Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Thursday, May 29
1,000,000:1
1982 1.2GB Hewlett Packard disk: $250,000*
2008 1.2TB Western Digital disk: $218**
* Technically, three 400MB drives each the size of a washing machine.** Technically, two 640GB drives each the size of a paperback book.
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What sort of scares me is that now even 1.2TB of SDRAM is an order of magnitude less expensive than the HP disk was.
Posted by: ReallyBored at Friday, May 30 2008 02:27 AM (rCCRy)
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But would you say those are EXACTLY a million to one? Because, you know nobody's ever said it's a 999,995 to one shot, but it just might work, and then actually have it work.
Maybe blindfolded, on one foot and with your off hand.
:-D
Posted by: tommy at Friday, May 30 2008 12:57 PM (Ffmbd)
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Pixy --
I missed class when the new instructions were given out...can'st you drop me a private note so that I can get the new R/J up to speed? (No, I can't wax political -- I still work in television, but some of the rules have been relaxed)...
Posted by: Michael at Saturday, May 31 2008 09:38 AM (tXnBG)
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Monday, May 26
It Was Dark
I was eaten by a grue.
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Yeah, that'll happen.
To be fair, though, you
were warned.
Posted by: Evil Otto at Wednesday, May 28 2008 08:31 AM (08dnm)
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You skimped the rite. I watched.
Posted by: Yahzi at Thursday, May 29 2008 01:45 PM (yn9dj)
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That's what you get for not using the Scroll of Refreshment on your rusty lantern.
Posted by: TallDave at Monday, June 02 2008 07:22 AM (/XDWj)
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Wednesday, May 21
Shoulda Known
That was the season finale of
House. (Part 1 last week, part 2 today.)
But while the second half of the finale of
House had some problems, it was better than
Bones, which just spontaneously retroactively self-destructed through force of sheer boneheaded idiocy.
Bones doesn't so much jump the shark as skin the shark alive, boil the flesh from its cartilage, grind the cartilage into powder, make soup from the powder, feed the soup to hungry beetles, blend the beetles into porridge, and shoot the porridge into the Sun.
Can we have the writers' strike back, please?
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I thought House was good... very evocative, anyway. But Bones... egads, what did we do to be treated like that?
Posted by: pam at Wednesday, May 21 2008 01:08 AM (l6NIn)
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The first half of the finale of
House was superb; the second half wasn't bad, but wasn't up to the standards of the first half.
But
Bones, well, ugh.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 21 2008 01:22 AM (PiXy!)
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Yes but even a weak episode of House is generally better than 99% of what is on television.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at Wednesday, May 21 2008 12:07 PM (R7LgM)
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I watched a few episodes of the first season of Bones. It wasn't bad.
David Boreanaz is always good. Just found it very uneven so I didn't go back.
House which I don't watch a lot of either. At least has an interesting mix of characters. If the story itself isn't great, the character interactions usually are.
Posted by: Andrew at Wednesday, May 21 2008 02:13 PM (/5NwX)
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I keep trying to watch Bones, because of Angel (David B.). But I rarely do.
House, on the other hand, we almost never miss. Although where in the hell did "medical hypnosis" come from?!?
Posted by: Yahzi at Wednesday, May 21 2008 02:58 PM (yn9dj)
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Pix, you ever watch Dexter? You should see if you can get the season one DVDs...or torrent them, whatever.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at Saturday, May 24 2008 01:40 PM (ZuzXA)
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Tuesday, May 20
Firefox 3
I thought they'd almost fixed the awful bar in beta 5; with RC1, it's back in all its craptastic glory. It's the most completely worthless "enhancement" I've seen since Vista's "A program wants to do something!!!" nag screens.
In Firefox 2, if I want to go to Chizumatic, I type a c in the url bar. That brings up Chizumatic (http://chizumatic.mee.nu), Cute Overload (http://cuteoverload.com) and other sites whose urls start with c. I hit down arrow once or twice, and enter, and there I am.
