Above the law.
Nov. 25th, 2012 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaThe Ubuntu 12.10 dashboard search experience: "I wanted to update/install my nvidia drivers, so I opened the dash and typed 'drivers'. IT DISPLAYED GOLF CLUBS on sale at Amazon!"
Not drinking wine is as bad for your health as being a light smoker.
New ePetition: No women Bishops, no automatic seats in the House of Lords. Nitpickable, but popular and raising the issue. (And why it's hard to write new NewsTechnica.)
My Wikimedia blog: Internet Brands versus Wikitravel admins updates; PR industry: "Our bad actions are Wikipedia’s fault"; PR people in the EU: obey the bright-line rule, or suffer legal consequences.
Rocknerd: Party Fears #1, 2 and 3 scanned and online; Disco 2000; Party Fears #4 and #18 scanned and online. Now just looking for someone, anyone, who has a #17 and can scan it.
My hitherto somewhat-lovely BlackBerry Curve 9300 is doing the battery red X. After a week waiting for a replacement battery, the phone doesn't like the new battery either, so I have to hit a Vodafone store for a repair or replacement. Having previously loathed the idea, and rarely using a phone as a phone anyway (texts from arkady, Wikimedia press calls, annoying recruiter calls), I'm now missing the two things I actually seem to be paying £20/mo for: music player and ebook reader. And checking when buses are coming. I'm using the previous dumbphone (the cheapest Vodafone option a coupla years ago: £10 with a £10 PAYG credit), which actually does GMail usably well. So, I've become accustomed to a networked computer in my pocket. Considering Galaxy Nexus or possibly a comically large Galaxy Note for next time — Galaxy Ace and iPhone are too small for my fat fingers.
At work, the sysadmins were discussing the horrible truth about PHP, and the non-technical manager responsible for our Drupal sites overheard. She looked like she'd been told Santa was Jimmy Savile. So I spent the remainder of the week Gillian McKeithing through our LAMP server. Damn, PHP really does go out of its way to try to catch social diseases. When reviewing a LAMP server, there's little like finding an entire old WordPress in a subdirectory of your current one. I didn't go as far as setting up a user per application, but I did carefully make sure user www-data could only write where it needed to. Considering fcgid, though. (Probably next time we run out of memory.)
So I'm assured that, twenty-six years ago, and completely unaware of it until a short while ago, I vomited on Lux Interior.
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Date: 2012-11-26 12:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-26 12:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-26 12:29 am (UTC)Apparently, I am using Ubuntu 11.04 at work, which is pretty strange since I don't recall upgrading. That says it is supported to October 2012, which would explain the 'please upgrade' boxes I have been ignoring, and plan on ignoring until the end of the work year when I will do a fresh install.
8 just works at home, just, and I can't see any compelling argument to update it given the computer is getting close to 10 years old.
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Date: 2012-11-26 08:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-26 10:11 am (UTC)The nice thing about Xubuntu and the server version is that they have the hotness and the PPAs and the wifi drivers but Canonical don't try to turn them into billboards for Amazon.
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Date: 2012-11-26 10:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-26 04:28 am (UTC)The worst thing about PHP is that pretty much all the really good CMS tools are written in it, so it's very difficult to avoid if you need to please more than just yourself.
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Date: 2012-11-26 10:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-27 02:34 am (UTC)Please do tell..
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Date: 2012-11-29 08:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-11-29 08:17 pm (UTC)