tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216123592012-01-17T17:46:13.218-08:00Just some of my technical tid-bits and stuffAntonynoreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-30858324541709034752011-03-03T09:26:00.001-08:002011-03-03T09:26:29.856-08:00

Testing posting from Google's Blogger app while waiting at allergist's

Antonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09169717992432456581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-83371845750543270942009-12-27T09:53:00.000-08:002009-12-27T09:55:10.729-08:00

Useful blog post for automounting NFS shares.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-51103481546032368872009-12-11T14:07:00.001-08:002009-12-11T14:07:33.354-08:00

free gas at corner of collins ave and eckhoff st ... near gene audry jct off I5. 3600psig CNG today only!

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-36063582055655229232009-07-17T00:11:00.001-07:002009-07-17T00:22:21.107-07:00

Need to stop procrastinating and to create a VM image of my ol' trusty OS/2 machine, especially as it appears that the venerable Tyan Tomcat PentiumMMX motherboard has finally stopped working. Maybe I could try swapping the CPUs or something or there is the Intel OR840 PentiumIII motherboard floating around... The only real problem is that the old case is a AT Medium Tower and the OR840 is an ATX

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-10634937548241756742009-05-31T13:39:00.001-07:002009-05-31T14:05:09.289-07:00

While I was driving to In-N-Out, earlier today, an idea struck me as to how to improve the performance of a Natural Gas powered Internal Combustion Engine...Essentially, the waste gases of a natural gas engine is water vapor and carbon dioxide with trace amounts of other pollutants.A major waste product of the engine is heat, especially excess heat in the exhaust gasses. What do I define as

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-16298402630194888072009-05-22T16:30:00.001-07:002009-05-22T16:30:50.436-07:00

At the Shoreline Amptheatre in Mountain View, almost at work but since it is a vacation day...

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-67443742715051859532009-05-21T22:00:00.001-07:002009-05-21T22:00:39.058-07:00

I think I am beginning to get an idea what being a "groupie" feels like. Following NIN through California

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-92070954904282720152009-05-08T08:45:00.000-07:002009-05-08T08:51:20.262-07:00

As anyone who has had to call Verizon can probably attest to ...VERIZON CUSTOMER SERVICE SUCKS.And for a phone company, the call quality of their customer service sucks -- as they transfer you from one call centre to another, the voice quality gets progressively worse and worse.Perhaps the poor line call quality is intentional - so that after an hour and being bounced from one call centre to

Antonynoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-68920592372989567782009-01-22T12:10:00.001-08:002009-01-22T12:22:48.785-08:00

We live in a strange era of "tubes", "Engrish" and "Yet Another Invented Word Misusing Word Stems".What is the subject of my wrath? Quite simple really.... The use of the prefix "cyber-" to mean "The Inter-Network".Cyber-this... Cyber-that... What a load of rubbish. It is diluting the real meaning of Cybernetics, which is the science of feedback and control engineering.And this rubbish word "

Antonynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-47731031858218658372009-01-15T15:54:00.000-08:002009-01-15T15:59:21.981-08:00

With how often I use the CDROM drive in a laptop, I wouldn't mind if they went away completely. I think my next personal laptop will not have such low-density storage built in but only as an external device. That freed space could be used for other stuff such as more battery or even to reduce the overall bulk of the machine.Makes something like the MacBook Air a tempting choice for the future:

Antonynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-75745769665758158362008-12-23T09:04:00.000-08:002008-12-23T09:08:10.932-08:00

In response to the Slashdot article: As Christmas Bonus, Google Hands Out "Dogfood"... A small number of people have expressed displeasure at only getting a G1 smartphone as a bonus.Personally, I am very happy to receive the dev G1 phone... It wasn't something I would have purchased for myself (tough economic times ahead yadda yadda yadda) nor was it something that I would have asked anyone else

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-45492817618594285712008-10-07T09:33:00.000-07:002008-10-07T09:35:07.632-07:00

While driving to work, listening to "Capital G", I was thinking that the following car bumper sticker would be just perfect: "Oil Pump" Bumper Sticker by windyone Make custom bumper stickers On Zazzle.comSee more United States Bumper Stickers

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-10439328247398847582008-09-07T08:09:00.000-07:002008-09-07T08:12:53.508-07:00

The concert was great. The 10 second review: The Oakland event at the Oracle Arena had better sound quality, I think the concrete metal and plastic of the Forum in Inglewood echoed a bit and dulled the sound. However, we had better seats at the forum and the set was slightly better I think...

