Saturday, September 10, 2005
Programmers are idiots
...well, no, more the people who market them are idiots.
Listen to this gem about a 26-year-old who is "a computer programmer specializing in C/C++, Java, C#/VB.Net, VB 6.0, OpenGL, MS office component object model, NS, NesC, OpenGL, Prolog and LISP".
Gosh, guys, isn't that a bit much? I mean, would you trust a mechanic who said he specialized in Fords, Jaguars, Toyotas, Nissans, Pintos, steering wheels, hydraulics, Ferraris and remote-controlled vehicles? Or would you think he was maybe putting on airs and should really just say he was a mechanic with a wide background?
Granted, what should I expect from one of Phil's favourite weasels?
Listen to this gem about a 26-year-old who is "a computer programmer specializing in C/C++, Java, C#/VB.Net, VB 6.0, OpenGL, MS office component object model, NS, NesC, OpenGL, Prolog and LISP".
Gosh, guys, isn't that a bit much? I mean, would you trust a mechanic who said he specialized in Fords, Jaguars, Toyotas, Nissans, Pintos, steering wheels, hydraulics, Ferraris and remote-controlled vehicles? Or would you think he was maybe putting on airs and should really just say he was a mechanic with a wide background?
Granted, what should I expect from one of Phil's favourite weasels?
Dellow Dot Nothing -- Empirical evidence that Dellows are not meant for the Internet
It doesn't matter what the top-level domain is, or where its owner originates, Dellows are simply not meant to own websites:
dellow.com - owned by Robbie Dellow of Australia. Hosted on a free Tripod membership with all the popups and ads that come with it. (There was an ad for 40-year-old virgins when I visited.) Not only that, but Mr. Dellow feels compelled to use Flash for everything -- annoying sounds, blurry text. Swell. Expiration date of domain: 2010.
dellow.net - owned by Marc Dellow of Great Britain. Not too sure where it's hosted, but I imagine the bland "FPWSWO error '800a0005' Invalid procedure call or argument /fpw_buildtheme_inc.asp, line 6'
error message would look the same pretty much everywhere. Expiration date of domain: 2010.
dellow.org - owned by Brian Dellow of the United States of America. Hosted at Geocities. Or at least, used to be: "Sorry, the page you requested was not found." Great. Expiration date of domain: 2006.
dellow.ca - owned by Les Dellow of Canada. Parked on a registrar's servers. Sadly, this is the best Dellow site thus far. Expiration date of domain: 2005. Oh yeah, Dad - renew your domain. And put up a website! :)
dellow.com - owned by Robbie Dellow of Australia. Hosted on a free Tripod membership with all the popups and ads that come with it. (There was an ad for 40-year-old virgins when I visited.) Not only that, but Mr. Dellow feels compelled to use Flash for everything -- annoying sounds, blurry text. Swell. Expiration date of domain: 2010.
dellow.net - owned by Marc Dellow of Great Britain. Not too sure where it's hosted, but I imagine the bland "FPWSWO error '800a0005' Invalid procedure call or argument /fpw_buildtheme_inc.asp, line 6'
error message would look the same pretty much everywhere. Expiration date of domain: 2010.
dellow.org - owned by Brian Dellow of the United States of America. Hosted at Geocities. Or at least, used to be: "Sorry, the page you requested was not found." Great. Expiration date of domain: 2006.
dellow.ca - owned by Les Dellow of Canada. Parked on a registrar's servers. Sadly, this is the best Dellow site thus far. Expiration date of domain: 2005. Oh yeah, Dad - renew your domain. And put up a website! :)
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Automated snapshot backups
Between this essay on snapshot-style backups, and this Cygwin port of rsync for Windows, there is no excuse anymore for bad backup systems.
We'll see how this does in practice handling the OARBS backups. I'll post later with stats on disk usage.
If possible, I'd like to get some other data from RL scenarios and see whether or not the claims the author of the first essay makes hold true.
We'll see how this does in practice handling the OARBS backups. I'll post later with stats on disk usage.
If possible, I'd like to get some other data from RL scenarios and see whether or not the claims the author of the first essay makes hold true.
