The age old problem. Pulling the IBM dinosaur into the cloud.

So far, this has proven to be extremely challenging, due mainly to my company's restrictive policies.

Previously, I had it forwarding mail to Gmail, using the ALL rule, but that was swiftly crushed when they fucking disallowed it.

Assholes.

So now, I just want to do AT THE VERY LEAST, an export of Notes appointments into Gmail so I don't have to type it in manually.

I am attempting to digitize my life. The goal is to make everything digital, archivable, searchable, and permenant. I would like to keep everything with Google, since they area stable company, and will be around for a long time to come. But they don't provide everything I need. So, in those cases, I use the best option, and back things up where needed. Here's my list so far of everything I have in the Cloud:

• Email - Gmail

I've launched into a new statistics project that takes a look at Craigslist. I won't go into detail yet. You can find that in the report when I'm finished.

What I want to share here is how I got PostgreSQL working with PHP 5 and Apache 2 on Debian Lenny.

First there's the usual steps of installing all the packages. That's not hard to figure out. The hard part is getting it all talking.

The report scheduler project I have been working on for the last 6 months has taught me a LOT about the software engineering process.

1. Gather concrete requirements at the beginning and stick to them. Give customers solid, realistic dates for each one. This way, if a requirement changes, the added time in refactoring code is their fault and they have to suffer for it, not you.
2. Test Driven Development. This is my new mantra. Test All The Fuckin' Time. TATFT. LIVE BY I

Never Use Lotus Notes Again

I made the best discovery last night. Though it comes a little bit late, it's better than never. Lotus Notes can forward ALL your email to any address. I chose Gmail of course. I know I've tried this before, the but the option didn't exist. It does now (Lotus Notes Version 7).

1. Open your mail
2. In the left panel, expand Tools
3. Click on Rules
4. New Rule

I have been using Debian for, what, about a month now? It is the best fucking Linux distro I have seen. apt-get is also the best package manager I have seen. It keeps track of all dependencies and conflicts, and does it well. Very well.

And just to spite you fucking Gentoo fans, I've wrapped a small shell script:

#!/bin/csh
sudo apt-get install $argv[1]

HOLYFUCKINGSHIT! :retab !!!!!!! Vim is now my new best friend. So, I was going through all my fucked up files and trying to take out the unportable tabs and up in nice friendly spaces, and lo and behold... :retab! Type that shit in your VIM file and it will turn the tabs into the appropriate number of spaces (defined in your .vimrc under "set tabstop=x"). Vim now gets to have my children. Is there no end to it's coolness? I sure hope not.

Go check out

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\USBSTOR

and look through the various folders. Those are all the usb devices that have been plugged into your piece of shit Windows PC. Something on there that you never plugged in? Hope you encrypted those NSA files you were working on, putz.

Here's a starter .vimrc, courtesy of John Clark, modified by me. Another good site for .vimrc files is here.

I will probably continue to update this as it gets better.

How the fuck does something like this happen?:

# ls -al
total 76

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6300 Jan 31 01:15 *20*.csv

I got tired of OpenBSD's paranoia. I mean, jeez, I appreciate security, but for my desktop? Right now I'd be happy to fuck something up so long as I can actually do something. Why OpenBSD sucks for a workstation OS:

• No native Flash support
• No native Java support
• No support for disks over 128 GB [edit: the OBSD team has fixed this.]
• Permissions, Privelege Seperation, and Jails, oh my!
• Firefox 0.8 ?!?!?! Where the fuck is 1.0?!?!
• Na

OpenBSD Humor:

alexander% make shit
make: don't know how to make shit. Stop in /home/karniv0re.

From /usr/src/sys/compat/svr4/svr4_misc.c