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Why I'm not posting here much...

ianagain — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:02 +0000

I've become more of a consumer of the web, instead of a producer of "content". I used to think I would have something to say here, and I did, for a while, and then, I no longer did. Life took over, no-one really wants to read my rants about coworkers, stupid corporate policy, and life in the midwest.

Also, I've been grooving on Disqus. Those folks have made it so easy to make up a funny alternate handle and comment all over the place, including Boing Boing, The Telegraph, The RFT, Wired. It seems like everywhere I go, Disqus has figured out who I am and logged me in.

And the snark flows. Just not here.

Dead Blackberry

ianagain — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:14:04 +0000

yay.

Neat Keys on the Keyboard: The Home Key...

David — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:06:02 +0000

From Sunset

So I have to admit that I am something of a throwback.

All of the fancy new keyborad shortcuts that people use for things are lost on me. I never had them when I was a kid, and they just aren't taking - even today.

I've been struggling to learn how to do something with my shiny new text editor at work (Notepad ++, if you must know) And I was sitting in my bosses office helping edit some HTML.

The story here is that he always asks me what text editor I use (I do switch them out occasionally to test new ones) and is always playing the catch up game when I switch mine around.

So we're sitting there editing our little HTML document, and these are the words that come out of my mouth: "Maybe you can show me something that I cant figure out: How do you move the insertion point to the end of a line?"

My boss looked at me aghast! "You use this key on keyboard labelled 'End'."

I sat there for a moment dumbfounded by my own lack of creativity, and attention to the keyboard in front of me.

It then ocurred to me: I was trained on keyboards in the '80's!.

By this time my boss and I were having a good chuckle over this, but here's what I said, and we both bust out laughing:

I said: "Dave, the '70's called... They want their keyboard back..."

I guess you had to be there, but it was hilarious!

My boss noted that there are several other useful keys, 'Home' being one of them...

It was inevitable...

ianagain — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:50:10 +0000

I should have known, having fallen in love with a wonderful woman from Mississippi, (It's a different country, really.) that we would eventually own a home deep fryer. Southern women and fried food go together like, well, Southern women and fried food.

So now we are the proud owners of a home deep fryer, warming up on the counter, getting ready to enjoy some of that wonderful Southern fried chicken that my loved one cooks. I can't wait. Om nom nom nom nom.

UPDATE: The first round is out and it's absolutely transcendent. Crispier, lighter, and oh so moist. Now I can make my own donuts, and somebody mentioned beignets. My arteries are sticking together in anticipation.

TSA Patdowns and the "Homosexual Agenda". Wait, whut?

ianagain — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:57:19 +0000

"It's the federal employee's version of the Gay Bill of Special Rights... That means the next TSA official that gives you an 'enhanced pat down' could be a practicing homosexual secretly getting pleasure from your submission," Delgaudio wrote.

Do tell, what is in this "Gay Bill of Special Rights"? Can somebody send me a link?

WTF...goat?

ianagain — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:13:43 +0000

Old cars are a commitment...

ianagain — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:51:46 +0000

Yay! The 17 year old volvo 940 wagon (turbo!) needs a new windshield. Some sort of highway detritus hit the upper right, leaving a chip and a growing crack. Hopefully I will be able to afford it before the annual inspection comes around in March.

Systems Administration is really People Administration.

ianagain — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:38:39 +0000

One of the end users that I support, is, to put it gently, difficult. You may know the type, passive aggressive, needy, can barely use the tools she has, self important, and overpaid. She's the queen of the afterhours nastygram, and never seems to be satisfied.
Dealing with this type of user is the toughest part of a systems administrators job. Keeping my cool and refraining from sarcasm is almost all that I can do, to say nothing of actually resoving her "issues".
I'm not sure what the point of this post is, except that it gives me a chance to not open up my mouth and insert my foot in it.

Weather forecasts still suck.

David — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:10:55 +0000

Yeah, they do.

The weather widget on my Droid is so bad, that i cant trust it. So what is the point.

Don't we have enough math to do this yet?

Even without math, we surely must have enough data. Hmmm?

New OpenLDAP Configuration Schema

David — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:09 +0000

With the latest version of LDAP, there are new components in the DIT. There are now elements that are above the root entry for any root in the tree. There is a whole tree 'cn=config'. This is all new to me. There are new Attribute Types: 'olcSchemaConfig','olcAttributeTypes', etc.