Paul's Journal

10/15/2011 16:03 #55307

Old Documents
Category: history

Today, (e:Terry) and I are cleaning out the office and found all kinds old CDs with data going back into the late 90s. Its so interesting to see how much I documented and saved. I really don't do that at all anymore because every company has online services but back then I scanned and saved everything.

Here is a note from our old landlord saying I was a good tenant. I thought I would have needed it someday.

Back in the day when (e:Terry) and I lived in Germany we had to hike to a castle for class project. We had a long journey and this was before mobile internet. I carried a pad and paper with me and we decided to try and come up with a comprehensive list of all of the television shows we remembered. When we got back I typed it up on my blueberry ibook.

[txt]1011/Sitcoms_List_158.txt[/txt]

Wow, (e:terry) just found the originals.

Back in the day my email was pav2@dana.ucc.nau.edu - when is the last time you saw an email with so many subdomains.

My old phone bills from Germany, you know, just in case.

At that same time I downloaded so much crap from the internet via hotline. It was an irc/warez/ftp software so downloading before torrents. Its amazing how much crap I collected including everything that I considered secret or underground like making bombs, stealing cable, hacking software and phones, etc. Clearly I did not make bombs and I never stole cable but I think I downloaded it all just because the internet was new to me and I thought the information would go away once the government cracked down on it. Really that never happend but I was a paranoid person.

[txt]1011/hotline_hacker's_handbook.txt[/txt]

An email from (e:terry) to our friend JÃ¶rg after we got back to Ameria.
[txt]1011/JoÌˆrg.txt[/txt]

One of the first website I made was for a group called Parents Anonymous.
I can't believe how ugly this was. It was when I first discovered the web as it was for community service for a scholarship that I made it.

mike - 10/15/11 20:00
I love lists of random things~

tinypliny - 10/15/11 17:38
Did you actually see all those TV series??

tinypliny - 10/15/11 17:37
My former landlady wrote a 2 page referral to my present building management. All they were really interested in, however, was my credit rating.

tinypliny - 10/15/11 17:28
I was an IRC admin for a metal channel for a while, back in the day. We swapped a ton of Spanish/Latin American metal. But IRC administration is too much politics and I backed out after a while.

tinypliny - 10/15/11 17:25
Oh. Cable TV.

All I could think about was the copper cable that you now have.

paul - 10/15/11 17:14
They all came from NirvanaNet :::link:::

DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE DAMAGE

If you live in an apartment and you want to steal cable TV here is
the information you may need.

Before stealing cable, look in some cable outlet boxes where you and
your neighbors are hooked up and get a good idea of what everything
looks like. Read the following very carefully so you know what you're
talking about. Most cable theft requires speed and experience, because
you are required to interrupt others service during your Splice Job if
splicing is required.....

tinypliny - 10/15/11 16:59
Someone actually wrote directions for stealing cable?? What was the ouline? Dig deep and pull them out?

tinypliny - 10/15/11 16:58
Making bombs? Stealing cables? Were you a morbid fan of zombie science fiction or something?

tinypliny - 10/15/11 16:57
That ugly background comes very close to the uber-hip 1st Matrix movie background. lol

10/15/2011 11:40 #55305

12 year olds driving on drugs
Category: web

I was reading this article called "Pot smoking may more than double crash risk" on USA Today's website this morning

It seems obvious that driving while high is dangerous. Anyhow, the part that struck me was this:

A large U.S. survey in 2009 estimated that more than 10 million people aged 12 and over had driven while under the influence of illicit drugs in the previous year.

Why are 12 year old driving, much less driving on drugs!?!

Studies like this are so stupid. I can't believe people waste money on this, if there was any government funding it is even more outrageous but my guess is the funding was done by insurance companies.

I love the really awesome discoveries.

And the response was dose-specific, the authors said. That is, the more marijuana smoked -- in terms of frequency and potency -- the greater the likelihood of a crash.

Wow, what a freakin surprise. You mean the more drugs you consume, the more they affect you? That seems so surprising. I wonder how much these people were paid for this stupid study.

metalpeter - 10/15/11 13:36
That is insane... Like lets worry about legal Driving age people or people who drive... I'm guessing the point of this was they where trying to show that drug use causes young people to drive high and crash... Now i could see how drugs and video games could cause someone to go try to drive but it still sounds like nonsense to me......

tinypliny - 10/15/11 11:50
Take a look at some of the IgNobels. They are all funded science. Hard to comprehend sometimes what gets funded and what doesn't. Grantsmanship is salesmanship.