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-15990078619816330692008-08-25T10:50:00.000-07:002008-08-25T11:03:10.167-07:00

It is quite amusing sometimes to look at official statistics: 4 times more natural gas is lost in storage and in the natural gas pipe network than is used for transportation.This means that they (Sempra etc) could in theory sell natural gas for use in transportation for free and write it off as 20% increase in network storage losses.However, the cost of fuel to owners of natural gas vehicles in

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-39547447962691004742008-08-20T06:53:00.001-07:002008-08-20T07:16:23.520-07:00

Here is an interesting business idea which maybe someone can run with and exploit:For a nominal fee, perhaps $5-$10 per week, a company can provide a junk call phone screening service. Here is the details:A FXO/FXS device is plugged into your PC which is wired to the internet.The phone line from customer's phone service plugs into the PC.All the home phones are connected to the PC.Outgoing calls

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-49085902426851565682008-07-03T09:06:00.000-07:002008-07-03T09:08:40.219-07:00

Well... I predicted that it would happen back in 2006... I said that Microsoft will change to a subscription model within the next two years and here is the announcement!Cannot say that I am surprised.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-86756715040545307042008-06-16T18:09:00.000-07:002008-06-16T18:13:53.943-07:00

Some people have asked me of what I think lies ahead... so instead of having to remember what I have told who... here are my wild speculations.My opinions and speculations:We will see $5/gallon during 3Q08.Federal Reserve base interest rates will rise by 0.5% before end of FY08Residential property prices will bottom out during 4Q08.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-33508320593823484862008-04-02T09:29:00.000-07:002008-04-02T09:51:43.131-07:00

Of course, the challenge is to now produce a OOXML document which conforms to the now ratified standard which is capable of thoroughly crashing implementors of OOXML readers, including MS Office, and to create such a document which to fix the problem would require breaking away from the published specification and rendering documents in an incompatible manner.Given the penchant for largely

Antonynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-42999422814708337432008-03-22T00:15:00.000-07:002008-03-22T00:45:18.163-07:00

Well, it is done.I am now officially a jobless lazy bum. On the plus side - I now have time!Time to think about relaxing properly. Time to read one of those dozens of books I never seemed to have time for.There are a few things I need to do - but there is no work stress or pressure. This weekend will be the first in years where I have no deadlines to think about. Okay - I did have a couple of

Antonynoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-79543260776643378762008-03-10T21:04:00.000-07:002008-03-10T23:14:39.363-07:00

Wonderful news: The nearby 99 Ranch Market now stocks the Bah Kut Teh kit near their section for Indonesian foods. No longer do I have to travel to San Francisco's Chinatown just to purchase Bah Kut Teh spices..This evening, I prepared it using about 2 lbs of chicken with some baby carrots and sliced white onions thrown in near the end (the two vegetables which Katie readily eats). Served with

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-18335676112279445612008-02-26T08:23:00.000-08:002008-02-26T08:29:58.333-08:00

Waking up and then moving a whole bunch of stuff is not an ideal way to start the day. It's not even 8:30am and I feel tired. At least everything is operational again, For a number of hours from yesterday afternoon, we were essentially offline with not even the house phone nor DSL connected.Used the opportunity to vacuum the cooler fins inside the Quad G5 - it was truely impressive how much dirt

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-51342031835095813272008-02-05T01:06:00.000-08:002008-02-05T01:15:55.027-08:00

While I was browsing a Borders yesterday evening, a revelation came upon me as to an analogy for the computer book situation:Imagine in a bookshop that there is a "Food" section where there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of books, all quite clearly divided into sections:How to eat PizzaHow to eat quicheHow to eat soupServing foodTable settingsThe Art of PlatingSlicing TurkeyServing PieReheating

Antonynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-91908443245572469032007-11-14T22:46:00.000-08:002007-11-14T23:54:37.605-08:00

Moving stuff around or even preparing to move stuff around is all hard work - especially when space is limited. Preparing stuff for my new home office and getting things ready... Soon the rest of the furniture and stuff will be ordered. I hope that it would all be done by Christmas.My arms are aching though.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-75369688489820985352007-11-05T11:24:00.000-08:002007-11-05T11:50:26.185-08:00

