Meet you back here in half an hour.
What are you going to do?
What I always do - stay out of trouble... Badly.
Sunday, June 25
Yay!
Got a moment of piece and watched episode twelve/12 of
Haruhi Suzumiya on the new TV, which I'm very happy with. It has the usual contrast issues of LCDs, but not overly so, and the colour and clarity are wonderful.
Need to get my HTPC set up next. I'm typing this on my notebook's keyboard, but using the TV as the screen. Again. it's on VGA so it's not sub-pixel perfect like DVI, but it's more than good enough.
But first: Minx. I'm switching the munu comments system to Minx tomorrow, so there's a bit of tweaking and testing I need to do.
Oh, and a very good episode it was too.
Aargh! Stuck pixel! Stuck pixel! Didn't see it before. Stuck pixel! 
Red. It's always red.
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Fruitcake error just ate my F1 UPDATE! post. :-(
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, June 26 2006 09:09 PM (+FLIL)
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Sorry about that! Fruitcake error fixed now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, June 27 2006 12:28 AM (FRalS)
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Different Fruitcake Error preventing me from logging in to see if my F1 UPDATE! post still has some shreds left.
Will have nightmares about Fruitcake Errors.
Why 'fruitcake error'?
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The fruitcake should be fixed now.
It's a fruitcake error because people can accurately report that to me.
If the error message was "Problem connecting to database: MySQL returned blah blah blah", people would say "I don't know, it said something about a database".
When it says "fruitcake error", people tell me it said "fruitcake error".
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, June 27 2006 02:45 AM (FRalS)
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When it says "fruitcake error", people tell me it said "fruitcake error".Ooooh, very zen.
Posted by: Matt Navarre at Tuesday, June 27 2006 05:30 PM (+7Usq)
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Indeed, Fruitcake Error is gone. I'm glad that anything having to do with fruitcake is gone!
So, is there 'cheesecake error,' 'cherry pie error', and 'bundt cake error,' too?
Mmmmm... bundt cake...
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Heh, nice use of distinctive, easy-to-recall errors.
Getting usable feedback from users is 90% of debugging sometimes.
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Friday, June 23
Splatsville
Still having major notebook problems. I've got a 1GB SD card installed at the moment, and I'm saving all my work there rather than the hard disk. It seems to run fine most of the time, but it's a pain in the butt when it needs to boot.
I'll try swapping drives again this weekend.
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Wednesday, June 21
That'd Be Right
Bought a new media centre PC.
It doesn't work.
Oh, and my notebook died about thirty times last night. It may or may not be the hard disk. It was working this morning, but when I got to the office and tried to bring it back from standby it cold booted.
I do have a backup.
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Ouch. Your track record with hardware is still the same.
What sort of media centre PC ? Off the shelf or self inflicted ?
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Sunday, June 18
Speaking Of Which
Working 15 hour days, 7 days a week, gets to you after a while.
I haven't even watched the latest episode of Haruhi Suzumiya yet.
I have a brand new HDTV, and I haven't watched anything on it.
<Dies.>
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Posted by: Susie at Sunday, June 18 2006 05:03 AM (I8uqK)
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Ow. And considering how good that episode was, you should feel entitled
to go nuclear on the arse of whomever has been DDOSing you. Or
maybe just throw a big
flywheel.
Posted by: ubu roi at Sunday, June 18 2006 03:55 PM (Ydz0N)
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If anyone tells you that working 12 or 13 hour days are better than 15 or 16 hour days, you should disintegrate them. Because working such days isn't better than anything. Well, I'm sure it's better than being fed to copepods, but not
much else, really.
Welcome back.
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Pixy the Honorary Duck, you're being a hero again. Keep this up, and I might have to think about making you an Official Duck.
Or at least buying you a rubber duck and sending it to you.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, June 19 2006 03:33 AM (+FLIL)
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Your not alone in working 7 days. Its definitely no fun.
Extended periods drains your life of any meaning. I've only just reclaimed my weekends.
Posted by: Andrew at Monday, June 19 2006 03:35 AM (P5BFK)
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Hope things clear up soon - sounds stressful.
Posted by: HC at Monday, June 19 2006 03:46 AM (E1/LX)
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Hope you are able to take some time off soon.
