tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68408892024-03-07T19:14:02.654-08:00Eccy ThumpMe Myself and ITLyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-63896796508657565102009-12-29T20:19:00.000-08:002009-12-29T20:25:03.319-08:00Using IsoPuzzle effectively.<br /><br />I was using IsoPuzzle recently to try and salvage some kids DVDs.<br /><br />If you have kids you know kid+DVD's=Scratches & No Play :-)<br /><br />Iso Puzzle worked well for a few discs, but then got stuck on about 55%. I left it running ( hours then days ) and it was creeping up slowly, eventually hitting 65%.<br /><br />I stopped the current run and created a new ISO, IsoPuzzle run through to 95% in the first pass!<br /><br />The last 5% took only 30 mins or so, the lesson being IsoPuzzles sector skipping is a good strategy but is very slow, so do whatever you can to get the first pass to complete the majority of the work!Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-49193741263961042782009-11-24T04:07:00.000-08:002009-11-24T04:09:11.921-08:00So private hospital Emergency Wards trump Public Hospitals, no questions asked. Still a few negatives<br /><br />(a) Cost<br />(b) Inexplicable waiting ( despite (a) ) what gives with that ?Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-28857262401010627442009-02-01T03:07:00.000-08:002009-02-01T03:29:10.337-08:00<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Sooo</span>, Melbourne has been stupidly hot, as in the sort of hot that makes you stupid. The sort of hot Murphy must have loved to prank around in. Murphy being such a turd and all.<br /><br />Trains and Trams have melted in the streets, old people have removed cardigans, younger people have transmuted directly into the human gaseous form, whatever that is...<br /><br />A <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">bottleshop</span>(off license/liquor store) was selling slabs(cartons,boxes) of water!<br /><br />Yep, the ole town was hot alright, people were sweating like a rapist hidden in the attic of a nunnery...<br /><br />So on my way home from work my tram <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">didnt</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">y'know</span> tram, whatever the noun is to describe <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">tramlike</span> activity. So I took a different route, in the same compass direction ( SE ) so I could walk to a train station, then train to another train station, then finally get picked up by my much better half.<br /><br />On the way a loud talking fellow gets on, for most people I'm sure loud talking is a sort of early warning sign, an indicator that there is somewhere it's best not to be around in the vicinity. This guy however has a six-pack of reasonable frothy liquid...<br /><br />"Good man, do you have a spare one of those" my mouth speaks, with my brain trying to signal 'no interactions with loud talkers' too slowly.<br /><br />But he gives me an option "If you really <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">wan't</span> one, go ahead"<br /><br />Which in psychological speak is probably interpreted as "I'm not going to flat out refuse but I'd rather you didn't"<br /><br />But of course, brain is not involved in interpreting this <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">emanations</span> and mouth just keeps on its linear track "Thanks then, I'll grab one"<br /><br />Anyway, I open my new found cool refreshing buddy and start drinking it on the tram, surrounded by loud talker and numerous other wilting <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">sapiens</span>. Sip. Sip. Sip.<br /><br />Loud talker gets off and I'm left to ponder, whether in loud talkers 'inner conversations' he ever has concerns over 'lager <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">blaggers</span>' and how to deal with them. Too bad, it's the heat you see, the thin <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">veneer</span> of civilisation and self <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">preservation</span> doesn't hold up well under increased thermal stress.Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-91709739897365287492008-11-04T04:09:00.000-08:002008-11-04T04:14:49.788-08:00<a href="http://www.theage.com.au/world/rape-victim-stoned-dead-20081103-5h04.html">This</a> is fucking outrageous.<br /><br />In fact, outrage is too mild a word, in fact all words are too mild, nothing in the dictionary really portrays just how evil and wrong and fucking outrageous this is.<br /><br />There is probably a word for the fact that the girl will end up in heaven, and the foul bestial creatures mislabeled men who were involved will all hopefully burn somewhere, physical or celestial...Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-87039403201761094002008-10-09T05:08:00.000-07:002008-10-09T05:09:30.915-07:00Facebook killed the blog ? Paragraph long blog entries, who has time for them nowdays, its hard enough to find something to type into a facebook status...Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-28828945069325741952008-07-12T04:07:00.000-07:002008-07-12T04:11:41.320-07:00Sometimes, you just do the wrong thing, albeit in a small way.<br /><br />Today I carried my take-away latte into a supermarket. I finished it whilst we were shopping so as I could not see any bins I dropped the empty cup into a box lying around. Then 2 things happened. 10secs later one employee was complaining to another that he just left his task for 10 seconds and look what happened ( some lazy bastard left a coffee cup in his empty box ). And as I carried on walking I noticed about 3 bins that I could have used.<br /><br />Seinfeld could have made a whole episode out of this...Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-66068040586867738022008-06-01T05:17:00.000-07:002008-06-01T05:20:18.328-07:00Just quickly<br /><br />If you want to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem">read</a> something interesting<br /><br />Watch this tv <a href="http://www.conchords.co.nz/">show</a> if you want to see humour.Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-82241755560698532172008-01-16T02:09:00.000-08:002008-01-16T02:10:40.913-08:00I wish I could feel the way I feel when I listen to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Ydf3CYMjY">this</a> alot more often...Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-41427937263095722542008-01-09T03:59:00.000-08:002008-01-09T04:03:02.095-08:00Still here, maybe as productive as viagra in a nunnery, but still here...Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-79390009526480960032007-09-10T00:47:00.000-07:002007-09-10T00:52:50.128-07:00OK, the following post is not respresentitive of my normal level of composure, and it's also quite crass and immature, however I do occasionally feel like letting rip with a rant so here we go...<br /><br /><br />I.T., the HOME of FUCKING MORONS!<br /><br />Sorry for the language, sorry for bagging what amounts to charitable works, but all that aside, some I.T. people will NEVER GET I.T.!<br /><br />KIFSS, please, never forget, never ever forget.<br /><br />My eclipse installation stopped working because of some bad plugin, there is no way a now casual eclipse user will ever be able to figure out problems with plugins so I decided to reinstall the IDE.<br /><br />Hmmm, first stop eclipse.org<br /><br />Hmmm, it autodetects the 'best' mirror and starts the download, in my case, pacific.net.au.<br /><br />Ok, I'm sure that will work.<br /><br />But, after 10 mins of "..." scanning<br /><br />"The file eclipse-jee-europa-win32.zip is downloading.<br />After the download is complete, the file will be scanned.<br />Navigating to another page will interrupt the download, which will then need to be restarted from the beginning.<br />There is a violation of administrative setting or malicious content found in http://mirror.pacific.net.au/eclipse/technology/epp/downloads/release/20070702/eclipse-jee-europa-win32.zip. The affected file was deleted.<br /><br />Security warning Exceed_File_Count_Limit in file eclipse-jee-europa-win32.zip.The non-cleanable file is deleted."<br /><br />HUH? FUCK FUCK FUCK. How the FUCK can that make sense. How fucken stupid are the people who agreeded to mirror eclipse, but cant sort out false virus scanner reports. Not even a real virus, just too many files in the zip archive.<br /><br />They run a virus checker EVERY DOWNLOAD, not once on upload like people who KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THEY ARE DOING. Not only that its a poxy shitfull virus checker that is slow and DOES NOT WORK.<br /><br />To rub it in, THEIR IS NO OBVIOUS WAY TO CHANGE THE DOWNLOAD MIRROR on the eclipse site!<br /><br />I recently read the expression, like a Himalayan blackberry infestation in the gut, THAT IS HOW I FEEL NOW. INCOMPETENCE across the tech world is growing like Himalayan blackberry in its climate of choice.<br /><br />People like me KNOW I.T., it's not that hard to get things right. Keep it simple. Don't mess woth things that work. But I'm in the minority, people like these dicks get to run the majority of the internet and doesn't it fucken show in this case. Although I'm sure most of the time it doesn't show, and the effects of the technical morons are slowly accumulating like lime drippings on a stalagmite until one day, network Armageddon.Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-46271571834013079092007-06-18T18:47:00.000-07:002007-06-18T18:50:01.799-07:00<a href="http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=72698">Link 2</a> segue smoothly <a href="http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Def-Leppard/Armageddon-It.html">Link 1</a>Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-64785298538530825232007-05-27T04:54:00.000-07:002007-05-27T04:59:05.105-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;">Illness as a performance enhancer.<br /></span><br /><br />I have a cold and as a result I found myself absolutly nailing 'Daughter' by Perl Jam whilst driving singing to the car radio. Yeh, the echoes of my stalled grunge career still echo through the sands of time...Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-70289295251889201442007-04-15T05:25:00.000-07:002007-04-15T05:29:50.065-07:00Looks like the begining of the end for IMDB. Seems they are removing features from the free version and for details like Actors DOB you need to pay for the Pro version.<br /><br />Bye bye IMDB, Wikipedia is going to eat your lunch...Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-25299115095559444682007-04-01T10:44:00.000-07:002007-04-02T19:16:29.090-07:00I'm usually quite agin ( my scottish heritage ) judging people, however, just this once i'm going to bypass my principles :-)<br /><br />Delirious is crass, crude and nasty, but the funniest shit you will find on youtube. I could and have listen to it multiple times and it does not get old.<br /><br />I can judge people based on whether they love this stuff, or just dont get it, or even dislike it.<br /><br />I get on with people who like this, people who don't, I'll never really understand and there is no chance of simpatico.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcxmXbUpaK4&mode=related&search=">Take a look</a>Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-41751446693237860972007-04-01T07:52:00.000-07:002007-04-01T07:55:16.200-07:00Current Hate, WALLED GARDEN Portals. These are sites that don't link to external web pages from within the site, or make the links difficult to find.<br /><br />For example, alot of download sites like to keep you trapped and not give an obvious link to the software publishers web site.<br /><br />Annoying.Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-83306284282996631052007-03-30T11:05:00.000-07:002007-03-30T11:14:53.943-07:00I've been making use of long hours of sitting in a hotel to catch up on TV viewing. <br /><br />Specifically, the shows, US created 'Heroes' and Robin Hood from the BBC.