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