I wish that Spaces can use multiple displays ... Having all the 'thumbnails' only on the primary display makes them small and unintelligible.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-31936814746202856012007-11-02T22:09:00.000-07:002007-11-02T22:12:28.972-07:00

I went to Borders this evening after work and while I was there, I browsed some books ... My interest today was looking at different scripting languages (yeah computer books, how predicable of me). Had a look at the books on Python and Ruby - It's amazing that none of them are thread safe which makes it impractical for some of the stuff I want to do.*sighs*So I purchased a Terry Pratchett book. I

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-77454920816747229982007-10-30T11:31:00.001-07:002007-10-30T11:33:42.562-07:00

Looks like Apple's "Time Machine" feature can be made to work with a non-Apple fileserver. From the helpful hint at the following URL, I now have it working to my fileserver, a FreeBSD machine with netatalk... http://blog.danielparnell.com/?p=43Now... I just need some more storage space...

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-84771653234669209072007-10-29T10:00:00.000-07:002007-10-29T10:36:00.167-07:00

It appears that the formerly excellent X11 support in Tiger has regressed and the X11 support in Leopard, despite being based upon the more modern Xorg codebase, shows significant regression in functionality.Unable to move windows on to secondary displaysUnable to be configured to use TCP connections, except by manual startup (Do we really need multiple Xquartz processes?)DPI is fubar - I prefer

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-9717757059653064992007-10-28T20:19:00.000-07:002007-10-28T20:21:58.805-07:00

Mac OS 10.5 was not discovering my CUPS printers like how 10.4 was. It turns out that Apple has decided to only discover printers by Bonjour only and has turned off CUPS own detection. This seems like a poor decision.I found the answer at http://mcdevzone.com/2007/10/28/printer-fix-for-leopard

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-7417600774341771492007-10-27T13:15:00.000-07:002007-10-27T13:32:35.762-07:00

Here is my not-very-objective review of MacOS 10.5 aka Leopard.Installation was pretty painless - I uninstalled things like APE beforehand and after reading the various blogs where people had hanging installs, I am sure glad that I did take the precaution. It feels faster on my Quad-G5 PowerMac - things seem to respond faster. Visually - I'm going to have to change the default background - some

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-76681086850050297482007-10-26T12:15:00.000-07:002007-10-26T12:21:21.700-07:00

Actually, the small box arrived about an hour ago. Clearing some old work source repositories from my hard drive and other general 'housekeeping' duties. I haven't eagerly anticipated a new OS release for a long time: I would probably compare this to the time when OS/2 2.1 was released with its full 32bit Presentation Manager or perhaps even OS/2 Warp 3 with its UI enhancements... As to what

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-81393376805236733142007-10-24T12:18:00.000-07:002007-10-24T12:21:47.139-07:00

We can smell the smoke from here.All throughout today and yesterday, there has been ash falling from the sky from all the fires around near Los Angeles. We have had all the windows closed to keep the dust and ash out - going outside for a short while irritates my eyes something awful and that is even though I take a powerful anti-allergy medicine daily.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-35994657844577541912007-09-17T14:18:00.000-07:002007-09-17T14:23:37.540-07:00

Today we lean that Microsoft has lost it's appeal regarding their monopolistic practices in Europe. I foretell that Microsoft will continue with business as usual and otherwise completely disregard the ruling and the penalties. So, they may pay the fiscal part of the penalties but the rest of it will have to wait for Satan to get a new job as a snow-plough driver in hell.What can be done about it

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-43850348915085677782007-09-14T13:26:00.000-07:002007-09-14T13:32:33.675-07:00

Time to morn the passing of an old friend. My old Pentium 200MMX (SMP 2 Processor) machine would not start up today. The PSU is fine - the DPT SCSI controller can be heard to spin up the hard drives but to no avail - the CPUs failed to start up. No POST beep codes, nothing. No activity.*sighs*It was a trusty workhorse, from 1997 to 2007.Only one question plagues me.... What machine should I

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-58613892494847426632007-09-06T13:15:00.001-07:002007-09-06T13:36:54.328-07:00

I am not happy. As to why I am not happy, lets consider a hypothetical situation: Imagine you have purchased a new computer and while it was in warranty, it kept crashing and working slow. The manufacturer of the computer thinks that the CPU may be a little faulty so they want you, the end user, to take out the CPU and ship it to Intel for diagnostics. And while you are at it, maybe you should

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-69231606451588753552007-09-05T18:03:00.000-07:002007-09-06T13:37:25.234-07:00

