Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 255

I have been working a bit on Comas. Our original implementation allowed only one file of accompanying material per proposal, and I didn’t think it was enough – Yes, an author might tar his different files together… But that’s a kludge. Our current implementation also stores the material as files on disk, not in the database. Now, I want everything to be in the database, as it is much cleaner, much easier to back up, and requires much less hassle for the local administrator. For doing this, I decided to use Postgres’ bytea data type… Now, before RTFM, my uploads...

A friend asked me to become the sysadmin for his machine - Great. A crappy Fedora Core 2 system, terribly installed (it has EVERYTHING in there, three MTAs, the whole X environment…). I have been cleaning up the mess, but decided to debootstrap Debian instead. Now, the system configuration the ISP gave them is even crappier that the Fedora install they made - a dual Xeon at 2.8 with 128MB RAM?! Now, my friend complained that JBoss was running too slow. Ok, I had a 0.00, 0.00, 0.27 loadavg - Memory was quite fine, using only about 10% of the...

About six months ago, I got my first car: A very nice Fiat Palio Adventure. The day we finally got it, 13 Km away from the store, it broke - We had to wait for over three weeks to get it. But anyway, that’s old history - By now I have gotten used to having wheels, it is much easier to move around the city (and fortunately I still have access to the public transport system, which in Mexico is still much better than driving for many areas of the city), and we have started playing with hitting the road...

Well, I am pissed to inform you all that two projects that had me quite happy have gone astray. About the work I got for ~6 weeks for people related to Telmex: Telmex is not directly hiring anymore, they only hire via Manpower. The bastards at Manpower asked me for so many stupid papers that it would have taken me a full week of bureaucracy to satisfy them, then some extra days to wait for the final approval… So I would only have this job for, say, two weeks of November (one of which I won’t be available for and...

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Tin Tan, so full of catonality Attachments (0 KB)

Santa, the prima donna Attachments (0 KB)

Marabunta, little bundle of energy Attachments (0 KB)

Mandinga, the utmost perfection Attachments (0 KB)

Macusa, the furriest little thing Attachments (0 KB)