Hotels, gatherings and the usual affairs...

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caseopaya has been staying at the Crown Plaza hotel during the Melbourne Boat Show, allegedly a 4.5 star place which overlooks the Yarra. Personally, I think the place is pretty average to say the least. A very bland building, average food, a billing and card service that's obviously broken. At least the view is good.

Tuesday night managed to attend the LUV monthly meeting, where kattekrab presented a discussion on Open Document Format (hooray), Jacinta Richardson spoke on the OSDC conference and Rusty Russell, spoke about anti-circumvention legislation; this is very important

Friday night attended a documentary film hosted by Earthsharing on the Narmada Dam project and the attempted relocation of indigenous people who preferred to face the rising dam waters rather than move.

Attended damien_wise's wonderful birthday dinner with fine conversation and fine company on Saturday night; following eve after my Cybernoia game (which was dealing with multiple levels of virtual reality, not including the game itself) dined with the gaming crew as horngirl who was in town for a flying visit from Canberra. Yesterday managed to catch up for a quick beverage with severina_242.

Went to a service industry networking group bright and early on Wednesday morning. Find myself thinking "I don't need a personal trainer, I don't need an immigration specialist, I don't need a home loan broker... But they all need websites and IT systems administration." There is an advantage in belonging to a ubiquitious industry. The disadvantages can be truly frustrating. Then imajica_lj told me he has encounted a similar experience among managers twice!

Gideon Levy says the right things about the Gaza seige (hat-tip to angel80. Meanwhile four out of five Israeli's want their government to assasinate Hamas leaders. A little closer to home, my old bose Jose Ramos-Horta has become Prime Minister of East Timor. John Martinkus has a few questions on what is a sort of coup. Damien Kingsbury gives the event a weak cheer.

Comments

[zey.livejournal.com]

Re that WTF, I'd go with the suggestion on that page of binding a popup box to the About screen, bound to something like the V key. That way the silly manager "gets his way" and the tech support droids can still get version info out of the app when it's needed.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately that's a workable solution.

Managers are stupid :/

[zey.livejournal.com]

Actually... cancel that. Just bind the V to change a blank label to a version string. Too many apps have too many pointless popup dialogs.

[zey.livejournal.com]

Or, if management cottons onto that... a variation on the colour band coded numbers on resistors ;-).

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

--- .-. / -.-- --- ..- / -.-. --- ..- .-.. -.. / .... .- ...- . / - .... . / ...- . .-. ... .. --- -. / -. ..- -- -... . .-. / .. -. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .

[zey.livejournal.com]

N cvgl ahzoref qba'g rapbqr jryy va Ebg13

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

OK, what the hell is that?

[zey.livejournal.com]

# echo "N cvgl ahzoref qba'g rapbqr jryy va Ebg13" | /usr/games/rot13
A pity numbers don't encode well in Rot13

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Ahh... For a brief moment I thought it was Klingon in Western Latin character set ;-)

[zey.livejournal.com]

It's that stray apostrophe that does it :-).

dude ...

[imajica-lj.livejournal.com]

it's rot13 ...

... and yet inevitably end up with root.

[imajica-lj.livejournal.com]

Another imajica classic is having to add the line:

alias "rm -rf /" = "/bin/echo" "No you don't want to do that."

to /etc/skel/.profile

Re: ... and yet inevitably end up with root.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Tell me you seriously haven't had to do that....

And what is a manager doing with root anyway?

Re: ... and yet inevitably end up with root.

[imajica-lj.livejournal.com]

> Tell me you seriously haven't had to do that....
Yes, as a matter of fact I have.

> And what is a manager doing with root anyway?
"It's my company, so I NEED root access."

Sad isn't it.

Re: ... and yet inevitably end up with root.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

"A little bit of knowledge..." Evidently they knew that root access existed. I suppose that's to be commended.

Well, as long as they didn't use it as a user account, right?

Maybe sudo would have been the way to go...