Monthly Archives: April 2006
Twin Sisters
Is it just me or is Haley Berry stealing Gigi Edgley’s Chiana look in X3? I swear, X3 storm and Chiana look like they were separated at birth: If they painted Haley the same grayish paint, she could play Chiana’s … Continue reading
Monster Mega Breackfast
Monster Mega Breackfast, originally uploaded by maciakl. Ark and me went to the Red Hawk Diner today. We made the mistake of ordering their Mega Meals. He ordered the Gut Buster and I got the 12″ Pankakes. To my dismay, … Continue reading
Best Fan Film Ever!
Rayan vs Dorkman must be one of the most awesome Star Wars fan films I have ever seen. Check it out! For more info go to rayanvsdorkman.com Tags: star wars, starwars, fan film, video, cool, lightsaber
LaTex Annoyances
I really like LaTex. I much prefer to typset my papers, rather than manufacture them in word. But every once in a while, I find little things that make using LaTex a PITA. For example, in my document, I have … Continue reading
What is a pirate?
Abso-fucking-lutely priceless! Every time you say “piracy” when reffering to copyright infringement, you are helping to spread the RIAA’s and MPAA’s evil propaganda. Think about this. Tags: copyright, copyfight, drm, piracy, eff
Makes you think…
Note, this video is over an hour long, but it is worth it: Think about this stuff when you watch United 93. Is United 93 an inspirational story, or a governmental propaganda? Everything you know about 9/11 might be a … Continue reading
Tape Drives for $2k?
My hardware people recomend switching to a HP LTO2 tape drive for backups. I looked at their qoute, and I nearly fell off my chair. They were asking almost $2,000 just for the drive! Holy poop on a stick! I … Continue reading
Latex Conditionals
If you are a graduate student, and have some sort of assistantship position I have one advice for you. Do not tell your professors that you know/enjoy/use latex. Do not talk to them about latex. If they figure out that … Continue reading
Text Dumping PDF files
The other day I got a request to convert a PDF file into a text file or something that could be imported to Excel. The was essentially some big accounting mumbo-jumbo full of numbers arranged in columns with fancy headings. … Continue reading
Save the Internet
Come on people, this is serious! Let me show you how the internet works. Right now it is set up like this: You pay for your own bandwidth (up and down) to an ISP Google pays for it’s own bandwidth … Continue reading
Arcane Java Operators
I previously posted about the nifty ?: Java operator that I personally love, but that I never see in the code. And then I realized that there are quite a few instances of Java specific stuff that no one really … Continue reading
Java ?: operator
One of the least understood, and most underestimated Java language constructs is the ?: operator. Most people never even seen it in action. And those who did, never actually used it to do anything meaningful. Imagine something like this: public … Continue reading
Barefoot Shoemaker
The keyboard on my laptop is fucked. Up and Left arrow keys simply do not work. I figured it might have been a software glitch, but they do not work at the bootloader either. It is annoying as hell, but … Continue reading
The case of the switch
Please look at the following code snippet and tell me what is wrong with it. No it contains no errors, just something really dumb that shows that the programmer does not understand the switch construct: switch(foo) { case 1: … Continue reading
No chanel switching during commercials.
Holy Jesus Jumping Christ! WTF is this world comming to? Philips suggests adding flags to commercial breaks to stop a viewer from changing channels until the adverts are over. The flags could also be recognised by digital video recorders, which … Continue reading
Dirty Minds
Today after Programming Languages class we established that we (tech geeks) are really a bunch of horny perverts :P Only in our field, phrases like these below are considered normal and appropriate: A floppy is good but a hard drive … Continue reading
Bush is a thief by RIAA standards
Apparently, president Bush has illegally ripped mp3’s on his ipod. President Bush’s iPod contains songs by the Beatles; since no Beatles songs have been licensed for the iTunes Music Store yet, these must have come from ripped CDs. Remember last … Continue reading
Google Calendar > 30boxes
Google Calendar is possible the best calendaring app online at the moment. I have been playing with 30boxes lately, but the big G is much more polished and feature-full. Hell, for what I use it for it is better than … Continue reading
WTF Code moments…
One of my Graduate Assistant responsibilities this semester is grading homeworks for an introductory Java class. As you can imagine, I see alot of bad code. But every once in a while, I run into something really “special”. The assignment … Continue reading
The Shell is Done
I finished the Shell assignment for my OS class. All the basic requirements are met. I’m planning to play around with it some more, to add pipes, redirection, and allow user to run native apps from within. But that’s just … Continue reading
Achtung!
Here is a random warning message which could be found on many BBS’es back in the day: ACHTUNG! ——– Das machine is nicht fur gerfingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der Sprinngwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fur … Continue reading
Writing a Shell
The new project in the OS class is to write a java based shell emulation. I’m excited – this sounds like a really fun assignment. In fact, it just seems a wee bit easy. All you really need to do … Continue reading
How to pull an all-Nighter?
I was reading Lifehacker, and I found this article about pulling all-nighters. It’s all nice and dandy but there is nothing in that article that wouldn’t be common sense, and self explanatory. What is the point of giving advice such … Continue reading
The cost of elegant code…
There are essentially two ways to code: Elegantly Optimally Elegant code, is usually well structured, object oriented and human readable. Blocks of code are neatly divided into meaningfully named methods. All the methods are atomic (ie. they accomplish only one … Continue reading
Bad News
This one cracks me up every time: It might be old, I don’t know – but it’s funny. Tags: funny, humor, comic, kermit, bad news