She will goto hell for the lies she has spoken..

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Four Magical Words of Doom, LUGRadio and HTTPD

"My friend helped me". You hear those words and run for the hills. Its undeniably going to be a nightmare to fix. Something I've learnt doing this job, is that you don't fuck around with things you have no knowledge of, especially if its corporate equipment, doubly so if its company supplied, and lives in an employee's home.

Unfortunately I've come across this syndrome multiple times in the last few months, and things only seem to be getting worse. Perhaps its that ego that most IT-enthusiasts have; "I can do ANYTHING!". Bollocks. The first thing you need to do, is recognise is your limits, and when to say no. Trust me, you'll get a lot less shit for it, your ego will come off with fewer dents, and you won't piss off your friend's sysadmin / network admin / IT staff. In the last few month's I've had to deal with factory reset router's for teleworkers, incorrectly configured laptop's (so they "steal" one of the domain controller's ip address, when they next decide to actually come to the office and chat...sorry I mean "work"), personal computer's being hooked upto "company" installed and paid for broadband, and a long line of similar issues.

Thankfully, I can always sulk away and just go back to playing with a new customer's servers, muttering obscenities and then emerging, taking the customer's user off hold, when my temper has ebbed away.

In other news, LUGRadio Season 3, Episode 14 is out. Go listen. Or suffer my increasingly receeding wrath.

Also, chip has rolled a new release of HTTPD, and according to the mailing list it all appears to be well on the road to an official release. Check it out :)

Bastards

Yes, you know who you are :P Leaving me at the mercy of that homeless woman and then giggling by the cash machine :( No doubt she spent that quid on booze or drugs.

Windows stops me from buying food

That's right. Windows nearly stopped me from buying my very life sustenance today. I'm in Asda, along with just about everyone else from Bath and Bristol it seemed, and one of the self checkouts was having a big problem. I wander over to take a geeky glance, and what do I see? Windows XP. On an system like a self checkout, its fucking Windows? I'm not even talking embedded, its 100% XP.

Surely thats overkill. It's not a desktop machine for fucks sake. It's a waste of computing power to boot up something that "powerful" and then "lock it down" by running a full screen app where us plebs just punch the screen, secondly its proprietory and possibly why my apples have gone up 2 pence, and finally it wasnt upto date in the least. Granted its probably not got an external network connection, and the crackers of the world probably don't care I'm buying plaice fillets, but you know there are more "critical" local and remote vulnerabilities than certain other OS, and what they might care about are my bank details.

I'm not so fussed that its proprietory to be honest, I just believe that Windows is a poor choice for that platform.

On a different note, I think that Aq (LUGRadio presenter) is right; 'Lengthy Reagan' is much cooler ;)

Time for a change?

According to Treenaks (lugradio and ubuntu), "gnarly hat gene" is an acronym of the_angry_angel. Clearly this is a much better online handle, thus you can now address me as the aforementioned name.

Infact, make that Sir Gnarly Hat Gene ;)