Hehe:
comic © phdcomics.com; click to enlarge
Damn Santa…
Archive for December, 2006
This is exactly how I feel:
Sunday, December 31st, 2006Cut a 9V bettery to get bunch of a AAAA’s
Saturday, December 30th, 2006I’m filing this under “cool shit I didn’t know about”. It turns out that if you cut a standard 9V Duracell you will get 6 small 1.5V battery cells which are essentially your standard AAAA batteries:
images © axecollector.com
Interesting. I had no clue that this was how they made them.
MySQL no Longer Provides Free Binaries
Saturday, December 30th, 2006This is really sad, but it appears that MySQL will no longer provide free binaries for their Community branch.
From what I understand, the Community version will continue to be released as normal, and distributed under GPL, but MySQL will not provide binaries for download on their own site. Precompiled binaries should still be available in the form of packages from various linux vendors if they choose to include them in their package trees.
In other words nothing really changes for hosts of linux users out there (especially for apt and yum users who can rely on rich repositories to always contain the newest releases). On the other hand Windows users should be relatively upset about this because it means they will need to build from source each time a new version is released.
That is, unless someone takes it upon them to provide windows MySQL binaries to the masses and build some nice installers for them. I imagine that whoever manages to establish themselves as a trustworthy source can probably expect some good traffic and hence add revenue. I’m actually tempted to buy mysql4win.com - if nothing else, just to see if anyone really wants it. 
found via homo-adminus blog
Top Villain of 2006
Saturday, December 30th, 2006And the top villain of 2006, according to the Associated Press poll is:
found @ crooksandliars.com
George Dubya!
It’s funny how he beats the combined score of Osama, Saddam, Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong and Satan himself.
In related news, South Park joke becomes eerily prophetic:
What does Saddam’s execution mean in global scope? Absolutely nothing. Saddam was irrelevant since the day he was captured in 2003. The execution was just some theatrics designed to appease the masses look as if the Bush administration actually achieved something. But it didn’t.
Nothing has changed. We are still at war, Iraq is still fucked up beyond recognition (even more than usual now, seeing as certain groups did not want Saddam to be executed), and our president still sucks.
What can be the impact of this execution if American public considers Bush to be a bigger crook than Saddam?
Update 01/01/2007 03:23:22 PM
If you feel that you need to see it, here is a full, uncensored shakycam video of the hanging.
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