<br /><br />I find it interesting that the two shows are diametric examples to the usuall stereotype of 'American' and 'English' dramas.<br /><br />Heroes consists of complex and multi-layered story arcs while Robin Hood is made of simple and one dimensional tales.<br /><br />I like Robin Hood, but the BBC with all its resources could had done so much more with such a rich and powerfull mythos.Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-9372975809248627912007-03-30T10:31:00.000-07:002007-03-30T10:43:46.852-07:00Firstly, WARNING, NERD POST ALERT!<br /><br />I think AJAX is as bright and shiny as the next guy, and <a href="http://www.openajax.org/OpenAjax%20Hub.html">this</a> is actually a good idea and a nice piece of software. However, the name, OpenAjax Hub, seems a little misdirected.<br /><br />When I think of a Hub, I think of something that data of some sort passes through, this is more like a primitive Javascript O/S.<br /><br />Also the style of prose used on the site is unfortunate, attempting to sound 'corporate and officious' with the result being offputting to me at least.Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-24880689584301382652007-03-25T01:55:00.000-07:002007-03-25T02:02:21.283-07:00So, here I am in Chennai, for a work trip, and I find myself watching quite a bit of Indian TV.<br /><br />Two people I knew of but didn't have much of an opinion of I have seen discussing topics of interest and they have impressed me significantly.<br /><br />Rahul Bose and Kapil Dev. Both surprised me with the well thought out comments they delivered on the matters they were discussing. An actor and a sportman impressing me, what next, a sensible politican? :-)<br /><br />I think India could not do much better than making Kapil Dev the new coach of the Indian Cricket team.Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-47098569309458943302007-03-24T02:49:00.000-07:002007-03-24T02:58:12.612-07:00If I ever studied Psych, I'd label my Thesis, "The Psychology of passive consumption", which sums me up to a T.<br /><br />I'd slurp a whole lot of useless information from the Net rather then doing some non-passive creative activity.<br /><br />Psych is also the name of a very funny TV show.Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-21892778393957066282007-03-22T01:41:00.000-07:002007-03-22T01:43:00.561-07:00Cool <a href="http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/uploads/scimaplarge.jpg">Pic</a>Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-48441769823197949542007-03-17T09:51:00.000-07:002007-03-17T10:21:18.114-07:00So anyway, I'm sitting in a 5 star hotel in Chennai India, getting a little tired on Auto Rickshaw rides to shopping centres, cable tv, newspapers, books and TV on my laptop my mind understandably started wandering, pondering and such.<br /><br />Imagine if Jesus was alive today, how would God communicate with us?<br /><br />Unlikey to be 'Angels', thats a message format from a long past era.<br /><br />Maybe it would be via anonymous email that passed through our Spam filters? Is that paranormal enough? Would anyone listen? Does anyone really care about the spiritual in this age?<br /><br />I once had a thought that people who dont believe in God dont have Souls, they are sort of Automatons, looking like humans but not really. But I'm allways thinking about my beliefs, and why I might have them. All we know for sure is what Descartes said, but I've been reading a book called 'Phantoms in the Brain' mostly by V.S.Ramachandran which has a very interesting chapter called 'God and the Limbic System' wherein he describes people who have suffered damage to a particular area of the brain ( temporal lobe ) and subsequently have hightened religious experiences.<br /><br />Not enough to convince me, but thats the beauty of my beliefs, built-in resilience to any scientific advances.Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-59771796642077588672007-03-17T09:48:00.000-07:002007-03-17T09:51:28.930-07:00<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson">Robert Anton Wilson</a> died recently. There is still alot of his work I want to read. One less cool, interesting person left on the planet.Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-57556072182813995452007-03-14T00:46:00.000-07:002007-03-14T00:49:34.112-07:00Looks like the Whitestripes are <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s1867454.htm">jumpin aboard</a> the ole EccyThump bandwagon.<br /><br />Hail to the King Baby!<br /><br /><br />( I'm surely the first person online to have a Goodies and Evil Dead reference in the one post!!! )Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-64211758137339319462007-01-01T00:18:00.000-08:002007-01-01T00:23:07.588-08:00If you ever find yourself in Azureus with a missing "Force Start" menu, let me be your guide back to the fertile green fields of forced start downloading. :-)<br /><br />I think the problem is if Azureus does not shut down cleanly then it may prompt you for configuration settings when you restart. If you ignore this wizard dialog you will default to beginner mode which has no "Force Start" option.<br /><br />"Tools->Configuration Wizard" will set you on the Advanced and Narrow...Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6840889.post-31241429056931583332006-11-02T02:50:00.000-08:002006-11-02T03:07:35.000-08:00<a href="http://www.fordfortennessee.com/">This</a> guy is whats wrong with Politics in the world today, and especially the US. According to <a href="http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20659192-5006003,00.html">this</a> article, Australia is part of the Axis of Evil seeking to wreak nuclear havoc.<br /><br />The minders quote "You dont win us any votes" sums up the political animal and rams home<br />the dearth of statesmen in leadership today.<br /><br />And to make matters worse it gives the right wing rednecks more ammunition to sow their poison in the world.Lyndonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17097326027417352449noreply@blogger.com0