Posted by: Christina at Monday, June 19 2006 10:21 AM (zJsUT)
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Hey Fearless Leader..
I emailed you, but... to make sure you know, here I am again.
Can't get to Munu itself, my blog or Mad Mikey's.
They're the only ones I tried and each time I get a 404 error message.
How is it I can get here, but not there?
Now I'm confused.
But, as long as you know about it, I will cease worrying and commence waiting patiently for things to be resolved.
(And, if there's anyone's ASS you'd like KICKED for this endless shit
you keep having to deal with, just give me a name. They WILL be
the victims of extreme (and bloody and slow and painful)
sanction/termination.)
Posted by: Stevie at Monday, June 19 2006 12:45 PM (NFGBF)
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I second the arsekicking, and there's nothing like the arsekicking a duck can lay down.
The Pond, too, is down.
:-/
Could be worse, though... Pixy's House is still up and running!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, June 19 2006 02:10 PM (+FLIL)
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Hi folks. Sorry about that.
The servers got rebooted - I don't know why.
The shared drive didn't start up automatically, so blogs on that drive weren't working. I've fixed this, so that in the future if either or both servers get rebooted things should just work.
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No need to apologize, Pix. We're getting better customer service for free than we'd get with just about every for-pay company out there. I think I speak for the whole of MuNuvania when I say "Thank you for being you, ya big lug. Have some toast."
Well, maybe not everybody would say that last bit.
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Yes
DDoSed again.
"Interesting" isn't the term I'd use, though. "Bloody irritating", perhaps.
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Tuesday, June 13
Wait Training
They say
that which does not kill us, makes us stronger and it must be true, because this morning I tucked a 27" TV under my arm and carried it home.
Okay, so it's an LCD and only weighs 12kg. Pfft.
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The Karma Kittens Come Home To Roost
My dishwasher just blew up.
I see a week of take-away in my future.
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Maybe you
did desecrate a shrine, or something.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, June 13 2006 12:50 AM (+rSRq)
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This may be a good time to overhaul, say, your gas stove. Before the avenging kitten spirits ever figure out fuel-air explosives.
Posted by: HC at Tuesday, June 13 2006 06:21 AM (Bgud/)
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I'll just stand over here... in the US... far away from you... where it's SAFE.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, June 13 2006 01:29 PM (+rGmJ)
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Are you sure it wasn't
actual kittens? Because mine growl at my dishwasher sometimes when it starts unexpectedly, visions of thrashing, possibly hostile animals therein doubtless dancing in their furry heads.
And, ruthless little killing machines that they are, they've already disposed of several other small appliances...
Posted by: TallDave at Tuesday, June 13 2006 06:21 PM (H8Wgl)
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Has anybody seen the crew of the
GSC Earth-Shattering Kaboom recently?
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Funny you mention that, I just saw a bunch of Special Circumstances types in a bar, and they were all giggling about something...
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Saturday, June 10
Karma: Piss Poor
Did I torment kitties in a past life or something?
Anyway, my new HDTV has not arrived. Yes, they called me yesterday to tell me I could come and pick it up. No, it's not actually there, as such.
Eh.
Okay, off to set up Apache 2.2 and stuffs.
Update: The other advantage of going for the borrowed word is that I could understand it as well. Context helps, of course.
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Oh noes!
Koneko no ribenji!
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How does one pick up something that is not there? What is the sound of one hand clapping?
*pause*
I never thought I'd hear Steven DenBeste say "
Oh noes!"
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Seems to me that you haven't heard it now, either. (ahem)
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I could have sworn I had put quotes around "hear". Hmmmmm.
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Blue Tuesday Friday
My baby done left me.
My cat left me too.
Can't get this code to compile
No matter what the hell I do.
I got the Blue Screen of Death Blues.
My server got DDoSed.
My hard disk got fried.
Got everything fixed, then
Movable Type lay down and died.
I got the Blue Screen of Death Blues.
Yeah, I got the Blue Screen of Death Blues.
Should have stayed home in bed -
Now I got the Blue Screen of Death Blues.
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Tuesday, June 06
Taking Stuff For Granted
Ten hours ago I was intently focused on trimming my search routine down to single-digit milliseconds.
Right now I'm just happy to have a working server.
The DDoS attack came back.
Fortunately, this time I had working NFS and no drive failures. Much faster and less painful that way.
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