In Firefox 3, the way it works is, well, it wipes all your history and doesn't do anything at all. But after that, the way it works is, it brings up sites at random where the url or the title of the page or the name of the sites in your history or bookmarks or elsewhere in its tiny, confused mind, has a c in it somewhere. Anywhere at all. And displays two lines of text per site, so it wastes space and is much harder to read.
It's a complete pile of crap, and you
can't set it back to the old way that actually worked.
Zero out of ten for style, and minus several million for good thinking. Wonder if Innova Editor works in Opera yet...
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I consider the new history implementation a great enhancement in FF3. Type "chi" instead of just "c".
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wednesday, May 21 2008 05:19 AM (qNSKg)
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If that worked, it would merely be a nuisance rather than an abomination. It doesn't work.
Presumably it's supposed to work after you train it for some unspecified period, but that's no excuse for it shipping brain-damaged when the previous algorithm was better than the expected trained result anyway.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 21 2008 08:44 AM (PiXy!)
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Friday, May 16
Not Good, But Better
Found my lost first DVD of Card Captor Sakura. (Following my last move I somehow ended up with volumes 2 through 18...)
Also my wallet.
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Posted by: Brickmuppet at Sunday, May 18 2008 03:47 AM (V5zw/)
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If I may quote from the book of Ecclestone, 4:17, "Yay!"
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, May 19 2008 11:28 AM (xC579)
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Are we being brought to our knees by spammers again?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, May 20 2008 08:20 AM (+rSRq)
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Indirectly, maybe. It was the mu.nu->Minx updater routine. When I looked just now, there were three of them running.
That's not supposed to happen.
I've reduced its frequency from every 15 minutes to once every 3 hours until I can work out why it's taking so long to run.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, May 20 2008 09:14 AM (PiXy!)
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Thursday, May 15
Aigh! Bastiges!
Really good episode of House this week. Right up until it stops.
Darn two-parters.
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Commercial television.
Pixy. Your watching free to air ?
Posted by: Andrew at Thursday, May 15 2008 01:03 PM (Q+Mwr)
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Don't be silly! I torrented it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 15 2008 02:20 PM (PiXy!)
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I doubt it's being broadcast in Australia.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, May 15 2008 03:19 PM (+rSRq)
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It is actually, but they're two weeks behind. (Andrew is a friend of mine here in Sydney.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 15 2008 08:51 PM (PiXy!)
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And House is one of the few HD free to air broadcasts as well. Altho I could be wrong.
Hmm. For once being behind is an advantage. Recorder where are you ?
Posted by: Andrew at Monday, May 19 2008 03:03 PM (UahfT)
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Wednesday, May 14
On A Happier Note
SoftLayer, the company where I host mu.nu and mee.nu, has announced a content delivery network they call
CDNLayer. It has an API that I can easily integrate into Minx so that I can distribute static (and eventually, semi-static) files to 21 locations around the world. Admittedly, 15 of those are in North America and kind of pointless because that's where the servers are located anyway, but the others are in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.
Bandwidth charges are a little steep, but storage is free, and the account fee is only $20 a month. Definitely something I'll be trying out.
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Tuesday, May 13
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's a conspiracy to drive me insane.
And it's working.
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Actually....its a conspiracy to turn you into a hikikomori.
The insanity is incidental.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wednesday, May 14 2008 12:32 AM (RomKM)
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That doesn't sound good! Whahoppon?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, May 14 2008 01:27 AM (+rSRq)
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It's a laundry list of annoyances that have chosen to land on me all at once. Individually minor, but they are of a nature such that they multiply rather than just adding. So my life for the past few days has been craptastic, and it's only going to get worse tomorrow.
I'll survive. Probably.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 14 2008 01:50 AM (PiXy!)
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Monday, May 12
Sunday, May 11
Run! Run While You Still Can!
About to import the entirety of mu.nu into Minx. More than 200,000 posts, more than 1,500,000 comments.
Whee!
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