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Fed by Birds
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The language of cities
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Insane NAS permissions problem
Things Of Interest (10 unread)
Posted: March 1st, 2010, 9:58pm EST
Blog » I don't usually admit defeat in a technological showdown but this one may have killed me. I have a Windows 7 computer and a wireless router provided by my ISP. Attached to the router (via a wire) is a piece of NAS, a 1TB Maxtor Central Axis external ethernet-connected hard drive. This drive is mounted as Windows network share on my computer. The hard drive is called ntgl. On this hard drive is a file. This file cannot be deleted. List of measures I've attempted and how they failed: Hitting "delete" Windows reports "The action can't be completed because the file is open in another program. Close the file and try again." "Shift+delete" Same again. Moving the file This works fine as long as the file remains on ntgl. Modifying the file Can't be done, file is read-only. Renaming the file Perfectly allowable. Editing the file's properties to remove the "read-only" flag Windows reports "Access is denied". Trying to find any process which may have locked the file Turned up no s... -
Everything about driving is hateful except driving
Things Of Interest (10 unread)
Posted: February 25th, 2010, 9:58pm EST
Blog » Learning to drive was pretty good fun, and I had a great teacher, but it was stingingly expensive, and I was constantly stressed by the idea that the slower I learned, the more it was going to cost me to learn. Taking the driving test is pretty horrific as stress goes. It's probably the greatest single monetary gamble I've ever made. "Hey, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency! I bet £140 [or whatever it was] that I can pass your fancy test." The events surrounding the gamble weren't great either. Long story short, if I failed there and then, I was going to have to learn all over again in an entirely different city. Buying a car is like travelling into another universe. I have no experience. I don't know what to look for. I have driven exactly two cars in my whole life. You want me to risk four figures on this? Is it made from platinum? I consider myself a smart reader and a quick study, but car insurance is truly mindblowing in its complexity, and paying for it - if you happen to fal... -
And now: a homeopathy joke
Things Of Interest (10 unread)
Posted: February 23rd, 2010, 11:59pm EST
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On perfection
Things Of Interest (10 unread)
Posted: January 31st, 2010, 7:45pm EST
Blog: I'm now on my second of what will probably be three roles (rotations) during my first two years here at Intercontinental. Previously I had been doing performance analysis for a piece of messaging middleware. The idea of middleware is to recognise that, in business, a lot of people spend a lot of time building processes and applications to do very similar things-- that is, reinventing the wheel. Middleware is a single, extremely powerful, well-built wheel which we can go up to people and say "Hey, don't build your own wheel! There are all kinds of pitfalls in that kind of thing, and besides, it's got nothing to do with your core business of selling theatre tickets or soil or whatever, and you don't want to waste time on it. Just buy our excellent wheels instead!" In this case the wheel was "reliably sending a message from point A to point B without losing it". The idea would be that you write your application to transform and route messages and deal with them appropriately, but you use ... -
On perfection
Things Of Interest (10 unread)
Posted: January 31st, 2010, 7:45pm EST
Blog » I'm now on my second of what will probably be three roles (rotations) during my first two years here at Intercontinental. Previously I had been doing performance analysis for a piece of messaging middleware. The idea of middleware is to recognise that, in business, a lot of people spend a lot of time building processes and applications to do very similar things-- that is, reinventing the wheel. Middleware is a single, extremely powerful, well-built wheel which we can go up to people and say "Hey, don't build your own wheel! There are all kinds of pitfalls in that kind of thing, and besides, it's got nothing to do with your core business of selling theatre tickets or soil or whatever, and you don't want to waste time on it. Just buy our excellent wheels instead!" In this case the wheel was "reliably sending a message from point A to point B without losing it". The idea would be that you write your application to transform and route messages and deal with them appropriately, but you use ... -
Spirit is nothing
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Posted: January 30th, 2010, 10:25pm EST