Something seems a bit fishy in Redmond Land.... As many people who know me know, I don't use Windows that often but I do mostly for my work and I'm typically using Visual Studio C++. Only yesterday, I fired up Windows XP and after a couple of hours of use, up popped up the dialog for installing updates. I simply closed what I was doing and let the updates occur.Windows XP rebooted and I began to

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-457685195556411802007-08-29T13:52:00.000-07:002007-08-29T14:15:19.982-07:00

I was wondering around a superstore the other evening when the black Windows Vista box caught my eye... It says there, right under where "Windows Vista Ultimate" is written, "The most complete Windows ever" or something like that.What I would like to know is.... Why would anyone want an incomplete operating system? I don't care if it is the "most complete". I want an operating system which is "

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-32918944605602089282007-08-20T17:33:00.000-07:002007-08-20T17:41:13.846-07:00

It looks like Kingston Technology is serious about their Lifetime Warranty on their products. A little under a week has passed since I had sent them the memory which had gone faulty - and it didn't cost me a penny. They paid for the FedEx shipping both ways. The replacement module looks a little different than the returned and the new modules I had purchased immediately after the failure: They

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-62235319482084255982007-08-07T13:55:00.001-07:002007-08-07T13:57:37.265-07:00

Yay, the new memory arrived. I am glad that I didn't splash out and only paid for the standard delivery - it arrived next day. The machine was getting a little slow without the memory even with a lighter workload than normal - the swap had grown to 1.5Gb after a day's use. I still need to get a RMA for the old memory so I can send it back for replacement...

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-2263094197064320652007-08-05T20:13:00.000-07:002007-08-05T20:21:44.573-07:00

Oh Joy.... The past few days, my Mac started crashing randomly, usually just applications or a MySQL test run would show that the server SIGSEGV. Quite annoying. Today, it locked up complely. Not even the mouse cursor could move and it didn't even show the MacOS kernel panic message. So enough was enough. I found the MacOS install CD and started the Apple Hardware Test. Kicked off the extended

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-47261614610332310442007-07-05T23:13:00.000-07:002007-07-05T23:21:15.928-07:00

Yay! The new motherboard, CPU, RAM and PSU are npw installed into my home fileserver. Booting up and running straight after the major upgrade without a hitch, very nice how seamless FreeBSD makes the transition but there again, I expected that to be problem free. Sitting on my desk is the old motherboard, an Intel OR840 with a Pentium 3 800MHz processor: A real oddity by todays standards as the

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-51458757654102065502007-07-03T15:36:00.000-07:002007-07-03T15:39:16.926-07:00

Just when I was somewhat enthusiastic about swapping over my fileserver motherboard, I discover that my power supply is too ancient to support the new motherboard. Ho hum. So I have ordered a new PSU and it should arrive on the 5th. I was hoping to be able to do the swap during a day-off so theres minimal interruption.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-70542905012015500622007-06-28T09:18:00.001-07:002007-06-28T09:18:47.586-07:00

Server upgrade imminent. I have purchased a new motherboard, CPU and RAM to replace the aging Pentium 3 + OR840 combo with 128MB RamBus RAM I am currently using in the server. The new motherboard is a SuperMicro PDSGE and will have a Pentium 4 650 and 1Gb of RAM. I am probably not going to use the new motherboard's on-board gigabit ethernet adaptor because of concerns about Intel's AMT

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-80525592803690786282007-06-13T14:51:00.001-07:002007-06-13T15:29:57.487-07:00

Every now and again, I have to have a large sigh...*** sighs ***With the recent release from Perdue detailing a computer simulation of the 9/11 WTC attack, the fierce debates that it spawns as to the "It's an inside job" vs. "No it's not," camps and their arguments miss the point of the simulation.I have looked at the short video clip and I would say that it seems plausible: I could imagine a

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-32344525391307038842007-05-31T01:20:00.000-07:002007-05-31T01:23:17.744-07:00

This is amusing... Ok, perhaps ironic, also prophetic... But quite definitely amusing.Apologies to all those people who have seen it in March but here is the link:George Orwell's former house surrounded by 32 CCTV cameras, all within 200 yards.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-36632599815611114512007-05-22T12:05:00.000-07:002007-07-03T15:31:38.375-07:00

Delayed posting, originally for Monday 16 April, 2007So much has happened during th past week but due to the happenings, I have not been able to post any news.Easter Sunday at around 3:30am, my mother in law suffered a severe heart attack. She passed away early on Tuesday at about 4:30am. These events were completly unexpected due to the full exam she had a month ago and of her mere hours before

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-47994296557325773642007-04-18T08:11:00.000-07:002007-04-18T08:17:47.420-07:00

Now that Google has migrated Blogger to some new-fangled system, I can no longer write blog entries in my comfortable way - on my Palm organizer using Plogit whilst offline.Pah!

