A restaurant in China, anticipating the Olympic influx of Anglophone visitors, ran its name through a computer translator and put up a large sign with the results:
Not your first choice for dinner
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Later Saturday
Later in the afternoon I did some shopping while mia_mcdavid took a nap. I then made one of the changes to the post drill that I had thought of last night. Then a shower, and off to work. Fortunately, that just meant a trip to the basement, where, with a cable modem and VPN, it is almost like going downtown.
Network Oddities
Yesterday at work I downloaded a 96MB file from a vendor web site in Texas to my workstation on the 19th floor of our building. It took about 5 minutes. Today I tried to copy it from my workstation to a server in the Data Center, in the basement. The first time I tried a windows copy. It timed out after about 20 minutes. My second try used FTP, which allowed me to monitor the progress. I killed the process after about two hours, after calculating that it would not finish until over 42 hours had elapsed. I then logged on to the server, connected to the vendor site again from there, and downloaded the file directly to the server. It took about 5 minutes this time as well. Silly cartograhical and mathematical musings
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The weekend
Not bad
I took another look at that list of projects that I mentioned earlier today. I have finished 11 out of 14. Of course, I can think of a few additions….
Half belted plaid
Now that’s a PLAID. I followed the original discussion on the Scotattire list with considerable interest and had already planned to make something like this. Now I am even more excited about it. Alas, sewing projects seem to be slipping to the bottom of the queue, even though I have made considerable progress on other parts of my list.
Queue? List? Stack? Heap?–what is the appropriate data structure :-)>
I wants it, my Precious
Small, light, cheap, solid state storage (no moving parts), a keyboard, and Linux: The Asus Eee PC 900.
Also available with Windows XP, but why?
Another lap in the race to the bottom. Faster! Faster!
Tedious necessities
Today’s snowstorm (this is Minnesota) meant that I was an hour late getting home. Also cold and wet. I immediately had to load some dead computer stuff (4 computers, 1 monitor, and 1 scanner) into the car for recycling tomorrow. Then I had to type up, edit, and submit the minutes of colgaffneyis last Board meeting–the next one is Tuesday. I finished that just after 8PM. Next I had to do taxes. I had done most of the work last week so I was able to finish a little after 9. And I think it is finished. The returns (one for us and one for J) have been submitted electronically and I have saved backup copies of the files (I work in systems administration–paranoia is my profession). The only possible issue is that a return might be rejected by either the IRS or Minnesota. This is unlikely. TurboTax is quite good and our tax life is not that interesting. Just sometimes painful.
What the user wanted
I received a couple e-mails today about the rewrite of a computer system that I am involved with (not at work). They reminded me of these classic sketches.