Blog: Debatable sentiment, at best mediocrely conveyed. You guys should wait until we lose contact with Voyager 1. I have always found that thinking about the Voyager 1 and 2 and Pioneer 10 and 11 probes triggers powerful emotions in me and I've never been able to fully explain them or properly pin them down in text. The closest I've come is Lonely Photographer which I'll concede is almost as sophomoric as Munroe's effort. Let's cover Voyager 1 in particular. Voyager 1 has been travelling away from the Earth for longer than most of the people reading this have been alive. It is expected to continue operating until the mid-to-late 2020s. It is the most distant man-made object from Earth. It takes our radio signals more than 15 hours to reach it, and it takes another 15 hours for Voyager's pathetically weak responses to return to us. That number is constantly increasing. But we will listen to those signals, for as long as there is still enough power to send them. This is because Voyag... -
Spirit is nothing
Things Of Interest (10 unread)
Posted: January 30th, 2010, 10:25pm EST
Blog » Debatable sentiment, at best mediocrely conveyed. You guys should wait until we lose contact with Voyager 1. I have always found that thinking about the Voyager 1 and 2 and Pioneer 10 and 11 probes triggers powerful emotions in me and I've never been able to fully explain them or properly pin them down in text. The closest I've come is Lonely Photographer which I'll concede is almost as sophomoric as Munroe's effort. Let's cover Voyager 1 in particular. Voyager 1 has been travelling away from the Earth for longer than most of the people reading this have been alive. It is expected to continue operating until the mid-to-late 2020s. It is the most distant man-made object from Earth. It takes our radio signals more than 15 hours to reach it, and it takes another 15 hours for Voyager's pathetically weak responses to return to us. That number is constantly increasing. But we will listen to those signals, for as long as there is still enough power to send them. This is because Voyag... -
A McAfee Mystery
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Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 9:37pm EST
Blog: Okay, today I am going to present my blog's readers with a small, interesting puzzle of sorts. I'm going to walk you through a series of pictures, and you have to guess what's wrong with them. Here's picture number one. This is the main interface screen for McAfee SecurityCentre: Here's picture number two. This is the menu that you get when you right-click on the McAfee SecurityCentre icon in Windows' Notification Area, which is how you open the main interface screen: Do you see it? There's something important in these two pictures. Spend a moment trying to see it. I'll leave some space between here and the next clue. Here's picture number three. There's nothing important about this picture. It's just a small hint about what you might be looking for in pictures one and two: Some of you have seen it by now and are smiling wryly, others are still baffled. Keep going. Okay, here's your final hint. This pretty much gives it away. Th... -
A McAfee Mystery
Things Of Interest (10 unread)
Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 9:37pm EST
Blog » Okay, today I am going to present my blog's readers with a small, interesting puzzle of sorts. I'm going to walk you through a series of pictures, and you have to guess what's wrong with them. Here's picture number one. This is the main interface screen for McAfee SecurityCentre: Here's picture number two. This is the menu that you get when you right-click on the McAfee SecurityCentre icon in Windows' Notification Area, which is how you open the main interface screen: Do you see it? There's something important in these two pictures. Spend a moment trying to see it. I'll leave some space between here and the next clue. Here's picture number three. There's nothing important about this picture. It's just a small hint about what you might be looking for in pictures one and two: Some of you have seen it by now and are smiling wryly, others are still baffled. Keep going. Okay, here's your final hint. This pretty much gives it away. Th... -
Fixed: The Odd/Even Star Trek Movie Law
Things Of Interest (10 unread)
Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 4:59pm EST
Blog: Prepare to have your mind blown. The law is this: every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is dreck. Every even-numbered Star Trek movie is terrific. This Law - the subjectivity of movie criticism notwithstanding - held up perfectly for decades. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) (bad) Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) (good) Star Trek III: The Search For Spock (1984) (bad) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) (good) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) (bad) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) (good) Star Trek Generations (1994) (bad) Star Trek: First Contact (1996) (good) Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) (bad) Then everything was up-messed: Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) (bad!? should have been good!) Star Trek (2009) (good??!?! should have been bad!) Star Trek XII: So Very Tired (2012) (???) Now watch carefully as I restore the timeline. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) (bad) Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) (good) ...