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more work grumblings

( rants and techie )

yeah, yeah, i know, i just got back from a vacation from hawtlanta and all i’m doing is complaining about work…
i’ve figured out my problem.  i will just add another 3GB of swap space.  let’s see my code EAT ALL OF THAT RAM.  stupid computers.
Mem:    775296k total,   293172k used,   482124k free,    17428k buffers
Swap:  4551544k total,    [...]

oops

( techie )

Feb 28 12:01:52 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 8273 (php)
this isn’t meaningful to non-techies, but i uhhhh, killed my dev server and used up all of the memory on the machine.  ALL OF THE MEMORY.  oops.

promotional offers

i am a total sucker for a good deal.  i also love pearl tea.  the two may not seem like they would go hand in hand, but most pearl tea places offer some kind of free drink after x number (usually ten) of purchases.  when a pearl tea place does not offer some kind of [...]

near work disaster

on the suggestion of my boss, i decided to repartition my work laptop hard drive. i got this laptop from him and he had a linux partition on the laptop as well as a windows one. the linux partition (which i didn’t have access to) was taking up valuable porn work-related hard drive [...]

more on beauty and the geek

i just watched last week’s beauty and the geek.  i really like this show.  this week the geek’s had to pick a dress and lingerie for their beauties and do a photo shoot with them.  i think it’s really interesting to watch the guys who have never really taken a picture before to now shoot [...]

big download

i’m waiting now for a data dump to finish downloading so i can get some work done.  it’s a roughly 8GB transfer that i just started.
let’s see, the connection is a 1Mb/s connection, so that’s 1,000,000 bps  * 1byte/8bit = 125kB/s.  now there’s network latency and other people sharing this connection, so let’s say that [...]

a valentine’s day conversation

i was talking to a friend and we were talking about valentine’s day. our conversation went something like this:
friend: are you doing anything for valentine’s day?
me: yeah, pretty mellow, but i’m going to try making one of her favorite dishes for dinner and i’ve bought a harder to find bottle of one of her [...]

marble mocha macchiato

i tried starbucks’ new drink, the marble mocha macchiato.  at first the drink was quite bitter, but then i used the chocolate mixing stick provided by starbucks and this drink suddenly becomes a sweet chocolately delight.  it could very well be my favorite drink there now.
this starbucks habit is starting to finally hit me.  my [...]

boarding

i went boarding over the weekend with greg, cheryl, and christi.  we stayed up in sacramento at greg’s place there and went to sierra to do some boarding.
i don’t know how we did it, but we lost greg and cheryl on THE FIRST RUN.  how do you lose people on the first run??  i don’t [...]

beauty and the geek

i try really hard not to get sucked up into the inane, but i’ve started to watch the show.  the basic premise is that the show gets a bunch of geeks and pairs them up with beautiful women.  the women aren’t self-admittedly not very intelligent, but they thrive in social situations.  the guys are all [...]