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1175219193413281302007-03-29T19:46:00.000-07:002007-03-29T19:46:33.416-07:00

Morons from Saturn... Sounds like a B film title but it is the reality of the total idiots at a certain car dealership in Cerritos. I would wager that the employees of their service department are completely unable to tell their ass from their elbows without the aid of a working diagnostic computer... Except that they are unable o READ or THINK in order to plug the wires in. As people would say

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1175179398873661192007-03-29T08:43:00.000-07:002007-03-29T08:43:18.880-07:00

Just realized that I haven't posted anything to the blog in a while and I had an old unposted entry in my Palm. This morning, I am having to bring the car to its service.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1175179254220085092007-03-29T08:40:00.000-07:002007-03-29T19:46:07.906-07:00

Funny how the optimism of what airlines tell their customers know no bounds. Here I am writing this entry and its already 6 minutes past the ticketed boarding time and there is still no aeroplane at the gate, yet they have only just changed status from 'on time' to 'delayed 20 minutes'. This is dispite the fact that the aeroplane is still in the air with passengers on its way here.Kind of like

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1173354106251629082007-03-08T03:41:00.000-08:002007-03-08T03:41:46.303-08:00

Stuck in rainy Seattle. Yes, it did rain for a while earlier. I listened to it hitting the roof and windows. I still hear a few spots now.I am returning back to Los Angeles today. It was nice to work and chat with Bran but I do miss Katie... and the messed up cat Sweety.Here is a random thought which just struck me: Freedom is having a wide range of choices available and not having to make a

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1172255090487295542007-02-23T10:24:00.000-08:002007-02-23T10:24:50.520-08:00

It is somewhat facinating that Americans will debate the British origins of many English phrases without ever consulting an Englishman.A case in point: The debate on the origin of the phase "Rule of Thumb" which people parrot as being a part of British Common Law permitting husbands to beat their wives, which is then used as an explanation as to why it is not written down. A few problems: English

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1170721280373504362007-02-05T16:21:00.000-08:002007-02-05T16:21:20.430-08:00

I was browsing cnet's news and I noticed that they posted some photos of the Collosus rebuild project. In the blurb, they failed to mention that the British had built several more of them for redundancy and increase throughput... and of course each later one carried improvements from the previous. If you're ever near Milton Keynes, it is worth spending a day at Bletchley Park. There is a computer

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1170183993542767112007-01-30T11:03:00.000-08:002007-01-30T11:12:20.716-08:00

What a wonderful quote from Siân Berry of the Green Party (UK) on 29th Jan 2007: "There will be thousands of tonnes of dumped monitors, video cards and whole computers ... Future archaeologists will be able to identify a 'Vista upgrade layer' when they go through our landfill sites." Such insight! That is assuming that Vista is a consumer hit with existing computer owners...

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1169891185286150432007-01-27T01:46:00.000-08:002007-01-27T01:46:25.333-08:00

So many projects I am iching to do, so little free time. I still believe my idea or a MySQL storage engine is viable. My ideas for an alternative computing platform. The OS/2 clone system. So little time.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1169615957594711402007-01-23T21:19:00.000-08:002007-01-23T21:19:17.640-08:00

Yet another root canal... Hopefully the last. This didn't go too badly but that is hindsight: I hate injections and the sounds and smell of metal cutting in to teeth completely fails to fill me with joy. I have a couple more check-ups in the future: With luck, they should now be uneventful.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1169274819085622392007-01-19T22:33:00.000-08:002007-01-19T22:33:39.096-08:00

The Apple Tech Talk was interesting... chatted with a few interesting people. I think that I should talk to Calvin to take advantage of some opportunities Leopard can give MySQL... Couldn't stay for the "Cheese and Wine" reception as the last Metro home departs Union Station at 6:30pm.

