Archive for the 'Rant' Category

Who cares about FIFA..

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

I don’t think it matters what FIFA have to say, shouldn’t the police be talking to this guy?

(originally from http://home.wanadoo.nl/jvanveluwen/zidane.gif)

“e107 website system” — please die in a chemical fire

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Earlier today I noticed something odd in the Exim mainlog on a lug.org.uk machine, so went hunting. I found a user’s website that uses something called the “e107 website system.”
This appears to have a feature whereby an existing news item on the site can be emailed to an arbitrary email address with arbitrary extra [...]

Kevin Smith — blog spammer

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

(via Ed Falk)
This is deeply uncool. I’m hoping that Kevin just hasn’t realised the problem here (what if everyone did this to promote their products, as spammers promote their penis pills).
Unfortunately given my recent stance on Rob Levin’s abusive behaviour, in order to be consistent I now need to boycott Clerks II, which is [...]

If they weren’t so crap already, I might even boycott them

Friday, April 7th, 2006

D-Link: Don’t understand how not to abuse a public service, and then would rather use a metric fucktonne of lawyers as opposed to a nanoteaspoon of clue.

Storing critical data in gmail

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Ian, without dishing out any personal insults or anything, what it boils down to is that every (supplier|vendor) can make mistakes and have problems and therefore it is every (user|client|customer)’s duty to think about how that will affect their business.
So yes I would say it is incredibly unwise to store critical data in any one [...]

resiak loves how punctuation can be a word

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

resiak, don’t get me started!

“Galloway joins Big Brother house” — BBC

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Galloway joins Big Brother house, thus quashing any promise that he was ever a serious politician. Seriously what is a member of parliament of Great Britain doing in a reality TV show? Does he not have more important things to get on with? Should he not be busy working for his constituents [...]

initrds suck ass

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Do initrds have any use at all apart from:

Distribution kernels where the packager has no idea what hardware the kernel will need to run on
Kernels intended to work on a large variety of machines without modification (really just another variant of the above use)
Unusual setups like running your root filesystem inside a filesystem that needs [...]

My First Blog™

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

So I’ve installed my first ever blog. What has this accomplished so far? Not a lot, however I am impressed by:

The swishness of the AJAX-powered editing window, with its resize and raw HTML editing, etc.
The overall speed and cleanliness of the WordPress interface

Yes, WordPress is very impressive. And Free! For the [...]