Archive for March, 2003

Seag[r]ate tape drives round two

Finally got our piece-o’-shit Seagate DDS-4 tape drive back from the shop. The second time. My advice is to not buy DDS-4 drives; not just Seagate ones but any DDS-4 drives. Why? Even though the front says IBM or HP, the inside is still manufactured by Seagrate. The last FRU we got was an IBM [...]

XFree86 “Crisis”

So there’s this big flap about whether or not XFree86 should be forked. Doesn’t it seem like we go through this every few months with every other large open source project? I mean some operating systems are a direct result of forking. And then you have Linux with its -dj, -ac, -my_dog_spot branches, and myriads [...]

mumbo-jumbo python docs

Is this supposed to be meaningful to anyone:

When an instance attribute is referenced that isn’t a data attribute, its class is searched. If the name denotes a valid class attribute that is a function object, a method object is created by packing (pointers to) the instance object and the function object just found together in [...]

koremutake

So I’ve been trying to figure out what this koremutake thing means — this algorithm that the shorl.com people are using to make their shorter URLs easy to memorize. I figure that "koremutake" is the representation of some significant number using the aforementioned algorithm.

So I tooled around and tried to figure out what the significance [...]

evading sales weasels

The web designer just purchased a curtain to put over the entrance to the server room.

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