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

Sombody please destroy this company:

Direct Connect Consulting, Inc.
11660 Alpharetta Hwy
Suite 350
Roswell, GA 30076

Business Phone: 770-663-6591

I received 4 calls in one fucking day from these assholes. They are really quick to hang up too, so I don't even get to fuck with them like I like to. So, if you are reading this posting and have some spare time on your hands, why not call them?

I've now got OpenBSD running alongside Windows XP (for games, damnit!). It wasn't hard getting the two to dual boot, once I decided that it wasn't a good idea to overwrite the the boot sector on which Microsoft stakes a claim. Then once I got both installed, I mounted the windows partition (I kept it Fat32 for read/write access in OBSD) copied openbsd.pbr to C:\, booted into Windows, and added it to the NT Boot Loader list. There's a nice guide somewhere online, but I can't be bothered to find i

So, finally after backing up an old computer to a new computer using Filezilla (next time, look at ALL the fucking options - there aren't that many), I ran Windows Update on the new one. Then rebooted. Damn. Would not boot in any fucking mode, safe or normal. So, after hours of being pissed off, I ran DSL and was able to mount the drive AND get networking. So I scp'd it over to my OpenBSD box (4GB of scp madness!). Now I get to go back and check the fucker out.

B. That beautiful little letter. The prelude of my name, the second letter of the alphabet... B. It's not number one, but it'll do. Especially for a grade in trig. Rock!!!