Archive for September 2008
There needs to be a new TLD – Dot S (.s)
Think of the domain names:
- feathersnot.s
- dippin.s
- connect-the.s
- polka.s
I’ll take “things that were impossible pre-Internet” for $1000, Alex
In the comments:
I just saw Dianne on an old Super Password on The Game Show Network. I thought she looked familiar but couldn’t place her, then it hit me..PINE SOL! So glad this commercial was posted to confirm my suspicion. Great!
links for 2008-09-26
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Upgrading Sharepoint 3.0 to SQL 2005 Backend
At work we originally ran Sharepoint 3.0 with a SQL Server 2000 backend. We don’t have an extremely involved deployment, and currently Sharepoint is only used for internal purposes. That’s my nice way of saying we don’t know a whole lot about Sharepoint.
Gaining knowledge about Sharepoint is a pretty painful process, as there’s an entirely new vocabulary to learn.
Luckily, Stackoverflow exists. I asked.
The post on stackoverflow has the details on the process. We’re one DB closer to being rid of SQL Server 2000.
Greed
In case you’ve been living under a rock (which won’t be that surprising in a few years), our economy is going through some hard times. It’s all due to consumer Greed.
American taxpayers are bailing out irresponsible companies. Everyone’s pissed. Through some quick research, we can see the anatomy of this meltdown:
The Great Depression happened a long long time ago. It sucked. Bad. If you have the pleasure to talk to someone who was alive in that time, they’ll tell you all about how awful it was. FDR said in his first inaugural address: “Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.”
Roosevelt and the rest of the United States spent lots of time enacting legislation to prevent such an awful thing from happening again. One particularly relevant piece of legislation is the Glass-Steagall Act. In a typical democrat move, this added tons of regulation to businnesses. Glass-Steagall made a bank holding group owning another financial institution illegal.
Banks. Were. Pissed. How dare the government get in the way of their own irresponsibility! This is socialism! YARRRRR!
Fast forward a many years to the Reagan administration. In a classic conservative move, the administration enacted the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act. This deregulated the Savings and Loan industry. This was called “An Act to revitalize the housing industry by strengthening the financial stability of home mortgage lending institutions and ensuring the availability of home mortgage loans” and also allowed for Adjustable Rate Mortgages. Great idea at the time… if I want a house, the government shouldn’t get in my way!
And let’s fast forward a few more years to the Clinton administration. In a rare conservative move, his administration repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, which further deregulated bank holding companies. Congress was republican controlled, both parties voted along party lines, but Clinton didn’t veto. This act was repealed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. (An aside: Phil Gramm, one of the bills sponsors, was John McCain’s presidential campaign co-chair and most senior economic advisor until July of this year. I’m glad McCain wised up. )
How the hell did that happen? Clinton and the democrats in congress were “just serving the people”. So were Reagan and the republicans. So was FDR and everyone.
Americans want stuff. More stuff than we need. Definitely more stuff than we can afford.
And we don’t want to pay for it. Ever.
What’s the word for that? Greed.
Sure, there’s blame to be pushed around. Presidents, Democrats, Republicans, committees all dropped the ball at many points.
Ultimately, they all cowered to the American people’s bloodlust for stuff.
It’s not 100% the consumer’s fault, but we must stop acting like it’s 100% the government’s fault. We elected them. The problem is, politicians doing what we want, not what we need.
VMware Consolidated Backup: Explained
Moved to Virtual Andy
Work can be fun sometimes.
(2:28:13 PM) CW: Connection verification failed for data source: Login fails.
(2:28:16 PM) Andy H: k
(2:28:18 PM) Andy H: one moment plz
(2:28:22 PM) Andy H: your call is important to us
(2:28:26 PM) Andy H: *lame music*
(2:28:27 PM) CW: /taps foot
(2:28:52 PM) Andy H: try now
(2:29:08 PM) CW: worked.
(2:29:14 PM) CW: thank you sir.
(2:29:20 PM) Andy H: thank you sir. is there anything else i can assist with this afternoon?
(2:29:31 PM) Andy H: would you like to take a brief survey regarding the support you just received?
(2:29:47 PM) CW: no. you have answered all my question adequately. thank you for you assistance.
(2:29:56 PM) CW: click
We launched Bibleshark’s Parallel Concordance
The concordance is live. Go look around.
It’s an early release – we know it’s a little rough. We just wanted to show everyone our collection of information.
Some of the “How we did it” is featured in this post: Reversing MySQL’s Fulltext Index.
