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There’s no place like 127.0.0.1
My odometer read this as I pulled into my driveway at home tonight. No joke. There really is no place like localhost home.
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Indexing the Cloud
I think from now on I’ll give all my machines names based on buzzwords. It makes for some awesome error / status messages. Today’s message from Spotlight after upgrading to OS X Lion definitely didn’t let me down. I had to share.
The cloud is a big place..
As an aside.. be sure to give plenty of time after the upgrade is finished for Spotlight to index things again. While my laptop isn’t unusable, it slows things down quite a bit.
Tags: cloud computing, os x
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Sep 17th, 2011
Off Topic: Dreaming of Work
This post is mostly just an attempt to one-up Jason Nassi’s post on his bizarre dream, but my comment was a bit too long to leave in a regular comment elsewhere.. Plus, I thought my dreams might be enjoyed by others.
To the cloud!
A few weeks ago, I was working on a project at work to load test our application on EC2. One night during the project, we discovered that the fridge in our apartment had stopped working. It had been degrading over time, but we just kept turning it down (up?) and finally figured out what was happening. Anyway, that night I had a dream that our fridge had stopped working, so I wrote a script to push the stuff from our fridge into AWS to cool it so nothing would spoil. It was a perfectly good plan. I was going to pay per hour for them to cool our stuff and then pull it back down once we were all fixed up 
Kicking the tires
Lately we’ve been looking for a new place to live that’s a little closer to work. We looked at a number of places last weekend. This last week at work, we had some issues with a newer version of PHP and some configuration options. And the dream? You guessed it. I was walking through one of the places we had been last weekend making sure each room had the right version of PHP for us.
Filed under Just for Fun : Comments (2) : Jan 21st, 2011
It makes me sad when..
.. my desktop kernel panics while I’m trying to read a stack trace from another machine.
Filed under Just for Fun : Comments (0) : Aug 4th, 2010
Don’t Neuter Your Software If You Can’t At Least Be Professional About It..
Since I was snowed in on Christmas, I got a bit of time to play around with my little server here at home. I got it this fall and installed VMware ESXi on it to do a bit of experimenting on. Today, I was getting a bit of cabin fever, so I started playing around with some of the features that I saw existed in vSphere 4, but never got a chance to try out. I noticed an option to hot-add and hot-remove virtual CPUs to guests which sounded like a good deal of fun on this wintry day. Nope, apparently the option exists for me, but I can’t actually save it without a proper license. They could have at least “grayed” the option out so I couldn’t click on it.. Or, at the very least, VMware could have at least proof-read the error message at least once:
Nice work, VMware. Some classic software developer English, right there.. Perhaps Ralph from the Simpsons wrote this dialog?
Tags: vmware
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Dec 25th, 2009
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