It’s a work from home day today, which is nice because I’m trying to decipher the mysql character set and collation file format in order to hack mysql into supporting Welsh (don’t ask). The nicest thing is that this is such a headfuck that I can, when my mind starts wanting to seep out of […]
When you send email it goes to a server which has some software on it which decides how to send it on. There is a bit of software on the other guy’s server which also decides what to do to it. These are caled Mail Transfer Agents. There are lots of MTAs out there, but […]
Transcript of a recent conversation with a colleage: Colleague: tar -cvf -X bar.txt foo-20050802.tar * C: This command appears to be shite. It started to archive, but still added all the files in bar.txt and also created a file called ‘–X’ ! I must be doing something elementary wrong! What is it? Me: syntax: tar […]
So tonight’s callout was probably quite quiet. That would be because it seems that some people didn’t get the original pager message to inform us there was a callout. Frustrating, but these things happen. Much confusion was abound as people who didn’t get the original message did get the stand down. A quick flurry of […]
So, a friend of mine has been having some interesting times recently. An incident occurred at his workplace and he didn’t follow procedure since the procedure isn’t really useful and is mainly there so that senior manglement can be kept informed when the proverbial hits the fan. Previous failures to follow procedure have gone unnoticed. […]
Just finished a quick snack after coming back from the squadron tonight. Loads of people are off on camp, so there were only a few there tonight, so I got asked to run a session on maps and navigation. So we started with grid references and it was a storming success. They were all breezing […]
Wile E. Coyote!You scored 57 Aggression, 85 Sophistication, and 71 Optimism! You are intelligent, sophisticated, and the physical personification of the can-do attitude. No matter how many times something blows up in your face (figuratively or literally) or prized project collapses around you, you will pick yourself up and try, try again. There is a […]
So I’ve realised that some people don’t know what SARDA is, so I’m going to explain it here in a bit more detail. SARDA is the Search and Dog Rescue Organisation. They are an organisation which works together and very closely with Mountain Rescue and Police, and are used to search for missing Hill walkers or […]
And that’s it. Over and done with. No idea what the outcome was, but with that quick a response I’m assuming that everything went OK. 🙂
Meh. Ok, so suggesting that I could possibly palm-off important work that I get paid for was a little off. 🙂 Still, I’d like to go on this one, even though I’m not fast-water qualified. Damn, I hate it when sites go live. 🙂