The more I work in the construction industry the more I’m deeply disgusted.
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Corporate anniversaries bring bad luck
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paolo@rigel:/var/log$ grep -e “sda” -e FAILED kern.log|wc -l
552!
May I suggest to add a new spare disk in the RAID array?
And a proper backup policy of root filesystem too?
Fun, Mood
Who said Knight Rider?
Nvidia’s breakthrough is the autonomous vehicle automatically taught itself to drive by watching how a human drove. I’ve just read Nvidia GPU-powered autonomous car teaches itself to see and steer | Network World coming from Slashdot. “KITT, drive me home!”
Liberty Eiffel, Mood
Dad, may I play?
Dad, may I play with your computer?
And I have to move to the humble, smallish and slow old eeepc.
At least I’m lucky enough of using vim and tmux so I don’t have to really stop. Just detach the session and reattach it into a new ssh connection.
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Proficient with….
I was naïvely opening Linkedin when I saw this telling people I’m able to use “Microsoft Office” would attract up to 15% more views? Really, are they serious? I’ve been a proud user of StarOffice then OpenOffice then LibreOffice since… forever, or better since it was still called StarOffice… Yes, I’ve used Microsoft Office and…
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I’ve been tweaking a little “Tutorial tour – Liberty Eiffel Wiki“
After having been extensively using WordPress and Markdown for a while the syntax of MediaWiki feels almost alien…
Amiga, Mood
Amiga Workbench Emulator by Christophe Résigné
Christophe Résigné wrote Ia full javascript (~3000 lines of code) remake of the classic Amiga’s operating system in his Chrome Experiments. And it feels almost like the original! A truly smart guy!
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Fool’s day
Only on the fool’s day I could have done the foolishness of coming to work on hour earlier than usual for the sake of a.l bet with a coworker… 🙂
Torvalds’ Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong – from Slashdot
Torvalds explains the combination of youthful chutzpah, openness to other’s ideas, and a willingness to unwind technical decisions that he thinks were critical to the OS’s development: “I credit the fact that I didn’t know what the hell I was setting myself up for for a lot of the success of Linux. […] The thing about bad technical decisions is that you can always undo them. […] I’d rather make a decision that turns out to be wrong later than waffle about possible alternatives for too long.”
I shall keep it in mind. I hope it’s not too late.