10/15/2011 03:09 #55303

switch to git?
Category: programming

I spent the evening moving my surebert repos from svn to git on github. After reading a lot of the git pro book I feel comfortable using it and the speed working with local repos is nice but there are a few things that stress me out.

The one thing that I hate/love is that tags do not actually exist as materialized files. One one hand this saves a ton of space. The repos are an tremendously smalller than in svn. I can export when needed but I liked having all of the tags in a repo for surebert because then I deploy all of the tags separately on the server and let the programmers link by defining the base path in their app. This was so easy before as I would just set the servers to sync the tags directory so that any time new tags were made, they were available immediately on all the servers.

If I like it maybe I will move more of my bizillion repos over. Thanks to the creators of svn2git

tinypliny - 10/15/11 11:48
Interesting viewpoints. Its funny it's all so systematic in coding but that's what you do in the kitchen, in the lab, at work, everywhere and yet, you don't call it version control. heh, imagine if you had an svn inventory repository for things in your kitchen, how many cucumbers can you save from going bad in that crisper drawer!

paul - 10/15/11 11:33
The idea with tags is they are freeze points with names that everyone knows. Its much easier to roll back to the version of some component of your app where you knew it was working by name, than to roll back to r 12345. I mean how do you remember that it was working at that revision number unless you write it down. This is essentially writing down working release points. Similar to how you tag other content, its just giving it a name.

Thing about when you use other people's software, do you just grab some random revision of the trunk? No, you grab a stable release tag.

Here is the info from the svn red-book :::link::: and here is some info for git tags which are a bit more complicate but also robust :::link:::

tinypliny - 10/15/11 11:19
Why make personal tags? SVN tags them with the revision number. Wouldn't it become rather inconsistent with personal tags after a while - considering the number of iterations a program usually goes through?

paul - 10/15/11 11:12
Tags are not labels for programs
. They are basically freezepoints for the source code on a program with labels. The labels could be version numbers that are sequential or names like beefy miracle.

You should use them.

tinypliny - 10/15/11 03:14
What are tags? You mean labels for your programs - like categories? I never tag my programs...

10/14/2011 23:07 #55299

So allergic to Timothy Hay
Category: pets

I started trying to work hay back into the tortoises diet so they can be ready for winter. Orchard grass is okay but Timothy Hay sends me over the edge. I broke out in hives and had to use my inhaler. That was at noon. I still can't breathe at 11pm. I think I am going to have to throw it out and switch to grass instead.

libertad - 10/16/11 09:02
I also got the hives and quite literally, hay fever, too. I switched permanently to orchard grass.

tinypliny - 10/15/11 16:46
I think he doesn't like plastic.

metalpeter - 10/15/11 16:20
Oh yeah that might make things tougher as it also would make I assume those huge plastic gloves you see housewives and mad Scientists wear...

tinypliny - 10/15/11 13:55
And to talc, apparently.

tinypliny - 10/15/11 13:55
Tough luck, he told me he is allergic to latex as well.

metalpeter - 10/15/11 13:28
Guessing you can still use it just put on latex gloves and you should be fine... Well there and any place with skin contact is possible... This is by the way the same reason Drug Dealers wear gloves when they cut stuff cause if they touch the stuff it will get in through the skin and they could fail a drug test... Now maybe breathing it in could be problem but with how your hands look guessing it is just through skin absorption?

tinypliny - 10/14/11 23:17
Wow, that second lesion looks like the one you thought was a tick bite.

10/11/2011 23:48 #55282

Fedora 17 gets a name - Beefy Miracle
Category: linux

I really need to start participating in these votes.

Votes :: Name

1182 :: Beefy Miracle
1035 :: Liege
881 :: Never
791 :: Gernsback
641 :: Rocky Ripple
628 :: Alpharabius
550 :: Panguipulli
505 :: Tubeteika

tinypliny - 10/15/11 11:15
hahah, yeah, me too. I don't like the food association though. I'd rather think of it as TROGDOR!

paul - 10/15/11 11:13
At first I hated it but now Its growing on me and I think its pretty awesome.

tinypliny - 10/13/11 14:14
Okay, I just couldn't resist, (e:tinypliny,55287)

tinypliny - 10/13/11 13:47
:::link:::

:|

tinypliny - 10/13/11 11:16
I am a Beefy Miracle,

you beefy thing? :::link:::

it is a riot.

enknot - 10/12/11 11:24
NOpe.. I think they're doing fine on their own.

paul - 10/12/11 09:35
Anyone can. We should get involved next time.

tinypliny - 10/12/11 00:15
I don't like any of them.

tinypliny - 10/12/11 00:12
Never?

Who picks these names anyway?