In some -older- javascript code I found the following today:
Within 4 lines the author manages to look not so smart himself: the regular expression to find the Internet Explorer version assumes that it remains in the single digits.
With Internet Explorer 10 the match starts failing. The code that follows has no idea how to deal with that.
In German a person who is not the brightest is sometimes been titled as ‘can not count to ten’ (“Kann nicht bis Zehn zählen,”)
Recently GMail has – in my experience – more trouble with filtering spam: An average of 5 messages a day come through and end up in my inbox.
Much worse is that messages that are ham end up in the spam folder.
I added a file to get some of them automatically out of spam. Which worked, but has one drawback:
Messages that match my ‘ham filter’ but also match an older filter (think mailing list) started to show up in my inbox, and no longer in the folder, I mean label,
that the filter sets.
This feels as if the gmail ‘do not send to spam’ instruction actually does an ‘mark mail as non spam and send to folder inbox’.
Which is strange since messages can have a label AND be in the inbox.
The remedy seems to be filter order. I got the previous behavior back when I moved the ‘ham’ filter before the other filters.
I don’t think it is possible to arrange filters. Changing the order means deleting filters that should move to the end and creating them again.
One of the “benefits” of having a registered trademarks is that scamers will try to make a quick buck.
TM-Edition Ltd. Széchenyi tér 17. 2000 Szentendre HU Bank: MKB Bank Zrt. SWIFT: MKKB HU HB IBAN: HU57 1030 003 1056 3675 4902 0011
just tried this, trying to charge 1650 USD for “registration costs”
Sadly such scams must work often enough that it is worth somebodies while.
I think there should be severe punishments for this kind of behaviors. Allot of energy goes into nowhere for such scams.
For every dollar these idiots make they cost the world hundreds. And they contribute zero.
Hover is just awesome.
With Godaddy and Network Solutions I have to battle through an ever increasing amount of screens that try to sell something when doing even the simplest things.
Yes, it’s as painful as that last sentence.
Hover is a wonderful. Even if the others were OK Hover would still stand out. It is really nice.
A domain would auto renew next week. I don’t need it anymore. So Hover sends an email asking me what I would like to do. The others just auto renew.
I really like that. Treating your customers right. Looking for what they could want. Instead of looking for upsell opportunities.
Very very nice.
I found this today on a web site of a pewspaper:
Countless publications show the same AP story.
What is the problem with this?
According to the latest numbers China grew by 8.9%.
Since this is China one could also say: grew only by 8.9%
The US GDP grew 1.7% in the same time.
The headline of the AP story says something else.
So does the first sentence. And 8.9% growth are being called ‘anemic’
This is a very simple thing: growth did decline by 0.3%. Growth did. NOT the actual output.
I wonder what happens to the 99% of topics in the news that are more complex and faceted than this China statistic.
After I wrote this I went back to google news. On CNN one can read that the economy slowed:
I think following this kind of ‘news’ is a complete waste of time.
For time machine and other local data needs I really like a drop in design for an external disk. When drives were cheap it was so nice just to drop them into the ‘enclosure’ and go on.
I ended up buying and liking the BlacX ones from Thermaltake. Slight cheap electronic stench when you open them. 1 out 5 that I bought ended up not working. But the price was really right.
Unfortunately the love ends with larger than 2TB drives. It seems to say somewhere in the specs for the device. The model I have is old too.
But it is still a bit of a let down if a 3.0 Tb drive only shows you 801.57 GB in ‘Generic External Media’ in Disk Utility under OS X.
I remember having spent hours at a client in 1987 trying to get their whopping 30 Megabyte hard drive to work with the limitation of the initial FAT16 allocation table.
There have been countless problems caused by an “oh this kind of system will last for sooo long” engineering attitude since then. “Nobody will want to have so much space, speed, insert-thing-here.”
People seem to have a hard time estimating how long something will be around – and in what kind of world things might have to fit in.
Doing those underlying things ‘right’, making them easily extendable for instance, creates tremendous value.
If Amazon actually manages to continue to fully implement their SOA approach then we might be hearing from that for quiet a while. They are currently one of the few companies that positively surprise me when I interact with them.
We will see. And I wonder what kind of size limit the new drive enclosures have that I just ordered.
Sometimes I wonder how big that bus must be that one can throw an entire country under. A pretty pretty one in this case. Not the bus. The country. Love it.
Moving is not fun. I used Bevery Hills Transfer and Storage before and things worked really well.
When I recently had to plan a move I was delighted that they still around. And everything was as perfect as it can be.
It makes such a difference if one knows that there are actual people who care about the job. I think that this kind of attitude can be found if the size of the company matches the task: If they are too small then stretched resources might make things inflexible. If a company gets too large people often stop caring. Since they do the big company starts to treat their people and customers like cattle. Prodding them into the flow via a byzantine set of rules and call centers.
Luckily Bevery Hills Transfer and Storage is the right size, and the people do care. That makes moving almost fun.
There are probably other companies out there that do a good job as well. Those I just don’t know. These people I have a great experience with. So they are the ones that I will call for my next move. And I am happy that I found them back in the day.
Skimming over the news (a bad thing in itself I must admit) it seems that the leap second addition – one might tempted to say – between June 30 and July 1st caused allot of Java based systems to fail.
While the headlines list who got affected and all that it is interesting that there was no reference to responsibility. Outages in general are news. Like the one on this recent Friday that took AMZN service and then some systems down.
In general it is all in a ‘oh well’ state. “shit happens”.
This attitude is awesome for technology providers: Not once saw I reference to who owns Java in those leap second bug reports. Sun did. Sun got bought by Oracle. Larry Ellison, principal and I guess at least part time owner of Oracle picked up a nice Hawaiian island the other day. How about he offers sys admins working late to work around HIS bugs a complimentary stay there?
One would think that Delta would know by now how to run an online booking system.
Seems not to be the case.
Just booked a flight. In the end the system told me that I took to long and that I should start over.
Bummer.
But I did.
Succeeded the second time.
When I checked my credit card statement I saw both the failed and the successful one on there.
The credit card company could not help.
Delta eventually credited the redundant flight. So they claim. It takes “7 to 10 business days” to charge this back.
Spent 1 hour with them on the phone to undo this.
I don’t need something complicated. I am just looking to buy a flight. Online. And maybe in one attempt.
This has been a seriously underwhelming experience. I think that “Delta” should start setting money aside to do a “Pacbell”.
Rebranding is probably gonna cheaper than trying to increase customer service or getting their systems to work properly and
to regain customers back the old fashioned way.