Oh noooo
I’m feeling Sigma coming back.
I’m feeling Sigma coming back.
I’ll never forget the first time I was stung by trusting John Dvorak (not the keyboard Dvorak or the composer Dvorak: the hothead tech journalist). It was when I read an “Inside Track” article in which he said Amiga was coming back and to watch out for MorphOS.
I just saw an article mentioning that MorphOS now finally has a package manager, but no central repository.
What a moron.
Anyway, that was a totally useless and boring entry, but I’m going to bed anyway. Good to have the grading done for now.
Our HP OfficeJet keeps getting the scan head jammed at power-on. It sits there and rams the head against the housing. After checking the support forums, I deduced the #1 fix to the problem (to some extent HP-official):
1. Take the machine somewhere over a soft surface like carpet
2. Pick up the machine about one inch over the surface
3. Drop the machine
4. Repeat if desired
It worked!
There’s really nothing like writing a story to reveal all the little holes and flaws in your premise. Luckily, being a bit preventative and critical early on allows the patches to be applied easily. It’s funny, though. My Baron was a Duke on one page, and he apparently got chased out of his own town in early life before he even moved there. What a mess, but I think I’ve got it fixed.
Words can’t express how bad I want to feed the hamburger I ordered at Chili’s tonight to the CEO of that chain.
Maybe he can enjoy dry-heaving at 3:20 AM the morning before a final.
The fact that Flavor of Love is not the worst reality show ever made says something very, very bad about reality shows.
Well, after getting over my instinctive hate of the word “CLASSPATH,” I have successfully integrated the Lucene JAR file (ugh, it’s hard to type this stuff) and Tomcat. I don’t have any real API magic going on, but I’ve imported the class and declared an object associated with the Lucene package.
This is all pretty impressive, given the small amount of time, effort, and background information I have contributed to this effort. It’s all pretty intuitive, pretty close to ASP. I was a little miffed that the import directive isn’t permitted inside a JSP scriptlet (it apparently has to be in a page directive).
They can take their “page directive” and shove it, but hey, it works. It kind of makes sense, anyway.
Java is so flexible, so adaptable. I posit that it is too flexible. Hence the propensity of the language to generate “toolkits,” “frameworks,” and “taglibs.” Sure, some of it is simply the maturity of the J2EE/J2SE (don’t ask me to explain the distinction… I still haven’t found a good article defining this) platform, but a lot of it is just the giant cluster that is Java.
What these toolkits are doing are simplifying the platform by restricting motion within it, dialing down the degrees of freedom. Heck, it took me an hour or two of reading to understand what a servlet was in comparison to JSP. Come on.
Anyway, this is cool, and I’m hoping to do some development with the platform. We’ll see.
So now Best Buy has co-opted with both the Black-Eyed Peas and the Pussycat Dolls. So, can we assume that Best Buy’s marketers have the worst possible taste in music? Or that they just have an affinity for a “band” full of strippers?
Well, I’ve got Tomcat running on port 80 on the test machine. To a hard-line ASP developer (not of the .NET variety, either), the whole “deployment” model of the Java Server Pages approach is mystifying to me (read: still haven’t gotten it working). However, things are moving quite smoothly toward Java-based server side scripting.
Not using Apache on a Linux server project is like taking a vacation from a really bad job. As good and free as Apache is, it’s nice to be editing a 20 line config file that’s not in some Spanglish variety of XML.
Plus, this is an Apache project.
Well, it’s midterm study time, so better save the rest for later.