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It is 8am. Funny thing... I have been living here for over 15 months and today will be the first time I venture into LA alone and I am travelling by train.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1168897713163993512007-01-15T13:48:00.000-08:002007-01-15T13:48:33.250-08:00

UPS delivery drivers here are complete and utter MORONS! Actually, thats insuling to the common moron. Look at the box: Three large symbols, first one means "this way up", the second one means "fragile", the third means "keep dry". Yet this delivery man throws the box from his cab onto the front door step - a clear 15ft that the box, which contains a replacement hard drive from Seagate, is

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1168207338738851032007-01-07T14:02:00.000-08:002007-01-07T14:02:19.020-08:00

This device looks like a nifty toy. Pity I don't have much time for toys.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1168194584400562032007-01-07T10:29:00.000-08:002007-01-07T10:29:44.583-08:00

Seems as if there is a bug going around ... Not the computer kind... It seems as if I have caught it and I am not feeling so great.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1167869719452907382007-01-03T16:15:00.000-08:002007-01-03T16:15:19.486-08:00

The car did have a defective bearing. It has been replaced for no charge. Thank goodness for warranties! And while on the topic of warranties: The faulty hard drive was sent to Seagate today. Sad to note that if I buy a Maxtor drive now, it will be the third time I have purchased a Seagate drive. The first was an ST-225 and the second was something like a ST-364A...

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1167786516736261822007-01-02T17:08:00.000-08:002007-01-02T17:08:36.796-08:00

Chaos reigns supreme! For the second time in as many months our car, a 2006 Saturn Ion Coupe, is in for repair except that this time, not only is the power steering dodgy but it appears that the front left drive wheel bearing is failing! Less than 20,000 miles and only 16 months old.Renting a car at Enterprise Rent a Car...

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1167606524653342722006-12-31T15:08:00.000-08:002006-12-31T15:08:44.833-08:00

Time to plan my New Year's Resolutions... All kind of things I'd like to have there but I think I should limit myself to a few achieveable objectives.I would like to see Katie and myself move into an apartment...I would like to get the WarpBSD/Nemesys project off the ground (now that would be something! It's been in planning stage for 10 years now.)and many many more,,And while I am here... How

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1166783511698659672006-12-22T02:31:00.000-08:002006-12-22T02:31:51.713-08:00

A hard drive failed in the evening. Fortunately it's in a RAID set so nothing was lost. Funny that it was the very drive I expected to fail first and I have already purchased a spare. I guess that I should make some effort to erase the old drive before I return it to Fry's for a repacement.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1165599880951436892006-12-08T09:44:00.000-08:002006-12-11T14:27:07.246-08:00

It has been a very long time since the last blog posting. Must try to post reguarly.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1148601106552960452006-05-25T16:51:00.000-07:002006-12-22T02:30:25.393-08:00

Time flies when you're busy... I haven't been doing well to keep up a diary or a blog.I plan to do better - I should make it a daily occurance, as part of a routine.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1138663291831506822006-01-30T15:21:00.000-08:002006-01-30T15:21:31.833-08:00

Nostalgia... I am sure that a lot of people who have used computers at least as long as myself experience it often. Today, I was introduced to Oprofile. It looks like it will satisfy my search for a code profiling tool... However, it made me remember using Turbo Profiler 386 for DOS in the very early 1990's... I remember being sad having to give it up when I went to use OS/2.Oh well, Oprofile is

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1138637687609001322006-01-30T08:14:00.000-08:002006-01-30T08:14:47.613-08:00

Start of a new week. Didn't do any programming last night, instead went to sleep pretty early (for me, anyways). Going to make a fresh start on the current patch - I know what is needed and I still have the previous ?almost? patch to compare with... Actually, that patch runs the failing test case perfectly but I found a more serious flaw which will if fixed will make life easier.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1138506552125282872006-01-28T19:49:00.000-08:002006-01-28T19:49:12.130-08:00

Making multi-process code into multi-threaded is not easy... The synchronization needs to be examined and the locking redone as the assumptions are different.No sleep for me, I guess.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1138474561662267312006-01-28T10:56:00.000-08:002006-01-28T10:56:01.666-08:00

Something different, trying out plogit...Perhaps if I could add entries from the convience of the palm with no PC attached, I would write more and keep this up to date. Nice theory anyways....its cold this morning but I am wearing a T-shirt.

Antonynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21612359.post-1138423222888046672006-01-27T20:39:00.000-08:002006-01-27T20:40:22.896-08:00

Decided I should dedicate a blog to my programming ... mostly for myself but maybe it may have something interesting for someone.

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