Customer: So, when I got Windows I had no clue it would require a footwear budget…
Support: A what?!
Customer: Yeah, it says so here… it needs new shoes.
Support: I am fairly certain Windows does not require shoes…
Customer: In fact, you’re right… It asks for boots.
Support: OK. Can you read the message from Windows for me?
Customer: In order to finish this installation, please reboot.
Category Archives: Computers and Internet
Posts on computer science and the web, rants about OS:es, Window Managers, Platforms for almost publishing content on the web, and the like.
Facerape – No you weren’t fucking raped!
This week’s unrecommended word: Facerape
Facerape: The act of abusing someone’s Facebook account on a computer where they have left themselves logged in. (Urban dictionary).
So, what’s so wrong with this expression then? (I am sure someone “just has to ask.”)
New way to perform online commerce
Tidbit
In November 2013, Jeremy Rubin, a 19-year-old MIT student, developed a JavaScript program called Tidbit. This program was a concept/pilot, but the idea behind it was to use JavaScript to mine for Bitcoins.
It was thought as a replacement for advertisements. Instead of being overwhelmed by ads, a user visiting a site using this script would lend part of their processor cycles to mine for Bitcoins while surfing on the site.
Who’s really, really, really homebrewing?
As a former Linux user, I’m getting really, really, really burnt by homebrew.
My big fallacy is that I was used to having the package manager handle everything for me.
Brew doesn’t do that. Oh my, it certainly does not!
No escape
In programming, there’s no escape from backslashes!!\!
Macaroni package over VPN
My VPN makes Google serve pages in german. The other day I realized the macaroni package in my cupboard had german writing… for half a second I wanted to cuss my VPN…
(Time to leave the house and take a walk IRL… Oh, and yes, I think that’s in fact dutch…)
On usability
On usability: If you feel your app requires a manual, you’re probably not doing it right!
When God uninstalls Linux
When God uninstalls Linux, the Devil installs Windows…
Levels of system maturity
The following is a list of system maturity levels:
- Pre-conceptual – no idea, no system, not even an idea that a system is needed.
- Conceptual – an idea that a system is needed, nothing developed.
- Customer: We need a system that does X.
- Management: What they really say they need is a system that does Y.
- Developer: What is most technically feasible is a system that does Z.
- Not working – a system that doesn’t work, at all.
- Customer/management: We have no system.
- Developer: We’re working on a system!
- Almost not working – a system that works, kind of.
- Management: We have a system!!!
- Customer: We wish we had a system…
- Developer: Hey! We’re not done yet!
- Support: Take the system out back and shot it, for the sake of pity and mercy!
- Almost working – a system that works, in principle.
- Management: Didn’t we finish this system months ago?
- Customer: We have a system! On sunny days…
- Developer: Just let us…
- Support: Oh no! Not another update!
- Working – a system that works.
- Management: That was long before my time…
- Customer: Oh, yeah, I remember that system… didn’t it use to do Z back in the days?
- Developer: Done!
- Support: Hands off our legacy system… or seas will turn red with blood and dogs will sleep with cats (or is it lions with lambs… whatever!) Hands off our system!
Colors and Color Dictionaries
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Color/ is a page about different types of computer generated color schemes. There is also a page with Color Name Dictionaries. Great tools for creating applications or web pages using colors that look good together and/or are distinct enough for tag-colors and the same.
Talkwards 