Coding frustrations

Jan 19 2013 ∞
new-aesthetic: One of the biggest supermarkets in Edinburgh was left with empty shelves on Tuesday after it was accidentally wiped off a computer system at the company’s head office in Leeds. Deliveries to the Asda store in Chesser, Edinburgh, dried up after an IT worker deleted the shop from a delivery computer, according to a report in The Scotsman newspaper. As a result, essential re-orders were not processed and the shelves were rapidly cleared of fresh fruit and vegetables, bread, eggs and other high-turnover items. “I asked one of the assistants what was going on and was told that someone in America pressed a button and deleted the whole store from their systems, which I think is hilarious.” Asda store left empty after being accidentally wiped from computer system - 10 Jan 2013 - Computing News

new-aesthetic:

One of the biggest supermarkets in Edinburgh was left with empty shelves on Tuesday after it was accidentally wiped off a computer system at the company’s head office in Leeds.

Deliveries to the Asda store in Chesser, Edinburgh, dried up after an IT worker deleted the shop from a delivery computer, according to a report in The Scotsman newspaper. As a result, essential re-orders were not processed and the shelves were rapidly cleared of fresh fruit and vegetables, bread, eggs and other high-turnover items.

“I asked one of the assistants what was going on and was told that someone in America pressed a button and deleted the whole store from their systems, which I think is hilarious.”

Asda store left empty after being accidentally wiped from computer system - 10 Jan 2013 - Computing News

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Jan 15 2013 ∞

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Nov 14 2012 ∞
Morning lols

Morning lols

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Jul 22 2012 ∞
oatmeal: tee hee BAWSE

oatmeal:

tee hee

BAWSE

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Apr 13 2011 ∞

(Source: chrismear)

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May 06 2010 ∞
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Apr 23 2010 ∞
chrismear: “This is a brief public service announcement to inform you that the Nintendo 64 game console looks exactly like a koala bear.” (via BuzzFeed)

chrismear:

“This is a brief public service announcement to inform you that the Nintendo 64 game console looks exactly like a koala bear.” (via BuzzFeed)

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Apr 20 2010 ∞
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I argue that Apple now has not one but two monopolies:

I) A nearly-total monopoly on computer (and pocket computer) systems designed with good taste. II) A total monopoly on the Microsoft-free, hassle-free personal computer. [1]

Mr. Jobs is indeed starting to behave like that other convicted monopolist we know and love. Yet unlike the latter, Jobs did not engage in underhanded business practices to create his monopolies. They were handed to him on a silver platter by the rest of the market, which insists on peddling either outright crap [2] or cheap imitations [3] of Apple’s aesthetic. In order to resist the temptation this worldwide herd of mindless junk-peddlers and imitators have placed before him, it would not be enough for Jobs to merely “not be evil.” He would have to be a saint (and a traitor to his shareholders.)
— Stanislav Datskovskiy puts it better than I ever could have, about Apple’s success.

Apr 17 2010 ∞

Mounting stuff with Linux

If you’re used to GUI based apps, the idea of having to manually mount apps is likely to seem overly arcane, and something we should have stopped having to do back in the twentieth century.

But if you find yourself needing to do so sometimes like, when dealing with virtual machines on the commandline, or pared back systems like OpenWRT boxes, it’s worth bearing in mind that on Linux, you are able to mount a drive pretty much anywhere on the filesystem that’s in a directory (as long as you have the correct permissions to do so).

For example, in OS X, where you’d normally expect to find disks you insert on the desktop, or at /Volumes/NameOfTheDriveif you’re looking at the path for it on the commandline.

On a Linux system, the default place for inserted drives would be either /mount/ or /mnt depending on what flavour of linux you’re using. However, you’re able to mount on any path, that might be more convenient, like /srv/www/ or /var/www.

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Apr 16 2010 ∞

More OpenWRT networking faffery.

When following these instructions to set up a local dev environment, after putting an version of openwrt into virtualbox, setting up dhcp bridging so I can see this box on the network, and updating name servers as described previously, I had more problems connecting to the outside world.

root@OpenWrt:~# ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Network is unreachable

I could reach other sites internally fine:

root@OpenWrt:~# ping 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=17.406 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: seq=1 ttl=64 time=4.640 ms

But no joy outside. In the end I found that the routing was the culprit - although I had defined the gateway value in /etc/config/network as 192.168.2.1, something had gone awry, and I don’t know what.

root@OpenWrt:~# route       
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.2.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0

The solution was to manualy add a default gateway pointing to 192.168.2.1 on the main ethernet interface (eth1) instead with the route command:

root@OpenWrt:~# route add default gw 192.168.2.1 eth0

And it started working again:

root@OpenWrt:~# ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=0 ttl=244 time=40.098 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: seq=1 ttl=244 time=63.447 ms

God, I don’t ever want to have to spend another Friday night puzzling over this stuff like this.

Life is too short.

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