. .well, me. Well past me. In the past I would do that too, once the gates were slammed down, that offending person would be thrown out of the Court (so to speak). Contacts, phone book .. etc would be erased and thrown out.
Good thing I've evolved since then, time and experience make good temperance. Lost a dear friend due to that, and that will always eat at me <_<. One of the people I cared about .. she tossed the ball into my court and I didn't return it... Well, fact was I didn't know how to do it, was too prideful then. Sigh.
So yeah, he reminds me of past me. At least I've evolved.
It started out as a disagreement, with me ending up ignoring him for a bit. It was a bad run, and I felt bad as my abilities were called to question. As a healer, it always feels bad when someone dies, whether through my own negligence or his own nubbishness. But anyways, so he sends a message about "this is my last msg to you" etc etc. And well, even though I apologised and threw the ball into his court, he didn't respond. Well so there, can't expect me to keep messaging him and stuff right? I have my own ego and pride too.
Actually, come to think of it, he reminds me of.. .well, me. Well past me. In the past I would do that too, once the gates were slammed down, that offending person would be thrown out of the Court (so to speak). Contacts, phone book .. etc would be erased and thrown out.
Good thing I've evolved since then, time and experience make good temperance. Lost a dear friend due to that, and that will always eat at me <_<. One of the people I cared about .. she tossed the ball into my court and I didn't return it... Well, fact was I didn't know how to do it, was too prideful then. Sigh.
So yeah, he reminds me of past me. At least I've evolved.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Granado Espada ... or the name no one can pronounce
So .. I picked up this game the other day ............ sigh come to think of it, lemme blog it to t9b...
Work never ends..
Work never ends..
Stats stats and more stats
Have been hit by the stats fever recently. On hindsight, damnit I should have put it in way earlier, that way I can get even more information on The Product™. But I guess, better late than never, right? Just TODAY. Yes today, dumbass, it finally hit on me to set up a conversion goal for Google Analytics.
Hopefully I'll have some results in soon. Google Analytics if fun actually, looking at all the data amassed. I've added one to my blog too, sadly the visit rate is so low, heh, less than 10 so far! Tsk. Looks like I must blog about more interesting things huh, to get readership up =p
One stat that GA doesn't seem to have is the time of a visitor's visit. I have numbers, I have time.. but mysteriously, for the life of me, I couldn't find an entry for time of visit... Sigh, had to cross reference with Apache's logs.. seems like the most time people visit The Product™ (assuming SG time I hope..) is 20-01 .. guess I'll try, if I can, to run The Product™ around these times and hopefully catch a few people...
Hopefully I'll have some results in soon. Google Analytics if fun actually, looking at all the data amassed. I've added one to my blog too, sadly the visit rate is so low, heh, less than 10 so far! Tsk. Looks like I must blog about more interesting things huh, to get readership up =p
One stat that GA doesn't seem to have is the time of a visitor's visit. I have numbers, I have time.. but mysteriously, for the life of me, I couldn't find an entry for time of visit... Sigh, had to cross reference with Apache's logs.. seems like the most time people visit The Product™ (assuming SG time I hope..) is 20-01 .. guess I'll try, if I can, to run The Product™ around these times and hopefully catch a few people...
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Servers and more servers
So today, BU shipped off an email instructing me to set up the new Server for The Product™. Egad, setting up yet another server.. So after lunch, I switch into server admin mode and start opening up my ssh connections to Astartes, the new server (I named her! ^^)
Whenever I go into "install" mode, I go into super multi threaded mode. Like when I finish installing XP on Resurrection and start installing drivers and software. Internally I immediately start to pipeline the entire process.
Graphics card? Check. Ok while installing that I'll install Winzip. While installing that I'll install WinRAR too.
Ok graphics card is done, install sound card. Install Java in the meantime too .. etc etc
Same goes for Linux servers. Redhat is my least liked distro, but it is my most used one -_-; After installing three servers with the same information, (well did 2 others in my old job but blah) I've come to the conclusion that all Linuxes are different beasts -_-
The first thing I do on Astartes is to check out the Apache (httpd) version. Hmm 2.0.54, *checks Gimli (the current server)* Ok. same version, Gimli's one is a tar.gz install though .. *thinks* .. well RPMs are fine I guess.. I'll just keep the 2.0.54 RPM.
