Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
Congress Approves Surveillance Measures | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
I agree 100% with Ed Albaugh: “You won’t need to eavesdrop to hear this: I voted for you assholes because you said you were against shit like this.” (Well, in my case substitute “gave money to” for “voted for”.)
When installing this new machine, I picked Ubuntu as the Linux distro, because the people in LUGOR are all full of praise for it. But after the debacle with trying to get X working (which was solved by discovered a boot time option “nodcc”), I have been having my doubts. And now I’ve discovered a couple of other things to hate about it.
if [ -n "$PROVIDER " ] – the space after the PROVIDER ensures that the test will never be false. Good one, guys.I’m starting to wish I’d stuck with Debian.
Thanks to Burningbird, I have the new WordPress security upgrade (security status “OMGWTFBBQ!”) installed less than 8 hours after it was announced. Suck it, cross site script hackers.
One of the “joys” of working in a large, old, poorly maintained and shrinking chemical plant is the constant barrage of dangerous chemical smells. I used to walk from the parking lot to the entrance under a pipe bridge that carried a bunch of pipes, one of which was labelled “Ketone”. There was often a strong smell of aromatic hydrocarbons under that bridge.
Today, just after I’d posted my previous posting, three company firemen were standing in front of my cube, wearing breathing tanks on their backs (but thankfully not using them). One of my co-workers came by and said he’d reported a nasty smell and something dripping onto his desk from the ceiling above, and they’d come out.
You know those silly corporate IT security rules? The ones that they say are there to prevent you from accidentally turning your company computer into a spam bot or exposing company data to thieves or infesting the corporate network with viruses? Well, since that’s just gobbledygook to you, obviously you can subvert those rules with impunity, right?
Ten Things Your IT Department Won’t Tell You – WSJ.com
I’ve got an idea – try all 10 of those ideas and see how long you keep your job. If you’re lucky, you won’t end up in jail for it, but good luck getting another job that involves a computer more sophisticated than a McDonalds cash register.