Let’s play a game called Danny says…
Danny says: Potential is like a hard on. It’s only worth having if you use it. Planning to use it is pointless.
Long term…
I should get off my ass and take a CCNP course…
It’s been too long
I haven’t said anything relevant in this place for a very, very long time.
There was a time in my life, that this little tucked away corner of the tripledubdot was all that there was that was keeping me sane, and it is strangely refreshing to not have to rely on this place as a crutch any more.
Having said that though, it does often feel like a very large part of my life is missing, especially since I migrated this thing to wordpress. It was just a little more fun when this whole thing was held together by with duct tape manufactured out of a couple of bash and perl scripts.
It used to feel, that whenever I had anything to say here, it was going to be oddly profound, even if only in a nerdy way that very few people understood. Now, I don’t have much to say simply because there is not all that much going on in my life. It seems like all I do lately is work. I’ve had a single day off in the last 3 weeks, and it is really starting to get to me. When I get home from work now, there is so much work to do at the house that I just tend to feel over whelmed by it, and I turn into this apathy soaked wreck who isn’t able to accomplish anything of note. My will to move forward has really vanished in the last 8 months or so, and I’m stuck in neutral, not actually accomplishing anything of note.
The solution, is pretty simple, I think. I think that I need a project. Something that I can hack away at in my spare time, something that will not take up a lot of my time, but something that I can allow myself to become completely engrossed in for an hour at a time or so. Something that is not related to my facebook, or slashdot accounts. Something that is mine, and mine alone, that no one else can fuck with. Something that I can see the results of my hard work.
It has to be something that caters to my talents and desires though. Something that involves grunt labour isn’t going to cut it. Something that leaves me feeling more tired than wired, won’t work either. I need something that will tickle my brain and give me problems to solve, I need something that I can improve. Something to fix.
Or, I just need 10 days sitting on a beach swilling rum straight from the bottle.
You decide.
Ubuntu Developers, read this.
Go fuck yourselves.
I’ve been using Ubuntu for the last 3 years, and I have watched every release since 7.04 get buggier, and buggier, concentrating more on having a flashy “wow” factor to the user interface, rather than actually having good, solid software that works.
I recently made the mistake of upgrading my main machine to Jaunty. I’ve always used the current release for Ubuntu, and I still to this day, run Debian sid on my media server. I’ve been around the block, I know how to fix problems when they come up, and I used to get off on the challenge. Now, I just want something that works. I don’t have the time to fuck around with backports and proposed updates, just to get my modem to work. It’s not worth the time.
I give up.
All because you morons decided to compile the usb-serial driver directly into the kernel, instead of as a loadable module, so that my modem would work.
Let’s not even get into the mess that is compiz under your current release with the nVidia drivers for my video card. Nothing works at all.
I’m buying a MacBook.
count_files.sh
I occasionally tinker with bash scripting to automate stuff, in order to make my life easier.
Here is my newest.
Tested and working flawlessly on Ubuntu 8.04, but roo is having issues with it, so there will be an update soon.
Code Link: count_files.sh