Archive for December, 2006

The guy in the office next to mine is listening to Andrea Bocceli, full blast. I gave him headphones with an obviously forced smile, but he didn’t seem to catch the subtle drift.

Opera in the morning is too much, especially when you have an ear infection, and are trying to do some work.

It now stopped but then he proceeds to watch shitty videos, again, with the sound at full blast, like he has been doing for the past two months. When he’s gone, I’ll disconnect the internal speaker of his desktop machine. Watch me.

If you have an Intel Mac, you already know what Parallels is and what wonders it can accomplish. Virtualization is awesome, especially with Intel VT, of course.

One new feature of the latest version that came out last week would be Coherence Mode. It is similar to running X11 applications “rootless”. I’m not sure of how to describe it. To cite David Young from StuffOnFire, who describes it in much better words than I would:

Have I ever mentioned how freaking awesome Parallels Coherence mode is? Probably not, because it’s only been out for a week. Well, it’s freaking awesome. What do you run Windows for? Visual Studio? Office? You put the taskbar on auto-hide and it’s just like using a really ass-tastic Mac application, like something made by Adobe. And it runs on your Boot Camp partition! Hell yeah. If there were a Mac Software Engineering Team of the Year award, I’d suggest that the Parallels guys get it.

I just wanted to mention how awesome it was really. No acerbic rant about stuff, or witty comments, really. Just a plain “Oh shit it’s awesome, I want people to know this and belch, fart and shit their pants at the same time when they see this”.

I’ll post a screenshot later on.

At this price, is hope the memory stick is gold plated, beautifully marked with the Cisco logo, hand chiseled by romanian virgins trained in their craft since birth. And guaranteed to never, ever go bad.

That’s a metric fuckton. Well, I guess the enterprise can justify it, else, they should have gone with the SOHO stuff. I use cheap hong kong made knock off flash SIMMs in my personal 2611 router. 20$ for 64 megabytes on e-bay. Don’t do that if you’re using your router seriously, though, unless you like words like “void warranty” and “obscure failures”.

On another note, their new logo looks like two raised middle fingers. Appropriate, for the price tag.

Just when I was starting to actually enjoy (read: thinking “hey, it’s not so bad!”) Windows scripting after discovering documentation for the 32 bits command interpreter in Windows NT, I realize I have been spoiled by Unix shells and expect some things to work, and then frown in disgust when they don’t.

for /F "usebackq tokens=2,*" %i in (`net use | find "..."`)... 
| was unexpected

I really wanted to like writing cmd scripts. But the parser is way too obnoxious when parsing brackets. For instance, you can’t set an environement variable in one branch of a conditional statement.

if "text" EQU "othertext" ( 
    set VAR=value 
) else ( 
    echo Not Working. 
)

This will fail silently or with unexpected results. Can’t wait until PowerShell becomes mainstream enough for me to use.