*typeity type*
MySQL 4!? Wth.. *google* Ah, MySQL 5 rpm.
*typeity type* wget ....
Ok while that's downloading..
I need Tomcat ...
Oh I need stuff from Gimli too ... *typeity type*
*typeity type*
.. Damn php 4!? .. /sigh.. *googles for php*
Ok, need to configure httpd... Ok where the hell is httpd.conf. Nothing a locate can't accomplish.
Whoa.. wth. So many things inside this configuration file. Okay.. I'll just follow my little ol' documentation here.
Hmm .. I need jk_mod. Fine .. *google* Blah, no updated binaries. *downloads source*
./configure --with-apxs
It appeals to my inner geek somehow when I see text from ./configure to flying past the screen. True, no one can read what it's saying at that speed, but still it looks cool.
Finally installed and configured everything. All right, JKMounted the appropriate directories. Httpd should forward these requests to tomcat...
*opens the page in FF*
403.
.. Wth??
*peers at config*
Looks right ..
*types in direct url*
Page renders.
.. -_-;
After spending fruitless hours trying to figure why Apache wasn't forwarding the correct directory to Tomcat... I decided, screw it. Lemme just get a tgz version. Downloaded Apache 2.2 tgz and installed, copied the conf file from Gimli.. compiled the plugins .. and it worked like a charm -_-
DOWN WITH RPMS!
-_-
Bah. Well this post seems rather fragmented and techy .. heh. It happens when I install servers <_< nothing more exciting than seeing your scp file list.
Still need to set up cron jobs on monday .. zzzz
Actually I can do that now .. hmm ... guess will do it tomorrow.. If I remember the IP, heh.
Whenever I go into "install" mode, I go into super multi threaded mode. Like when I finish installing XP on Resurrection and start installing drivers and software. Internally I immediately start to pipeline the entire process.
Graphics card? Check. Ok while installing that I'll install Winzip. While installing that I'll install WinRAR too.
Ok graphics card is done, install sound card. Install Java in the meantime too .. etc etc
Same goes for Linux servers. Redhat is my least liked distro, but it is my most used one -_-; After installing three servers with the same information, (well did 2 others in my old job but blah) I've come to the conclusion that all Linuxes are different beasts -_-
The first thing I do on Astartes is to check out the Apache (httpd) version. Hmm 2.0.54, *checks Gimli (the current server)* Ok. same version, Gimli's one is a tar.gz install though .. *thinks* .. well RPMs are fine I guess.. I'll just keep the 2.0.54 RPM.
*typeity type*
MySQL 4!? Wth.. *google* Ah, MySQL 5 rpm.
*typeity type* wget ....
Ok while that's downloading..
I need Tomcat ...
Oh I need stuff from Gimli too ... *typeity type*
*typeity type*
.. Damn php 4!? .. /sigh.. *googles for php*
Ok, need to configure httpd... Ok where the hell is httpd.conf. Nothing a locate can't accomplish.
Whoa.. wth. So many things inside this configuration file. Okay.. I'll just follow my little ol' documentation here.
Hmm .. I need jk_mod. Fine .. *google* Blah, no updated binaries. *downloads source*
./configure --with-apxs
It appeals to my inner geek somehow when I see text from ./configure to flying past the screen. True, no one can read what it's saying at that speed, but still it looks cool.
Finally installed and configured everything. All right, JKMounted the appropriate directories. Httpd should forward these requests to tomcat...
*opens the page in FF*
403.
.. Wth??
*peers at config*
Looks right ..
*types in direct url*
Page renders.
.. -_-;
After spending fruitless hours trying to figure why Apache wasn't forwarding the correct directory to Tomcat... I decided, screw it. Lemme just get a tgz version. Downloaded Apache 2.2 tgz and installed, copied the conf file from Gimli.. compiled the plugins .. and it worked like a charm -_-
DOWN WITH RPMS!
-_-
Bah. Well this post seems rather fragmented and techy .. heh. It happens when I install servers <_< nothing more exciting than seeing your scp file list.
Still need to set up cron jobs on monday .. zzzz
Actually I can do that now .. hmm ... guess will do it tomorrow.. If I remember the IP, heh.
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