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There is no such thing as a free lunch

Starting this week, our daily newspaper comes with a TV guide supplement. It is "free for our valued readers." And the very same day they increase the price of the rag by 10 ct.

Tin? What tin?

Found on a bag of macadamia nuts:

There is no rim on the bag, let alone a sharp one. And what tin anyway?

Holy sh...

[So Jan 6 2008] [20:33:13] <Cheetah> Okay. REG IST OFFEN.
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[So Jan 6 2008] [21:06:33] <Loewi> 300
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[So Jan 6 2008] [21:33:23] <Loewi> okay. eine stunde... 408 anmeldungen

More than 400 registrations for Eurofurence 14 one hour after registration opened.

There are more Unixes than Ubuntu

No rant about MacOS today, but a rant about software authors who apparently know nothing else than their favourite Linux distribution. I'm trying to get Mapnik to work. They claim that it now works on MacOS. On 10.5, perhaps. On 10.4 you'll need a newer Python version. Not at least 2.4, but exactly 2.4. However, both Boost and Mapnik link against the system python version 2.3 and install in the directories of version 2.4.

MacOS X is so much better than, say, Linux, right?

Apparently their scheduler isn't. I had an I/O and CPU intensive job running over night on the PowerBook. The system did not run out of memory. But it swapped out sshd, which resulted in the active SSH clients to time out with server does not respond. Which subsequently killed the running job. After six hours.

Two days...

...until the start of one week of Christmas vacation. And our customers are opening calls like crazy with the most peculiar questions.

Snap.com crap

Can someone enlighten me what the benefit of this Snap.com bullshit is supposed to be? I just see problems with it. It is against the concept of links, annoying as hell, creates a data trail with my personal data at snap.com (which could be used to blackmail, tells them practically my whole friends list, tells them which friend entries I actually read), might be abused for cookie-stealing, cross-site-scripting and the like, fakes page impressions at the target sites, etc, pp.

Returned the tube with the broken valve today...

Gronk browse Google Maps. Gronk no speak. Gronk take tube, look holes. Gronk go grab new tube. Gronk give customer new tube. Customer bemused but satisfied.