Archive for May, 2008
Kids in the Hall
Saturday, May 31st, 2008So Ian is staying with Jackie’s mom this weekend. Jackie left to drop him off about 10am friday morning with the intent of being back in Troy to pick me up around 6pm. Around 3pm one of the guys I work with walked into the room and began a conversation like this:
[matt] Anyone want [...]
Shutup Shutup Shutup!
Friday, May 23rd, 2008die you wretched pc speaker beep that is so loud when I use the find bar in firefox or tab complete in the cli and nothing is found!
rmmod pcspkr
echo blacklist pcspkr >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
aaah, glorious silence.
What’s on QA…
Friday, May 16th, 2008Had an amusing conversation with a developer at work that had the feeling of an abbot and costello bit. I’m leaving his name out of this to protect him, but he’s read this site before and will know instantly that it’s him. The conversation revolves around our new continuous integration system, and how the terminology [...]
Think about it.
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008I see this one come up quite often, so I thought I’d share it.
The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of [...]
AT&T disappoints yet again.
Sunday, May 11th, 2008So my father in law has been going on for years about how great Ameritech/ SBC/ AT&T’s new broadband service is gonna be once it was activated. I personally like the idea of having fiber to the curb, so I’ve been looking forward to it for a while.
A few months back they sent a rep [...]