A while ago I did a stop motion video using our whiteboard, don’t think I ever got around to posting it for the world to see:
Whiteboard Stopmotion
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Category Archives: Geek
Irony
<zEkE_> anyone who gets deeply offended by text written by people they hardly know has problems and needs a new hobby
<Midorikawa|Psychosis> exactly zeke
<Ninex> zeke your a queer
<zEkE_> but so do the people who push their buttons in attempts to offend them
<zEkE_> Ninex, i married your ex.
<Ninex> hahahahaha, ohh
<Ninex> yeah
<zEkE_> unless you were queer with her, i think that counts against your previous statement
<zEkE_> 😛
<Ninex> *shrug* i never saw the plumbing
<zEkE_> lol
<Ninex> man, I so totally can’t believe you just made that uber personal
<zEkE_> haha
<zEkE_> you called me queer 😛
<Ninex> lol
<Ninex> fair is fair
Oops, I guess we both voided our rights to be offended by agreeing to the first statement.. I guess the theory isn’t perfect. Then again, I guess Ninex and I know each other a little better than alot of people who would typically be offended on IRC..
Grow the Hell Up, Dude.
so [censored], why don’t you talk more? I mean I can understand living with your parents, heck if I could do that without giving up my life I would.
be a lot easier
have my mom cook all my microwave dinners for me, spend more money on stuff I want.
games, guns and etc.
put more money into my car
buy top of the line computer equipment as soon as it came out
are you just that offended by me? or us?
do you have psychological disorders?
erectile dysfunction?
your just going to ignore me aren’t you?
act like I haven’t said anything.
Ok [censored], heres some stuff on me you can use. I’ve been arrested three times in the past 2 years on driving related charges.
i’m a recovering alcoholic that has a hard time putting down the bottle.
I’ve done some of the dumbest stuff in the history of dumb in my life.
i have a hard time paying my debts, and I still am paying off debts from like, years ago.
I’m just sayin man, be real.
I don’t agree with everything that comes across IRC. I think if you’re deeply offended by someone you hardly know, typing words into a keyboard from 1000 miles away, you have personal problems that you need to get dealt with. I also think that when you’re typing those words you need to remember that there are real people reading them. At the same time, being honest is important in any relationship, online or not.
This is not about offending people, this is about being a whiny little bitch. Personally, I think the dude this was aimed at has had it coming for a while. He is afraid of girls, and ignores anything he doesn’t wanna hear – often attacking people by suggesting they die, often by his amazing gun-shooting-skillz.
If this matches you, I have some advice – firstly, get a life. If you spend all your time online chatting, maybe you need to get out more. Stop complaining that all the girls you like are getting boyfriends when you don’t bother to talk to them or let them know you’re interested. Secondly, if you’re offended by things that people say, consider why they said them. Try responding respectfully – “I disagree with your statement because … ” – not “You have a big mouth. Shut up.” Third, show some level of intelligence. We don’t like you, mostly because we know you’re smart but all you can do is try and prove otherwise – to the point where we almost believe you. Grow up. In this case, the dude is in his late 20’s. Get over yourself.
That is all. My rant is done.
Internet sucks..
Dear Stupid Neighbors,
We understand that your incompetence regarding internet is not apparent to most, however we believe that when providing a service (as you are), you are obligated to ensure the reliability of said service is maintained, or communicate that it cannot be (with reason).
Please consider the following:
– Providing us with the correct name of your wireless access point.
– Ensuring that the access point is available 24 hours a day, or close to it (just because you work 9-5, doesn’t mean we do)
– If the service is not available, restart the modem, restart the router, and if it doesn’t fix it, let us know.
– If it’s down for a period of time, call Comcast, your provider. You pay them for a service that they aren’t providing. We then pay you for a service that you aren’t providing. If Comcast can’t keep up their end of the deal, perhaps it is time to change..
– We can’t afford to pay for a service we can’t use. If service and communication fails to improve, we shall maintain log of when we could and couldn’t use internet, and pay the appropriate proportion for the month.
Regards,
Us.
My Wishlist
Tonight I posted a new page, my Wish List. At this stage it is purely computer parts, but this is my focus at this point in time. I’ve also been ebaying for some of these and haven’t found ‘the right one’ yet. I’m also interested in hearing suggestions for things that I’ve not been specific on.
