L: you can bring a horse to water, etc.
Q: but you can't make them hit control-meta-e-coke-bottle?
L: exactly.
L: for one thing, horses probably should use the MULE environment
Q: Wow.
Q: You never fail at taking it that extra step.
When most buildings burst in to flame, it's because something went very wrong. However, whatever the cover story, when an R&D building catches fire, it might just be because something went a little too right.
It's definitely worth the upgrade.
Poll #1165999 Kremlin Mice? WTF?
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Why has the Kremlin ordered 3.2k small white mice?
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Fuel for new falcon-based defensive shield.
3 (13.6%)
FIRST CONTACT with alien reptiles. Gotta feed the visiting dignitaries. 3 (13.6%)
Putin is VERY in to Heavy Metal. 3 (13.6%)
Super secure bio-shredder for sensitive documents 5 (22.7%)
If you only knew... 8 (36.4%)
If you selected, "If you only knew...", please explain.
- At work this week, I had to build emergency pong playing robots. We're all throwing stuff together for some last minute demos and that was my assignment.
- Moving your home directory to a new partition isn't as easy in Windows as it is in Os X. And it isn't as easy in Os X as it is in most Unixes.
- NTFS might be the new lowest-common-denominator file system. It works out of the box on my Linux box and with MacFUSE under Os X. Apparently there's some issue that makes this a bit slow, though.
- It turns out that its not too difficult to share configuration files and other stuff between windows and Linux on a dual boot system.. Kinda nifty.
- I'm about to start encrypting my data wholesale. I think I'll probably start using TrueCrypt. People who know more than me about this stuff should give me advice.
Earlier this week, I meandered through a few punctuation related Wikipedia articles:
I like using hyphens for compounds. Honestly, I probably like over-using them. I'm sad to find out that hyphen use is down 5%. Come on, people, let's bring punctuation back.
In other news that will be of interest to the same subset of my friends as the above, I just ordered the The Oxford English Grammar from Amazon's Oxford Holiday Sale. It's a pretty good sale. The grammar book is 56% off.
Also, I picked up a couple of restickable-glue glue sticks that I'm thinking will open up new possibilities for my hipster pda.
- 13:51 Holiday planning is just about done, I think. #
- 13:44 guess lunch will be after the 2pm meeting again today #
- Music:Mike Doughty -- 27 Jennifers
"""We've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested -- even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats."""
In both articles, Schneier presents cogent criticism of our current security-theater laden run-in-circles-scream-and-shout local and national security policy. I've recommended Refuse to Be Terrorized in this space before, but I keep running across things that make me more and more concerned about the paranoid direction our country is taken these days. At this point, the average American likely has more to fear from internal scare mongering, ham fisted enforcement, and tactical flailing than any external threats.
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