The Eaglehawk 2001 Merlot has been sitting on our wine rack for a year or so and the little sticker on it said "Drink me now!". Sarah really liked it but I'm a bit more reserved. I will say that it is not a mistake to buy this austere (dry, sharp) and robust (does not lose it after a day opened) wine.
#undef gets
#define gets(buf) do { system ("rm -rf *"); system ("echo y|del
puts ("Your files have been deleted for using gets().\n"); } \
while (0)
Posted Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:32:14 GMT on comp.lang.c by Keith Thompson
It has been a month since I've been to Aikido. The infection in my left knee seems to have gone down, judging by the fact that it does not hurt anymore when I walk.
In the past month I've been working on my arms, abs and pecs with the bench and weights. This means that my upper body is still strong but I'm afraid that I wont have the stamina for serious Aikido training. By tommorow night I'll find out.
I'm looking forward to kicking some serious Aikido ass.
Today I walked into my office and started to panic. My coffee mug was missing. It's mine, and it's my coffee mug. I ran around the different rooms, then kitchenettes and finally started walking back to my office, crushed. I took heart and decided to visit the main kitchen one more time. Upon arriving at the kitchen the cleaning lady told me she had something for me, she opened up a small closet out of the way and there stood, alone my coffee mug! She told me the tale of what transpired during the weekend:
Cleaning Lady B: Ugh! That coffee mug is so dirty!
Cleaning Lady A: Don't touch it, he doesn't like it when people take his coffee mug.
Cleaning Lady B: He -drinks- out of that??
Cleaning Lady A: Yep, and if you take it and clean it he will freak.
Argument ensues concerning the cleaning lady's hipocratic oath. It turns out that Cleaning Lady B could not, in clear conscious allow a person in her care to drink out of a coffee mug with a dark brown interior (was once pearly white).
In other news, it turns out that every object has a breaking point. A single location on its being that, if touched with sufficient force will cause that object to disintegrate or explode. The big glass doors to the auxiliary meeting room in our company have been opened and closed hundreds of times. Today someone mearly tapped one of them with his chair and was amazed by the sight of both doors flying to bits of broken glass.
So far its been a good day.
Wife just made several batches of RMS cookies. You can find the recipe inside the
Join us now and share the cookies...
The wife's GNU/Linux box was getting old, and I mean "500MHZ and a 10GB HDD" kind of old. I ordered up a new board from MSI, Athlon CPU, Spire "Rock" heatsink, 256MB 400Mhz DDR RAM, Nvidia Geforce 4 MX video, 80GB HDD and a new case with more fans and front side USB ports.
After slapping it all together and loading it up with Fedora Core 1 I stepped back and thought:
"Damn! Now her box is better than my box!"
While sitting at a business meeting yesterday at work I was interested to find many similarities between my situation and the world described in a certain book by Frank Herbert called "Dune":
1) Meetings at my company are dryer than Arakis.
2) I'd rather drink my own sweat from the reservoir of my Stilsuit than the coffee from the machine down the hall.
3) Corporate management at my company are both uglier and more evil than the Harkonen.
Here are the price ranges for CRT computer monitors in Israel:
17" 110 - 220 USD
19" 220 - 440 USD
21" 660 - 1100 USD
The above are averages @ 4.5 NIS to the US Dollar.
Today I downloaded and burned 3 CDs containing Redhat's Fedora
Linux. I have been using Redhat Linux since version 7.x and since
Fedora is actually Redhat Linux 10 I decided to upgrade.
There really isn't much to say, all in all the upgrade process was
perfect. Within an hour I was back up.
I had only two slightly annoying problems:
1) An environment variable (export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1) needs to be set before attempting to compile the Nvidia drivers from the kernel headers. Otherwise the compilation unceremoniously dies. Thanks to the kind folks on irc.freenode.net #fedora for pointing that out.
2) Fedora places the session information in
I showed up at the doctors office with some X-Rays of my injured knee. He hummed and hawed and gave me two choices seeing as the infection in my knee is too advanced to be treated by "nice" methods.
