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51 Goldfish is a serving...
Jul. 21st, 2001 10:07 pmFrom time to time I find myself with nothing to do but read the labels on food. I happened to notice that the "new and improved" Goldfish (those small orange crackers that go middlin' well with copious quantities of beer) go 51 crackers to a serving.
Not 50 and not 52.
I wonder how they arrived at that number?
No biggie. No beer in the house, anyway.
My disagreement with a client last week came to a happy resolution. The client, it turns out, will take care of deleting stuff... I get to translate new stuff.
So... I download something like 10 MB of files and find - after doing two files - that the amount of new stuff is so small, that it frankly wouldn't be worth my time to sit down and write an invoice for translating it. But I will, probably. Once this mop-up is done, I've got about 50 pages due for Tuesday and Wednesday.
BTW, I got around the mail problem - the one associated with people sending me humongous attachments that I then can't download because my connection times out - by sitting down with my trusty PHP book and whipping out a web page that will take a person's name, e-mail address, any message they care to leave, and a file spec and then will upload the file to a directory on my web server and pop me an e-mail telling me about it.
It takes something like 10 lines of PHP, and I think a lot of that was for the sake of appearance... the actual work is done by about 4 lines of code.
I'm trying to install LogJam on 'bagger', but when I try to rpm it onto my system, I am told I need a bunch of other packages installed. I go out and find them, install them (finding and installing still some other packages along the way) and I finally get to the Big Enchilada - glibc - and then rpm goes berserk telling me about all of the things on my machine that depend on various parts of the package.
The problem is, I don't know what to make of the output, much of which looks like:
I recall once trying to "force" a Linux box to upgrade a package, and as soon as I did, most of the programs on the box immediately stopped working, so I have not become a big fan of the "damn the torpedoes" school of Linux system maintenance. Is rpm telling me to be careful, or is it informing me that, unless I go out and hunt down updated copies of what appears to be every package on my system, updating glibc is Not A Good Idea Right Now?
I did the Unthinkable today... I opened up the VAIO (easy... once you find the Magic Screw). I gingerly poked and prodded around, and finally got a small glimpse of the fan, and it is well and truly crudded up.
If I can't come up with a copy of the sales receipt (and it burns me that someone at Sony has that receipt, as I sent it in to claim my rebate), I'm thinking maybe it might not be a bad idea to build a small, externally mounted fan to suck hot air out of the unit.
Heck, I'll probably need such an animal in about 7 months, when the machine is out of warranty and the next fan decides to seize up on me. Nevertheless, I will give the store where I bought the unit a jingle on Monday, but I seem to recall the salesman warning me not to lose the receipt, as they did not issue duplicates after the fact. (It's funny, though: I got mail from them offering to sell me an extended warrantee, and they seem to know exactly the day and hour my current warrantee expires, but I digress...)
I went to Durango with Galina around 5:30 pm. It was probably not the best idea in the world, seeing as how we were both tired. But the thought of going and killing much of a day in Durango tomorrow didn't sit well with us, and there being no food in the house... well, that decided the issue. We are now Officially Stocked... at least until tomorrow night.
I am a little more than halfway through Cryptonomicon. The writing reminds me a lot of Doug Adams, but here, it is not so over-the-top; instead, it's a bit more scaled back, and I like the effect much better. The story keeps jumping between World War II and (ostensibly) the present day, and I have no idea where it is all going... which is okay by me.
Time to go upstairs for a nightcap, and then off to bed. I'll have to report about the feng shui consultant some other time.
Cheers...
Not 50 and not 52.
I wonder how they arrived at that number?
No biggie. No beer in the house, anyway.
My disagreement with a client last week came to a happy resolution. The client, it turns out, will take care of deleting stuff... I get to translate new stuff.
So... I download something like 10 MB of files and find - after doing two files - that the amount of new stuff is so small, that it frankly wouldn't be worth my time to sit down and write an invoice for translating it. But I will, probably. Once this mop-up is done, I've got about 50 pages due for Tuesday and Wednesday.
BTW, I got around the mail problem - the one associated with people sending me humongous attachments that I then can't download because my connection times out - by sitting down with my trusty PHP book and whipping out a web page that will take a person's name, e-mail address, any message they care to leave, and a file spec and then will upload the file to a directory on my web server and pop me an e-mail telling me about it.
It takes something like 10 lines of PHP, and I think a lot of that was for the sake of appearance... the actual work is done by about 4 lines of code.
I'm trying to install LogJam on 'bagger', but when I try to rpm it onto my system, I am told I need a bunch of other packages installed. I go out and find them, install them (finding and installing still some other packages along the way) and I finally get to the Big Enchilada - glibc - and then rpm goes berserk telling me about all of the things on my machine that depend on various parts of the package.
The problem is, I don't know what to make of the output, much of which looks like:
...In Windows - lame as it is - newer versions of DLLs generally don't break older programs that depend on those files.
/sbin/ldconfig is needed by xalf-0.4-2mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by gnome-libs-1.2.4-8mdk
...
I recall once trying to "force" a Linux box to upgrade a package, and as soon as I did, most of the programs on the box immediately stopped working, so I have not become a big fan of the "damn the torpedoes" school of Linux system maintenance. Is rpm telling me to be careful, or is it informing me that, unless I go out and hunt down updated copies of what appears to be every package on my system, updating glibc is Not A Good Idea Right Now?
I did the Unthinkable today... I opened up the VAIO (easy... once you find the Magic Screw). I gingerly poked and prodded around, and finally got a small glimpse of the fan, and it is well and truly crudded up.
If I can't come up with a copy of the sales receipt (and it burns me that someone at Sony has that receipt, as I sent it in to claim my rebate), I'm thinking maybe it might not be a bad idea to build a small, externally mounted fan to suck hot air out of the unit.
Heck, I'll probably need such an animal in about 7 months, when the machine is out of warranty and the next fan decides to seize up on me. Nevertheless, I will give the store where I bought the unit a jingle on Monday, but I seem to recall the salesman warning me not to lose the receipt, as they did not issue duplicates after the fact. (It's funny, though: I got mail from them offering to sell me an extended warrantee, and they seem to know exactly the day and hour my current warrantee expires, but I digress...)
I went to Durango with Galina around 5:30 pm. It was probably not the best idea in the world, seeing as how we were both tired. But the thought of going and killing much of a day in Durango tomorrow didn't sit well with us, and there being no food in the house... well, that decided the issue. We are now Officially Stocked... at least until tomorrow night.
I am a little more than halfway through Cryptonomicon. The writing reminds me a lot of Doug Adams, but here, it is not so over-the-top; instead, it's a bit more scaled back, and I like the effect much better. The story keeps jumping between World War II and (ostensibly) the present day, and I have no idea where it is all going... which is okay by me.
Time to go upstairs for a nightcap, and then off to bed. I'll have to report about the feng shui consultant some other time.
Cheers...
