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You Should Not Be Allowed to Use Computers Anymore If...

Mon, 2009/02/09 - 11:57pm
You should not be allowed to use computers anymore if you:
  • Cannot follow illustrated directions.
  • Think the "www" is a required part of any web address.
  • Refer to your computer as "the CPU" or "the hard drive."
  • Don't understand the difference between a mail server and a web server.
  • Think "the web" and "the Internet" are synonyms.

Things I Have to Learned to Accept

Wed, 2009/02/04 - 12:40pm
...or reasons to get out of IT - depending on how attached I'm feeling to that "regular pay-cheque" thing at the moment.

    ghoti

    Wed, 2009/01/28 - 10:01am

    The old adage:

    Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

    — Lao Tzu, founder of taoism

    The old adage as it applies to IT:

    Give a man a fish, he'll shut up and get out of your face. Teach a man to fish, and he'll fall out of the boat, scare away all the fish, break the fishing pole, deny any responsibility, blame you, and demand you immediately give him more fish, a better fishing pole, and a faster boat.


    Useful IT Tip

    Fri, 2008/02/08 - 12:08pm

    Underneath a desk were it is too dark to see WTF you are doing when plugging in a cable, a Blackberry displaying a mostly white screen makes an effective light source.

    Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/841553.html


    Go Crawl Yourself

    Tue, 2008/01/01 - 3:25pm


    First off, happy new year, blah, blah, blah, [insert navel-gazing year-in-review/big-plans-for-2008 post here]. There, that's done.

    At the moment I'm working on some post-relaunch tweaks for Gothic BC and was looking at the logs. In between the people who think I get up at 6:00 a.m. after getting in from the club at 5:00 a.m. and am going to magically download and catalogue 400 photos off my camera, weed through them for the 150 or so worth posting, processes them, and have them posted on the site by 6:15 a.m. (reality: I got up about an hour ago and the camera is still in the bag) who are already scouring the site for last night's pictures, there are a gazillion hits from someone crawling the site for video content with a VEOH client.

    This is uncool. First off, there is no video content on Gothic BC, nor will there be for some time to come, if ever. Secondly, as I understand it VEOH is effectively a P2P service which would mean I could potentially have dozens of these clients crawling the site effectively amounting to, given my limited bandwidth, a DDoS attack. No thanks.

    Apache rewrite module to the rescue:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} veoh [NC]

    RewriteRule .* http://www.veoh.com/ [F,L]


    Best Mac Laser Etching Ever

    Fri, 2007/12/28 - 10:09am

    From Gizmodo UK... it's from  post that's a year and a half old, but I just came across it.

    Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/836422.html


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