Comment Don't worry (Score 1) 5
Your wife will be calling to make sure you remembered to pick everybody up.
Submission + - WARNING: driver updates causing Vista deactivation (apcmag.com)
KrispySausage writes: "After weeks of gruelling troubleshooting, I've finally had it confirmed by Microsoft Australia and USA — something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation.
Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into "reduced functionality" mode, where you can't do anything but use the web browser for half an hour.
How can this ridiculous situation occur, and what is Microsoft's response... read on."
Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into "reduced functionality" mode, where you can't do anything but use the web browser for half an hour.
How can this ridiculous situation occur, and what is Microsoft's response... read on."
Submission + - Google Search Screws Over SomethingAwful.com
An anonymous reader writes: You may have heard of the humour website SomethingAwful.com. Apparently, for all of their long history they've been having a problem where their website is listed far down Google's results (often last) for searches related to the site (such as the names of features and articles on the site). For example, when I google for "Photoshop Phriday", the site isn't in the first ten pages of results, despite the fact that Google has indexed the relevent page. In fact, the first result is a noproxy.us proxied version of the relevant page, and the rest of the results are blog and forum entries referring to Something Awful. (Results are apparently better on many non-English versions of Google, however.)
It's far from clear what's causing this; the site's PageRank is apparently fine. Attempts to contact Google have fallen on deaf ears and dumb autoresponders. The site was even recently redesigned in the hope of fixing the problem, with no luck so far. Is the world's most popular search engine really this broken, and how much money are people bringing in from knowing the black magic to work around it?
It's far from clear what's causing this; the site's PageRank is apparently fine. Attempts to contact Google have fallen on deaf ears and dumb autoresponders. The site was even recently redesigned in the hope of fixing the problem, with no luck so far. Is the world's most popular search engine really this broken, and how much money are people bringing in from knowing the black magic to work around it?
Journal Journal: Rosetta Code -- Building a Programmer's Rosetta Stone 215
Did you ever run into the problem where you knew how to do something in one programming language, but really needed to do it in another? That's what Rosetta Code is all about. A variety of programming tasks are solved using as many languages as possible. You can examine existing tasks, or create your own.
Journal Journal: Pointless meme
1. What is your occupation?
Weilder of the Wire Brush of Enlightenment and the Broadsword of Understanding. i.e. I'm doing system administration.
2. What color are your socks right now?
Black and yellow.
3. What are you listening to right now?
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
4. What was the last thing that you ate?
A strawberry trifle.
5. Can you drive a stick shift?
I only drive stick shifts. Automatics - eugh!
Journal Journal: A Dominator2010 moment 3
Those of you who have may have dominator2010 friended may be aware that he's not really have the best couple of days in his personal life. Nevertheless, I present a moment that I find particularly amusing.
Journal Journal: The FireHose? 10
Hey, look at that:
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl
Probably only available to subscribers. Since it says "available to subscribers".
Looks like one can now see and vote on upcoming stories, ala Digg.
Submission + - Apple makes it official: New iPod Shuffle - 3 Nov
Submission + - EiffelStudio 5.7 is released under dual license
manus_eiffel writes: "Eiffel Software released EiffelStudio 5.7 last week. This is the first release of EiffelStudio under the dual license model announced a few months ago at http://www.eiffel.com/general/news/2006/2006_04_05 _pr.html.
This version is available on many platforms (see http://www.eiffel.com/downloads/eiffelstudio.html) ."
Journal Journal: Blog
Hey, I'm trying out a proper blog over here: http://ryanlrussell.blogspot.com/.
Some of you may be interested in the stuff I post there. You'll probably also see a couple of dupes there too, since I took copies from here.
Anything that is Slashdot-related, or has to do with the circle of friends here, I plan to keep here in my journal.
Journal Journal: Ask /. rockstars 21
Aimed squarely at a number of people around here who probably know the answer...
So my oldest boy turned 16 today, and he likes to play bass. I took him to Guitar Center to pick out some toys, and gave him a relatively small dollar figure to work with. He had previously expressed interest in some new pickups or a wah peddle, or similar, so that's what I had in mind.
Journal Journal: ELER 3
I don't know if anyone else here reads the web comic Everybody Loves Eric Raymond. The Schneier bit is hilarous, and I got a little mention, too.
Journal Journal: Rain
So, I feel like I've picked on Solemn's writing a couple of times now, and haven't given her a chance to reciprocate. Plus, the wife's out of town, and I'm bored and the kids are asleep. So:
Journal Journal: D&D
No, not the silly web questionaire thing, my shirt:
http://flickr.com/photos/ryanlrussell/211991043/
Journal Journal: $5 MP3 player fun 2
I thought I'd experiment with posting something to the Instructables site. If you're interested, check it out. It's just a couple of really cheap parts plugged together, but I think one could get some good mischief out of it.
