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What I’m playing with today: The hardware is an unreleased engineering sample with no make/model number. Best way to get CPU info may be to deal with /proc/cpuinfo on the system. According to the abovementioned file, this system believes itself to have 16 CPUs, all of which operate at 2.6GHz. “Top” shows 8GB of RAM. . . . → Read More: Nice hardware… My life is terrific, taken as a whole. There are one or two little speed bumps of bitchiness, which now I share with you: . . . → Read More: Random crap I’m dealing with. I have vague memories that, this morning, as she was leaving the house at unholy:30, redmed called me a “slug.” This, of course depressed me and made me sleep for a couple more hours. In town at Alewife again, because it’s quiet and good for focused work. On the way in, I stopped off at . . . → Read More: Sluglike VTech phones has lost their last piece of compassion from me. I am now attempting to hate them to death. After the last bit, I sent them back the offending phone (they no longer make the handset which is compatible with my base station) and asked for my money back. They received the phone on . . . → Read More: Update the list of enemies Fun evening at technolope and capital_l‘s place. Got to meet (in person, no less), rossja and aerospacegirl. Ate kickin’ lasagna, and then technolope broke out this huge stash of chocolate. No exaggeration, he had like, 15 bars of high grade chocolate. We made s’mores. It was pretty blissful, really. I’m still on a chocolate high. . . . → Read More: Real people? My house was built with a series of additions. I’ve been putting up insulation every weekend for about three weeks now. Every time I get up there, I look at what has come to be known as The Dark and Scary Hole (DASH), and decide that some other part of the attic should be insulated . . . → Read More: The dark scary hole… I had a hankering for garlic fries last night. So I searched the intarweb for recipes, until I found one that required 1/2 cup of minced garlic. It was pretty darn good, though next time I’m going to cut the salt by a factor of four. Even *I*’m feeling bloated today. Then we went out . . . → Read More: Best dinner ever. Went to Boston today with the intention of sitting in our little office at the end of the red line and getting some serious work done. Said office is connected to the internet by a line of sight microwave link. This is for political and business reasons beyond our control. We’re borrowing the office from . . . → Read More: Late train Another gem from JWZ. Of particular note is the closing paragraph: Do you know of a solution to this issue? Yes. Treat your co-workers as co-workers instead of as criminals or children. Set the policy and expect your colleagues to follow it because it is their job to do so, and not because of some . . . → Read More: More wisdom on management. |
