INTERDUBS support call: A client needs a folder for each US state and in there a specific set of sub folders. We don’t have that button!
What is awesome is that our clients just call before they start making something like this manually. There must be a better way. And of course there is.
17 minutes after the call the client had the desired list of folders. APIs are a nice thing to have. But even better are clients who call when things could
be improved.
I am not quiet current on what qualifies these days to obtain eternal life after death.
If you carbon footprint is part of the equation then my outlooks are pretty grim as I am about to schlep 14,44 KG of books half around the globe. A ridiculous ratio of them makes the trip not for the first time. The future self always has so much time. So much more than the version that actual lands with the plane and suitcases (full of books).
eBooks do not work. Hard to annotate. And -final reason- you can not read them like Napoleon:
He read books while ridding in front of his troops. When he was done with a page he ripped it out and handed it down to the next officer following him. Who then handed the page down to the next one when he was done reading it.
I have no idea where I picked this image up. The Internet and its search engines felt they should not help me with finding a source.
Wouldn’t even know exactly why, but I brought twexus back online.
Funny how one can replace weeks of perl coding with an hour of php a decade later.
I like ‘Breaking Bad’ allot. A great show.
The real side of meth production looks way less glamorous.
Just returned from a very nice stay in London.
We lucked out with the accommodation and with the weather alike.
We had a wonderful time in Notting Hill. The location is just awesome. A minute away from Embassy Row or the tube – yet very quiet.
Likewise the house has history and character while the apartment has all things in perfect condition.
If we would have liked to have the same space and features in a Hotel then we would have paid ridiculous amounts. I like that the Internet allows for a high quality services
like this apartment to find an audience. Hope that we find something similar in Brooklyn in the summer.
Recently I noticed two interactions I had with products / companies / services.
They are un related. I remember them both since they were better / worse than what I had expected.
The bad one
Being bored in a Hotel room I switch on the TV. Since I never watched I was shocked again how bad it was. That was NOT unexpected. I just keep forgetting that. I stumbled upon “Blue Valentine”. I liked it a lot. And interesting movie to watch from the middle. I liked it quiet a bit and wanted to watch it completely. I ordered the BluRay Version.
I liked the entire movie as well. Nice to see that this kind of project gets made.
What really bothered me was the previews and trailers that want to play every time I insert the disc. I can fwd skip through things. But it is annoying. Very.
People do no longer buy media on discs anymore. As a reaction it seems that people try to sell things even harder. An junk-loop-spiral towards doom. Much like the Hotel phone prices jumping up when cell phones took away the call volume. A failed attempt to keep revenues steady in a shrinking market.
The good one
I wondered if it is possible to get a report from Amazon on past purchases. Sure enough it is. It works well. And it is so helpful. I never choose Amazon because of this. I had no idea I existed. I would use them if they had no reports.
Both – the disc makers and Amazon – deliver the core product that they offer.
The difference is in what they do extra: Amazon tries to think about what could be helpful for me. The disc makers try to think what is helpful for them.
How funny that they think that that will work.
In Centos 5.7 mounting dmg files created under OS X 10.6 with hdiutil no longer worked:
mount -t hfsplus -o loop dmgFileFromOSX10.6.dmg /mountpoint
results in
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
Without having researched it I doubt that it is the actual Centos Version that matters here.
The dmg has been created under OS X 10.6 in the terminal via:
hdiutil create -size 1024k dmgFileFromOSX10.6.dmg -fs HFS+ -volname 'test dmg'
DMG creation in the command line is a work around for the (arbritrary?) minimum size requirements of the Disk Utility program of 5.2MB and 10.1MB.
It turns out that a dmg file created with the same command line in OS X 10.4 ( on a G4 machine ) works fine. On which side 10.5 falls we did not test.
It is time that we start taxing sugar. R. Lustig and C. Brindis published a very compelling opinion piece in the current issue of Nature. (Vol 482)
It is ALSO high time that Nature stops paywalling ALL articles. Op pieces like this one SHOULD be public on the net.
Science and Nature are both on this idiot pay-wall trip. They need to get over that.
The should be ways so that they have their content online for all and still give extra for people that pay now for the content.
installing wget 1.13 from source on Centos 5.7 the configure command was not happy:
checking for main in -lgnutls... no configure: error: --with-ssl was given, but GNUTLS is not available.
It turns out the solution is simple:
./configure --with-ssl=openssl
did the trick.
At first I thought that a “yum install gnutls-devel” might help. The ./configure part indeed finished after the install of the developer package, but the actual make still failed:
gnutls.o: In function `ssl_connect_wget': gnutls.c:(.text+0x3f1): undefined reference to `gnutls_priority_set_direct' gnutls.c:(.text+0x481): undefined reference to `gnutls_priority_set_direct' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Configuring with the openssl option made everything work very smoothly …