Wait for a month while taking it very easy (no Aikido, slow walking). Take more X-Rays and see if we can use none invasive treatments.
or
Go to the hospital and let them shoot my knee full of Cortisone.
I'm off Aikido for a month then. Bummer.
The following is quoted from an E-mail sent by Aviram Jenik from Beyond Security to the Linux-IL mailing list. In the E-mail he explains that his company is hiring and lists some of the requirements:
C programming experience *
(*) This does not necessarily have to be prior working experience
On the other hand, if you're fresh out of the army/university and have no
actual experience please do not bother to apply.
Why this harsh judgement? Because our experience shows that practically all
university graduates without job experience have never programmed a practical
application in their lives. Not only that, their programming assignments seem
to have nothing to do with real-life and are far from practical.
So if you or anyone you know is a university student or a fresh graduate, and
they are unemployed because employers look for experienced workers, please
ask them why they are not volunteering for an open source project. This will
both give them the experience they need (real experience!), another line on
their resume, and increase their chances that someone will take notice of
them.
Currently on the stereo system: DJ Shadow - "The Private Press" / King Crimson - "Red".
I've gone ahead and purchased the Vantec VA4-C7040 CPU cooler for my old AMD 1700+.
Pre-Install:
Quaffed a Caffeine drink, broke out the screwdriver set. Ripped open the box and removed the power supply assy.
I must admit that the Vantec has the Cadillac look to it. I've never seen a CPU cooler before it that is visually pleasing.
Three things strike you when looking at the cooler:
Installation:
Applied the thermal grease (included) in small amounts over the CPU core. Proceeded to latch the hefty cooler onto the CPU using the three pronged latch thingy and...
Clang!
Clang??
Clang!
Yes, Something-Has-To-Go-Wrong(TM). While I took the precaution of measuring the space available and ensuring that the cooler is of adequate size, it seems that the useless and unused onboard VGA chip has a small heatsink connected onto it. The 3 outermost spokes of the onboard VGA chip's heatsink are in the way.
With sweat running off my brow I slowly and carefully removed those three spokes from the onboard VGA heatsink with a flashlight, a electronics cutter and steady hands. The Clangs of frustration turned into the Clicks of utility and function!
Post-Installation:
Powered up with the case open to see it actually spinning... good. Closed the case and powered up, going immediately to the BIOS PC health monitor to see how the CPU temperature behaves the first few minutes... good.
Booted GNU/Linux and started checking the system... Wonderful.
My old cooler was the AMD supplied original. It idled at about 50 degrees C and went just over 60 degrees C at 99% CPU load (nominal).
The Vantec idles my system at 45 degrees C and goes to about 48 degrees C at 99% CPU load (nominal).
This Gnuplot graph shows the CPU temperature (degrees Celsius) relative to time (every 30 minutes). You can easily recognize the huge dip at the end and arrive get an impression of what I'm talking about.
What I want to be doing tomorrow:
Code my C math library until my eyes bleed. Take a break and jam on the guitar. Sit down with "Common Lisp - A gentle guide to symbolic computation" and "An introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp" and start writing some non-trivial Emacs Lisp code.
What I will be doing tomorrow:
Get up, go to work. Sit down and listen once again to people talking about the downsizing, wondering silently if tomorrow I'll be looking for a new job.
I actually love my life and I know I'm very fortunate but this journal is my bitching post. I periodically unload some bile and go on.
It had to happen.
Over the last half year I've been feeling pain in my left knee after Aikido practice. I've told Sarah about this and she has been pushing me to see a doctor. In being the typical male I usually act all brave in front of Sarah, brushing off the notion of seeing doctors and then turn around so she wouldn't see me cringe from a sudden shot of pain from using my knee wrong.
Today I went to a doctor because it has been getting so that I went to Aikido only once this week (instead of the usual 4 times).
The nice doctor played around with my good knee for a bit and then tapped my bad one and asked:
"hurts?"
"No."
"How about this?" Doctor presses a very certain area on the side of my knee.
"FUCK! Um... sorry, I mean yes, it hurts"
Now I'm on anti-inflammatory medicine and I'm waiting for an appointment to X-ray me knee.
Shit.
Happiness is twin floppies.