Geeky zEkEy – Ticket Resolution Systems
I just realised that I haven’t posted in a couple of days, and also that I haven’t posted anything remotely computer-geeky at all. It is time to rectify this.
As I’m not likely to have a work permit until some time in December, I’ve had a lot of free time on my hands. This has mostly been spent lazing around with little to no purpose, but I’ve also been thinking up various idea’s and projects to work on.
I’ve been able to implement a few network-changes at UCCN, including remote-includes (and a web interface for staff to make network-wide configuration changes, still in testing), and the safetyNet server (intended to allow young people to chat in a more secure environment than most IRC networks would otherwise permit).
I’ve also been doing some work on some small scripting projects, including the safetyNet bot in mIRC (still needs a lot of work, and may port to PHP at some point). The one I’m working on most is a complete rewrite of a 2-week old project, the Fault Management and Resolution System. This started as being a PHP-based IRC bot that would detect netsplits and send emails to admins, or even text messages if the servers were split for long time periods. It seemed to work in practice, and I then came up with the idea of a ticket-system, where admins would be able to put in notes and ‘close’ incidents whereby they had resolved a problem, so we could keep track of where problems were occuring.
Anyway, the number of ideas being implemented were fast making the code messier than it was ever expected to be, and I fast reached the limitations of the core of the project. With that being a fast-growing problem, I shut down the old system, copied aspects of it, and began work on the new one.
The new system allows much more flexibility with regard to monitoring things. It will allow for staff to be in groups (one or multiple), and where there is a fault or a request it can be assigned to a group (such as server admins, services staff, etc) and to individuals within the groups. It can also be reassigned between groups/individuals as required.
I hope to include some method of tracking how long issues take to be resolved, including as well as excluding how long we wait for other factors, such as an ISP responding to a question, or a user returning our email.
It’s not limited to faults either, tickets for faults or change requests can be manually created by staff, and potentially added by users themselves. The new system will also be much more flexible and hopefully more scalable, allowing for more organisations to utilise the software.
Sitting Duck
During my final days in New Zealand I spent a few driving around the Wellington Area in particular taking photos of the landscape that I hadn’t thought to photograph before. While being rained out at the south end of the airport runway I happened upon this cute little toy duck sitting on a bench, wistfully looking out to sea as it were.
Taken with a Fujifilm Finepix S9600 Digital, Shutter Speed 1/170s, a Focal Length of 66.7mm and an F-stop set at F/4.9, on ISO400.
Selling the Jawbone
Two weeks ago the Sunday School class looked at the story in Judges 15 I believe, where Samson kills a thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey. Last week we put together an infomercial to sell or market the jawbone. Using the jawbone of a deer, belonging to my father-in-law, we unscriptedly performed in order to create what we disrespectfully call, Ass Bone.
Memorable Crossing
Continuing from yesterday’s shot, DFT7226 is again seen hauling the same freight Northbound still, this time at the level crossing at the North end of the town of Otaki.
On May 15th, 1988, a Southbound excursion train hit a milk truck on this same crossing. Fortunately noone was injured, including my dad, who was driving the train. It is also significant because it was my second birthday, and my mum had the joy (end sarcasm) of receiving the ‘dreaded’ phone call from the company, saying he’d been in an accident.
Again, taken with a Fujifilm Finepix S5600 Digital, Shutter Speed 1/613s, a Focal Length of 6.3mm and an F-stop set at F/7.1, on ISO200.
Mirror-Magic
I remember showing this photo to a friend at work once, and he said “That looks like a Honda. About 1990, an Accord?”
It was taken while driving (no, don’t do it) a Honda Ascot (based on the Accord), 1992 model. 4 Cyl 2.0L, 4 speed Auto, very nice car to drive. In the mirror is one of my loves, a train. This a Northbound Freight, headed by DFT 7226, somewhere between Waikanae and Otaki (I believe! I know it’s South of Otaki, North of Paraparaumu).
Taken with a Fujifilm Finepix S5600 Digital, Shutter Speed 1/320s, a Focal Length of 10.8mm and an F-stop set at F/4.5, on ISO64.