It’s 2006 and this world still stinks…
Last night I had a hard time getting asleep and couldn’t resist thinking about the sorry sick state our world is in, the way that it is getting spinned out of control caused mainly by the corruption-prone mechanics of politics and economics.
About how megalomanic people are put in powerful positions and how they, slowly and [...]
Sure, blame some ‘hacker’…
…while actually the system itself is vulnerable as fuck.
It’s not funny when the feds come around to take all your hardware for exposing a three year old hole (which could’ve been abused all along). ‘Taking down’ this guy doesn’t really solve any problems caused by this poor system.
Technology is mankinds Achilles-heel, I tell [...]
How hard can it be to get the frigging time correct?
 by in General |
Last night I was thinking how insane it is that Windows has to ask the user whether the new time-settings (due to daylight savings) are correct — knowing that I don’t have to worry about any of that on my machines at all…..
Today, I incidentally discovered this old news that I didn’t catch before. [...]
Oops, I did it again….
| by in General |
Hmm — two quotes of the week posts one after the other… One would think I’ve got better, or other, things to do lately, than to sit behind a computer and rant about whatever… Yeah: I’m sitting behind a computer, coding (for both work and my private stuff)..
I always have these, well ‘intense’ sessions [...]
Quote Of The Week #32
| by in Quote Of The Week |
I don’t know where I picked it up and who said it first, nor did a quick Google give any suggestion as to who might have…. Anyway, here goes:
Well, anarchy is better than no system at all.
Quote Of The Week, QOTW
Quote Of The Week #31
| by in Quote Of The Week |
So I was watching the Richard Pryor 1979 Long Beach, California show that aired on the BBC earlier this month last night and I was laughing my ass off — he had me in some serious stitches, man. I once again realised it’s damn sad he passed away. But hey, death is just a part [...]
brain-tag.net
Don’t you hate it when you go and eat somewhere and the grub’s awful? Not because of the cook, but because of the ingredients? Or, are you (or do you know) a picky eater? Doesn’t it suck that it seems hard to find new menu’s to eat?
That’s what we were discussing when we had some [...]
Quote Of The Week #30
| by in Quote Of The Week |
Lately, I’ve been using the UNIX fortune command to populate a test-database of a product I’m working on. Not only does that give you some nice random data to work with; but you learn some stuff along the road as well.
For instance, the one that I ran across yesterday, by Wolfgang Pauli which I [...]
If they can’t even protect their ‘most valuable good’…
Reading about that ATM hack again today I was thinking this:
If they can’t even protect their ‘most valuable good’, how can we expect voting machines to tell the truth?
Yay — my patch is in the mainstream kernel now
| by in Software |
A couple of months ago, I had bought the SmartJoy Plus adapter to connect my two Playstation 2 controllers, via USB, to my PC.
Initially, it didn’t work like I expected (it presented itself as 1 joystick rather than 2). After some tinkering and debugging I discovered that there is some blacklist defined in hid-core.c which [...]
Jehova’s Witnesses at my door…
Ah — the joys of working at home… Not only are you able to do practical things like, be home to let some ordered goods arrive or go to the bank opened at times a normal person is working, but you also get to meet all those nice people trying to sell you crap.
For instance, [...]
Quote Of The Week #29
| by in Quote Of The Week |
I was reading about Spinoza the other day, and I noticed the following quote; a line which he wrote in his piece Ethics;
If a triangle could speak it would say that God is eminently triangular.
Quote Of The Week, QOTW
A new coffeeshop has opened in town I grew up in…
If you remembered, I once posted about my favourite coffeeshop being shut-down in the city I used to grow up in. The municipality shut it down because it was too near a school; and the owners didn’t have a, well, completely ‘clean’ sheet. (Hell, to me its a few home-dealers going legit, which is a [...]
